We would like to extend a warm welcome to you for our services today which are led by William Smith. Pastor is preaching at the anniversary service at Sidcup.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 Paul & Janet's home.
Weekly Meetings:
Monday
3.45pm to 4.45pm Children's Hour
Wednesday
9.30am to 11.00am Mums & Tots
7.00pm to 8.00pm KIC club - For Year 4,5 & 6 children.
Thursday
2.00pm Ladies Rest Hour - Speaker - Grace Burch
7.45pm Mission Meeting - Andrzej Kempczynski from Legionowo, Poland (G.B.M.)
Friday
7.30pm to 9.00pm FOY - For secondary school children
Saturday
9.30am Open Air Outreach
Sunday
11.00pm Harvest Thanksgiving - Speaker: Pastor
5:00pm Family Service - Speaker: Geoff Lowe - Tea Follows
Thought For The Week:
"Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; Blessed is the man to whom the LORD shall not impute sin" Romans 4:7-8
Prayer For The Church:
Continue to pray for the commencement of the youth work. Pray that God may bring back the same children and bless His word in the epilogues.
Pray for Gina, the family and Gina's brother Tommy.
Pray for Sarah and Mona as they approach the birth of their first child.
Pray for Lisa's mum as she has now returned home following the repair of her broken hip.
Pray for Rosemary's sister "Mu" as she is expected to return home today following a serious back operation, she is still quite immobile.
Pray for several in the fellowship who face uncertain times with regard to employment and the support of their families. Pray that in every case we may see our Lord's special provision.
Prayer For The Local Area:
Covent Garden
Praise God for one of our parents who will be baptised in October and for another person interested. Over the summer there have been many opportunities to witness to tourists.North Watford Please pray for our street evangelism on St Alban's Road each Thursday and our house to house visitation every Saturday.
The Association Annual Meetings are planned for Saturday 3rd October at Limes Avenue Baptist Church, Aylesbury, HP21 7HE. Please pray that the preparations for the day will go smoothly and that the day itself will be a blessing to all who attend.
Lunch will be ‘Shepherds Pie' plus a dessert. There will be a vegetarian alternative!
Seminar. The seminar running at the same time as the Annual Business Meeting will be ‘Ministering to Seniors'.
Prayer For The Wider Area:
China raids Christian vocational school
The Chinese government appears to be making a move to pressure house churches to close their doors. China Aid Association gives an example of what happened a few days ago.
"A crowd of strangers, arranged by the Chinese government, violently broke down the door to a Christian vocational school in Beijing."
The training school was located in the home of Brother Xu and provided training in basic job skills used for tent-making ministry, says Fu.
According to the prayer request sent by members of the Tent-makers Christian Fellowship in Beijing, local officials "swarmed into the living room with overwhelming scolding and commanded that [Brother Xu] should stoop down, as about twenty people entered the living room, some with uniforms and some without."
According to the Fellowship, Brother Xu was commanded to show the officers the rooms in his home and surrender the training materials produced by ministry. "Brother Xu would not comply with their commands and replied "Who are you for me to obey you? I am a legal residence of Beijing and a child of God." He was not intimidated and pressed on the issue of legality. Brother Xu demanded that they show him the warrant for the raid, which they could not furnish.
Without proof of a warrant, the officials reportedly "left without taking anything but warned they would return to confiscate the allegedly illegal training materials, although they did not do so that day. They further threatened Brother Xu and suggested he move away from Beijing to the Hebei province."
Brother Xu is a faithful member of The Tent-makers Christian Fellowship in Beijing. The Tent-makers Christian Fellowship is led by internationally known Beijing house church rights defender Pastor Hua Huiqi. Pastor Hua and members of his family have been arrested and tortured numerous times for his leadership in defending the basic rights and freedom of vulnerable people. His 79-year-old Christian mother, Ms. Shuang Shuying, finished her two-year sentence for her human rights defense work in February, 2009. Forced to leave Beijing in August, Pastor Hua is currently being held on a "forced vacation" in Shanxi province by the Beijing PSB, in order to show the "stability of Beijing" during the 60th anniversary of the CPC rule in China.
Bible readings for the month of September are available - please ask.
General Announcements:
Harvest thanksgiving
The offering for the day will be donated to Christian Compassion Ministries in the Philippines.
Non perishable goods will be donated to the work of Fegans.
