NORWICH CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH SEPTEMBER 2018

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1 30th 23rd 16th 9th 2nd NORWICH CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH SEPTEMBER 2018 Welcome to our Sunday service, especially if you are joining us for the first time. During our morning service we have Youth and Children s groups, please let us know if you need information about these or you have any other queries before, during or after the service. Our welcome team are around to assist in any way we can. After the morning service we have a Welcome Desk in the foyer that serves tea, coffee and biscuits where you can discover more about the church, its events and activities. We hope you will feel at home here today. SUNDAY SERVICES IN SEPTEMBER Morning Worship (10.45am) Evening Service (6pm) Luke 18: 9-14 Preacher: Mark Fairweather-Tall With Communion Preacher: Donald Menga Preacher: Mark Fairweather-Tall Compassion Sunday Preacher: Paulo Mussi Preacher: Mark Fairweather-Tall Dedication of Chloe Iwunze Preacher: Mark Fairweather-Tall With Communion Preacher: Steve Gaskin Harvest Preacher: Alan Barnes Preacher: Mark Fairweather-Tall Leader: Eco Team Mornings: The Crib (0-2 years) & Quest (age 3-16 years). Night Quest: (school years 6-11), drop off at 6pm.

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4 BIBLE-BASED & PRAYER FOCUSED This month s Sunday service at Grays Fair Court will be on the 2nd September. Please pray for Alan Barnes, who is leading the service. EBA Focus: Laindon Baptist Church was founded in 1909, moved to its present buildings in In pastoral vacancy since January, the church begins the search for a new minister. Please pray: About the ministerial vacancy and the search process, that the right person will be made known to lead the church forward; That more younger and active people will come to broaden and enhance the make-up of the church; In thanks for the current youth and children s work and pray for more opportunities to reach additional youngsters The Bible Course returns on Thursday 20th September for 4 further weeks, 7.30pm. Please contact Paul John for more information. Do join us in Room 3 as we gather for a time of prayer before the morning service, am. If you have any items you would like included in the prayers in the services, please give them to the person at the welcome table in the foyer before the morning service. If you would like someone to pray with you at the close of the service, please come down to the front of the church.

5 BIBLE-BASED RETURNS ON & THURSDAY PRAYER FOCUSED SHARING LIFE 1 Lord, as we start a new month, kindle in us a thirst for your wisdom and knowledge that we may be children with open hearts for you and our brothers and sisters around us. 2 Pray for all those people living in Dyers Yard. Why not prayer walk the street as you pray? Pray for all those who work in schools at the start of this new academic year. Pray for children who are starting school or moving on to new schools, that they would settle quickly and make good friendships. The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever puts his trust in the Lord shall be safe. Prov 29:25 Pray for the Encounter evening tonight. May God s presence move throughout His people and renew and refresh them all. Pray for the growing migrant community in Norwich. May newcomers be welcomed into the City and our Churches. May they settle quickly with newly found friends around them. Pray for our Royal family. As we see how they have modernised over recent years, may the Church still be at the centre of their values and principles. Tomorrow is Compassion Sunday, where we remember and pray for the charity, Compassion UK. As we continue to pray for our own sponsored children, let us pray also that more people will feel moved to sponsor children overseas to enable them to receive the healthcare, education and bible-based teaching that can transform their lives. Pray for all those people living in Barnards Yard Block. Why not prayer walk the street as you pray? Pray for Nikki Collins and the Open the Book team as they continue to build friendships and share the Good News in schools in our area. Pray for Caleb, the men s gathering at Witard Road today. Pray for great fellowship and sharing of God s word. As a Church family, may we be ever more ready to say here I am Lord, and answer to His call. Pray for the young people of our Church who are about to begin their University careers. May they feel God s protective arms around them as they embark on this exciting new journey in their lives. Bless the parents who will have to readjust to a new reality of homelife also. Pray for Somalian believers in the horn of Africa, who are so open to persecution. Pray that they will have the strength to stay strong in their faith when the pressure upon them is so strong. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Cor 12:13 Pray for all those people living in St. Miles Alley and Rosemary Lane. Why not prayer walk the street as you pray?

