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See the attached article by the Social Issues Executive, and see if you can speak out about it.

Spectator’s Guide to the Bible
A practical overview of history’s bestseller

Please join us as we celebrate Easter this year.

Good Friday: 9.30am "Eat Pray Love - the story of how one man loses himself to find others"

Easter Sunday: 8.30am & 10.15am "The Death of Death - how the resurrection spells the end of our fate, and opens up a new hope"

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The off again on again 'koran burning' in the US has provoked some interest. Here is a reflection from the social issues executive on the issue - well worth a read.

Lubbock farewell/commissioning service 

Some reading I've been doing lately provoked an interesting question. Who am I? Actually, what's interesting is to try to answer the question Christianly. How does the Christian worldview change the answer to this question.

It seems to me most in the western world would answer the question individualistically and in terms of their career. Whenever asked the same question at a party we answer in terms of our job. 'I'm and engineer' 'I'm a doctor' and we assign worth to ourselves based upon the status of our jobs. We view ourselves in terms of what we do. But is the Christian answer to the question different?

Yes. Listen to this from Chester and Timmis Total Church, Crossway: Wheaton 2008, p40-41

Prayer Points – Kellie Nicholas

Japan – 13 February 09

Dear all,

The third of February marked the first anniversary of my arrival in Japan.  It it hard to believe that it has been a year, and yet so many things have happened in that time.  Let’s give thanks to our great God for a good year and pray that he will continue to sustain me as I serve him and his people here in Japan.

This month has brought, and will bring, some firsts for me.  Last week I wrote my first Bible study in Japanese.  I had my tutor look over it and help me fix the questions so that they made sense.  The girls in my Bible study group understood the questions and I mostly understood their answers :)  I will also be praying at church on the 15th and leading the evening service on the 22nd.  Please pray for these things as they are really beyond my language ability.  Pray that God will help me to be understood and that people will be encouraged in their worship of our great God.

With all of these things going on, you would think that I had no time to get bored but recently this has been the case.  I think I mostly miss having people to hang out with in my free-time.  People are so busy here and don’t really have a culture of just hanging out together.  Please pray that I will be content and continue to build the relationships that I have.

Thanks for your partnership and prayers.

Kellie

Kellie Nicholas