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 at Mike and Rosemary's home.

Weekly Meetings:

Monday

3.45pm Monday Club -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 - open meeting
7.45pm L.D.O.S. John Roberts

Friday

7.30pm FOY - For Secondary School Children

Sunday

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

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:

"A man's heart plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps." Proverbs 16:9

Prayer For The Church:

Pray that a good number from FOY will attend the summer camps in Wales.

Prayer For The Local Area:

Chesham

"We are thankful that many people came to our special evangelistic events in March and would ask you to pray for some good soil that bears much fruit." Thomas Ninnis.

Roger Ninnis (Pastor of Providence Baptist Church, Southend) writes: "Anne & I became grandparents on Monday evening unfortunately baby Thomas suffered oxygen starvation at birth with the result that he became critically ill ~ he was transferred from Southend to the Luton & Dunstable Hospital where there is a specialist babycare unit. They are doing all they can to stabilise him ~ a number of his organs were damaged at birth & at the moment they are concentrating on getting his kidneys functioning more fully ~ however if his kidneys do not respond within the next 48 hours the outlook is not promising." Please pray for Thomas, his parents David and Louise Ninnis and the wider family.

Prayer For The Wider Area:

Indonesia: Fire of Hatred Burns Again

On Tuesday 27 April hundreds of Muslims descended on a building site belonging to a Christian education foundation in Cibeureum, in the Bogor regency of West Java. They ransacked and set fire to the building, and destroyed other property. Residents claimed that the rioters were from outside the village, which suggests that the attack may have been orchestrated.

Spate of anti-Christian attacks West Java has witnessed a spate of anti-Christian attacks in the last few months. In December 2009, at Islamic New Year, thousands of demonstrators stormed a church in Bekasi regency, setting objects on fire.

On 31 December the authorities in East Bekasi, under the influence of hard-line Muslim groups, ordered a large church to stop its services and other activities.

On 3 January 2010 hundreds of residents of the North Tambun sub-district prevented members of another church from taking part in services. In Bogor Regency Muslims took to the streets to protest against the building of a permanent church.But incidents of intimidation and violence have been reported from other parts of Indonesia too.

On 21 January, under pressure from such groups, the authorities ordered a church in Sepatan, in the Tangerang district of Banten province, to stop its services. The next day two Protestant churches and a pastor's house were set on fire by a Muslim mob in Sibuhuan, in the Padang Lawas regency of North Sumatra.

Many Muslims feel threatened by the explosive church growth of the last 50 years; church leaders estimate that Christians may number 15% or even 20% of the population.

Even in some areas where there is no violence, Christians are enduring intense pressure, arising either from government restrictions on religious freedom, or from the extension of Islamic sharia law. A prominent cleric from Indonesia's biggest Muslim organisation has said that sharia law should take precedence over laws passed by the country's parliament.

Barnabas Fund has been supporting the beleaguered Christians of Indonesia through a range of projects. Currently we are assisting with the rebuilding of a Christian village destroyed by a mob from the neighbouring Muslim village, we are supporting 40 church-planters, and we are assisting with the running costs of a theological seminary that is training 61 Christians for ministry all over the country.

General Announcements:

DATES
3rd June - Mission prayer meeting
1st July - SASRA
November 20th 5.30pm - Church and Pastor's Anniversary - Dr John Benton (Guildford) will be preaching at the Saturday service.

Ruth Bernard. The funeral and thanksgiving service for Ruth, the daughter of William and Sheila Smith, is scheduled for Friday 21st May at 12.30pm at Dunstable Baptist Church, St Mary's Gate, Dunstable LU6 3NS. Please continue to pray for her husband Mervyn, their son Barrington and William and Sheila at this time.