Dick Lucas will be preaching at our evening service again this week continuing his introduction to the Pastoral Epistles.
Thursday 30 April 2009
Dick Lucas @ IPC
Dick Lucas will be preaching at our evening service again this week continuing his introduction to the Pastoral Epistles.
Picnic this Sunday
This Sunday we'll be heading off to Walpole Park after the service on Sunday, do bring a picnic with you. We hope to eat at 1.30.
Wednesday 29 April 2009
More Calvin stuff in London
At the John Owen Centre a stellar line up for their conference on 14-15 September - you have to pay for this one though.
Tuesday 28 April 2009
Calvin stuff in London
This year you probably know is John Calvin's 500th Birthday and there are various Calvin fest's going on around the world. There are two events in London that might be of interestOne is this Thursday at Grove Chapel, Camberwell where Sinclair Ferguson will speak at 7.30 on 'Calvin for everyone'.
The other event is the Evangelical Library Annual Lecture on June 1st 6pm at Bethesda Baptist Church, Kensington Place, Notting Hill, W8. Derek Thomas will be speaking on 'The Majesty of God in the Preaching of John Calvin'.
Calvin memorabilia will be on sale I expect at both events as publishers are cashing in on the anniversary.
Friday 24 April 2009
Dick Lucas @ IPC this Sunday night
For the next two Sunday evenings Dick Lucas will be preaching. for over 30 years Dick was the Rector of St Helen's Bishopsgate, a church in the square mile of London with a particular ministry to business people. In 1986 he founded the Proclamation Trust which is an organisation which encourages preachers and runs the Cornhill Training Course.I would want to really encourage you to come the next 2 Sunday evenings if you possibly can.
Monday 20 April 2009
Early morning prayer meeting
Tomorrow is early morning prayer meeting 6.30-8 - come for as short or long a time as you can.
Sunday 19 April 2009
Letter to IPC
Dear all at IPC,
I wanted to write to you before Levy junior arrives and life changes somewhat for our household and let you know some of the things that are going to be happening at IPC over the next few months. I also wanted to thank you as a congregation for the way you've embraced the move on Sunday mornings to TVU. It's been such an encouragement to see so many coming early to set up and help in various ways. THANK-YOU
These are the various things that are coming up in no particular order:
Sundays
Iain is going to be doing a short series in John 4 and hopefully in May I plan to begin a series on the life of Abraham.
April 26 and May 3 evenings - Dick Lucas will be preaching for us, Dick comes each year and for 35 years was the Rector of St Helens Bishopsgate
May 10 - evening - Richard Bewes will be preaching, for 25 years he was the rector of All Souls, Langham Place
June 14, 21, 28 - David Field will be taking 3 evenings to look at the Christian and work, we plan to have a Q & A session after each talk.
June 28 morning - Alistair Wilson is the principle of Dumisani Theological Institute in South Africa and he will be preaching to us on the theme of mission.
July 12 &19 - Alan Foster who is a minister in Atlanta will be preaching for 2 Sunday mornings
Please continue to pray as we adjust to our Sunday morning service being at TVU and also that Sunday nights would continue to grow, if you don't come along on Sunday nights would you maybe consider it now the evenings are brightening up?
Getting to know your Muslim neighbour - Jay Smith is a well known evangelist working with Muslims in London. He will be coming to IPC on Friday 26 June to help us think through how we can reach Muslims in our neighbourhoods. Jay is a terrific communicator and is probably the most well known evangelist to Muslims in the UK. He is certainly worth coming to hear. We hope to invite other local churches to this evening.
CAP - Christians Against Poverty - As a church over the coming months and years we are hoping to get more involved with CAP. Do join us at the CAP Inspire Conference in Bracknell on Saturday afternoon May 16th. It's free! You will have the opportunity to meet clients whose lives have been changed and to hear the vision and future plans of CAP from John Kirkby (Founder and International Director); find out more about the CAP Money course and how you and your house-group can support CAP in practical ways. For more information about transport and signing up contact Nicky Rae
Christianity Explored – We are hoping to run a Christianity Explored course. If you know of anyone who would like to go or you would like to bring along speak to Iain or Andrew Rae. Amir will also be running a Farsi speaking group starting later this month. Do pray that we would see fruit from this course and encouragement for the leaders.
Ealing Lunchtime Talks - In June we will be having 4 Tuesday lunchtime meetings (1.05pm-1.30pm) at Ealing Town Hall to reach out to workers and encourage Christians working in Ealing. Each Monday at 1.10pm a group of us are meeting to pray at Christ the Saviour (opposite HMV). You would be very welcome to come along. If you know of people who work in Ealing or are able to come along yourself do let Iain or myself know.
