30 June, 2008 at 1:00 pm (Announcements)
Here is what is going on at Northwest Baptist Church this week:
Wednesday, 2 July (7.30 PM) - Midweek Prayer Meeting and Bible Study
Thursday, 3 July (7.30 PM) - Church Visitation
Friday, 4 July (7.30 PM) - Youth Club (11s and up)
- Location: The Junction (8 Bishop St)
Saturday, 5 July (11.00 AM) - Community Outreach
Saturday, 5 July (7.00 – 8.30 PM) – Creation Science Presentation
- Location: The Junction, 8 Bishop St, City Centre, Derry/Londonderry
- Speaker: David Laverty, a member of our church.
- He will be presenting scientific evidences that supports a young earth and the Biblical account of creation.
Sunday, 6 July (11.30 AM) - ”Good News for Kids”
- Message on how to share the gospel with your children.
- The last in our series on ”Surviving Parenthood”
Sunday, 6 July (7.00 PM) - Guest Preacher: Evan Williams
- Bro. Williams, his wife Carmen, and his children will be with us.
- Evan and Carmen are missionaries that we support, who are on their way to Honduras as missionaries.
- You will be great encouraged by the presentation and the preaching, I am sure.
Monday, 7 July (7.00 PM) - Ladies’ Meeting
- Location: Everglades Hotel (Key Adams)
- Topic: “Lessons from the Life of Eve”
- Tea, coffee, fellowship, and Bible study!
Monday, 7 July (8-9 PM) – Men’s Football
- Location: St. Columb’s Leisure Center (Sythetic Pitch)
- Cost: 2 pounds/person
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30 June, 2008 at 7:45 am (Prayer)
Here is an update from Bro. Aaron. Please be much in prayer for him. I cannot imagine how difficult this must be for him. His attitude in all of this is a great example to all of us.
Thanks to everyone for praying for me. I was checked into the hospital on Friday and here I still sit. At first they thought I had a Pleural Effussion (infection in the lung wall) then they thought I had a mucus buildup in my bronchial tube causing a Adalectasis (lung collapse). Today when the doctor performed the bronchoscopy they found the real cause: scare tissue from my surgery had blocked my main lung bronchial. So they have to cut it out surgically. I don’t know yet when they’ll do that. The doctor alluded to the idea that it would take me a month to have this surgery and recover from it.
So I at this very moment am in inner anguish. I soooooo wish to be back in North Africa in the work. I don’t cry much but my heart is crying. At the very same time I KNOW that my God is in EVERYTHING in my life. He knows me. He loves me. And he is doing that thing that will work together for His glory and my good.
What is helping me now is to read a book a friend gave me called, “A Path Not Lined With Roses”. It’s the auto-boigraphy of the life of Peter Rumachik and his family. Peter was a Pastor in Russia during the persecution. SOme of the stories of persecution is incredible. It is amazing what they went through for the cause of Christ. But so much more amazing than their persecution were their attitudes through it all. They continued witnessing, planting churches, and loving their persecutors. All in all he spent 20 years in prison while having a wife and kids. God is building people’s faith through extreme difficulties. Mine hasn’t even yet reached that off so many other. If you’re ever going through a rough time read this book and quit feeling sorry for yourself.
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28 June, 2008 at 8:09 pm (Update)
We had a great time at the youth fellowship last night. We appreciated the Randalls hosting the fellowship at their church. The food, fun, and fellowship was all fantactic! I was so pround of all the young people and especially the young people from our church who listened so well to the message and were taking notes. It was also great to see our good friends Ronnie and Marsha Smith there as well. The next youth fellowship will be in Ballyclare at Ballyclare Baptist Church on 26th July, from 4-7 PM. You can find out details here.
We did not do community outreach today because it was rainy quite hard, which is the first time in quite a while. We had a good time at our Personal Counselling Training this afternoon, talking about helping others to make decisions for Christ.
