1) Please pray for Rev'd
Siow ad his wife Lye Een as they prepare to relocate to
Kuwait to head up our Chinese ministry in January. Pray
especially for the paperwork to be cleared for their
visas.2) Pray for
Jasmine and Shaun as they continue to lead our Chinese
ministry that the Lord will give them encouragement and
strength. We are seeing new faces every week which is
encouraging. Pray for debbie Van rensburg as she takes
on the role of co-ordinating our outreach to the Chinese
community through offering free English lessons.
3) Pray for Charlie who
is making so much progress in hospital. Pray that this
three year old boy will wake up from his coma and be
restored to his family complete and whole.
4) Pray for Becky
Layfield as she takes on the role of administrating our
Children's Ministry.
Praise
God for the recovery of Becky's mother from major
surgery.
5) Pray for Lloyd and
Maud Bailey as they come to terms with the loss of
Lloyd's father and pray for his mother who is very ill.
Ministry Aims
1) to establish a Chinese
Anglican congregation with her own priest.
2) To explore being advocates
for the poor in Kuwait.
3) To initiate Christian
Muslim relations in order to build bridges between our faith
communities.
4) to offer a place of
hospitality to Christian worshippers in Kuwait.
Tuesday 30th September -
Prayer meeting. 7pm - 8.30pm. This is in Surra at the
home of the Weeks. Email
q8weeks@yahoo.com for more details.
This Friday (2nd
October) all those involved in Children's ministry
(and their families) are invited to the home of Becky
Layfield (in Salwa) after church fo a Pizza lunch to learn
about the materials we use and how we are going to work as a
team. Please RSVP to Andy. Becky will be sending a map by
email which will go out soon.
Then
on Monday October 13th there will be
a meeting at the home of Susannah Joy and Bill for all those
interested in being involved with Music ministry. If you a
musician or singer please come along and offer your gifts to
the LORD. Contact Susannah Joy at
knowmore@rocketmail.com
Every Tuesday morning there is a
Women's Bible Study which Navina is involved with (email
navthompson@yahoo.co.uk) for more information and
on Thursday morning we have ROPE
(Read, Offer, Prayer and Encouragement) email Bill at
hisbie4me@yahoo.ca
Our
Harvest
Festival will be
on Friday October 17th at 10.30am.
This will be in the garden at the British Embassy. Please
give your name to Sonny Thomas if you would like to go. You
can email him at
sonnytomas@gmail.com
We will be collecting money and
items for a local charity - more details to be given next
week.
Bill Schuillenberg has been invited by the
Chaplain
to be a pastoral assistant. This has been approved by the
Church Council. Bill's specific responsibilities will
include assisting in ministry at St Paul's in the realms of
prayer, counselling and overseeing small groups. It is
anticipated that in due time Bill will prepare for Reader
ministry.
Urgent! We
need help for the following:
1) Chinese
Outreach. Teaching
English. Every two weeks we will be offering free English
classes for members of the Chinese community. We need two
teachers who are willing to teach for one or two times a
month.The classes are held on
Friday after
church and last one hour. We also need one person who will
be happy to organise the rota of our English classes and
make sure the materials are in place. The curriculum is
provided by the British
Council. Please contact Chaplain if you can help.
2) URGENT! The
number of children we
have is growing and we need help. Can you offer to help lead
a class once a month. We have two groups - the 5-7 years old
and the 8-11s. We also need an organiser/administrator to
volunteer to create a rota and ensure teaching materials are
available in advance. We are using Scripture
Union LIGHT
materials from the UK.
3) Refreshments: If
you can help provide drinks and biscuits once every two or
three months then please contact Lara at
oroberts@qualitynet.net
Or if you worship on
Sunday evening at
Ahmadi contact Claire for refreshment rota at
claire3hunt@yahoo.com
4) URGENT! We
need volunteers to take part in the service through reading scriptures and
leading intercessions.
If you would like to do this then please contact Steve at steveainsworth@capinvestgroup.com
We also need musicians. So
if you play piano, guitar, violin, bass, drums or the
spoons! Contact Susannah Joy at
knowmore@rocketmail.com
New Location Required for Friday
Congregation
We need a new venue that has the following
requirements:
a) Has two large meeting rooms -
one for 200 people and another for 60+.
b) Has two or three smaller rooms
which can be class rooms for our Kids ministry.
c) There is adequate parking
d) Is located North of 6th
Ring Road on
the Gulf side of Kuwait city.
We are open to looking at villas, schools,
hotels, theatres but we need your help in looking. Do you
know any Kuwaiti friends in the real estate business? Then
please let them know of our needs. If you think you have
found somewhere suitable please let the Chaplain or a member
of the PCC know.
