• Thursday, November 20th 
• 10.30pm Ladies’ Bible Study: Via Vespucci 60, Torino
• 8.00pm Bible Study: Discipleship Explored 7 (in Sunday school room)

  Rejoicing in Christ - Philippians 4:2-9

• Sunday, November 23rd   
• 10.30am Sunday Service, including a dedication service for

  Sunny & Tessie’s baby, Success. 

Prayer and Praise: We praise God and pray for those being baptised today: Heidi, Jerica, Helen, Gaby, Richard and Evans. Congratulations to Abert, who married Alma in Albania recently.  

Remember to Pray for the Persecuted Church

SOMALIA – CHRISTIAN CONVERT FROM ISLAM MURDERED AT WEDDING
A 22-year-old Somali Christian convert from Islam, Ahmadey Osman Nur, was murdered in September while attending a Muslim wedding. Since the wedding service was held in Arabic, which many of the guests did not understand, Nur asked for it to be translated into the Somali vernacular. Arabic is traditionally used in Muslim ceremonies because it is considered to be the “language Allah hears”. The sheik who performed the ceremony took offence at Nur’s request. Knowing of Nur’s conversion to Christianity, he declared him to be guilty of apostasy and asked a guard to “silence” him. As Nur left, he was shot dead by an armed guard.

• Pray for Nur’s family and friends that they will know God’s presence. Pray that the Lord will use Nur’s death to bring many Somalis to Christ. Pray for all Christians in Somalia, especially for converts from Islam, who face much persecution and the very real possibility of being killed for their faith. Pray that the Lord will strengthen, encourage and protect them and that He will grow His Church in Somalia.

(For more information see www.barnabasfund.org) 

 
Pot Luck Lunch: this follows the service today in the Salvation Army, Via Principe Tommaso, off Corso V. Emanuele – a short walk from the hotel. Everyone is welcome to join us, even if you have not managed to bring any food. Thanks those who have! We’ll leave 20 minutes after the end of the service.

Sermon CD: if you would like a copy of today’s sermon on CD it can be ordered from Gaby Cortinas (2 sermons per CD, for 1 euro!) or downloaded free from our church website. Sign the order sheet.

Parents: please ensure that your children are kept with you in the main hall following the service.

Christmas Service: December 14th. Invitations will be made available in December. Please pray for the children’s presentation and the choir in their preparations. Thanks to Lydia for her hard work.

Church Membership: if you are interested in finding out more about becoming a formal member of the ICT, please take the literature from the Welcome Desk. To take things further please return your completed application form to Pastor Dyfan. 

Suffering Church Sunday: on November 30th. We will be focusing on the plight of Christians who are being persecuted for their faith, and we’ll take up an additional offering to help them in their needs. 

Help: join with others from the church helping to serve meals to the poor at the Salvation Army each Thursday evening in December.

Want to know more? Classes about Christianity and baptism are available. Please see Pastor Dyfan for more details (tel: 011 947 3809).

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely, I am with you always, to the very end of the age” (Matthew 28:18-20).

Peter replied, “Repent and be baptised, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins” (Acts 2:38).

Trust and obey! For there’s no other way
To be happy in Jesus
But to trust and obey.