I hope you will join us tomorrow for the services. I am real excited about what God is doing to do. Tomorrow evening, we will be partaking of the Lord’s Supper together.
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28 June, 2008 at 8:09 am (Prayer)
Please make this request from our friend, Bro. Aaron, a special matter of prayer.
No need for alarm but I do want to ask you all to be praying today. I have had a fever since Wednesday and had some tests run today. Doc says I have an infection OUTSIDE of my lung where they had performed the surgery last month. So I am being admitted to the hospital in about an hour. I don’t know exactly what they’ll do but we’ll see. We are trusting our Father as we always can.
Please pray most specifically that this problem will have a very quick solution. We are supposed to fly out next weekend to go back to Morocco. It would be quite a hassle and possible a great expense to have to move those tickets back. Besides that, I have been here waaaay to long and want to return to our field with all my heart. Please talk to God about that with me.
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27 June, 2008 at 12:52 pm (Update)
We are headed to Portadown in a just a few hours to a youth fellowship at Lighthouse Baptist Church. Pastor Don Randall and his church are hosting the fellowship. A few of the churches here in Northern Ireland try to have a youth fellowship for young people from various churches together together for fun, fellowship, and preaching. Pray for safety as we travel and for God to work as I preach.
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27 June, 2008 at 6:50 am (Missions)
I read a great post by a friend of mine, Ransom Maggard, that should stir your heart to witness to your friends, your family, and to do something about those across the world who are lost without Christ and have no one to tell them.
“Why for fifty-four years of my life did no one tell me about Christ?”
This question was asked by a now fifty-eight year old Moroccan as I sat in a Starbucks in Washington, D.C.. He leaned over the table slightly and his still thickly accented English asked again, “Why for fifty-four years did I sit in darkness?”. I was in Washington tagging along with Aaron and we were meeting this Moroccan to talk to him about some of the work he did now on a Christian Arabic satellite program. As we sat together drinking our coffees (mine), espressos (his), or frappuccinos (Aaron’s) he gave us his testimony. When he came to America in June of 1998 he was living with an American family. He was a Muslim. They were Christians. During the month of Ramadan he would fast and pray five times a day. The Christians he lived with would say ”I respect you so I wont talk to you about religion.” Four years later after the Moroccan was saved, he confronted this man about his ”respect” and told him “You are not a good Christian. You never told me.” As I sat there listening to this man it became real to me something that I would say as I would travel and talk to people about missions; the reason they dont know is because we wont go. The reason this man had been in the U.S. for four years before he became a Christian was because for four years no one spoke to him about Christ-in a “Christian” nation! How much greater is the need in countries where there isnt really any Christian presence? I wonder how many Moroccans, how many Albanians, how many Sri Lankans, how many Americans could stand and point a finger at me and say “You are not a good Christian. You never told me.” Why did this Moroccan sit for fifty-four years in darkness? Because we didnt bring the gospel to him. In II Corinthians chapter four Paul is exhorting the church in verse one “Therefore seeing we have this ministry, (3.6-ministers of the new testament…that the spirit giveth life) as we have recieved mercy, we faint not;” Paul is saying “Keep at it!” He says why in verse three “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:” He says “If we dont share the gospel, if we hide it away, the lost are the ones that suffer!”. As your read this today I hope you will ask yourself this question, the question I asked myself as I heard the Moroccan’s question in Starbucks: What will you do TODAY to bring the Gospel to someone who otherwise would never have it? Will they continue in darkness because of our inactivity? Or will we bring them the Gospel? Will our light be hid to them that are lost?
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24 June, 2008 at 10:01 pm (Evangelism)
Sometimes we as Christians feel guilty for not wanting to hear the old, old story any more. We wonder why we seem to lose the wonder of it all. We beat ourselves over the head for not still being amazed at the wonders of salvation.
