Who’s Preaching at Ebenezer

in December 2016?

Check Our Preaching Plan & Speakers Sunday 4th December 2016 12:00 – Alan Park 18:30 – Alan Park / Passage: Isaiah 11 Subject: The Branch from Jesse Wednesday 7th December 2016 19:30 - Speaker: Garry Blair / Christmas Women Sunday 11th December 2016 12:00 – Peter McLean / Passage: Isaiah 4:2-6 Subject: The Branch of the Lord 18:30 – Peter McLean / Passage: Jeremiah 23:1-8 & 33:14-26 Subject: The Righteous Branch Wednesday 14th December 2016 19:30 – Garry Blair / Christmas Men Sunday 18th December 2016 12:00 - Brian Lowrie 18:30 - Brian Lowrie / Passage: Micah 5:1-5a Subject: A Promised Ruler from Bethlehem Wednesday 21st December 2016 19:30 - Peter McLean / Deuteronomy 8 Subject: Covenant Remembered Thursday 22nd December 2016 19:30 - Peter McLean Subject: A Bah Humbug Christmas Service Sunday 25th December 2016 (Christmas Day) 10:30 - Peter McLean / Ezekiel 17:22-24 Subject: The Christmas Tree Concludes with Communion at 11:15 Sunday 1st January 2017 (New Year’s Day) 10:30 - Peter McLean / Passage: Matthew 19:16-30 Subject: The Rich Young Ruler Concludes with Communion at 11:15

Youth Fellowship Sunday 4th Dec @ The McLean’s Sunday 11th Dec @ Airdrie Baptist Church Sunday 18t @ The Grimson’s

Toddler’s Christmas Party – 6th December @ 10am The wee ones finish for the year with a party – special guests are expected to be there! Group starts again on 10th January 2017.

Friday 9th Dec is Movie Night @ The Eb Don’t miss ‘God’s Not Dead 2’! Doors open at 6:45pm / film starts at 7:15pm. Popcorn, Sweets & Drinks will be available to purchase BEFORE the film. A free-will offering will be uplifted on the evening to help cover costs – thank you for your support.

Motherwell Salvation Army Band – Tues 13th Dec The Ebenezer Ladies are delighted to invite everybody (even the men) to an evening of Christmas Worship at Ebenezer on Tuesday 13th Dec at 7.30pm. Christmas spirit guaranteed!

Saturday Night Live on 17th of December Sisters, Fiona Crow and Linda McLean, will lead us in song. See www.fionacrowmusic.com for more information. Fiona will have CDs on sale (last minute Christmas gifts?!). Our Speaker on the night will be our dear Brother Alex Bedford. A free-will offering will be uplifted on the evenings to help cover costs.

Victoria Primary School Christmas Service will be held at 9.30am on 22nd Dec in the church.

Christmas Eve Carol Service with ‘The Eb Choir’ At the earlier time of 7pm so invite everyone you know and bring the kids along to celebrate the reason for the season – the birth of Christ!

Church Update December 2016

Aitchison Street, Airdrie, ML6 0DG

www.airdrieebenezer.com

www.facebook.com/airdrie.ebenezer

www.twitter.com/AirdrieEb

Every Sunday (note changes to 25th Dec & 1st Jan)

10:30 – 11:30 Communion

(Pre-school Crèche Available)

12:00 – 13:00 Worship Service

Sunday School

(Pre-school Crèche Available)

18:00 – 18:30 Prayer Meeting

18:30 – 19:30 Worship Service then…

Christmas Choir Practice

4th, 11th & 18th Dec.

Every Wednesday Evening (excluding 28th Dec)

19:30 – 21:00 Bible Study / Testimony / Prayer

NEWS, PHOTOS, SERMONS, EVENTS

AND MUCH MORE IS AVAILABLE ONLINE

– VISIT WWW.AIRDRIEEBENEZER.COM

From our BLOG…

Rukumberi Reports - Last Day - Batsinda

Orphanage (8th November 2016)

We spent the day with the kids @ Batsinda. We

first picked up Bibles including Children’s Bibles

with Pictures for the Young ones, before getting

Bananas, Bread, Biscuits & Fanta for Lunch with the

Kids! We arrived & had Prayers, Words of

encouragement & Bible Teaching.

One of the Boys aged 12

then preached to us on

Psalm 118: 8-9 & Psalm

118: 26-27 - an amazing

Testimony of the change in

his Life.

We then distributed Gifts

from Sponsors, Team

Football Strips for everyone & Bibles.

Lunch followed along with Football & Games,

before it was sadly time to leave these wonderful

Children, who are so happy to be removed from

the Street & have a changed life, through the work

of Comfort Rwanda & Gasana David.

We then raced through the maze of dirt road short-

cuts thanks to our Amazing Driver (Mzungo Derek),

picked up handmade Crafts to bring home, met

another 5 sponsor kids & then back to Solace

Guesthouse.

Bags packed, closing meeting with everyone from

Solace Rukemberi Team & then onto Airport.

What a wonderful, short,

action-packed, challenging,

rewarding, God exalting

Mission we have been

blessed to be a part of.

We are so thankful for everyone’s Prayers,

Donations & Messages of Support from you all

back home (you know who you are) - you have

given us the strength & support to ‘Go & Give’ and

to bless the communities we work with.

I will sign off with this to show you the gratitude of

the People here:-

One of my God-Children (Callixte) from Rukemberi

who I met yesterday, took a pedal-bike taxi, then a

bus, then walked to Solace in Kigali (a journey of

around 4hrs each way) to hand deliver Thank-you

cards & a Gift for Lee-Ann, Connor, Hannah & me,

at his own expense - knowing that we would not be

there to meet him (he left them at Reception for

us).

I am truly blown away by this young man’s selfless

gesture - what an inspiration to go the extra mile

for someone else!

Derek Patterson

(with Connor Patterson, Sam Bunch & John Best)

Please send any queries about the group to Derek

Patterson or email info@airdrieebenezer.com and

it will be passed along to the Rwanda committee.

Read more at:

http://rukumberi-reports.tumblr.com/

Church Prayer Chain

Need prayer or need to know who to pray for?

Simply give your mobile number to Robert Dyer and

you will be added to the list.

What a blessing to know that the Ebenezer family

can be mobilised to prayer in an instant!

From Facebook …

Emma McGeachy (Covies)

Facebook - 28th November

“Great Scottish night at Covies.

Showing our GLO students a bit of Scottish culture.”

Gary Gilgannon (St Andrew’s Kids Clubs Night)

Facebook - 28th November

“St Andrew's night madness with M.A.D.

Ministries!”

Emma McGeachy (Covies)

Facebook - 20th November

“The Covies made up some extra boxes to send to

children and adults in other parts of the world.

There were well over 100 shoe boxes collected this

week by Blythswood.”

Get online and see loads of photos

from these events and more at

www.facebook.com/airdrie.ebenezer

Preaching Group

Meets again on Friday 6th Jan ‘17 at 7pm in Peter’s

house. Please remember to pray for those who

respond to God’s call to preach the Word.