CINNAMON GARDENS BAPTIST CHURCH

IMPORTANT NOTICE

CHANGE IN TIMES OF SERVICES

The Service times at Cinnamon Gardens Baptist Church are now as follows:-

7.30 a.m. Sinhala Tamil Service.

9.00 a.m. – 9.15 a.m. Tea/Fellowship Time.

8.30 a.m. – 10.00 a.m. Children’s Sunday School (KMM)

9.15 a.m. – 10.15 a.m. Adult Bible School.

10.30 a.m. English Service.

When Quarterly Meetings are held, the Trilingual Service will be held at 9.30 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.

SECRETARY.

WEEKLY ACTIVITIES

Cinnamon Gardens Baptist Church

WEDNESDAY: Ladies’ Prayer and Bible Study 10:00 am

THURSDAY: Ladies’ Bible Study 6:00 pm

THURSDAY: Youth Bible Study 6:30 pm

FRIDAY: Teen Choir Practice 6:00 pm

FRIDAY: Teen Bible Study 7:00 pm

SATURDAY: Men’s Bible Study 5:00 pm

(At the home of Dr. Kingsley de Alwis Tel. 011- 266-5427)

SUNDAY: Adult Choir Practice 12:00 Noon

CHURCH CALENDAR

August 2010
1	Communion Service - Rev. Gary A. Dean
8	SLBS Sunday
15	Rev. Gary Dean
22	Mr. Kumar Subramaniam
29	Rev. Steven Critenton
September 2010
5	Communion Service - Rev. Kingsley Perera
12	Mr. Nalin Senapathiratne
19	Rev. Fred George
28	Rev. Fred George
October 2010
3	10.30 a.m. Communion Service - Rev. Kingsley Perera
10	10.30 a.m. Preacher: Dr. Vinodh Gunasekera
17	10.30 a.m. Preacher: Dr. Vinodh Gunasekera
24	10.30 a.m. Preacher: Dr. Vinodh Gunasekera
31	197th Anniversary - Trilingual Service - Dr. Adrian de Visser
There is a Fellowship Time from 9.00 to 9.15 a.m.
Adult Bible studies are conducted from 9.15 t0 10.15 a.m.

Every Sunday 8.30 - 10.00 a.m. Kithu Mithu Maga (Sunday School)

SRI LANKAN BAPTIST PASTOR HONOURED BY THE QUEEN

Congratulations Rev. Fred George from all of us at Cinnamon Garden Baptist Church for the high honour of the MBE that has just been bestowed on you by the Queen!

As one of our longstanding members, you have brought honour to CGBC and to the whole Baptist community in Sri Lanka as well. Of course, if it were up to us, we at CGBC would have given you a similar honour long ago, knowing the outstanding work that you have been doing both at your church at East Barnett and with the children at Stillwaters in Tangalle..May God bless you for all that you have done over so many years and are continuing to do even today.

British Baptists Receive Honor from Queen

By: Baptist Times Staff
Posted: Sunday, June 27, 2010 10:16 pm
Section: News

The front and back of the Member of the Order of the British Empire medal. Several British Baptists were among those recognized in the Queen's Birthday Honors list.

Baptist Christians in Great Britain were recognized recently in the Queen's Birthday Honors list.

Sri Lanka-born Rev. Fred George, former president of the Baptist Union of Great Britain who ministered at East Barnet Baptist Church for 40 years, was named Member of Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to the community in the London Borough of Barnet, Hertfordshire and Sri Lanka. He has worked with children and families in the United Kingdom and in Sri Lanka.

"It was a surprise, but I was delighted," he said. "I see a recognition of the work done by a huge army of volunteers both in Barnet and Sri Lanka." He said it had been a privilege to work with so many volunteers over the years.

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CONFEDERATION OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES

The inaugural service of the newly formed Confederation of Christian Churches was held on Sunday, 30th November 2008 at the Cathedral of the Living Saviour, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo. The churches that have come together in this loose confederation are:

Christian Reformed Church of
Sri Lanka

The Church of Ceylon
Colombo and Kurunagala
Dioceses

Jaffna Diocese of the Church
of South India

Methodist Church
Sri Lanka

The Presbytery of Lanka
The Salvation Army
Sri Lanka Baptist Sangamaya

This confederation is an association of the current member Churches of the National Christian Council to do together what we earlier did apart, in response to our Lord's prayer for unity and mission: "That they all may be one as we are one... that the world may believe.. ."(John 17: 21) coming together in faith, hope, love, humility and courage, To work together, To understand each other, To share our resources better, To witness unity in Christ in a divided nation.

