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Today’s Services		Next Lord’s Day – 26^th February
9.30am	Morning Prayer Meeting	9.30am	Morning Prayer Meeting
12 Noon	Mr Iain Morrison (English) Church	10.30am	Rev Calum I Macleod (English) Hall
12 Noon	Rev Calum I Macleod (Family Service) Tong	12 Noon	Rev Calum I Macleod (Gaelic) Church
6pm	Rev Calum I Macleod (English) Church	6pm	Rev Calum I Macleod (English) Church
	NO Sunday School due to the school holidays	6pm	Mr Neil Murray (Gaelic) Tong
		3pm	Back Sunday School Tong Sunday School
		7.30pm	Youth Fellowship (Hall)

Midweek Meetings
7pm (Tue)	Gress (Gaelic)
7pm (Tue)	Tong (Gaelic)
7.30pm (Wed)	Church Hall (English)
7pm (Thurs)	Church Hall (Gaelic)

Minister Away

The minister will be attending an HMB related meeting in Skye on Tuesday evening. He will be leaving on Tuesday morning and returning Wednesday afternoon.

Psalmody Class

The Psalmody Class will meet immediately after the Prayer Meeting on Wednesday evenings for 1 hour each week. ALL WELCOME TO COME ALONG.

Youth Club

Our youth club begins again and the next meetings are as follows-

P1&2 Monday 27^th February, 6.30 - 7.30pm.

P3-6 Tuesday 28^th February, 6.30 – 8pm. ALL CHILDREN WELCOME.

Christianity Explored – Week 3

Christianity Explored will meet on Monday evening in the church hall. It begins at 8pm and concludes at 9.15pm. Everyone is welcome to come along. For further information please log onto www.christianityexplored.org.

Road To Recovery
Leaflets highlighting the work of R2R are available at the door. Please take a copy and be encouraged to pass copies on.

2012 Free Church Mission Projects

Leaflets highlighting home and international missions activities for 2012 are available at the church door. Please be encouraged to read about / and pray for / and support the various projects profiled.

Essential Works to Church & Manse

Essential work is currently being undertaken to improve access to the main entrance and side entrance (South facing) of the church. A ramp is to built at the front entrance as well as necessary improvements to the exterior step at the side entrance. This work is due to commence over coming days. It may be necessary to restrict access at both areas next Lord’s Day. The entrance to the church Hall may need to be used as an alternative entrance and exit point for all services and other events on a one-off basis. Necessary improvements are also being undertaken to the steps leading into the manse.

Greetings from Uganda (Update from Kenny John Mackenzie)

Allow me to share with you how the Lord is working in some of our former students who have graduated from African Bible University, and who have tried to return home to their own people who have really struggled from years of rebel warfare.

The Northern part of Uganda - Lira, Gulu, and Kitgum is where the war really led to dreadful torture. The whole structure of the North broke down with people put into I D P camps (Internally Displaced People) - for over twenty years. About four years ago the people started to return to their villages and are trying to get back to some normality.

We have very few students from the North who have come to ABU. With the education system breaking down and education in the camps limited, very few received the required pass marks to enter. So ABU made allowances for those called of God who came from the North to come and be trained at a Reformed Bible College.

My first call was to Lira where we have Charles Ogena who wants to train his team of Village Pastors with the Reformed teaching he received from ABU. He has also been given slots on two radio station at 6 am on Saturday and Sunday. Of course the power supply situation is very poor in this part of the world. With no power supply, they go and try the generator. There is no fuel left in the generator! Ishbel asks, am I paying again?

The program went out at 6.15 am with Charles Preaching on 1 Cor 3: 9-11. In this part of the world very few have a Bible, television, mattress, car, etc, but they do try and invest in a small radio, so many get to hear the word of God being broadcast. One of the greatest needs I saw was that of the need for Bibles in their own language. These cost £6 each and it is the whole Bible from Genesis to Revelation. The other great need is for clean, safe water as many are sick with drinking dirty water, so the need to dig bore holes is great.

My next journey took me to Gulu where the biggest camps of displaced people were at the time of the war. I was meeting our ex Graduate Wilson Okot who is actually from Kitgum, but my car could not travel on that road as you need a 4x4 pickup. So he came to meet me in Gulu. He thanked the Lord for the teaching at ABU though his own church had side-lined him for his teaching on Justified by Faith alone in Christ Alone. He was facing many challenges at the present time and was reduced to one meal every two days as he had no income. Another church had taken him in to teach them on being justified by Faith alone. He had started a kindergarten for orphans. He believes God has called him to teach and preach Gods Word to a people recovering from the torture of war and to give hope to a people who had lost hope.

Driving back to Kampala took me five hours. I had many thoughts. I am thankful to God that we do not belong to this world, that we instead belong to Heaven where Christ is.

I am also thankful to God that he has His people serving Him in the most trying of circumstances. We are so privileged that we can help a little.

Blessings to you all.

Kenny John Mackenzie