IMPORTANT NOTICES
►OFFICE HOURS: The Church Office is closed to the public on Monday of each week. Office Opening hours are: Tuesdays to Thursdays (9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) and Fridays (9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.)
►ANNOUNCEMENTS for Wednesdays and Sundays should be submitted two (2) working days before airing.
►REFERENCE LETTERS: To request a Reference Letter, you must:
1. Collect a member’s Reference Letter Requisition Form from the wall across from Nursery in the foyer of the Administrative Building.
2. Follow the instructions to complete the form. You must complete and sign Part I for Applicants and submit to your Sunday School Teacher/Divisional Director to fill in Part II.
3. The form must then be submitted to the Church Office at least 7 days prior to the date when the reference letter is needed.
►APPOINTMENTS (PRE-MARITAL): Persons wishing to get married must make an appointment to see the Pastor before commencing courtship and arrange pre-marital counseling sessions via the Church Office.
Pentecostal Tabernacle, 66-72 ½ Wildman Street, Kingston, Jamaica W.I.
Phone: (876) 922-6978 /922-8036 /922-4351
Fax: (876) 922-1145
Email address:
Website address: www.pentabja.com
View our services live at www.pentabja.com/livestream.html
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2013
A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: "I don't believe that God exists."
"Why do you say that?" asked the customer.
"Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine loving a God who would allow all of these things."
The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and un-kept. The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist."
"How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber. "I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!"
"No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside."
"Ah, but barbers DO exist! What happens is, people do not come to me."
"Exactly!" affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! What happens is, people don't go to Him." -- Author unknown
6yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. 1 Cor. 8:6 (ESV)
GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
►Pentab's annual September-to-Remember services are scheduled for September 18-20 & 22 and September 25-27 & 29, 2013 (6:30 pm weekly and 10:15 am on Sundays). Start inviting all your family, friends, neighbours, co-workers to these services.
►Project H.O.P.E. Foundation will be having a Cake Sale inside the car park located directly across from the main entrance of the sanctuary, immediately after the service today (Sunday, September 8, 2013). Contribution: $200.
►Agape Ministry's Married Couples Retreat will be held at Iberostar Hotel & Resort in Montego Bay on October 24 - 26, 2013. Cost: US$112 per person per night. A 20% deposit is due by September 15, 2013.
►Caribbean Conference 2013 is scheduled for October 25-27 at the Capital Plaza Hotel in Trinidad & Tobago. Accommodation (double occupancy) US$168.19 nightly which includes breakfast. Transportation for the entire conference is US$70-US$75 which includes airport/hotel transfers.
DATE & TIME / ACTIVITY / BIBLE READINGSunday-Sept 8th / Psalm 15
10:15 a.m.
6:30 p.m. / - Worship Service, Children's Church & Teen Tab - Evening Service - Special Youth Presentation
- National Citywide Crusade in Port Maria
Monday – 9th / Psalm 16
5:30 p.m. / - Very important Hospital Ministry Team
Meeting in the Prayer Room
Tuesday – 10th / NO YOUTH SERVICE / Psalm 17
Wednesday-11th / Psalm 18
6:30 a.m.
11:30 a.m. / - Morning Manna
- Prayer and Fasting Service
- NO BIBLE STUDY
Thursday – 12th / Psalm 19
Friday – 13th / Psalm 20
Saturday – 14th / Psalm 21
10:00 a.m. / - The setting of questions for the 2013
National Sunday School Examination
at the UPCJ Camp Site in Moneague, St.
Ann. Attendees (ie. Pastors, Ministers, Sunday
School Directors, Teachers and persons 15
years and over), are being asked to take
along: the Sunday School Manuals for 2013,
pencils, pensand laptops. Lunch will be
provided for all participants.
Sunday – 15th / Psalm 22
6:00 a.m.
7:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m.
8:30 a.m.
10:15 a.m.
6:45 p.m. / -“Rightly Dividing the Word” on RJR FAME FM
- Prayer Time in the Sanctuary
- Pre-Session
- Sunday School
- Worship Service, Children's Church & Teen Tab
- Evening Service in the Sanctuary
SOME UPCOMING EVENTS
√ Sept 18-20 & 22 September-to-Remember Services
√ Sept 24 Region 1 Ministerial Meeting (6:30 p.m.) at Pentab
√ Sept 25-27 & 29 September-to-Remember Services
√ Oct 4 Reg. 1 Ingathering Women's Fellowship Ingathering Service
√ Oct 8-18 Pentab Ten-Day Fast
September 8th - 14th
SISTERS: Ermie Mills, Sharon Shim (8th); Margaret Cooke-Davis, Hanna Edwards, Marva Laird, Marlene Thorpe (9th); Marisol Benjamin, Eulalee Donegan, Claudith Hamilton-Gordon, Nadine Hylton, Sue-Ann Madden (10th); Patricia Daley, Aretha Williams, Kathleen Williams (11th); Cicelyn Saunders (12th); Nathesha Allwood, Carmen Baker, Leoni Dixon, Nereson Fletcher, Yvonne Stewart, Marcia Thomas, Davine Walters, Sandra Williams (13th); Gloria Nembhard (14th).
BROTHERS: Adrian McBean, Michael Thompson, Paul Walters (9th); Delroy Harris, Lestine Rose, Rupert Rigg (11th); Owen Buckley (14th).
NB: Please note that we can only accommodate the birthdays of current Members of Pentecostal Tabernacle.
JOKE CORNER
Through with God
One day a group of scientists got together and decided that man had come a long way and no longer needed God. They picked one scientist to go and tell Him that they were done with Him. The scientist walked up to God and said, “God, we have decided that we no longer need you. We are at the point that where can clone people and do many miraculous things." God listened patiently and kindly to the man and after the scientist was done talking, God said, “Very well! How about this? Let us have a man-making contest.” To which the man replied, “OK, great!” But God added, “Now we’re going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam.” The scientist said, “Sure, no problem” and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt. God just looked at him and said, “No, no, no. You go get your own dirt!”