One of the best ways to get the joy of our salvation back, to keep the wonder of it all, and to love to hear the old, old story of Jesus and His love, is to tell it to someone who is hearing it for the first time. Tonight we had the opportunity to share the first part of the gospel with a family whose children have been coming to church. It was so fun to open the Bible to those familiar verses and to try to tell the gospel story in language they could understand.
Later this evening, I went to a meeting where there were alot of Christians rejoicing and singing about salvation, but I was rejoicing and excited because today I got a glimpse of salvation through the eyes of those who may have never heard it presented clearly from Scripture before.
Want to fall back in love with Jesus? Want to get your joy back? Start sharing and watch as the lost hear the gospel for the first time! Nothing is more exciting than telling others about our wonderful Saviour!
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24 June, 2008 at 9:15 am (Announcements)
Wednesday, 25 June – Midweek Service 7.30 PM
Thursday, 26 June – Church Visitation 6.45 PM
Friday, 27 June – Youth Fellowship 7.00 PM
- WHERE: Lighthouse Baptist Church (Portadown)
- WHAT: BBQ, Games, Fun, Preaching, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Game
- LIFTS: If you need a lift, meet at the church office at 4:45 PM. We will be back around 11:30 PM.
Saturday, 28 June – Community Outreach 11.00 AM
Saturday, 28 June – Personal Counselling Training 1.30 PM
- LOCATION: Everglades Hotel
- FOR WHOM: Anyone who is saved, baptised, and interested in helping to counsel those who would like to know more about salvation, baptism, church membership, rededication of their life, or other spiritual issues.
- OTHER DETAILS
- Will go from 1.30 – 4.30 PM.
- Please bring some refreshments with you to share.
- Childcare will be provided as well.
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24 June, 2008 at 9:05 am (Update)
I am really excited about the direction that our church is taking. We have more and more volunteers who are really stepping up to help many of the responsibilities in the church, and it is a huge blessing. Things run alot smoother on Sundays, and the buildings are looking better with each passing week. We have more signs and banners directing people where to go, and we will be adding to the decorations. All of the help that our volunteers do frees me up to focus on teaching and preaching on Sunday. Thank you, volunteers, for all that you do.
We had a great morning service, with tremendous music, a special song and verse quotations from the children’s class, and one first-time visitor. It was great to see our friend, local city councillour, Joe Miller, there again with a friend of his. We had 22 in the morning service and 17 in the evening service. We looked at “The Role of the Mother” in the morning and “Open the Book!” from Nehemiah 8 in the evening.
I also wanted to mention that last week we distributed literature to 952 homes. Thank you to everybody who works so hard to help us get the gospel out.
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24 June, 2008 at 7:06 am (Family)
I read this on Austin Gardner’s blog and I wanted to pass it on to you and especially our ladies.
by Dana Bailey
My mom has been an excellant example to me as how to love my husband. My parents just celebrated their 39th wedding anniversary and they are even crazier in love now than 39 years ago. I have learned a lot from my mom, not just through her wise council but by her example.
Here are a few things I have learned about loving my man;
Start your day in prayer for your man. Pray blessings of wisdom, discernment and protection on him. Ask God what your husband needs from you.
Tell him you love him everyday.
Tell him you are proud of him everyday.(this means as much if not more than “I love you”)
Hug & cuddle everyday. Don’t be afraid to hug & kiss in front of your kids. They need to see their parents love each other. Just don’t get carried away. My son often tells us, “Get a room!” when we kiss.
Kiss everyday
Walk him to his car in the morning when he is leaving for work.
Email him or call him to see how his day is going.
If you can, put on a clean shirt & comb your hair before he comes home. I try to change my shirt at least since I usually have spit up all over it. But many times my husband walks in before I am expecting him. That is always a great surprise.
Meet him at the door with a kiss & another hug…if possible. I have a hard time catching him.
Cook dinners that he likes as often as you can, not just for you & the kids. Lunch time is when I fix thing that the kids like since Scott is not there for lunch. Dinner is for him.
These are simple, not very time consuming and can make a difference.
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