It seems incredible to think that we are in October already! Don’t forget the coffee morning this morning and men’s DVD/ takeaway night at 6 p.m. tonight – both give us opportunity to get together in a social context and enjoy fellowship. Men are asked to bring a favourite DVD and a choice will be made on the night what to watch!
Looking ahead, we have the family service tomorrow evening at 6 p.m. – a chance to learn from God’s word, games and songs. Later in the month (16th October) we have guest speaker Yan Hadley with us at 6 p.m. as well as our usual services, including Cherry Tree Court on 9th October at 10.30 a.m.
Volunteers are needed to help with preparing goody bags for the Christmas Market onWednesday 23rd November (9 a.m. onwards) and with the Christmas Market itself (Friday 9th December, 4-8 p.m.) Please sign up for a timeslot to help serve refreshments, run stalls or help in other ways. The community carol service will be held on that date at 6 p.m., so come along to sing at that too!
Tickets will have to be booked soon for the pantomime at the Dearne Playhouse on 17th December, so please sign up if you want to come to that (tickets cost £8).
We are pleased to say that flights have now been booked for the mission trip to India next April! Eight people will be going to Bangalore via London Heathrow and New Delhi to help with the work of Fredrick and Reeba. Their latest newsletter tells us of people being saved and healed in a variety of locations, with many Hindus coming to faith and being baptised. A new project to support is supplying ‘talking bibles’ to people (using solar power, with 1 hour of charging allowing up to 10 hours of use.) They are praying for 500 of these bibles (costing £10 each) to be used in their outreach. They also ask for prayer for Fredrick’s mother (whose health is not very good) and for a young boy called Charen who needs an operation in November to help with kidney problems.
Please pray for the work that is going on in India and also for preparations for the trip, leaving the UK on 9th April 2017. There are visas to be obtained, injections to be endured, finance to be raised… and most of all, faith to be grown in our hearts along with a growing dependence on God and expectation that He will do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine (Eph 3:20). As Dave reminded us last week, we cannot expect revival if we do not pray for revival, and we need God’s fire in God’s people. All of us are involved in this trip, not just the people who are physically travelling to India. Our prayers, our giving, our faith, our going make a huge difference. Fredrick is hoping to visit us in November, so that will be an opportunity to learn more and make further plans. Please pray for him and Reeba, for their 3 children (Philemon, aged 9; Felshiya, aged 8 and Zia, aged 4), and for Fredrick’s mother, Philomena.