News - March 30, 2011

Yes, it is officially Spring!

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BFMC ONLINE - "BFMC'S calling is to make disciples who make disciples"

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COMING EVENTS  

• Join us this Sunday,  April 3, 2011 - 10:30 AM for Communion/ Worship( The Fourth  Sunday i n  Lent)  
• Guest Speaker: Pastor Ken Kennedy                           

Midweek Fellowship -  Wednesdays 7:30PM. BFMC is reminding all members about the Wednesday night prayer fellowship

Society Meeting -  Sunday, April 3,2011
                                                     
Next Women's Ministry -   Friday,  April 08, 2011 is cancelled because of Springarama. 

Next YOUTH Ministry Meeting - Friday April 08, 2011 at 7:15 PM

Next Men's Ministry- Saturday April 2, 2011 @ 9:30am

Leaders Meeting -  A new date will be announced later.
Official Board Meeting - Tuesday  April 12, 2011 @ 7:30pm

ANNOUNCEMENTS

This Sunday is a Communion Benevolent Sunday

Communion Benevolent Contribution First Sunday of the Month

 Please note there will be a special contribution to the Communion benevolent offering every first Sunday of the month, as  a church, lets work together to help the needy among us. 

SPRINGARAMA:  Canada East Free Methodist Women conference will be at Kingston, Ontario, Ambassador Hotel from April 8, 9, & 10, 2011 please speak to Sister Edna  Lawes @ 905 452 8207 or check the notice board in the foyer

• BFMC Church Directory:
• It is that time again to update the Directory.  A copy is in the foyer. Please take a minute to update your name, address, phone number, email etc.   Thanks  to all.

    BFMC Birthdays & Anniversaries Directory There is a special form for BFMC members who will like the BFMC to remember and celebrate their Birthdays & Anniversaries with them in the foyer.  Please write down the dates, the events and your names under the right month.  

        A special thank you to Pastor Greg Langille for blessing us with the word last Sunday  - Mar 27, 2011.

BFMC Board says THANK YOU to all of you who are working hard behind the scene during this transition time, we are bless to have each other. God bless you all, is all about Him. 

BFMC Scholarship Application:  Grant : Two candidates for $500. each, total $1000.00  We at Bramalea Free Methodist Church, always encourage our children to endeavor into post-secondary education.  Having developed their spiritual growth here, we understand that they will need to develop their academic growth at various Free Methodist and/or public post-secondary institutions.  To facilitate this need, we are offering those candidates who qualify with a $500.00 educational grant for the current school year.  For more detail information, please see the notice board in the foyer, also you can speak to Brother Emmauel Mantey @ 905 216 5027 and Sister France Wright @ 647 866-5404. 

Youth Ministry -For more info about the BFMC Youth, please talk to Mr. Emmanuel Mantey @ 905 216 5027  and  email emanty2001@yahoo.ca  BFMC Youth Leader and also check the Youth Notice board at the BFMC foyer.  Thanks  

       

Sunday School Program - For more information please call Sister Frances Wright @ 647 866- 5404   &   Sister Marcia Lowe@ 905 654-1751

       

Sunday School & Nursery are encouraging everyone with young children to bring their little ones downstairs during service, so that they can get familiar with the Sunday school surroundings and programs.  It will make it easier for them to attend as they get older.  Thanks for your understanding and co-operation.

• Our food barrel is depleted. Help us by bringing food items so that we can provided needed assistance to individuals and families.

• The Sermon CDs  for the previous Sunday's are available for a donation of $2.00. Please see the Audio/Video representatives for your copy.  

• BFMC Board and Members welcome Pastor Crozier and family in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and we look forward to worshiping and working with them.  ** Let us pray for God's blessing on Pastor Crozier as he begins his ministry at Bramalea FMC on May 15.

• WORLD MISSIONS
  
  FREE METHODIST WORLD MISSIONS HOTLINE - Please continue to lift up The Free Methodist World Missions Hotline in prayer,  Please go to the web site to see the prayer requests. Here is the address:   http://www.fmwm.org/pray/hotline.php     Check the right side column for updates from our missionaries
•   Thanks and God bless

• WORDS OF INSPIRATION
  
• Job 42:5-6  My ears had heard of you, but now my eyes have seen you.  Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.
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  2 Corinthians 5:18  All things are of God who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
  
  From OUR DAILY BREAD:
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• "What God is doing you may not know now,
• But someday you'll understand why;
• Questions that taunt you and trouble your mind
• Will one day have heaven's reply"
• What's better than answers to our why questions? Trusting a good God who has His reasons.
• One of the qualities God looks for in His people is a heart that is willing to serve Him.
•  Christ builds His church with different stones.  And make each one secure;
• All shapes and sizes fit in place to make His church endure.

PRAYER REQUESTS

Do you have Prayer Request we would like to pray with you about the important matters of your life.  Please call any one on the BFMC Prayer Chain list or call the church office @ 905 451 5501 and some one will get back to you.
Please pray....

Families and individuals facing challenges (list available from church office. Names are omitted here for privacy reasons.)
• For the Youth program at BFMC
• For the unemployed 
• The Military
• BFM Church
• For church finances
• Governing Board  
• For the crisis and relief effort in Japan
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Scriptures for the Week

• Sunday, April 03 -  Numbers 35;Num 36:1-12; Luke 9:28- 56; Psalm 40:9- 17
• Monday, April 04 - Deuteronomy 1;Deu 2:1-23;Luke 9:57-62; Luke 10:1- 24;Psalm 41:1- 6
• Tuesday, April 05 - Deu 2:24-37;Deu 3; Deu 4:1-14;Luke 10:25- 42;Luke 11:1-4 Psalm41:7- 13 
• Wed, April 06- Deuteronomy 4:15-49;Deuteronomy 5;  Luke 11:5- 32; Proverbs 8:32- 36
• Thursday,April 07 - Deuteronomy 6;  Deu 7;  Deu  8;  Luke 11:33-54; Psalm 42:1-6
• Friday, April  08 - Deuteronomy 9;  Deuteronomy 10;  Luke 12:1-34; Psalm 42:7- 11 
• Saturday, April 09 - Deuteronomy 11;Deuteronomy 12; Luke 12:35- 59;Psalm 43:1-5

REFLECTIONS ON LENT
As we enter into this year’s spiritual journey through Lent, we will once again reflect on the angst and turmoil of Gethsemane, the horror of the cross, and the triumph of the Lord Jesus’ resurrection.  The Lord that we follow walks in a path of both suffering and beauty.  The Christian life is not a pollyanna experience, but it is grounded in reality while at the same time in unshakeable hope.

It is a solemn service of confession and forgiveness

Lent is a season that reminds us to repent and get our lives centered, our priorities straight, and our hearts clean. This holy season offers us a new chance to say, "yes" to the Lover of our Souls who created us, who made us in his own image. Lent is the time for a restoration project that will reveal the beauty of God’s design for us, showing once again the scale, proportion, and priorities intended by our Maker.

• As the Lent Season is upon us: This Sunday is the Fourth Sunday in Lent

"Lent in 2011 started on Wednesday, the 9th of March and will continue for 46 days until Saturday, the 23rd of April.

March 13,  was the first Sunday in Lent, please Watch and Pray.

March 20, was the second Sunday in Lent,  March 27, was the third Sunday in Lent. 

April 3, is the Fourth Sunday in Lent.

These are the special readings for the week of fourth Sunday in Lent 

April 3, 2011:

1 Samuel 16:1- 13;   Psalm 23;  Ephesians 5:8-18;  

   John 9:1- 41;  

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