Today's Meetings:

9.45am Children's Bible Club
10.15am Sunday Prayer Meeting in cottage
11.00am Morning Service
6.00pm Evening Service
After Church Fellowship in the schoolroom. Any "nibbles" welcome!

Weekly Meetings:

Monday

3.45pm to 4.45pm Children's Hour

Wednesday

9.30am to 11.00am Mums & Tots
6.45pm to 8.00pm KIC club - For Year 4,5 & 6 children.

Thursday

2.00pm Ladies Rest Hour - Speaker: Louise Lynch - Erith
7.45pm Bible Study and Prayer Meeting - Led by Pastor

Friday

7.30pm to 9.00pm FOY - For secondary school children

Sunday

11.00am & 6.00pm Sunday Services - Led by Pastor

Thought For The Week:

"And Jesus said to him, "Assuredly I say to you,
today you will be with Me in Paradise."" Luke 23:43

Prayer For The Church:

Thank God for the birth of baby Saxon to Jessica and Leiland.
Continue to pray for Sarah and Mona.
Pray for those away on holiday.
Praise God for specific answers to prayer this week with regard to the Mums and Tots and clubs. Please continue to pray for attentiveness during teaching times.

Prayer For The Local Area:

Clapham

We praise God for a number of conversions amongst our older younger people. Please pray that the Christianity Explored course for youth will be a blessing to those who take part and lead it. We have had three new members join us recently who have already made a big impact in the life of the church. Our lack of a pianist is hindering the quality of our worship, please pray that someone may come to help in this ministry.'

Prayer For The Wider Area:

Politician's wife gets behind Christian ministry in Guatemala

The wife of Guatemala City's mayor has teamed up with Orphan Outreach to provide a biblically-based education to the city's poorest children.

Patricia Arzú, wife of Guatemala City's mayor, Alvaro Arzú, grew concerned about the spiritual condition of the people of Guatemala. In 1996, using her position as First Lady when her husband was president of Guatemala, Arzu decided to bring biblical education into schools-even the public municipal schools.

She runs three schools through her foundation. For preschoolers (Los Patitos), school age girls (Las Rosas), and school-age boys (Los Cedros.)

These schools serve the children who live on the outskirts of Guatemala City. Many are so poor that they are literally naked and living in the dumps.

In each clean, brightly-decorated school, the children gather each morning to bathe and put on clean uniforms, which staffers have freshly laundered on school grounds.

Orphan Outreach works with preschool education, early intervention support and evangelism, where they become the hands and feet of Christ. Their work dovetails into the passion Arzu has shown for over a decade.
The Bible serves as curriculum, with classes for teachers as well as students. In support of her vision, Orphan Outreach and a team of 60 women recently visited the schools and brought with them hope in the form of school supplies.

Bright Hope serves widows in Uganda

Sharing common bonds of loss, disease, poverty and fear, approximately 100 women formed a community in the jungles of northern Uganda.

Known as Apac, these remote jungles are home to HIV-positive widows struggling to provide for their children and grandchildren on limited or no income.

Bright Hope is providing encouragement through micro loans that will help the women start small farming and sewing projects to generate income. Many of the women lost their husbands to war, disease, or AIDS and were forced to take shelter in refugee camps after fleeing from a violent group known as the Lord's Resistance Army. Most live in small mud huts, and their children are in need of food, clothing and shelter.

Eagle's Nest Ministries, a Bright Hope branch in Uganda, shares the love of Jesus Christ to the people of Uganda through education, relief, community support and church planting. Gifts for these women will go toward the micro loans.

Bible Readings:

29th 2 Chronicles 3:1-4:22; Romans 7:7-25
30th 2 Chronicles 5:1-14; Romans 8:1-17
31st 2 Chronicles 6:1-42; Romans 8:18-39
April
1st Psalm 89; Romans 9:1-33
2nd 2 Chronicles 7:1-8:18; Romans 10:1-21
3rd 2 Chronicles 9:1-31; Romans 11:1-24
4th 2 Chronicles 10:1-19; Romans 11:25-36

General Announcements:

"Margate" Church Anniversary

Saturday April 4th 3 p.m. Preacher Steve Ridgeway
Meeting at Holy Trinity & St John's Primary School
St John's Road CT9 1LU. Tea to follow.

Good Friday Services

11.00am Bexleyheath - Preacher Geoff Gobbett. If you would like a fish and chip lunch please put your name on the list today.
There is also an evening service at Borough Green - details next week.

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