Grace Times

Vol. XXII/02 Grace Bible Church, C 930, Sector B Mahanagar, Lucknow, India October 2019

Dear church family,

Pulpit Calendar
October 2019 Why are the pews empty? Every church pastor
and the congregation must face this question.
Check-in 15 minutes before service We have more empty pews in churches than
we used to. It didn’t happen suddenly or under
Morning Services at 9.30 am the leadership of any one pastor or group of
leaders. It’s been a gradual thing over several
06 Holy Communion Pastor J T Raja decades. This a general observation of the
13 Pastor Ashish H Khan church at large. It is understandable that in the
20 Pastor J T Raja
27 Pastor Ashish H Khan present times the nature of education and job
placement has changed. Right after high
Allipur Grace Bible Church services at 9.30 school the options are open to move out. It is
also understandable that some jobs requite to
06 Bro Shyam Babu work on Sundays. Sometimes, you might be on
13 Bro. Satyender a vacation or traveling on a Sunday. Or you
20 Holy Communion Pastor Ashish H Khan could be simply indisposed. But the sad obser-
27 Pastor J T Raja vation is that many times people do not attend
church worship for very casual reasons. A
whole lot depends on our understanding of the
church. If it were a club meeting/society meet-
ing/a business meeting, etc., one could skip it.
You can also not go to your work and instead
Sunday School
get your pay cut for that day. This would not be
Will be held during
an issue since it's only a material proposition.
worship services
But the question here is - Can you afford to skip
a meeting that is crucial for your spiritual
growth? Can you entrust your spiritual growth
Thursdays at 6.30 p.m. to anything worldly? Can you take the risk of
remaining deficient in spiritual nurturing?
03 The Antins Home
17 Della Singh’s Home Each time we think of casually skipping a wor-
31 The Phillips Home ship meeting, think what if the Lord also be-
comes casual towards us and gives us a pass!
Would you liked to be 'passed over' by Jesus?
Thursdays at 6.30 p.m. There are no easy solutions for filling empty
Prayer meetings pews. The problem, I believe, goes far beyond
demographics, sermon topics, or misplaced
10 Dr. Ruth Chakravarthy’s Home priorities. It’s possible that the vacant places in
24 The Raja’s Home our sanctuaries reflect vacant spaces in our
own hearts. A heart that is full of gratitude to
the Lord, cannot miss an opportunity to meet
with Him! Let us make it a habit, to not miss
WOMEN’S PRAYER church. It was a 'custom' of Jesus to attend
at the Sanctuary on Saturday, synagogue (Luke 4:16). Let us also make it our
19th at 5.00 p.m. custom to be regular to church meetings and
teach the same to our children.

“Always, everywhere God is God bless!

In His service,
present, and always He seeks to Ashish
discover Himself to each one”
A.W.Tozer
 Income September 30 2019

Jan-Sept 2018 September 2019 Jan-Sept 2019 Budget 2019 projection

General Offerings 2,34,596 31,470 2,55,075 3,20,000 3,40,000

Donations 65,900 3,300 75,000 erratic

Pledged Giving 4,38,990 43,300 4,52,300 6,00,000 6,03,000

2nd Mile Pledges 1,16,600 11,200 1,04,200 1,65,000 1,38,000

Christmas Donation 10,000 60,000 erratic

Lent offering 10,100
Designated collections
Sunday School 19,106 1,140 17,069 erratic

Grace Church in Village 4,500 500 6,000 25,000 erratic

Medical Aid Fund

GRAND TOTAL 8,79,692 87,610 8,58,044 12,45,000 10,81,000

Arjun Phillips troubled by backache due to

muscle spasm.
Pr. Ashish Khan has multiple dental issues and
under treatment.
Nalin Phillips is recovering from stomach
infection and fever.
Miriam fell down from the stairs. She has hair-
line fracture in the tail bone and under treatment.
Guru Prasad was down with throat infection
and fever. Birthdays in October
Shweta Lal underwent a tooth surgery. 03 Manohar Lugun
05 Arunima Verma
Jeba Raja recovered from stomach infection. 10 Della Singh
10 M T Muanding Guite
Jeba & Pr. Raja were protected by God from 12 Manji Phillip
major fire accident due to electrical short circuit 17 Poonam Modwell
in their house. 22 Simon Wilson
24 Nalin Phillip
Sana Singh from Dubai visited her mother. 26 Lydia Van Oss
27 Jaisymol Bijoy
Martha & Stanley Khan are back from China
after being with their son’s family for three
months. For Pastoral Care contact
VILLAGE GBC: Rev. J T Raja 995 639 9835
Ankita Singh has severe knee pain and jaundice. Rev. Ashish H. Khan 964 843 1177
gracebiblechurch.lucknowindia@gmail.com
Sunaina Rawat has tapeworm in her brain and www.gracebiblechurchlucknow.org
under treatment.