6 SEPTEMBER 2018 CALENDAR Please pray Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday English Folk Dancing Contact Centre Trustees meeting Men s UEA Encounter Prayer Evening Foodbank Badminto Margaret Raven Arnold Read Tim & Angela Reeves Dan, Amanda, Maddy Reynold Chapelfield Road Lunch Club Leaders Meeting Lunch Club Ladies Housegroup Roller Kids Contact Groups Men s UEA Café Tots Contact Groups Café Tot Foodbank Badminto Q&A mee with leaders Contact G Gill, Martha & Daniel Schofield June Sewell Chris, Evette, Nathan & Nadia Sharpe Atruro, Minerv Marie Sison Chapelfield Road Lunch Club English Folk Dancing Lunch Club Roller Kids Holiday Club Planning Meeting Men s UEA Café Tots Church Meeting Café Tot Foodbank Badminto The Bible Brian Spinks Lil Standage Graham & Jo Stone Les & Rita Thac Chapelfield Road Lunch Club Lunch Club Ladies Housegroup Roller Kids Mum s Group Contact Groups Men s UEA Café Tots Contact Groups Café Tot Foodban Badmint The Bibl Contact Stephen, Eunice, Daniel, Luke & Grace Walcott John Walker Theresa Wall Winston, Maure Wallace

7 regularly for those in our church. Some names appear in the calendar below to guide you. Friday Saturday Sunday 7.30am Leaders Prayer Breakfast Morning Worship with communion 6pm Evening Service Rob & Naomi Power David & Jane Ramsbottom n :20 Social Evening Child Contact Centre Power & Beauty Gospel Choir charity concert Morning Worship 6pm Evening Service 9 Jonny & s Philip & Anne Robinson Margaret Ross June Rudrum s n ting time roups Prayer Ministry team meeting 9.00 Caleb Mens Witard Rd Messy Mousehold Hub Morning Worship 6pm Evening Service with communion 16 a, Adrienne & Eileen Smith Sebert & Mary Smith Richard & Julie Solomon s n Course Child Contact Centre Harvest Ceilidh Morning Worship 6pm Evening Service 23 ker Ron & Pat Townshend Ophelia & Tony Tsang George & Enid Utting s k on e Course Groups Leaders Away Day Ladies Afternoon Tea Morning Worship 6pm Evening Service 30 en & Elysia Amy Walters Mary Weatherhead Bob, Nessie, Noah, Reuben & Zachary Welton

8 BIBLE-BASED & PRAYER FOCUSED Thank God for those who are attending The Bible Course. Pray that their faith would be renewed and enriched through learning more about God s word. Pray for the missing Pastor Raymond Koh of Malaysia, who was kidnapped in February last year. The newly elected government in May reopened the inquiry into his disappearance, which is thought to have had police involvement. Please pray for him to be found safely and reunited with his family. Pray for the church meeting tonight. May God be fully present and guide us in discussions and decisions to enable us to lead our Church forward with His will at the forefront of our actions. Please lift up the people of Guatemala, who are trying to continue with their normal lives after a volcano eruption three months ago. Please pray for God's comfort for the families who lost loved ones as a result of the eruption. And pray for Tearfund partners as they respond to the needs of those in the affected area. More than 38,000 people have been displaced by violence in Plateau State, Nigeria. Many of these people's homes were destroyed, and they now live in crowded camps with inadequate shelter and little access to food and safe water. Please pray for an end to the violence; for God's protection over the vulnerable; and that people s needs will be met. Last month the Indonesian island of Lombok was devastated by two earthquakes. More than 150 people were killed, and thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed. Pray for comfort for all those who are mourning, healing for those who have been injured, and wisdom and provision for the local authorities as they continue to respond. Pray for all those people living in Throckmorton Yard. Why not prayer walk the street as you pray? Pray for the work of Operation Agri as it supports Christian-led rural and urban development projects in three continents, attacking the basic causes of poverty amongst some of the least fortunate people in the world. Pray for the government and transport/infrastructure bodies in Italy following the terrible collapse of the bridge near Genoa. Pray that bereaved families will be comforted. Pray that safety checks and funding can be applied to the whole transport system to make this beautiful country confident once more with their roads and bridges. Monsoon time again in India is causing more hardship - hundreds of people have died in devastating floods in the southern state of Kerala, the worst monsoon in almost a century. As tensions within the USA and with the USA and its 'allies' continue to rise - pray for mutual understanding and a greater sense of perspective can be attained throughout. Pray that tensions with non-allies can also be calmed as we all look for America to lead by example with justice and humanity. Vanilla may seem like a simple flavour, food, spice - but its production and theft is causing great problems for the Madagascan farmers who grow and harvest the crop. Becoming more expensive than silver the sought after flavour is the source of great conflict, and its theft is devastating the lives of the poor farmers growing it. Please pray for safety and for a sensible level of law enforcement. Pray for the livelihood of the locals who rely so heavily on the production to sustain a living. Pray for all those people living in The Moorings. Why not prayer walk the street as you pray? Pray for the work of BMS, particularly for their new harvest appeal resource Life s First Cry. Pray that the video and resources will be successful in raising money to help save lives of mothers and babies in remote villages in Afghanistan.