The CCC will not be a legal body but a moral force promoting a spiritual Ecumenism in rich diversity, surrendered in humility to God, in courageous obedience to the Lord Jesus, leaving the ways and times to the directions of the Holy Spirit. A new lifestyle is envisaged both at the centre and locally.

What are its aims?

The member Churches of the CCC commit themselves to make a special effort to promote united activities in pastoral care, Evangelism, worship, prophetic witness etc and other common interests, both centrally and regionally.

How will the CCC function?

Heads of denominations with a clergy person and a lay person (or their alternates) from each Church will meet once a month for prayer and for planning joint activities consistent with the above aims, as "The Council". It will be summoned by the Co-ordinator, presided over by the NCC Chairperson and attended by the NCC General Secretary. In this way overlap or duplication of activities between the CCC and NCC can be avoided. Similarly, clergy persons and lay person representatives (or alternates) in local areas / Districts will meet regularly for prayer and coordination of activities.

At any level, there can be no binding decisions but agreements by consensus on practical matters. Any serious decisions will have to be ratified by each member Church - which will continue to function independently as at present.

How is it different to the NCC?

The Confederation intends to give a new approach and impetus to NCC activities in a more committed way both centrally and regionally. The regions will function independently from the central Council (except when directions come through each Head of Denomination) and the relationship between the Council and regions will heed to evolve with time.

Proposed new steps

A service of mutual recognition of ministries is proposed be held in each Province for the Holy Spirit to deal in a unique way in this unique situation for each minister to function in the wider reconciled ministry of the CCC, like the way Paul and Barnabas were set apart for a new missionary enterprise (Acts 13: 2-3) This will enable ecumenical team ministries automatic sharing of pulpits and sacrament and lead to full communion between the Churches.

Basis

For Christ Jesus is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is the hostility between us that he might create in himself one new humanity, in place of the two, thus making peace and reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross Eph 2: 14-16)

See pictures of the CGBC Tsunami Project in the Photo Gallery by clicking here 8

Christian Council appeals to MR to reconsider PTA

The National Christian Council of Sri Lanka (NCCSL) expressed fear that the recently introduced emergency regulations on the Prevention of Terrorism may lead to the suppression of legitimate activities and democratic dissent.

A statement issued by the council further said Churches were required to fulfill the mandate given by God to serve all people and eliminate suffering, poverty, need, destitution regardless of race caste and creed. They appeal to the President to take urgent steps to prevent the operation of these emergency regulations in the present form.

“We have carefully considered the Emergency (Prevention of Terrorism and Specified Terrorist Activities) Regulations Na 07 of 2006 published in the Gazette Extraordinary No. 1474/5 of December 6, 2006 and are gravely concerned about its potential for adverse interpretation and application.

“The definition given to ‘terrorism’ in the Regulations is very broad and vague and consequently could lead to the suppression of legitimate activities and even democratic dissent. We are particularly conscious of our recent history, wherein such wide and sweeping powers gave rise to serious and widespread abuse, political victimization and the suppression of fundamental freedoms.

“We are particularly alarmed by the offences prescribed in Sections 8 and 9 of the Regulations, which carry severe penal sanctions and blanket immunity afforded to persons taking action(s) on the strength of the Regulations. Section 8 makes any transaction whatsoever with even an associate of a person who acts in contravention of Sections 6 and 7 an offence and Section 9 prohibits dissemination of any information which could, in the opinion of a Government functionary, be considered prejudicial to national security, have serious reservations about the necessity to obtain the written approval of the Competent Authority to exercise our social and humanitarian responsibilities.

“As Churches with a religious foundation and vision we are required to fulfil the mandate given by God to serve all people and eliminate suffering, poverty, need, destitution, exploitation, deprivation and affliction regardless of race, caste or creed. We appeal to the President to take urgent steps to prevent the operation of these Regulations in the present form”, an NCCSL statement said.

