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Kidz Church In Recess Teen ChurchIn recess

Please stay for a cup of tea or coffee after the service.

Members who require prayer meet in the chapel after the service.

Prayer & Praise Requests:• Lyn Redshaw – cracked vertebrae.• Shirley Jennings – lung cancer, follow up visits to PS Hospital needed.• Sid Tyler – started treatment. • Mel & Nick Kleinhans – Mel has finished

chemotherapy and radium treatment, but still very frail.

• Pray for all the people in frail care, all who are lonely and ill.

   No Thursday Prayer Meeting

Friday Youth in recess for the school holidays

COMMUNION HELPERSWe still need 5 volunteers.. Please contact Carol in the

office. Thank you

Prayer ChainWe are finding that prayer requests are not being passed down the prayer chain. Please if you can’t pass on a request immediately let the person who phoned you know so they themselves can pass the

request on to the next person on the chain. Also, if you can’t get hold of the person beneath you on the

chain please contact the next person .

CHRISTMAS DAY OFFERINGThe Christmas Day Offering that was collected will go to the Baptist Union for pastoral pensioners and

pastoral widows. Amount was R11 730.

Sunday 11 January9am Family Service

August Basson - from Lesotho6pm Evening Service

Jordan Theron

9 DAY TOUR OF ISRAELDeparting 21 March 2015

Tour leaders John & Catrien HauptFlyers and details are available on the table at the

back of the church.

There are BIBLES in the cupboard at the back of the church. Please put them back at the close of the service. There are also cushions for the

chairs, under the stairs at the back of the church.

Suggested Mission Statement from our Leadership Panorama

weekend.

Margate Baptist Church exists to

GLORIFY GODThrough

EVANGELISM-DISCIPLESHIP-FELLOWSHIP-WORSHIP

By being a family where grace and love is unconditional, corporate

worship essential, unity non-negotiable, and endeavouring to share Jesus with our community

central.

2015 Baptist Union Assembly

The 2015 Assembly will take place in Port Shepstone. Pastor Chris is on the sub-

committee. Would anyone be willing to assist him as “Assembly Admin Rep”. Meditate on Scripture Listen to the Holy Spirit

Speak Life Obey God’s Voice Step out in Faith

Walk in Victory

BANK DETAILS

Margate Baptist ChurchStandard Bank, Margate

Acc No. 053273036Branch No. 05752840

DUTIES: - 11January 2015Door Duty: Mark & Ros Hooper / Howard

& Claire OsborneTea Duty: Webster’s Group

Lock-up: Pieter Theron

Lock-up

Duty TODAYMarion Jones-Criag

Office: Youth Office:

039 312 0245 youth@messypeople.commbc@saol.com 039 312 1177 Senior Pastor: Children’s Pastor Chris Anderson Intern:

082 3833733 Monique Whelan

072 842 4022

Youth Pastoral Interns:Meghan Aereboe JP Momberg073 240 7021 072 711 8878

Youth WorkersSarah Paxton Donne de Wet

076 637 2890 071 885 7237

Sermon Notes:Standing on the Threshold of Promise

Genesis 3 The drama of Genesis 3 is repeated in the life of every child of God at every threshold of every new beginning:

KNOWING THE STRATEGY OF OUR ENEMY AS WE MOVE FORWARD ACROSS THE THRESHOLD OF 2015

WILL HELP US TO AVOID THE TRAPS OF DERAILMENT HE HAS PLANNED FOR US

1. THE UNCHANGING PATTERN OF IDENTITY THEFT (v. 1-7)

The Craftiness of the Serpent The Tactic he often uses His Ultimate goal

2. THE UNAVOIDABLE CONSEQUENCES OF OVER-EXPOSURE (v. 8-19) The Permanence of Knowledge The Loss of Innocence (The Burden of Shame) The Tendency to Separate 3. THE WAY BACK (v. 20-24)

The Acceptance of Consequence A Commitment to primary Relationships The Provision of the Tree of Life

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HAPPY BIRTHDAYTo

Mark Hooper 4th

David Jennings 4th

Howard Osborne 5th

Peter Swinney 5th

Vanessa Parry 9th

A BIG Happy Birthday to Dave Jennings who celebrates his 80th

birthday today.