9 SHARING LIFE Ladies Afternoon Tea Saturday 29th September, 3.30pm. Join with us for a relaxed time together of tasty food, drinks and good fellowship. Men s Football If you would like to play football on an informal basis we regularly play at UEA SportsPark on Tuesday evenings between 8pm and 9pm. There is no commitment to come every week and players of all standards are welcome. Cost is 60p to enter the SportsPark and 2 for the session. Speak to Alan Barnes, Paulo Mussi or Mark Fairweather-Tall for more information.

10 KINGDOM-INSPIRED Harvest Thanksgiving This year we are supporting Hebron Trust with our monetary gifts and our gifts of food will be donated to Norwich Foodbank. These will be brought forward in the morning service on the 23rd September. On Saturday the 22nd, at 6.30pm, we will be celebrating the harvest with a relaxed social evening - a Ceilidh. There will be food, fellowship, music, song, dance and entertainment to suit all ages. Tickets are available from the church office, church website and also from Bettina Fletcher. All profit will be given to Hebron Trust. SHARING LIFE Our 2nd Men s Golf evening Norwich Premier Golf, Yarmouth Road, Blofield, Norwich, NR13 4JS Come and join us for 9 fun holes of golf on Saturday the 29th September Tee off times from 5pm at 10 minute intervals Followed by food at Rob & Naomi s from 7.30pm If you don t want to join us for golf, you re still welcome for grub. To book, or for more information, contact Paul John

11 SHARING LIFE We will be running a children's Holiday Club from 24th - 26th October at Mousehold Hub, 10am - 12pm. This will be for children from the church and the Mousehold Area. If you would like to be part of the team, please speak to Alan Barnes, Nicki Collins or Philippa Baxter. Booking forms for children will be available later in September. English Folk Dancing starts again after the summer break, on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month at 7.30pm. Badminton also starts again on Thursdays from September, 2pm 4pm. NCBC staffing changes: The new roles and team structure will be voted on at the next Church Meeting on Wednesday 19th September. At the beginning of September all church members will be sent a pack with the job descriptions. IKnow, the online admin system, will be used to send this by . If you have not yet logged on to IKnow and set up your account, please contact the church office by the 1st September to ensure you can receive the . For those members without , please request paper copies from the church office. On Wednesday 13th September, between 7.30pm and 9pm, there is the opportunity to ask the Leaders questions about the roles and gain any clarity you need before the Church Meeting. W/c 3rd September: Job descriptions and explanation made available to church members 13th September: Drop-in Q&A opportunity 19th September: Church Meeting Do you have a car and are you free on Tuesdays during the day? We need a few people to volunteer to bring older people to church for Lunch Club. TimeNorfolk, the pregnancy loss charity, aims to spread hope following pregnancy loss by offering time to listen, time to grieve and time to heal. They have their annual Doorway of Hope Service coming up on 18th October, 7.30pm, Norwich cathedral, which is a service of remembrance for all who have lost a baby however long ago, through miscarriage, termination or stillbirth, as well as during the early months of life. The service is a really special time where there is an opportunity to light a candle and write in the book of remembrance as well as coming together with others who have lost a baby. Job Opportunity: The Baptist Union of Great Britain and the Trustee of the Baptist Pension Scheme are seeking a full-time Pensions Manager to oversee the operation of the Scheme. This is an exciting opportunity to take the Scheme through the next stage of its journey. There will be opportunity to work alongside the existing Pensions Manager, Mark Hynes, for a transition period. Please see the website at jobs Billy Last month we watch the film, Billy: The Early Years of Billy Graham in an evening service. If you missed this and would like to see it, you can borrow the DVD from the church office. We also still have the documentary, Before The Flood, available to borrow.

12 SHARING LIFE Rangers Games Morning Monday 3rd September, 10am 1pm, including lunch. Table tennis and games for school years 6 to 11 a chance to get together before going back to school. 20:20 Social Evening Come along for this casual, 18-30's social evening here at NCBC. A chance to meet new people, play some games including table tennis & board games and eat some tasty cake. Join us from 7.30pm, on Friday 7th September. All cakes provided. For more information, please contact the church office. See you there! Mum s Night In Tuesday the 25th September, 7.30pm. Take a beak from the kids and join us for a games night and snacks. See Lizzie Baker for more information. CONTACT DETAILS Minister Rev Mark Fairweather-Tall, Call , mark@norwichcentral.org, Website NCBC Prayer Chain Call , Text , prayer@norwichcentral.org Pastoral Care Call , pastoralcare@norwichcentral.org Church Office (hours are Monday - Friday, 9.30am pm) Please send items for the October s information sheet to the Church Office by the 24th September. Also send any additional notices for September to the church office and where, appropriate, they will displayed on the screens (pre and post morning service), placed on the Sharing Life noticeboard and announced in the service. Norwich Central Baptist Church, Duke Street, Norwich, NR3 3AP office@norwichcentral.org norwichcentral.org