Today's Meetings:

10.15am Sunday Prayer Meeting in cottage
11.00am Morning Service - Sunday School prize giving
6.00pm Evening Service
After Church Fellowship at Bruce & Margaret's home.

Weekly Meetings:

Monday

3.45pm - 4.45pm Children's Hour - 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 - Kathleen
7.45pm Bible Study and Prayer Meeting - Led by Paul - John 17 v 22 "What is this glory?"

Friday

7.30pm FOY - For Secondary School Children

Sunday

9.45am Sunday Bible Club
11.00am & 6.00pm Sunday Services - Led by Bob Morgan.
Erith and Belvedere are doing a pulpit exchange.

Visitors
We assure you of a warm welcome to the services today.
During the service an offering is taken as part of our worship. If you have not come prepared please do not feel embarrassed and just let the bag pass.
There is provision of a live video feed of the service in the vestry and an audio feed in the lounge.

Thought For The Week:

"The LORD has established His throne in heaven, And His kingdom rules over all." Psalm 103:19

Prayer For The Church:

Thank God for the news that Ruth and Darren are expecting their first baby.
Pray for all the arrangements for the camps and that some young people from our youth group will want to attend.
Pray for the ministers as they meet for the Banner conference this week. Pray that there will be such a movement of the Holy Spirit that has not been known for years. Pray that many of the brethren from abroad will be able to get to the conference.
Pray that Marilyn will be kept in good health this week.
Pray that we will also see God at work in our midst this week.

Prayer For The Local Area:

Twickenham

During the last year we have had encouragements, for which we praise God, these come with "opportunities" and for those we seek prayer for wisdom and grace. Our Sunday School Anniversary will be held in May and we will be giving glory to God for another year of opportunities to reach out to those around us (the children are not "church" children).

Wood Green. The church praises God for Ryan King who is assisting his father in the teaching and preaching ministry of the church whilst continuing his theological studies. The church would value prayer for efforts to evangelise those living in our immediate neighbourhood.

Prayer For The Wider Area:

Preaching God as a farmer brings Truth to people, healing to land The small country of Lesotho is generally more prosperous than many African countries, but is currently facing what Africa Inland Mission is calling a "dire farming crisis." Each time it rains, the water seems to erode away more of the land, pushing soil down into gullies and creating worse and worse conditions for farming. Not only is the land suffering from natural causes, but it has also been deprived of caring human touch. AIM missionaries report that farming is seen as a lowly profession in Lesotho, so the land is often approached with destructive behaviour rather than with tender care.

Based on the belief that God Himself was the first farmer (i.e. the Garden of Eden), AIM missionary August Basson has made strides to overturn this farming dilemma. He has begun preaching on God's relationship to farming, ensuring people that "the way we view ourselves has an effect on how we deal with the land, and it all goes back to our right relationship with the Creator." With a program Basson calls "Farming God's Way," people's perceptions of farming are changing, and better farming methods are being implemented. As people begin to understand how God sees them, they are learning stewardship, and, more importantly, are being transformed by the Truth.

AIM missionary John Barry sees the shepherds of Lesotho as a ministry ripe with potential-not just for the shepherds to be ministered to, but for the shepherds to do the actual ministering. He acknowledges that God, the Good Shepherd, has a heart for shepherds, and hopes to see Him use these men to spread the Gospel through oral Bible stories as they wander across the country.

God is doing great things in these marginalized groups in Lesotho. Pray that the farmers would be blessed by their hard work and that they would understand the benefits of living God's way. Pray that the shepherds would respond to the message of Jesus Christ and would be inspired to be, as Barry puts it, "shepherds of men."

General Announcements:

DATES
13th May - John Roberts - LDOS
November 20th 5.30pm - Church and Pastor's Anniversary -
Dr John Benton (Guildford) will be preaching at the Saturday service.