two Make Friends to Make Disciples RICK WARREN Cuffley & Potters Bar Monthly Newsletter One church meeting in two venues

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1 Monthly Newsletter two One church meeting in two venues Cuffley & Potters Bar Welcome! Church Members Dates Thursday 9 th June Special Church Members Meeting Cuffley 7.30pm At this meeting the Leadership Team will recommend the appointment of an additional Pastor with a Focus on Youth & Community from the candidates who have visited us. Sunday 25 th September AGM after morning Cuffley. UPDATE ON RECRUITMENT By 5 th June many of you will had a chance to hear or meet our 3 shortlisted candidates. Please let the Leadership know if you have any feedback. As mentioned above, the matter will be progressed at our Special Members Meeting on Thursday 9 th June. Phillip on Sattabtical Every seven years pastors are given 3 months sabbatical leave. Phillip will be taking his during July & August and then in January. Make Friends to Make Disciples RICK WARREN Be friendly with everyone. Don t be proud and feel that you are smarter than others. Make friends with ordinary people (Romans 12:16 CEV) Everybody s looking for a true friend - not just acquaintances but people who are there with you when you need them most. God wants you to build true friendships with the people that are already in your life so that you

2 can share the Gospel with them. God has put these people - your co-workers and classmates, neighbours and teammates - in your life specifically so you can share with them about the most important decision they will ever make. If you don t tell them about what Christ has done for them, then who will? The Bible says in Romans 12:16, Be friendly with everyone. Don t be proud and feel that you are smarter than others. Make friends with ordinary people (CEV). Christians tend to fall into one of two extremes: isolation or imitation. Some Christians say, I don t want to get polluted by the world. I m just going to isolate myself. I ll build a wall and my own little culture. Isolation doesn t work! How are you going to build any friendships that way? The other extreme is imitation, which says, Let s be just like the world. We ll dress like the latest pop star. We ll say whatever we want about other people. We ll have whatever values and goals popular culture tells us we should have. We ll be no different from the world. That s not what God wants you to be, either. He doesn t want you to give in to the lowest common denominators of society. The answer is not isolation or imitation. It s insulation and infiltration. The Bible says you re to be salt and light in the world. You re to penetrate the world with God s goodness. When I go out to dinner and order sea bass, the first thing I have to do before I can eat it is put salt on it. That fish has lived its entire life in salt water, yet I have to put salt on it. What s going on? That fish is insulated. If God can take a fish and keep it in salt water its entire life and not have the salt permeate the fish, then certainly God can take any believer, put us in the world, and keep us from being corrupted by the wrong values. God wants you to be holy and secure in your faith. He also wants you to walk out your door into the world and get to know the people he s placed in your life. As you build relationships with people around you and share Truth with them, you are to be in the world but not of the world. The Holy Spirit, God s gift, does not want you to be afraid of people but to be wise and strong and to love them and enjoy being with them (2 Timothy 1:7 TLB). Talk It Over Why is it sometimes easier to isolate ourselves rather than get to know other people on a deeper level? What are some ways you have fallen into the trap of becoming an imitator of the world? If you were the only representation of Jesus Christ that someone had in his or her life, how would they perceive Christianity? How does that make you want to change?

3 Sunday Services - June potters bar campus cuffley campus am (Coffee from 9.45 am) Oakmere Community Centre Fetherstone Close, Potters Bar, EN6 5NS Note: Pre-service prayer meeting from am. 5 th Multigenerational Worship - Led by Roger Taylor. 12 th ACTS Life in the SPIRIT: 16. Power Evangelism (Acts 9:32-42) - John Hyde 19 th Communion & Shared Lunch - Led by Roger Taylor 26 th ACTS Life in the SPIRIT: 17. Facts of Life (Acts 10) Our Current Sermon Series am (Coffee from am) King James Avenue, Cuffley, EN6 4LN Note: Pre-service prayer meeting from am. 5 th MULTIPLY: 1. Be Disciples Make Disciples (Matthew 28:16-20) NOTE pm EXTRA SERVICE with a visiting preacher 12 th ACTS Life in the SPIRIT: 16. Power Evangelism (Acts 9:32-42) (Baptism) 19 th ENCOUNTER Service 26 th ACTS Life in the SPIRIT: 17. Facts of Life (Acts 10) SUNDAY 5 th JUNE Extra Worship Service Cuffley Campus with a visiting preacher Note: This is a joint service for both of our campuses. Please make every effort to attend. Life Church: God Centred Purpose Driven People Empowering Multi- campus

