Newsletter No. 256 July 2015 Pastor Keith Brown
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Newsletter No. 256 July 2015 Minister Pastor Keith Brown 965706222 666180108 E-mail: [email protected] Urb. San Luis C/Azpeitia 1a 03184 Torrevieja Hon. Minister Rev. Alberto Araujo Minute & Administrative Secretary Margaret Mycroft Tel.: 966784938 E-mail: [email protected] Pastoral Secretary Kathy Walton-Brown Tel.: 666180118 E-mail: [email protected] Page 1 La Siesta Evangelical Church Newsletter 254 May 2015 From the Ministers office, As you read this church magazine the end of June will already be upon us, the youth group and stepping stones have already finished for the summer break and our choir will have sung their last service till they return to us in September. My thanks to all who have helped with our services and groups this past six months with a special thank you to our choir for leading our singing at our 11:00am services. A number of our congregation have already gone back to the U.K. or other cooler climates and more of you will follow them in the coming days. We will miss you till you return to us in the autumn, have an enjoyable rest and break from our heat here in Spain. Though our congregations will now be smaller in numbers for the next couple of months we should be joined from time to time with holiday makers who wish to attend church and worship their Lord. Those of you who will be back in September will find that our first 11:00 am service will be a communion service due to Harvest being on our forth Sunday. Can I just remind everyone that when you are away our weekly expenses for running our church are just the same as when you are here and as we receive no financial help from outside our church, if you are able, please try and make provision for your weekly offerings to be made for those weeks when you are away, thank you. Cathy and I have just returned from a few days rest in the Costa del Sol, enabling me to spend time reading and resting and for us to see more of this wonderful country of Spain. Whilst there on the Sunday we attended the other English speaking church within the I.E.E. at Torre del Mar and worshipped with them. From memory they have been a church since 1985 and used to meet once a week in a local hotel but they now rent an empty shop in the town centre enabling them to hold events and meetings such as bible study and Spanish classes during the week. They appear to number around twenty to twenty five as that was the number when we worshipped with them. The singing is lead by a keyboard player and two guitarists with the words projected onto a wall; overall the service was less formal than ours with mainly modern choruses and just one hymn being sung. Then after the service we enjoyed a coffee and a cold buffet laid on by some of the ladies, which was most welcome They have just been joined by a new minister Steve Anderson who has been sent by the Presbyterian Church in Ireland to be the minister for the next two years. In your prayers please pray for our sister church here in Spain that they may grow both in Faith and numbers. And just to finish this month’s page after attending the service I noticed on Goggle maps that we were about twenty minutes from the small town of Torrox which I had seen on the TV programme the Hotel Inspector some weeks ago, so we drove there and parked on the edge of town as vehicles are kept away due to the narrow streets. I intended to find the hotel mentioned in the programme to see if it was as good as the programme made out. We had only walked a couple of hundred yards when we were aware of someone shouting at us from behind and on turning saw a couple rushing towards us, shouting we thought it was you, yes they had been at church that morning with us and they lived in this little old Andalusian white painted town. They showed us around including the hotel I wished to see and we then spent the rest of the afternoon with them, drinking tea and talking. A wonderful Christian couple. When you least expect it God moves in mysterious ways and we now have new Christian friends in a part of Spain we had never been to before. In conclusion as I wrote before whether you are leaving us for the summer or staying here in Torrevieja have a wonderful and safe time and till we meet up again. Till next month God Bless, Pastor Keith Newsletter 256 Page 2 La Siesta Evangelical Church July 2015 