Daily Mirror 09/01/07

Schedule hereto, shall on conviction after summary trial before a
Magistrate be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding

In order to receive and process your contributions to the relief work of CGBC we have set up a special account "Cinnamon Gardens Baptist Church Disaster Relief Fund". You could send money in your own currency from your own bank by wire transfer. The details of the destination account you will need to supply to your bank are as follows:

Name and address of Bank: Hatton National Bank, Cinnamon Gardens Branch, 251 Dharmapala Mw., Colombo 7, Sri Lanka

An alternative (but much slower) method would be to send a cheque made out to the same fund and account number by courier or by registered post to the address given below.

We request all contributors to the CGBC Relief Fund to send us an e-mail (cgbc@sltnet.lk) with details (name, address, e-mail address, etc.) of yourself and/or your institution so that we might acknowledge your contribution both directly by letter and on the web. Our bank has received several contributions (see Accounts in Disaster Relief Fund page) for which they have difficulty in tracing to the donor's name. We would like to acknowledge ALL contributions from those who have been moved by the Lord to come to aid of their brothers and sisters in distress. Besides, this helps us in our effort to be absolutely transparent in using God's money. Thank you and God bless you all.

Church Humour

Praise The Lord!

There was a little old lady, who every morning. stepped onto her front porch, raised her arms to the sky, and shouted: "PRAISE THE LORD!"
One day an atheist moved into the house next door. He became irritated at the little old lady. Every morning he'd step onto his front porch after her and yell: "THERE IS NO LORD!"
Time passed with the two of them carrying on this way every day.
One morning, in the middle of winter, the little old lady stepped onto her front porch and shouted: "PRAISE THE LORD! Please Lord, I have no food and I am starving, provide for me, oh Lord!"
The next morning she stepped out onto her porch and there were two huge bags of groceries sitting there.
"PRAISE THE LORD!" she cried out. "HE HAS PROVIDED GROCERIES FOR ME!"
The atheist neighbour jumped out of the hedges and shouted: "THERE IS NO LORD; I BOUGHT THOSE GROCERIES!!"
The little old lady threw her arms into the air and shouted: "PRAISE THE LORD! HE HAS PROVIDED ME WITH GROCERIES AND MADE THE DEVIL PAY FOR THEM!"

Old Bible

A rare-book collector met a guy who said he'd just thrown out an old Bible that had been packed away for generations. "Somebody named Guten-something had printed it," the man exclaimed. "Not Gutenberg!" gasped the book lover. "You've just thrown away one of the most famous books ever printed. One copy recently sold at auction for over $4 million! "The other man was still unmoved. "My copy wouldn't have brought a dime," he said. "Some guy named Martin Luther scribbled notes all over it."

Waking Him Up!

Two mothers are having a conversation about their children one day.
"How do you get your Marvin up so early on school mornings?" asks Joan.
"Oh, that's easy," replies Marianne. "I just throw the cat on his bed."
"Why does that wake him up?"
"He sleeps with the dog!"

Any Siblings?

After school one day, a young first-grade boy was sitting at the kitchen table, eating his afternoon snack, when he blurted out, "Mom, the teacher was asking me today if I have any brothers or sisters who will be coming to school."
The boy's mother replied, "That's nice of her to take such an interest, dear. What did she say when you told her you are an only child?"
She just said, "Thank goodness!"

Lovers of the English language, enjoy this...

It is an example of why people learning English have so much trouble with the nuances of words.
.....
This two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is 'UP.'

It is listed in the dictionary as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v].

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we wake in the morning, why do we wake UP?

At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP, and why are the officers UP for election.Why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends, brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and fix UP the old car. At other times this little word has really special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses...

To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special!
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about the word UP !

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look UP the word UP in the dictionary..

In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions

If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, the earth soaks it UP . When it does not rain for a while, things dry UP. One could go on & on, but I'll wrap this UP for now because my time is UP !

Now I think I'll shut UP. Whew!!!

MORE PROBLEMS WITH THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE !!!

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men,
Then shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!

Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England ..We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing,grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English could be running the danger of being called verbally insane.

In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
We ship by truck but send cargo by ship.
We have noses that run and feet that smell.
We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.
And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm goes off by going on.

And, in closing, if Father is Pop, how come Mother's not Mop?

I WOULD LIKE TO ADD THAT IF PEOPLE FROM POLAND ARE CALLED POLES THEN
PEOPLE FROM HOLLAND SHOULD BE HOLES AND THE GERMANS GERMS!!!

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