House-Groups - This term Iain is writing some notes on the Doctrine of God. Iit would be great for all the house-groups to study this. We do realise that some groups may be in the middle of series, but maybe they could take a break and we study this series as a church?
Annual General Meeting will take place on Monday 15 June. We hope on this evening to look back with thankfulness to God for this past year and to look forward to the coming year.
Giving the Talk - We are hoping to run a training morning for those who are giving talks with some training and practical workshops, some Saturday in June.
Teams from the US - Two of Chuck and Wyema's supporting churches will be sending teams of young people over to work with us in June and July. We are hoping they may be able to help us do some outreach on the Drayton Bridge Estate working with Notting Hill Housing Trust and the Residents Association there. Chuck and Amir will also give them some training in working with Muslims.
Holiday Bible Club - will be running from 25-29 August and the prayer meetings for it will take place after the evening services 5 July, 9 & 23 August. There will also be a meeting to talk about HBC on Monday 6 July
Church Weekend will take place on October 2-4 and Martin Downes will be our speaker. He is the minister of ChristChurch Deeside and before that he worked for Uccf
The observant among you may have realised that at TVU we are not having flowers like we used to at IPC so now is a good opportunity to thank those who contributed to bringing flowers for the last 25 years. Someone worked out that over 2000 bunches of flowers were brought so thank-you to all those who contributed.
Lastly as I look over this letter it's encouraging to see so many things happening in our local church and growth taking place but there is an enormous danger for us all of pride and self sufficiency, we must remind ourselves of Jesus’' words, 'apart from me you can do nothing' (John 15:5), and for that reason I would want to encourage all of you to make our monthly prayer meeting (6 May, 4 June, 1 July) a priority. There is nothing like prayer to remind us our need for God to work. We'd love to see you with us on these evenings and join with us in praying for the extension of God's kingdom.
yours in the gospel,
Paul
I wanted to write to you before Levy junior arrives and life changes somewhat for our household and let you know some of the things that are going to be happening at IPC over the next few months. I also wanted to thank you as a congregation for the way you've embraced the move on Sunday mornings to TVU. It's been such an encouragement to see so many coming early to set up and help in various ways. THANK-YOU
These are the various things that are coming up in no particular order:
Sundays
Iain is going to be doing a short series in John 4 and hopefully in May I plan to begin a series on the life of Abraham.
April 26 and May 3 evenings - Dick Lucas will be preaching for us, Dick comes each year and for 35 years was the Rector of St Helens Bishopsgate
May 10 - evening - Richard Bewes will be preaching, for 25 years he was the rector of All Souls, Langham Place
June 14, 21, 28 - David Field will be taking 3 evenings to look at the Christian and work, we plan to have a Q & A session after each talk.
June 28 morning - Alistair Wilson is the principle of Dumisani Theological Institute in South Africa and he will be preaching to us on the theme of mission.
July 12 &19 - Alan Foster who is a minister in Atlanta will be preaching for 2 Sunday mornings
Please continue to pray as we adjust to our Sunday morning service being at TVU and also that Sunday nights would continue to grow, if you don't come along on Sunday nights would you maybe consider it now the evenings are brightening up?
Getting to know your Muslim neighbour - Jay Smith is a well known evangelist working with Muslims in London. He will be coming to IPC on Friday 26 June to help us think through how we can reach Muslims in our neighbourhoods. Jay is a terrific communicator and is probably the most well known evangelist to Muslims in the UK. He is certainly worth coming to hear. We hope to invite other local churches to this evening.
CAP - Christians Against Poverty - As a church over the coming months and years we are hoping to get more involved with CAP. Do join us at the CAP Inspire Conference in Bracknell on Saturday afternoon May 16th. It's free! You will have the opportunity to meet clients whose lives have been changed and to hear the vision and future plans of CAP from John Kirkby (Founder and International Director); find out more about the CAP Money course and how you and your house-group can support CAP in practical ways. For more information about transport and signing up contact Nicky Rae
Christianity Explored – We are hoping to run a Christianity Explored course. If you know of anyone who would like to go or you would like to bring along speak to Iain or Andrew Rae. Amir will also be running a Farsi speaking group starting later this month. Do pray that we would see fruit from this course and encouragement for the leaders.
Ealing Lunchtime Talks - In June we will be having 4 Tuesday lunchtime meetings (1.05pm-1.30pm) at Ealing Town Hall to reach out to workers and encourage Christians working in Ealing. Each Monday at 1.10pm a group of us are meeting to pray at Christ the Saviour (opposite HMV). You would be very welcome to come along. If you know of people who work in Ealing or are able to come along yourself do let Iain or myself know.
