Andrew Campbell

Our summer intern Andrew Campbell has arrived from Mobil, Alabama.

He's staying with the Phillips' and will be involved at IPC in a variety of ways over the next couple of months.

This Sunday

This Sunday we are joined by Pete Harris and Matthew Roberts who are going to be planting a church in Camden Town. We'll interview both of them in the service and Pete will be preaching for us.



Also with this Sunday morning is Dr Ali Ashtaroo from Afghanistan. 15 minutes after the close of the service he will be sharing with us in the Chapel what is going on in Afghanistan, please do come back in for this.



After this we will have Pot Luck lunch together, we are expecting a large number of visitors this Sunday, so you might want to bring a bit more than usual.



In our evening service Joel Rinn who is doing pioneer missions work in Verona Italy will be preaching

Mark and Su back

Mark and Su and the family are back this summer and are in need of a car to use.
The dates are - 19th June - 4th July and then on the 8th July. If anybody can help in this let me know.

Room for 1?

If anyone has room for an American lad who wants to come and spend a month in London do contact me.

He'll be in London from July 8th for 1 month

Ethiopian Update 2

We have been busy here at the project despite a visit to a local spa which we hear you all heard about! Last week we spent most of our time with support groups. Most of them put on coffee ceremonies in celebration of Jennifer's return. This involves roasting and grinding fresh coffee beans and the making of coffee which has as much sugar in it as coffee! They serve it with delicious freshly made bread and popcorn, which suprisingly go really well together! Jennifer shared God's Word with most of the support groups. With the groups who didn't do a ceremony we made friendship bracelets with them which they really seemed to enjoy. Last week we also took the teenage girls group. We made fruit scones with them which we served with jam and cream. While they were baking we again had a devotional time with them.

This week we have spent our time with the new sister project in Bole, which is smaller in size and the support groups are not as far on as the original project. The worker there is finding it quite difficult as some of the women are reluctant to pray so she was encouraged to have the support. We also went on some home visits with them to spend a bit of time with the beneficiaries on their own and pray with them which was humbling and enjoyable.

We also have been helping out on a more practical level; organising and itemising the pharmacy on the premises. This was sooooo boring!! but it helped them a lot to put all the info on a computerised system. We have been eating a lot of that good Ethiopian food that we served you but we have had quite enough now. Dying for some good old tatties!

We have all been tremendously blessed, inspired and encouraged by the people of Ethiopia. Even though most have little or nothing they still praise God for their many blessings. This we can all learn from.

Pray for continued safe travel

Pray for Jennifer as she continues to share Gods word in the support groups

Pray for the beneficiaries in the project; for salvation and growing faith for those who are believers.

Bank Holiday walk next Monday

There is a walk planned for next Monday in the Chilterns.

The plan is to meet at the Church at 10:30 and then drive out to a village near Tring, where we will do a 5 mile walk, part of which is alongside the Grand Union canal. We will stop for lunch at a pub. If there is a strong demand, we can do a longer walk.

Please let me know if you are planning to come, and if you need a lift.

Daphne

Robert Malumbi

to fill you in on what Robert would have said to you if he had been able to visit on Sunday.

Robert is married to Alice and they have 4 children, Rodney (15), Cheryl (8), Leroy (3), Elizabeth (2).

They have a very small place in Nairobi from where they reach out to children from the garbage dump and orphans. They have 350 children who come daily to an 'orphanage' and to a school which Robert has built and finances. 400KM west of Nairobi, Robert has some land which he has 'donated' for a Missionary Training School which he is building. He has in two years completed one building, but it still needs to have the windows put in and the inside finished. it also needs water and toilets. Eventually he hopes to have a chapel, a dormitory, classrooms, and an administration block. he has three acres but he needs five.

The original budget for construction was £138000. To date he has been provided with £3000. he showed us photographs of people from his church digging the foundations. the only paid labour is the technical advice. All the actual building work is done by unpaid labour. Alice is supervising the work and so much of the time they are apart. As well as this Robert and Alice provide what Robert calls 'child support' for 27 children as and when he can (not his children, just children who need support).

He goes on frequent preaching trips both within Kenya and outside. His most recent trip was to Uganda. he has preached in Somalia. He has planted four churches. The pastor of one of the churches he planted in Somalia was recently murdered, and Robert and Alice have been providing support to his widow. Robert graduated from (I think) a US university in agricultural economics. Alice is a trained nurse. She has been unwell, dignosed with diabetes which she is trying to manage by diet, rather than medicine. They live in a poor area of Nairobi by choice.

They are attached to World In Need International and Robert has been in the UK to attend their conference.If anyone wanted to spend time in Nairobi teaching in the school or helping with the building work they would be most welcome,.

