Dear Church family and friends,
With a sermon entitled “Stop pretending, repent and believe”, Pastor Lucas continued preaching through Matthew 23, focussing on verses 13 through 15. The passage itself pretends to be longer than it is – as it is only two verses in length – and he explains why in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YssTB4Q4wqE
The video may end more abruptly than you would expect. In previous recordings we have managed to include the preacher’s closing ‘Amen’ but, as you will see, there were some issues with the livestream this Sunday. We apologise again to those who tuned in live.
This week in Church…
Young Adults’ Bible Study (YABS) meets on Tuesday at 7pm in their various groups around Giessen. For more information please write to yabs@ibc-giessen.org
Praying Moms met online this morning (Monday 17th) at 9:30am. Next week, they will meet on Tuesday (25th) at 7:30pm in the evening.
Mid-Week Bible Study meets both in-person and online on Wednesday evening at 7pm.
Men’s Breakfast takes place this coming Saturday (22nd) at 9:30am, in the Student Kitchen at the FTH. If you are a man and would like to join the gathering, please get in touch with us and tell us that you plan on coming and what you will be bringing with you to contribute to the meal.
Sunday Morning Worship Service will take place in the Chapel Room at the FTH at the usual time of 11am. If you are unable to join our in-person congregation, you are more than welcome to be part of our livestream.
If you require links for livestream or any other online activity we have coming up this week, please e-mail office@ibc-giessen.org. For a full list of all upcoming events at IBC Giessen, please take a look at the Church Calendar on our website: https://www.ibc-giessen.org/calendar/ .
Coming Up…
Some countries – notably USA – have already done so, so you might be wondering when it is our turn to change the clocks to mark the beginning of spring. The Sunday after next, 29th March, the clocks will go forward an hour giving us the opportunity to use as much of the daylight hours as possible. Don’t let it take you by surprise and turn up to Church late on Sunday morning!
Three weeks later is Easter. As a reminder:
There will be a Maundy Thursday evening service on 17th April, starting at 6pm. There will be no Good Friday service, nor will we meet together on the Saturday. Sunday 20th, however, we will be celebrating together with an Easter Sunday breakfast from 9am. In the coming weeks a list will appear where you can sign-up and tell us that you and your family will be there, as well as what you will contribute to the meal. At 11am, we will then continue with a Resurrection Sunday service.
God be with you in this week!