Welcome to the DIY Sunday Service Kit this second Sunday in July.

Here's the Word for the Week - 'Two blades on my Turbine'

What's the POINT of the deep theology we recite and cling to? Well, here's an attempt to handle the doctrine of the Trinity with the outsider in mind, showing the point of it as simply as I can ... using a different laptop, operating system and software so I hope the quality is going to improve!

Is there somebody you might want to share this with? 

Last week was a really busy one for y GRWP, with needs arising that had to be addressed and the addition of a board meeting last Thursday which took some preparation and led to extras to be done in the following few days. There's a specially made little video in the Prayer Points arising out of that meeting and a few other needy situations around the world to be praying for.

So at the start of a new week I'm really happy to have survived more internet outages to be able to send this DIY SSK out to you ... I hope it will be published in time for Tom to get it when he wakes up in Australia well ahead of the rest of us for his very early Sunday morning devotions!

Let's start with worship led by City Alight ...

Let's pray today

1. For the *Zim people (not their real name) of Western Asia

Received on Friday from Wycliffe bible Translators

Dear Simon, I’m writing to ask you to pray for an urgent need. There are 2.2 million Zam* people in West Asia, living in a place that is hostile to the gospel. They currently have no Bible in their language, but the local translation team has recently been given a wonderful opportunity to get God’s word out through a film called The Covenant, which is based on the first five books of the Bible. The script has been translated. The voice actor has been recruited. The team is ready. But there is a problem. Riva*, the lead Bible translator, has lived with her 16-year-old son as a refugee for nine years. Now, she and her son, and the voice actor (Spencer*), have all been threatened with deportation because of their faith. Riva is going to see her lawyer today, Thursday, to lodge a new appeal. The lawyer says there is no reason not to do this, and it should buy time for another six to nine months. So that is good news, though there is not much chance of a positive outcome from the appeal. But we pray that this could happen, or that she gets an invitation from another country in the meantime. Spencer and his wife moved to the country two years ago as asylum seekers, and have applied for refugee status. They have still not had an answer. This film could have a huge impact. But if Riva and Spencer have to leave the country, the recording may be delayed indefinitely. Will you join us in asking God to provide for them, and protect the recording of this film? Ways you can pray: Pray for Riva’s appeal to be successful. Pray for God to provide a place of sanctuary and safety for Riva and her son, and for Spencer and his wife. Pray that Riva and Spencer will be able to record the dialogue for the film successfully. Pray that God will use this film to change the hearts of the Zam people.

       2. For churches on Sumatra Island in Indonesia

Mobs of Islamist militants are reported to have stopped Christians from worshipping in two cities on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island.  

The hardliners are believed to have disrupted Christians as they worshipped in a café in a village in Binjai, 13 miles from Medan, capital of North Sumatra Province, last month. In Riau, capital of Pekanbaru Province in southern Sumatra, a mob reportedly stopped Bethel Indonesia Church’s (Gereja Bethel Indonesia or GBI) worship service.
 
Morning Star News (MSN) reported that in the North Sumatra attack, at least 40 militants stopped the midday worship service at the café in Binjai where the Mawar Sharon congregation met, according to Binjai-based MetroLangkatBinjai.com.

          3. For developments with y GRWP

(Click the link below for a prayer update)

i) Pray about whether you might be able to help with this

ii) Pray that this will encourage people to engage with one another in mission in rural Wales, whether with us or with others active elsewhere in this area

iii) Pray that we will all be able to learn things that will help us serve the Lord better in rural Wales for having been involved in this effort

Lord and Father we thank you for the access we have into your presence by the precious blood of Christ, which has enabled us again today to pray around the world and back to a God Who can do anything, any where at any time.

May our prayers today be acceptable in your presence and powerful in your world, not because we are deserving but because of the merits of the Son in Whom you are well pleased.

We ask for Jesus' sake.

Amen.

Let's sing to the One Who can do more than we can even think or imagine

Click below for the Bible reading

Here's the video of today's sermon

Let's pray

We thank you lord that your Word so often comes to us in the time and at the point of our human need.

Help us to store up your Word in our hearts so that we can profit from it when our need grows most strong, and walk more closely with you for having found your way for us through the challenges we meet in this life.

Hold us close to you in dependent and joyful faith, we ask for Jesus' sake.

Amen.

Thanks for being with us here again today.

As ever, if we can pray for you or be of help please text or WhatsApp 07748 644958 or email HoWChaplain@gmail.com

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Have a great week!

Simon.

(Also 'as ever' ... here's the offering bag! Thanks.)