Pot Luck lunch tomorrow

Palm Sunday Pot Luck tomorrow!

Urgent need for housing

Anybody got room for a 20 something man in their house?

He needs to have a bed for a while before he finds a Christian flatshare in Ealing.

Let me know if you have any leads.

Early Morning Prayer Meeting

Early Morning Prayer Meeting - Next Tuesday - 6.30 - 8am
Pop in for as long as you want.

Tea on the Green

Tea on the Green - next Tuesday - 27th March - meet at 3pm
see Jennifer Courtney for more details

Clocks go Forward

Clocks go forward 1 hour this Saturday night.
Any bets on who will be late for church?

English Classes

English classes are on tomorrow - 10-12 -FREE

Last week there were 8 women there and 3 more have promised to come this week!

Pray on

Sunday sermons

Sunday morning I preached a long sermon on Genesis 4 with 8 points and then last night was the introduction to Marks gospel. Drop me an email and I'll send the word files on to you, they might be easier to read than to listen to.

Disciplines of a Godly man - still going!

We're still meeting on Tuesday nights from 7.30-8.30pm

We've reached Chapter 9 'The Discipline of Worship'.

Induction at Solihull

Stephen Dancer was today inducted to the ministry at Solihull Presbyterian Church.

Ian Hamilton of Cambridge Presbyterian Church spoke on Isaiah 42 :1-4 on the church's supreme shepherd/ pastor.

His headings were

1. His dependance on God - Here is one God upholds and God has put his Spirit upon him. The servant stands among us as one who needs the Spirit.

2. He unyielding faithfulness to God - v1,3,4 establishing justice to the nations. He was obedient to the death.

3. The personal humility of the servant - the 3 verbs in v2 show us how unostentatious he was. It is never enough to speak the truth the way you speak the truth matters.

4. The servants unimaginable grace - one who comes to reveal the heart of God. Ian spoke of glory washing the feet of fearful disciples.

The Lords servant is unique but our job is to be patterned on him. The Spirit that upheld him will uphold you. The ministers prayer is Lord make me like Jesus.

Peter Naylor of Llandaff Presbyterian Church gave the charge to Stephen

1. Preach the word

2. Preach Christ

3 Reason with people

4. Preach with certainty.

There might have been a 5th but I missed it.

Solihill PC has around 20 people attending it. Stephen asked us to continue praying for them.

Thanks for the church weekend

It's a bit late, but I wanted to say thank-you for all who put masses of work into the church weekend. It was a great time together. Graham has posted some pictures here

London Men's Convention

The London Men's Convention details have been announced.

It will take place on Saturday 19th May at the Royal Albert Hall speakers this year are Hugh Palmer (All Souls Church), Rupert Bentley Taylor (Bath) and Jonathan Stephen (Affinity Director).

Tickets are £24 and £27, please see Terry Seaber if your interested in going

Presbytery News

Some news from Presbytery which took place last Saturday.

3 people were examined for eldership.

Murat Ozertiken who is working in Belgium church planting amongst Turks.
Chris Hatch who is working with New Life Masih Ghar in Southall.
Jonny Long who is being co-opted onto the session of Grace Fellowship, Warrington.
Results of the ballots should be in on Saturday.

In the afternoon Pete Harris an Englishman spoke about plans that he and others have to plant reformed and presbyterian churches in the UK. Redeemer Church in New York are going to help fund this. It was extremely encouraging to hear of possibilities for church planting.

Alan Waldecker and Bill Nikides reported on a conference they had spoken at in the US. There are ongoing discussions with some churches from the PCA regarding the possibility of funding for workers and church plants.

Gideon Song from Azerbaijan was at presebytery for the first time since transferring to us. We were also joined by Neal Williams , an American who is planning to move to Baku this summer . There are ongoing problems with the government registering this church .

Kim Song, afounding father of Korean Churches in the UK, has returned from Korea. He spoke about the possibilities of working more closely with the Korean Presbytery. He also told presbytery of a number of IPC Korean elders who have returned to Korea and plan to plant an IPC church in Korea.

All in all it was a very encouraging day. We had representatives from Italy, Romania, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Turkey, Korea, US and UK. It is s exciting to be part of Presbytery at the moment but there are real challenges ahead. Our next meeting is Synod with our Korean brothers on Saturday June 2nd. Pray for us