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" at Paul & Janet's home.

Weekly Meetings:

Monday

3.45pm -4.45pm Children's Hour - Children rec to yr 3

Wednesday

9.30am Mum's and Tots
7.00pm - 8.00pm KIC club - Children in years 4 to 6

Thursday

2.00pm Ladies Rest Hour - Speaker: Isobel Hider
7.45pm Bible Study and Prayer Meeting - Led by Pastor

Friday

7.30pm FOY - For Secondary School Children

Saturday

9.30am Meet for prayer for Open Air

Sunday

9.45am Sunday Bible Club
11.00am & 6.00pm Sunday Services - Led by Pastor

Thought For The Week:

"The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; He is my God, and I will praise Him; My father's God, and I will exalt Him." Exodus 15:2

Prayer For The Church:

Thank God for His blessings during HBC - the children that came, the way they listened and interacted. Pray that God may continue to bless the youth work.
Pray for Pete as he seeks employment and has a number of interviews this week.
Pray for Ralph as he preaches at Bromley this morning.

Prayer For The Local Area:

Brighton

"We give thanks for God's sustaining mercy for the membership and His provision for us. Please pray for our evangelism every Friday and Saturday, weather permitting in the centre of town. Also for our work amongst homeless men on Wednesday evenings and Sunday mornings, nearly all are unconverted. Please pray for a few regular visitors on Sundays who give no sign of regeneration after hearing the Gospel repeatedly and clearly and for the conversion of all the children in the Sunday School. Please pray that all the Lord's people among us will apply Proverbs 3:5-6, 1 Corinthians 10:31 and obey Matthew 28:18-20. Brighton is full of aggressive liberalism, debauch paganism and a general hardness to the gospel, please pray we will truly be reflectors of Christ's Light in this dark part of the world and He will pour out His Holy Spirit here."

Prayer For The Wider Area:

Malawi leaders raised up, training centre to open in September Mathew and Heni Wylie of Teen Missions International are seeing God open doors as they minister to the Yao people of Malawi. In the Mangochi district, the area with the highest population of Yao, many Islamic leaders have protested their work, but their ministry is expanding. By Sept. 1, they hope to have the Yao BIBLE, MISSIONARY & WORK Training Centre (BMW) they envision up and running as a Bible school. One village has given them permission to set up an Orphan Rescue Unit. Though currently it can only be established if staffed by Muslims, they are looking for a piece of land to build it on and waiting for God to change the village leaders' minds.

Throughout the country, the Wylies' Bible school students go out weekly with Proclaimers-solar-powered audio Bibles-sharing the New Testament in the people's language. Just last week, 11 Yao came to Christ through this outreach.
Mathew Wylie said in an update on the Teen Missions Web site that they were preparing for their annual Boot Camp to train and send out 300 teens, "and then the government stepped in. One week before the closing of school, they announced that the children would not have a holiday (of more than 1 week) until June 2011! Needless to say, nobody was really happy about this (the kids or us), but we know that all things work together for good for them who love God."
In addition to this, the government has also made it more and more difficult for missionaries to even get into Malawi, let alone stay. However, as they are teaching the Yao, they must also trust God to see them through.

"One of the most common problems in Malawi is leaderless churches," Wylie said. However, "I am so thankful that the Lord is raising up Malawian believers to fill the gap."

Though there is much against the Wylies' ministry, God is still working. Please join them in pray, for these doors that have swung wide open to remain open.

General Announcements:

Holiday Bible Club
Thank you for your prayers this week. We certainly must praise our Saviour for His gracious presence with us and His sustaining grace. The week started with us very conscious of our weakness. Orders unfilled; Marjorie very unwell and unable to help with the refreshments; several of our helpers feeling weak following recent illness; and lacking our usual generous level of help. However, praise God, there wasn't a shortage of children, well over 50 children attended enthusiastically every day, and even after the first day we were receiving messages of appreciation from parents.

The Lord greatly blessed our prayer times together each day, and we saw specific answers to prayer. The wonderful love of Christ and His call to discipleship were very well presented each day in the stories. The Lord really helped Dan and Sarah, Pastor Mark and Karen. The children were very attentive to the stories. The craft times were challenging with little room to move! We really do appreciate the hours spent in preparation for these activities. We thank Kathleen very much for her help in the kitchen. Perhaps more than ever before we have seen the glory of Christ being manifest in the midst of our weakness. Let us continue urgent in prayer that the seed sown will bear lasting fruit to God's glory both in the lives of the children who heard and also in the lives of the mums and dads.