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WELCOME

NOVEMBER 2012WWW.BETHELSARNIA.COM

Welcome to Bethel! We are so glad to have you here! As

you look through this Connect bulletin, we trust that you will

quickly find that Bethel has something for you and your family. Our hope is that you

will take the next step into ourcommunity and get involved.

As you do, you will begin to see that Bethel is more than just a Sunday service, it is a family of everyday people

following Christ to bring hope and change to the world - one

life at a time.

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This Month

Women’s Shopping TripReminder to those who signed up for the Real Women Shopping Trip on Saturday, November 3rd to Great Lakes Crossing Mall in Auburn Hills, Michi-gan. The Bus is leaving the church at 9:00AM. Don’t

forget your Passport or Nexus card!

Christmas ShoeboxChristmas Shoeboxes for Samaritan’s Purse are due back to the church on Sunday November 11th. Thank you for your donation to bless a child in a 3rd world nation this Christmas.

Volunteers NeededVolunteers are needed for the Salvation Army Kettle Campaign starting November 15th. If available to help, please contact Daphne Bourque at 519-383-3176 or the Salvation Army at 519-337-3011.

Men’s Sting & Wing NightIf you missed buying your ticket for our Men’s event for the Sting game on Thursday November 22nd, you can still get your own ticket to the game and then join us after at Crabby Joe’s.

THINGSTO KNOW

November 4th#28 - New Beginnings November 11th#29 - Paul’s Mission

November 18th#30 - Paul’s Final Days Pastor Tricia Speaking

November 25thPastor Keith Speaking

December 2nd#31 - The End is Here

THE STORYSCHEDULE

This month, Pastor Tim will be in Uganda for 2 weeks of ministry. He will be joined by his Uncle and Missionary Evangelist Mike Kerychuk.

This trip was originally scheduled for this past August, but due to an Ebola virus outbreak in the very area where the ministry was planned, the trip was postponed.

The main purpose for this trip is to conduct a school for Pastors in teaching Bible doctrine. Last time Pastor Tim was in this part of Uganda and met with local Pastors, he learned that very few had any form of Bible School or training for ministry. The Pastors expressed a great desire for someone to come and teach the Word of God.

For the purpose of mentoring, the school has limited the number attend-ing to 60. Pastor Tim and Bishop Mike will be teach-ing all day for a full week with these Pastors.

In addition to the Pastors school, Pastor Tim will also be ministering to Pastors from the Congo, be involved in preaching at local churches, and be preaching at an outdoor city-wide evangelistic crusade.

Your financial support and prayers for this mission is greatly appreciated and had made this trip possible. A schedule is provided as a guide for prayer for Pastor Tim and Bishop Mike.

November 12-28, 2012

Monday, Nov 12Depart from Toronto Pearson Airport

Tuesday, Nov 13Arrive in Entebbe, Uganda at 11:00PM.

Wednesday, Nov 14Visit Watoto VillageDinner with General Superintendent of PentecostalAssemblies of Uganda

Thursday, Nov 15Drive 5 hours to Fort Portal, Uganda

Friday, Nov 16 & Saturday, Nov 17Ministry in Rwebisengo (2 hour drive from Fort Portal on the Congo Border). Ministry with Congo Pastors.

Sunday, Nov 18Ministry at Tree of Life Church & Orphanage

Monday, Nov 19 to Friday, Nov 23Pastors School in Fort Portal, Uganda

Saturday, Nov 24Outdoor City Evangelism Crusade in Fort Portal Center

Sunday, Nov 25Ministry at local churchDrive back to Entebbe

Monday, Nov 26Depart from Entebbe, Uganda

Tuesday, Nov 27Leisure Day in London, England

Wednesday, Nov 28Arrive back at Pearson Airport Toronto

PASTOR TIM IN AFRICAThIS NOvembeR

The ScheduleABOUT THE TRIP

ENCOUNTERJanuary 13th-16, 2013

At Bethel Sarnia

SERVICESJoin us in Prayer & Fasting for the first 13 days of 2013 leading up to our ENCOUTER SERVICES.

Jan Painter

Tracy Stewart

On Wednesday, October 17th, I met with 30 of our Bethel intercessors and church leaders. We came together to ask the question: What is the Spirit saying to Bethel right now?

After a time of worship and waiting on God, we divided into 7 smaller groups and gave everyone an opportunity to share what they felt the Lord was saying. Then we had one person report from each group. We all sat in amazement as there was definitely common themes coming through each group and felt that God was indeed speaking to us, giving us His “now” (rhema) word. These themes have now become our prayer focuses for the next season.

WHAT IS THE SPIRITSAYING TO US?

1. We need to be PREPARED in order to receive what God wants to do. Many of our intercessors had the same Word: “Prepare the way for the Lord!” This was a heavy emphasis. That we need to be in a time of preparation for what God is about to do. As one of our intercessors put it: “God is about to pour out great increase, and we must be ready to receive it.” A word from one of our Worship lead-ers is from the Scripture that says you cannot put new wine in old wineskins. In order to receive the new wine, you must prepare a new wineskin. Again, the mes-sage is to prepare for what God is about to do.

2. We need to SOW GENEROUSLY in order to reap generously. In order to prepare for what God wants to do in our church, we must sow generously into that where we desire to harvest. Now when you speak of sowing, often the emphasis is put on financial giving. While this is certainly included, the emphasis here was more to do with prayer, worship, and our hearts. That we need to sow generously in the things of the Spirit, in order to reap generously in the things of the Spirit. That this is a season of going beyond self. “The Lord is excited for us, but He wants depth.” The focus needs to be away from self-interest and on knowing Jesus and hearing His voice. It came strong in our meeting that God will speak to us, but we must be listening for His voice. That God has a plan & strategy to reach this city that He will give to us, as we hear His voice. The promise given though was: As we sow generously, we

will even reap in places we have not sown!

