Adelaide Place Baptist Church

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The Kelvindale House group had its first meeting of the new session last night.  The way had been prepared by a prior meeting at the home of Matt and Elaine the previous week where we had discussed the way we would go this session.

We began by asking for God’s blessing on our meeting and then listened to a Piano Reflection, music on the CD made by Alan Foggin.  This proved a very helpful introduction.

Next we decided to pray for the members of the church.  We did this by each of us taking a page from the church directory, and after reading out each name in turn we silently prayed for each person.

Following this, several of us took the opportunity to bring a reading, a poem or story which we thought would be helpful to all.  This was good for us.

Looking forward to our next few weeks we had the opportunity to set out our plans for the four-part study in Jonah.  For this we are indebted to the imaginative thinking and generosity of the Southside group who pioneered the study and donated the materials to our house group.

We looked further to the needs of the wider world and we had a prayer time which was based on the excellent book, “Operation World”.  We did this by using W O R L D, using its  five letters as the opening initials of the countries we would pray for.  Thus we prayed for Wallis and Fortuna(where?), Oman, Romania, Libya and Djibouti.  We think we will use this idea again in our coming meetings.

Our final item was a song taken from Morag’s iPod.  Michael Smith sang “Lord, I will lift my eyes to the hills” which seemed a good way to end before the benediction.

Next week we will meet at Ann’s home so come and join us. Talk to me or anyone from the group if you need directions.