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Dear Friends,

Church services continue online and details can be found below.  The Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft Boards met again this week to continue to work through the steps for re-opening the Lowestoft Church for Divine Service on Sabbath/Saturday.    We will meet again next week to finalise the "Risk Assessment" document and then forward it to the South England Conference for consideration and approval.  Your prayers are needed and appreciated as we work through the many details.

We are also excited to announce that the Board has agreed with the necessity to make an investment so we can live stream our services when we return to the church building.  This is recognition that we will continue to be in an environment where some folks cannot physically come to the church building. We are seeking to be inclusive of all, especially with consideration for the older and more vulnerable.  We will be purchasing a live-streaming camera for the Church and installing internet, as currently our churches have no internet services.  The Camera, fit for purpose,  is a significant investment, and we are very grateful for donations amounting to £1000.   

Blessings and keep looking up for the soon coming of Jesus!

- Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft Seventh-day Adventist Churches
 
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Online Church Services
 

Meeting ID: 757 838 5503   Password: 094036

Listen by Phone.  For those who need an option to dial in from your home or mobile phone. Dial 03300 945 940. When prompted, enter room number 85535143#. When prompted again, enter PIN 9889#. There is no cost when included in bundled minutes from mobile and landline phones, else your standard charges for calls will apply.
 
Friday Night Service at 7pm. Sharnie-Ann Bright will share the message.

Children’s Sabbath School at 10am on Saturday.   Pearl and Michael Walker will lead out.

Youth Sabbath School at 10am on Saturday.  This is not on Zoom, contact Norma_Borrett@yahoo.com

Family Sabbath Service at 11.15am on Saturday.  Mike Clarry will share the message, with Alex Clarry telling the Children's Story.  

Protestant Reformation Series on Monday at 7.30pm.  Norma Borrett will continue to lead out covering the period from "The Great Disappointment" of 1844, to the continued progresive biblical understand of the early Seventh-day Adventist Church. 
 
We operate a child protection policy.
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Purifying, Vitalizing Power, July 17
 

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Psalm 51:10
 
The Lord purifies the heart very much as we air a room. We do not close the doors and windows, and throw in some purifying substance; but we open the doors and throw wide the windows, and let heaven’s purifying atmosphere flow in.… The windows of impulse, of feeling must be opened up toward heaven, and the dust of selfishness and earthliness must be expelled. The grace of God must sweep through the chambers of the mind, the imagination must have heavenly themes for contemplation, and every element of the nature must be purified and vitalized by the Spirit of God.
 
He who lives the principles of Bible religion, will not be found weak in moral power. Under the ennobling influence of the Holy Spirit, the tastes and inclinations become pure and holy. Nothing takes so strong a hold upon the affections, nothing reaches so fully down to the deepest motives of action, nothing exerts so potent an influence upon the life, and gives so great firmness and stability to the character, as the religion of Christ. It leads its possessor ever upward, inspiring him with noble purposes, teaching him propriety of deportment, and imparting a becoming dignity to every action.
 
The church is the object of God’s tenderest love and care. If the members will allow Him, He will reveal His character through them. He says to them, “Ye are the light of the world” (Matthew 5:14). Those who walk and talk with God practice the gentleness of Christ. In their lives, forbearance, meekness, and self-restraint are united with holy earnestness and diligence. As they advance heavenward, the sharp, rough edges of character are worn off, and godliness is seen. The Holy Spirit, full of grace and power, works upon mind and heart.
 
The heart in which Jesus makes his abode will be quickened, purified, guided, and ruled by the Holy Spirit, and the human agent will make strenuous efforts to bring his character into harmony with God. He will avoid everything that is contrary to the revealed will and mind of God.
 
White, E. G. (1973). God’s Amazing Grace (p. 206). Review and Herald Publishing Association.
Prayer Requests
 
“Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God” - Phil.4:6.
  • Continue to pray for protection of all those serving on the frontline. 
  • Pray for our elderly and infirmed members - also vulnerable at this time.
  • Pray for Sharnie who is grieving over the death of her dear friend Maureen. Please pray also for Maureen's family.
  • Pray for our young families, children & young people, to stay close to Jesus.
  • Pray for Katrina, the Walker’s daughter, who broke her left elbow in the ICU.
  • Pray for Liz Folkard’s neighbours, Daphne & Steve.
  • Pray for the leadership of our church & for our Government for wisdom in directing the affairs during this critical period.
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