Robert also needs to build up a supply of theological books for the missionary training college.

David Barnes

What is Islam?

Arab World Ministries and All Souls, Langham Place are putting on a course 'What is Islam?' for Christians who want to be informed about Islam.
The dates are 3-5 July - 9.30 - 17.30 each day
The cost is £80 and speakers include
Elsie Maxwell
Paul Blackham
Jay Smith
Howard Jones

For more info speak to Kurt or Chuck or go here

Open night at Departure this Thursday

There is an open night at Departure - London City Missions art centre in Limehouse this Thursday night, everybody at IPC has been invited.

It begins at 7pm

West Ealing

''The worry is that what happened in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and is still happening in the 00s is that W13 is always the bridesmaid but never the bride (Who is always W5)! We need more people banging on the table about investment in West Ealing....''

WEN13 - West Ealing neighbours May 2007 Newsletter.

4 events in June

Monday 4th June 6pm - The Evangelical Library Annual lecture
'Louis Berkhof (1873-1957) Systematic Theologian' - Address given by Geoff Thomas (Aberystwyth)

Saturday 9th June - 2.30 - London Theological Seminary end of year service
Speaker - Iain Murray

Saturday 9th June - Feltham Evangelical Church - 7pm
David Field is preaching on 'Why Hell?'

Saturday 16th June - Hayes Town Chapel - 7pm
John Newton - Amazing Grace
A lecture by Neil Richards

Ethiopian update 1

Hello from Ethiopia We have arrived safe and well in Addis Ababa.

Then first thing that hits you is the smell of smoke when you get off the plane. We had a long wait to get our visa then we were greeted by one of the team who drove us over some very bumpy roads to get to the SIM Guest House. It is a lovely big house with lots of space and we have the whole place to ourselves! Except poor Debbie is having to share a room with Gillian!

We went to St Matthews church and had our first taste of Ethiopian tea, which can only be described as syrupy. Needless to say the plants got well watered that day. However, Debbie didn’t next the extra hydration as she managed to take communion twice!

We have just spent our first day at the Project,meeting all the staff and beneficiaries. We split upto go out on house visits with the staff; Jennifer and Debbie visiting some housebound women who rely on the support from the Project. Meantime Marianne and Gillian visited some of the more sick people with the doctor. It was really humbling to visit these women and pray with them.

We plan to work with the support groups this week,sharing God’s word and teaching new crafts. Apart from Jennifer (!) we’re struggling to remember how to say hello and goodbye in Amharic never mind anything else! However, we have never felt so welcomed and loved going by the number of handshakes, wrist-shakes,shoulder-kissing and smiles. They’re all SO delighted to see Jennifer again – she gets at least 4 hugs fromeach person! Unsurprisingly, Gillian’s just spent the last hour entertaining the wee kids with some balloons! It actually enabled their Mum’s to listen to the health education on HIV.

Prayer Requests

Pray for the time here that we will be a benefit to the project.
For the teenage girls support group on Wednesday.
For Jennifer as she meets so many old friends and seeks to share the Word with the support groups.
That we would be willing and enabled to do everything God would have us do here.

Presbytery and Synod dates

Synod will meet on Saturday 2nd June at Kingston Korean Presbyterian Church. There will also be a Presbytery meeting on that afternoon.

Presbytery will meet on Saturday 9th September and Saturday 2nd December - both of these will be held at Ealing IPC.

Amazing Grace

Duke Street Church, Richmond is holding the following event:-

William Wilberforce & The Slave Trade.

An Evening with Sir Fred and Lady Catherwood.

8:00pm Thursday 24th May 2007

Admission Free

Theology for all

Some of us went to Theology for all conference with Carl Trueman last September. The recordings are on the Tyndale website here.

This year Mark Dever from 9 marks ministry will be speaking somewhere in London on September 22nd.

His topics are:-

• Lessons from the Past What lessons should today’s Church learn from this past, particularly the Puritans.

• Lessons for the Present Building biblically faithful churches today.

• Looking to the Future Given the new issues now facing Christians in the West which may put pressure on Churches not to stand against the tide – how can good theology help us?’

Hope Presbyterian Church, Timisoara

Liviu, Sica. Emmanuel and Emma

Ed Hartman - MTW Romania and Mike Ross, Pastor of Christ Covenant Church, Charlotte, US

Christinel, Mirella, Tabitha and Joseph

Katie, Abigail, Ed, Emily and Daniel Hartman - MTW Romania working in Brasov

Pot Luck luck lunch this Sunday

Please bring food with you to church on Sunday with enough for a few guests!