4 This Life Group material fits in with the ACTS: Life in the Spirit Sermon Series currently running. As you work through these six sessions there is one question that will bubble away in your small group study and discussion: Jesus, how may we love our community in such a way that it shows what you are like? We start in Acts chapter 8:1, around seven years after Jesus uttered: Acts 1:8: But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. You may have been a Christian for many years and wondered how you may proactively share your faith with those around you, but have lacked the courage to speak of the good news of Jesus. If so, then you are in good company. After Jesus instructed His disciples to go, they stayed! It was only when persecution of the Church started that the disciples in Jerusalem were scattered. Just as well really, otherwise the best news this world has ever been graced with would have remained a secret in a small city for a select few! Session One: Can our community be loved? (Acts 8:1-8) Life Group Study Material Session Two: Good news for each person (Acts 8:26-40) Session Three: Having a Heart for our neighbourhood (Acts 9:10-19) Session Four: What could God do in your community? (Acts 9:32-43) Session Five: Doing a new thing! (Acts 10:19-30) Session Six: What will you do to show others that they are known and loved? (Acts 11:19-30) Note: This material can be downloaded at: Printed copies are also available. After Jesus rose from the grave, He left His followers with a simple command: Go into all the world and make disciples (see Matthew 28:19). Most Christians today are not known for making disciples, preferring to sit back and enjoy church from a comfortable distance. This is not what God intends for His church Multiply is designed as a simple resource that you can use to begin making disciples. Part I & II of the Multiply Material is available on the church web site: If you would like a printed version of this material, please let Phillip know.

5 New Venture! There is no space this month to include this section. It will return in our July/August edition. Let Phillip Coffin know if you would like to be included in the future. SPRING HARVEST 2017 MINEHEAD WEEK APRIL A church holiday is being arranged for next year at Spring Harvest. If you are interested, please have a look on the Spring Harvest website for further information ( There are various different types of accommodation/self-catering and halfboard options available so please have a look and decide what will work for your party. Booking forms are now available (on the welcome desk at Cuffley campus or please debbie@lifechurch.uk.com and I will send you the form). The deposit required will be 35 per adult and 20 per child (plus any insurance taken), with the balance being payable a minimum of 56 days before arrival. There is a 15 per person discount available for early booking. If you would like to be part of our group booking, please let Debbie Chisholm have your completed booking form and deposit cheque (made payable to Life Church ) by Wednesday, 8 June, Our Vision Statement: To Grow through Living Out the Great Commandment and the Great Commission

6 Priceless Special Events Bringing life and hope to trafficked girls Featuring Jessica Gunjal. This is an opportunity to hear first hand about how girls are finding hope in the midst of one of the largest Red Light Areas in the world. Life Church (Cuffley Campus) Wednesday 15 th 7.45pm Note: This is a joint campus event, similar in nature to a previous one we ran about Northern Nigeria. Ladies Day Saturday 2 nd July A sign up sheet is available in lobby. More details to follow. Annual Men Only BBQ Saturday 2 nd July pm 33 St Vincents Way, Potters Bar See William Wong for more details. HOLIDAY CLUB Goffs Oak Methodist Holiday Club Ages 5-11 August Please could you collect any Persil liquid clothes washing measuring cups for us as a craft at the holiday club and give them to Gill Chuchla. Thank you. Regular Events Singing for Fun Monday s during term time 1.30 til 3 pm - Church Sanctuary 8 til 9.30 pm - Rainbow Room Contact: Audrey Croll Mother & Toddler Group Tuesdays (Term Time) Cuffley Campus 2 per family Contact: Sandy Harvey Tuesday 7.00 pm - Ark Room Thursday 9.30 am - Ark Room Contact: Amanda Beeton (Tuesday) & Isabelle Clark (Thursday) BREAD Bible Readings Explained And Discussed Thursday 2 nd June pm (Rainbow Room)

7 team 8.15 pm (Rainbow Room) If you would like to receive personal prayer then please come along and speak to us, you will be welcome. Contact Fran Warboys Coffee Morning Friends Walks GROUP Wednesday 15 th June For more details please contact Audrey Croll Fridays (Term Time) am - 12 noon Cuffley Campus Contact: Audrey Croll For youth at secondary school. Friday Life Church, Cuffley Term Time Only Contact: Helen Houghton PUB LUNCH Friday 17 th June Goffs Lane, Goffs Oak EN7 5EP Wheelwrights Just turn up. We d love to see you! Contact: Audrey Croll or Pat Life Roser. Church Web Site: 26 th June - Cuffley Campus Contact: Paul Harvey Blaze 4:16 & Potters Bar Foodbank Every Saturday 12noon - 2pm Wayside Jubilee Centre Wayside, Potters Bar EN6 5NE See Esther Tam for more details. POTTERS BAR Prayer Meeting Every Wednesday 9-10 pm (After the Bible Study) Various venues: See William & Betty Wong for more details.

8 Contacts Church Office Minister Elders Deacons Youth & Children Worship Team (Cuffley) Worship (Potters Bar) Prayer Ministry Team Encounter (Cuffley) Food Bank & Blaze 4:16 Life Church King James Avenue, Cuffley, EN6 4LN Phillip Coffin Gavin Chisholm Mary Gregory John Hyde William Wong Diane Gilbert Derek Gregory Julia Ellis-Hall Helen Houghton (Children s Worker) helen@lifechurch.uk.com Carol Coffin (Potters Bar Campus) carol@lifechurch.uk.com Paul Harvey (Part Time Pastor & Worship Team Leader) worshipteam@lifechurch.uk.com Jenny Campbell worshipteam@lifechurch.uk.com Alison Hockney???????? worshipteam@lifechurch.uk.com Esther Tam esther.chelliah@sky.com Fran Worboys b.worboys@ntlworld.com Gavin & Debbie Chisholm gavchisholm@hotmail.com Esther Tam info@potterbar.foodbank.org.uk Kathy Hillier k.hillier@ntlworld.com