pray for our leadership

Consider this prayer when you feel like grumbling about the leaders in your church:

'Good Shepherd,
Thank you for my church leaders, lay and ordained.
Thank you that you have called and equipped them.
Thank you for their vision, love and service.
Show me how I can serve them as they serve you.
Help me to submit to their authority without grumbling or complaining.
Help me to encourage and strengthen them in their ministry as they lead us in ministry.
Touch their hearts and heal them in every way.
Stir their hearts and embolden them.
Soothe their hearts and give them your peace.
Lead them into your presence and grant them wisdom and anointing to lead us.
I ask this so that your light will shine in and through every part of your Church.
Amen'

Manyano - A Place of Peace and Unity where you can Discover God

Manyano Centre in Paarl is where Tony and Tineke Litchfield from our church are now serving the Lord. They are running this large place which can accommodate around 135 people mainly for group conferences, or camps. Whilst these are not always Christian, the Christian message will always be there.


Facilities include a swimming pool, large well kept gardens and sports playing fields for volleyball and soccer, spacious meeting rooms and breakaway rooms.

They have links with the Paarl Methodist Church and Tony and Tineke ask for our prayers in working with this church to develop a vision for the centre.

Tony says “During 2008 we had over 500 people take the Alpha course and another 400 plus take part in an Emmaus discipleship course.

We had NGO's including Mother2Mother a one on one HIV programme. We also hosted the Western Cape Emergency Services regional conference.

On a personal level we are doing very well God has been so good. We have 'adopted' my brother in law's son and he has fitted in to life here at the Manyano Centre. Aidan and Bella our own kids are such a blessing from the Lord.

Manyano is Xhosa for unity and our desire is to see all churches involved here and other non church groups involved in training.

We are also involved in sports evangelism and last year we had the privilege of seeing over 1600 kids give their lives to the Lord.” This sports evangelism ministry with other youth ministry is the focus they want to develop during 2009, please pray for them as they seek God’s will for this.

What To Expect

Where are you located?
On Dolly Varden Street in C-Place, Jeffreys Bay. We are diagonally opposite the Caltex Wavelands service station which is on your left as you enter Jeffreys Bay on St Francis Street.

When are your services?
We have Sunday Morning Worship at 08h30. and JBay Java Café Church on Sunday at 18h00.

What should I wear to church?
You will see all manner of dress at any given service - from jeans to dresses/suits. Come dressed in what is comfortable for you.

What do I do with my children?
Your children can be part of an exciting and active environment filled with songs, games and loving teachers that teach Godly values at an age appropriate level. Our Sunday School worship together and are then divided into groups based on age for a lesson. It coincides with the morning worship service.

Will I feel uncomfortable as a visitor?
We have many visitors and believe you will feel right at home the first time you visit with us.

Will I know what to do when I get there?
There are greeters at the door who can help direct you or answer any questions you might have.

As a visitor, will I be asked to give an offering?
Visitors or members are never pressured to give any offerings. Visitors are encouraged to simply be our guest and find out who we are.

Do I need to become a member?
No, all are welcome to worship with us at JBay Baptist Church. However, we do offer information on membership for those who are interested in finding out more about opportunities to serve alongside us.

Do you have special communion services?
Every second week, communion is observed alternating between the Sunday morning service and the evening JBay Java Café Church service.

JBay Java - Café church - Bean there yet?

Sunday evening from 5.30 pm

2 Cor 2:15 For we are to God the aroma of Christ...

A worship service with a difference...

use all you've been given for God - some possible options

In no particular order:

If you'd like to get involved, please email jbaybaptist@gmail.com

Timion
-folks to help sand and paint equipment
-folks to sew
-folks to donate materials
Other needs

7th Heaven
-folks to visit and play with the children?
-folks to help with homework?
-folks to donate school materials?
-baby formula
-fixing up play room (lots of work – paint, roof, sealants etc.)
-prayer warriors
Other needs

Joshua Project

Project needs

Building Fund
-folks to come up with ideas for fund raising
-folks to help run with ideas for fund raising

Ladies' Dorcas Fund
-this fund is a benevolent fund and anyone can contribute to it by making crafts that are sold by the ladies at their meetings and at an annual fete.

Visiting Team
-folks to visit the sick and elderly
-folks to visit the members of the church family when there is a need

Small Group
-leaders and/or hosts

JBAY Java
-help setting up tables and washing table clothes
-help set up, serve and wash up in the kitchen
-stewards to give a warm welcome and to show newcomers to seats
-singers and musicians to join the worship team

Sunday School
- teachers

*** Special Prayer ***

Please continue to pray for Pastor Roy and his wife Joy especially now as they enter the last period of their sabbatical and prepare to return to ministry within the church tomorrow. The sabbatical is a time for rest, refreshing, renewal and re-envisioning. For those who don't know what the word means, a sabbatical (from the same word as we get 'Sabbath day') is meant to be a stimulating and refreshing break from ministry (but not a holiday) leading to a pastor returning better equipped to serve, through deeper understanding and new insights. Please pray that it will be so for them.

Building project - Sunday School - with hope and vision for the future generations

Just Another Brick in the Wall

How many I wonder can remember that song? The words go “You’re just another brick in the wall”. Of course you’re not a brick, but you could PUT another brick in the wall!

By the grace of God, the extension on the Sunday School building is up to floor level. Phase 1 was to bring it to the floor slab by the Christmas break, and we made it! On time and on budget – God is good.

This extension is so important for the children and youth in the church, and they are our future. God has such plans for them, its awesome to be a part of the watering and watching God make the growth.

Any contribution is such an assistance, a brick at a time sees growth. There is a long way to go to completion, but each step and each brick, or window, or door helps. Or you can volunteer to help with painting or in some other way.

Please place any contribution in an envelope marked “building fund” into the collection, or check the bulletin for banking details and reference the donation “building fund”.

Thank you so much, and please have a look at what has been done, and pray, please please pray that God’s will be done in the building of this extension and in its use thereafter.

~ blog from Irene Bradley