DIARY FOR JULY SUNDAY 5th MORNING SERVICE 09:30am 2 Corinthians 12: 2-10 Pastor Keith Brown Mark 6: 1-13 Elder: Jean McNary SUNDAY 12th SERVICE OF WORSHIP 11:00am Ephesians 1: 3-14 Pastor Keith Brown Elder: Jean McNary Mark 6: 14-29 SUNDAY 19th MORNING SERVICE 09:30am Ephesians 2: 11-end Pastor Keith Brown Mark 6: 30-34 and 53 to the end Elder: Jean McNary SUNDAY 26th 11:00am HOLY COMMUNION Ephesians 3: 14-end Pastor Keith Brown John 6: 1-21 Elder: Jean McNary SUNDAY 2nd AUGUST MORNING SERVICE 09:30am Ephesians 4: 1-16 Pastor Keith Brown John 6: 24-35 Elder: Megan Wright In this Edition Floral Donations Minister’s 1 July 11th Pat Newnham Letter Church Diary 2 July 25th Eunice & Chas Smith LFG 3 Reach Out Family 4 Service Rewiring Forthcoming 5 Please remember in your Prayers Events Anniversary Mozambique Tracey in Mozambique having a particularly hard time at 6-7 Women of 8 present. the Bible Fred Wright still sufferring from ill health. Financial 9 Report Gordon and Kathy as they are ordained as Elders of La Siesta Finance 10 Evangelical Church. Organisations 11 Church Info 12 If you know anyone who is sick, at home or in hospital, please advise the Minister or any Elder so that a visit can be arranged. Visit our website www.lasiestaevangelicalchurch.org Page 3 La Siesta Evangelical Church Newsletter 256 July 2015 REACH OUT Please remember that we have a commitment to help Reachout who do such great work with the homeless. The following is the table giving the commodities needed and which church provides which items in July 2015. Any donation of food or clothing is, of course, gratefully accepted. BAPTISM At the Family Service of May 31st, GEORGIE LEWIS SELWAY was baptisted by Pastor Keith Brown before a large congregation with many family and friends present. Visit our website on www.lasiestaevangelicalchurch.org Newsletter 256 Page 4 La Siesta Evangelical Church July 2015 LADIES FRIENDSHIP GROUP One thing we can be almost 100 percent sure of is that the Ladies Friendship Group will have blue skies and sun for our annual outing in June. We had perfect weather on June 1st. Do you recall U.K charabanc outings when the skies were grey, the wind blew sand on your meat paste sandwiches, and your got your swimming gear on between the back of a deckchair and a windbreak? Happy Days?! But none of that there 'ere....comfy coach courtesy of Rosa Tours, coffee time at exclusive La Manga Club, informative talk and display of the sea and land ecology in the area at Cabo de Palos, an excellent lunch in the village, choice of a walk or short coach ride to the lighthouse, ice creams and drink at the beach cafe, sleepy hour long journey back at 6.0pm. Full report and perhaps pics in next edition. If there are any ladies reading this who have not yet given this group a try then ask the opinion of any of the folk who belong ..... we do our best to please. Secretly I reckon the church menfolk would like to join too...sorry lads,but we do invite you when we need some extra euros to spend..... trips, Christmas Fayre, Christmas lunches etc. Thanks to the main organisers of the trip.....Debbie and Lesley. Very enjoyable, superb organisation. When we meet again it will be a pool party on September 7th at 1.0 pm. Megan and Fred Wright have offered their pool and outdoor kitchen facility. THANK YOU for the offer of your hospitality Megan....you chose the "right" man! SO...any of our menfolk can join JOE WALLACE for a menu del Dia lunch on that day. Be warned his favourite choice would be Indian -but he might be flexible. Meet at San Luis Square between 1.0 and 1.15 pm. Please make sure you tell him so he knows who to meet. I am in the UK from July 7th to Sept 1st but outside these dates I may be contacted on 966720414. This number is also the one to use for the men who intend attending the “Boy’s Lunch” which Joe is organising and also for those requiring directions to the home of Megan and Fred Jean Wallace Newsletter 256 Page 5 La Siesta Evangelical Church July 2015 PICNIC IN THE PARK Earlier in the year we were all told about a project to completely rewire the building so that we could use more than one appliance without completely loosing power. The Choir and Church Brass decided that they would like to somehow contribute to the cost. Over the following few months an evening of music developed which evolved into “A Picnic in the Park” which took place on Friday 12th June.