Hi Table View Methodist Family,
I look forward to worshiping with you at 8, 930, 11 and 630pm this Sunday.
For you Jesus Christ came into
the world; for you he lived and
showed God's love; for you he
suffered death on the Cross;
for you he triumphed over
death, rising to newness of
life; for you he prays at God's right
hand: all this for you, before
you could know anything of it. In your Baptism, the word of
Scripture is fulfilled: 'We love, because God first
loved us.'
For each person we see we must remember: For you Jesus Christ came into the world... If we treated people like we knew that - the world would be a better place.
We'll be baptizing and celebrating communion at 8 and 930; communion only at 11 and 630pm.
Youth Ministry
Sunday
School and Youth Activities are on a break for the school holidays.
Our youth pastor, Iain Uys is heading up to George to write his
candidate for ministry exam this weekend. Keep him in your prayers.
Please
bring your children to church, especially for Baptism and Communion
this Sunday - I'll do my best to keep the sermon short. Feel free to
bring soft toys and colouring in (no noisy toys!). Let them sit on the
floor if they like. Bring them to the front to witness the baptism;
help them to know that Baptism means that they are also a part of God's
family at Table View Methodist.
Gideon's Bibles
On
Sunday 9th Gideon's Bible distributors have asked to come and speak at
our 8 and 930am services. I've got a weekend off that Sunday - so I'll
see you again on 16 October; Iain will be on duty when he returns from
his exam.
Music Evening 21 October
There will be a planning meeting for the music evening on 4 October at 7pm. Please chat to George Courie for more information.
Prayers
Members
of our church work at the various universities and schools in the
Western Cape. Some of our members are students, some are police. As we
watch the news we might only see the radical edges of protests and
policing; in the middle of all this are real people... the people who we
baptize. The people we sit next to in church on a Sunday; people who
want to work together for the coming of God's Kingdom.
Please
pray that our country and all those in power in various spheres of
governance would work diligently and justly to find workable solutions.
Pray
that we wouldn't only see the extreme edges - but that we'd learn to
see beyond the hype in the media to the real problems at the heart of
conflict in our land. God can work through us to make a huge difference
in the situation in our land.
God bless,
Rev Angus Kelly