Sunday, February 22, 2015

314 Topsail Rd. St. John’s, NL • A1E 2B5

Phone (709) 368-1381 Fax (709) 368-7381

E-mail: office@westendbaptistchurch.ca Website: www.westendbaptistchurch.ca

• Mary-Anne Stevens Worship Arts Director • Lois Hammond Office Administrator

• Darrell & Laura Lee Bustin (CBM, Rwanda)

• Tim and Kristina Churchill (SIM, Zambia) • Tim Heath (Intervarsity Christian Fellowship) • Denis & Diane Sherbeck (T.E.A.M.)

Edison & Margo Wiltshire (EZRA Ministries, NL)

West End Baptist Staff

Part-ners

Prayer Chain Requests: Contact Rosemary Moore, 368-2543 or bnr.moore@gmail.com.

Sunday Morning Children’s Ministries

Welcome (infants and toddlers up to and including age 2) is located on the 2nd level. Caregivers are in the “Welcome Circle” from 10:30 onwards but your little ones are welcome in the corporate worship service, especially during opening worship time.

Wonder (ages 3-4) meets in the classroom

upstairs across from the nursery. Wonder begins partway through our worship service.

Discover (ages 5-8) meets in the Brian

Coldwell Room. Discover begins partway through our worship service.

Flyte (grades 4-6) our Sunday morning group for preteens, meets just beyond the washrooms on the main floor.

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Welcome Whether you regularly attend or you’re a visitor, we’re glad you’re here. We hope your worship experience will be meaningful and you’ll enjoy the presence of the Lord as we celebrate him. If you’re visiting, please fill out the Connection Card found in the pocket on the back of the chairs; then, drop it in the offering plate.

Growing disciples who take Christ’s love to lost and hurting people

Our youth group for students in grades 7-12 goes ahead each Friday evening from 7-10 pm. For infor-mation about drop off and pick up locations or for any other questions, please contact Tiffany Rogers (tiffany_collings@hotmail.com).

In the Foyer

Serving One Another February 22, 2015:

Greeters: Quenton Currie, Colleen Currie, Benetta Howard Deacon Greeter: Wayne Miller Deacon Host: Doreen Westera Ushers: Mya Taw Htoo, Lilly Paw, Karen Austin, Kevin Austin, Nick Westera, Luke Rixmann Tellers: Ken Osmond, Linda House Foyer: Kevin Austin Coffee Prep: Airdr ie Miller March 1, 2015: Greeters: Terry Oliver, Donna House, Lilly Paw Deacon Greeter: Kathy Dawe Deacon Host: Wayne Miller Ushers: Deacons Tellers: Ken Stevens Foyer: Tom Nolan Coffee Prep: Karen Austin

We hope as you entered, you received a warm greeting in the foyer. After the service you are invit-ed to mill about in the coffee area, library, or foyer and chat with one another. While in the foyer, you may wish to pick up the following:

The Marriage Promise: Making Good Marriages Even Better, a devotion booklet published by Promise Keepers Canada

Income tax receipts for 2014

2014 Annual Reports

Latest issue of Mosaic, chockablock full of colourful signs of grace shining in the midst of a broken world.

Our Daily Bread, March—May

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in perse-cutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

Quenton Currie will bring this morning’s message: Redefining Perseverance.

Newfoundland Adventure Camp (NLAC) Director

Applications are now invited for the NLAC Camp Director. This is a

temporary staff position for the period of May through August 2015.

Responsibilities include specific activities related to the camp ministry,

the camp staff volunteers, and the camp facility. The NLAC Director

will report to the Senior Pastor. Camp experience is required, as well as

leadership experience with children/teens. If you wish to apply, please

email a resume to the church office. The deadline for applications is

March 15, 2015.

Battles are fought in our minds every day. When we begin to feel the battle is just too difficult and want to give up, we must choose to resist negative thoughts and be determined to rise above our problems. We must decide that we’re not going to quit. When we’re bombarded with doubts and fears, we must take a stand and say: “I’ll never give up! God’s on my side. He loves me, and He’s helping me! I’m going to make it!

Joyce Meyer

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. Charles Spurgeon

Book Review of No More Dragons by Jim Burgen Review submitted by Rita DeZeeuw

If the first chapter doesn’t captivate ye, this book ain’t for ye!

Here’s a few quotes: “Becoming a dragon is a dangerously sneaky pro-

cess. Becoming a dragon takes a long string of bad choices and decisions you don’t even realize you’re making until it’s too late. One day you glance at yourself in the mirror, and a monster is staring back at you.”

“It happened … The Hey, Jim! … I want you to be a pastor.”

“Of course, my prayerful response was, ‘Dear Heavenly Father, no. In Jesus’ name, amen.’”

Jim Bergen, the author, claims that either we hunt the dragon or the dragon hunts us. Either way, “No matter how you get swallowed by a dragon, when you reach the point where all seems lost and you finally scream out, ‘God, where are you?’ you will find an answer.

“When I feel like I can’t make it one more day, Jesus says He’ll do it for me. When all you can do is groan and collapse on the couch, Jesus promises to prop you up.”

“In the most devastating moments of our lives, there will never be an answer or explanation that will take away all the pain and make us feel content with the tragedies we’re experiencing.”

“… if the situations we experience in life were the result of how strong or weak our faith is, then we are all in a lot of trouble.”

“Hi, my name is ____________. I was a boy. I became a dragon. Jesus made me a boy again.”

I really enjoyed this book!

Rita DeZeeuw

Book Review of Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption by Katie Davis

Review submitted by Susan Oliver Have you ever wondered, “What is God’s plan for my life?

“I am a plain girl from Tennessee. Broken in many ways, sinful, and inadequate…I am just an ordinary person serving an extraordinary God.”

At the young and carefree age of eighteen, Katie Davis flies to Uganda to participate in a short term mission trip. Two years later, with God’s prompting and guidance, she has learned to be ‘a teacher, a nurse, a cook, an exterminator, a maid, a servant, a mentor, a mother and most im-

portant, a daughter of the King.”

What would prompt an eighteen year old to give up her upper- class life in America, move to impover-ished Uganda, and become a mother to many children, a kindergarten teacher and head of the non-profit or-ganization Amazima Ministries? When God showed her joy, and the need to show the Ugandan people Christ’s love she said yes. God demonstrated in very visible and audible ways that He loved the children of Uganda and He was changing Katie’s dreams for her life into His dreams for her life.

“With my parents’ reluctant blessing… I bought a one-way ticket back to Uganda.”

With a heart for God and a joyful spirit, Katie faced many chal-lenges serving as a missionary; she experienced boundless love, heart-ache, opposition and fear. She said YES to God and she knows God is with her. While some moments seem more than Katie can handle, she believes “God totally, absolutely, intentionally gives us more than we can handle because this is when we surrender to Him and He takes over, proving Himself by doing the impossible in our lives.”

Are you wondering how and where God desires your ordinary, ageless servant’s heart to actively serve Him? Read Katie’s journey in Kiss-es from Katie featured in our church library.

www.amazima.org www.kissesfromkatie.blogspot.com