3. We are to do all of this in a spirit of EXPECTATION. The preparation and the generous sowing in worship and prayer, is to be done with a spirit of expectation. That God is going to bless, to increase, etc. And we must be ready and watching for it!

A couple weeks before this prayer time, I was in prayer and the verse from Isaiah came to me: “Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near.” And I believe that the Lord spoke to my heart and said that we are coming into a “Near” season again! It will not be like anything in the past, it will be a new place in God!

In response to these words, we are look-ing to begin 2013 with a strong prayer emphasis to prepare us for what God wants to do and to sow generously into this next move of the Spirit. We are set-ting the first 13 days of 2013 with a time of prayer and fasting. Special times of corporate prayer will be held each day at the church. Then we will conclude our fast with 4 days of Encounter services with two of God’s choice servants who carry a strong prophetic anointing: Tracy Stewart from South Carolina and Jan Painter from Kentucky. Both of these ladies are strongly connected to Pastor John Kilpatrick and the Bay Revival. I en-courage you to be a strong part of what God is doing and will do in Bethel as we seek Him.

WHATTHE

SPIRITIS

SAYINGBy: Pastor Tim Gibb

Missions newsaround the world

Mark Davy takes the Gospel of Jesus to southern suDan

Ed Dickson in UkrainE gEtting plans rEaDy for chUrch in smila.

Reports from our Bethel Missionaries

Missionary Evangelist Mark Davy will be conducting 4 mass evangelism and heal-ing crusades in the cities of Bentiu, Rubkona, Guit, and Leerof in Southern Sudan beginning October 29th. Their faith goal is to see 100,000 people receive Christ as Saviour and be

brought into the kingdom of God. Over the last 12 years, Mark and his wife Sharon through their ministry, Global Harvest, has seen over 12 million people respond to the salvation message of Jesus Christ. Mark feels particularly called to Northern Africa where Islam is the predominant religion. There is much unrest and political strife in these areas. Mark and Sharon are asking us to pray with them for a great harvest of souls in this outreach to Southern Sudan called Operation Philip. Here are some specific ways you can pray for Mark...

Pray for- Open doors and Divine contacts.- Safety and protection as well as, physical strength for Mark and the team.- Complete financial provision.- A mighty outpouring of God’s power and demonstration.- An awesome harvest of souls- Strong churches to be birthed and estalished to care for new converts in every city.

Mark and Sharon will be at Bethel on Sunday, December 16th in our 10:30AM service to share a report of this out-reach to Southern Sudan.

Ed Dickson, of Loads of Love ministries, is currently in Ukraine until he returns to Canada during the first week of November. On this trip, he will be meeting with Pastor Dennis of the city of Smila to discuss the development of the newly purchased land and the process of making

plans for a new church facility. Bethel recently provided the funds to purchase property for this church and has commit-ted in raising the funds to build a church building. We are hoping that this could become a reality even this coming summer of 2013.

God is moving powerfully in Ukraine. A number of years ago, Ed was instrumental in discipling a young man who had received Christ and left a life of poverty, drug and alcohol abuse. This young man became a student at a Bible College where Ed often taught in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. Today, that man, Pastor Vladimir Muntyan, and his wife, pastor the largest charismatic church in Ukraine. This past July, Pastor Muntyan rented the largest sports stadium in Kiev and filled it with 13,000+ people praising God! Miracles started hap-pening all over the arena. Then the police came and said someone had called in a bomb threat. But no one wanted to leave and everyone started shouting “Jesus is Lord.” So the police shut the sound system off. The service had already gone for about an hour and a half ... Pastor Vladimir continued, us-ing a battery-powered blow horn! Everyone was screaming “Jesus Is Lord!” They did eventually clear the building but not without the Light of Jesus shining bright in the darkness!

PLEASEPRAYFOR OUR MISSIONARIESFOR GOD’S FAVOURANDPROTECTIONEVERYDAY!

Ilya Bantseev & TeenChallenge Program under aTtack from russIanProsecutor

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Ilya Bantseev, our missionary to Novokuznetsk, Siberia, Russia, is facing criminal prosecution for starting an extremist religious cult. A prosecutor has pressed charges stating that the Source of Life (Teen Challenge Siberia) is harmful to citizens. If convicted, the sentence could be 3 years in prison.

Ilya, and his wife Janet, pastor a church of 1,000 people in a city of 600,000. Their congregation ministers in prisons, orphan-ages, and to people with life controlling problems or addictions through the Teen Challenge program. Ilya was recently ap-pointed president of Teen Challenge Russia, the program this prosecutor is trying to get shut down.

Ilya recently wrote to us, asking for our prayer support:

Dear Prayer Partners:We really appreciate your continued prayers at this time because this legal battle is very serious. As we previously mentioned, the prosecutor is trying to close all the TC programs throughout Rus-sia. Our lawyer thinks we may lose the case next week because we heard that prosecutor is friends with the judge. We can’t afford to lose this battle. Please continue to intercede for this need. Thank you!

Missionary Mike Kerychuk this past month was in villages in Cambodia ministering the Gos-pel of Jesus. Mike and his team were able to provide school uni-forms for all the children, along with school books and food sup-plies. This act of kindness goes a long way in opening people’s hearts to the message of salvation in Jesus Christ. Mike is also helping to build homes for Cambodian single moms. For only $500 Canadian, a solid home that protects from the elements can be built. Our sup-port of Reaching Kids International is helping in these areas.

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