House-Groups - This term Iain is writing some notes on the Doctrine of God. Iit would be great for all the house-groups to study this. We do realise that some groups may be in the middle of series, but maybe they could take a break and we study this series as a church?
Annual General Meeting will take place on Monday 15 June. We hope on this evening to look back with thankfulness to God for this past year and to look forward to the coming year.
Giving the Talk - We are hoping to run a training morning for those who are giving talks with some training and practical workshops, some Saturday in June.
Teams from the US - Two of Chuck and Wyema's supporting churches will be sending teams of young people over to work with us in June and July. We are hoping they may be able to help us do some outreach on the Drayton Bridge Estate working with Notting Hill Housing Trust and the Residents Association there. Chuck and Amir will also give them some training in working with Muslims.
Holiday Bible Club - will be running from 25-29 August and the prayer meetings for it will take place after the evening services 5 July, 9 & 23 August. There will also be a meeting to talk about HBC on Monday 6 July
Church Weekend will take place on October 2-4 and Martin Downes will be our speaker. He is the minister of ChristChurch Deeside and before that he worked for Uccf
The observant among you may have realised that at TVU we are not having flowers like we used to at IPC so now is a good opportunity to thank those who contributed to bringing flowers for the last 25 years. Someone worked out that over 2000 bunches of flowers were brought so thank-you to all those who contributed.
Lastly as I look over this letter it's encouraging to see so many things happening in our local church and growth taking place but there is an enormous danger for us all of pride and self sufficiency, we must remind ourselves of Jesus’' words, 'apart from me you can do nothing' (John 15:5), and for that reason I would want to encourage all of you to make our monthly prayer meeting (6 May, 4 June, 1 July) a priority. There is nothing like prayer to remind us our need for God to work. We'd love to see you with us on these evenings and join with us in praying for the extension of God's kingdom.
yours in the gospel,
Paul
Tuesday 14 April 2009
CAP Prayer Meeting
This Thursday IPC will be hosting the CAP (Christians Against Poverty) prayer meeting. As a church we are hoping to get more involved in this work so do come along and here more about what is going on in Ealing. For more info look at their website or contact Nicky Rae.
The prayer meeting will start at 8pm
The prayer meeting will start at 8pm
Monday 6 April 2009
Good Friday Service
Our Good Friday service will start at 10.30 and we'll celebrate the Lord's Supper together
Saturday 4 April 2009
Stuff for the diary
Over the next few months
April 28th and May 5th on Sunday nights - Dick Lucas formerly rector of St Helens and founder of Proclamation Trust will be preaching on his annual visit.
June 14,21,28 on Sunday nights - David Field will be doing a series on work. The plan is to have a question and answer session after each night and the aim is to equip us to have a Christian view of work.
Friday June 26 - Getting to know your Muslim neighbour - An evening with Jay Smith who is an evangelist to Muslims working in London. Jay will be speaking on the history if Islam and how we can be reaching out to our Muslim neighbours, his talk will be followed by a Q & A session.
Sunday June 28 on Sunday morning - Alistair Wilson who is the Principal of Dumisani Theological Institute in South Africa will be preaching on the theme of Mission.
Holiday Bible Club will take place in August from Tues 25- Sat 29
Oct 3-5 - Church Weekend at home - Martin Downes from ChristChurch Deeside will be the main speaker.
April 28th and May 5th on Sunday nights - Dick Lucas formerly rector of St Helens and founder of Proclamation Trust will be preaching on his annual visit.
June 14,21,28 on Sunday nights - David Field will be doing a series on work. The plan is to have a question and answer session after each night and the aim is to equip us to have a Christian view of work.
Friday June 26 - Getting to know your Muslim neighbour - An evening with Jay Smith who is an evangelist to Muslims working in London. Jay will be speaking on the history if Islam and how we can be reaching out to our Muslim neighbours, his talk will be followed by a Q & A session.
Sunday June 28 on Sunday morning - Alistair Wilson who is the Principal of Dumisani Theological Institute in South Africa will be preaching on the theme of Mission.
Holiday Bible Club will take place in August from Tues 25- Sat 29
Oct 3-5 - Church Weekend at home - Martin Downes from ChristChurch Deeside will be the main speaker.
Tomorrow
Tomorrow is our first morning service at TVU students union bar. I'll be preaching on Matthew 11:28-30 and then in the evening we'll be at Drayton Green and I'll be preaching from 1 Corinthians 16. The plan is to preach the last bit of 1 Cor 15 on Easter Sunday morning.
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