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, JUNE 9, 2013

GOD REMEMBERS YOUR VOWS

When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow. (Ecclesiastes 5:4)

Jacob made a vow to God: "If God will be with me ... and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear ... of all that you give me I will give you a tenth" (Gen. 28:20-22). Twenty years later, God turned up and said, "I am the God of Bethel. That was the spot where you made a vow to Me." The interesting thing is that when Jacob made a vow to tithe, he did not have anything. But we read in Genesis 30:43 that he "grew exceedingly prosperous and came to own large flocks, and maidservants and menservants, and camels and donkeys." And now the Lord said, "I will remember your vow." Jacob could have said, "Oh, I didn't think You took notice of that!" But I think that as soon as Jacob heard the words, "I am the God of Bethel," he knew exactly what that meant.

Maybe, at this moment, God is taking your mind back to a vow you made to Him. Maybe you took a vow to pray, and He took care of you. But God remembers your vision. He is saying to you, "Come back to Me! Renew that vow!"

That is something God should not have to do, because when you break a vow, it is a serious thing, and in so doing, you effectively release God from having to do anything for you. But God is so gracious, and He is saying to you, "Here I am again. Life is not over yet. There is still time, and if you will turn your life over to Me, I will restore the years that the locusts have eaten. I will forgive all that has happened, all the mistakes you have made and the sins you have committed. And not only that, if you will begin now, I will cause everything that you have done in the past, everything that haunts you, that leaves you terrified, to work together for good."

I guarantee that if you return to Him, you will find out that there was a purpose in everything that happened. God has not deserted you. There was a reason He let certain things happen. God meant it for good.

[Excerpted from All's Well That Ends Well (Authentic Media, 2005).]

GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

►Pentab Sewing Institute's Summer Classes are scheduled for June 12 to July 31, 2013. Cost: $3,500.00 per person. Application forms are available at the front desk of the church office. Contact: Sis. Lorna Smith at 884-7981 or Angella Ennever at 884-2528, for further details.

► Camp Registration forms & Packing Lists are now available in the foyer of the Administrative building for all Camps . All Payments must be made through the Sunday School's office. Final Payment: Friday, June 28, 2013

►Project HOPE Foundation invites suitably qualified Volunteers for its Residential Summer Camp, July 8-19, 2013 at Moneague Teachers' College in St. Ann. Send resumés no later than Wednesday, June 12, 2013 to Project HOPE Foundation Limited, 66-721/2 Wildman Street, Kingston or email . See the notice boards for further details.

►Do you have a passion for kingdom building and for our children? Well, here's your opportunity to be a part of an exciting team that will help to positively change the lives of our young people. Children's Church is currently recruiting persons to work in Children's Church and Teen Tab. Interested persons should contact Sisters Renae Raymond or Tameika Richards.

►STRETCH Ministry presents Singles' Retreat 2013, August 29-31 at the Sunset Beach Resorts, Montego Bay. Triple Occupancy - $18,000; Double Occupancy - $20,000. A registration Fee of $1,000 and the 1st deposit of $5,000, should be paid by June 26, 2013.

►If you are able to donate tinned food items, crackers, cup soups and toiletries to provide "Love Packages" for those in need, kindly place them in the barrel located outside the sanctuary each Sunday.

DATE
& TIME / ACTIVITY / BIBLE READING
Sun - June 9th / MARRIED COUPLES' SUNDAY / St. Mark 14
10:15 a.m.
6:45 p.m. / - Worship Service, Children's Church & Teen Tab
- Evening Service
Mon - 10th / St. Mark 15
Tue - 11th / St. Mark 16
6:30pm / - Youth Prayer Meeting
Wed - 12th / James 1
6:30 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
11:30 a.m.
3:00 p.m.
6:30 p.m. / - Morning Manna
- Pentab High School Students' Service
- Prayer and Fasting Service
- Students' Service
- Prayer & Bible Study
Thur - 13th / James 2
6:00 p.m. / - Apostolic Counselors' Association Training
Fri – 14th / James 3
Sat – 15th / James 4
Sun – 16th / FATHERS' DAY / James 5
6:00 a.m.
7:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m.
8:30 a.m.
10:15 a.m. / - “Rightly Dividing the Word” on RJR
FAME FM
- Prayer Time in the Sanctuary
- Pre-Session
- Sunday School
- FATHERS' DAY Service
- Children's Church/Teen Tab
- NO Evening Service

SOME UPCOMING EVENTS

√ June 18 - 20 Men's and Women's Fellowship Summit. Theme: "Don't Change the Package"

√ June 22 Project HOPE Tea Party at the Jamaica 4H Club. Cost: $2,500.00

√ June 23 Parents'/Teachers' Sunday - Intermediate Division

√ June 27 Pentab High School Graduation

√ June 29 Men's Fellowship Fun Day

√ June 30 5th Sunday Fellowship

June 9th - 15th

SISTERS: Evadney Barnes, Sandra Cooper (9th); Henretia Johnson, Tramonique Wellington (10th); Leeteisha Brown (12th); Patricia Dixon, Myrtle Francis, Margaret Johnson (13th); Sharon Taylor (14th); Susan Thomas (15th).

BROTHERS: Demetry Jarrettt (9th); Lloyd McLean (10th); Javarri Moncrieffe (12th); Peter Ruddock (13th).

NB: Please note that we can only accommodate the birthdays of current Members of Pentecostal Tabernacle.

MARRIAGE JOKES

♥ The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

♥ My Wife Says I Never Listen, Or Something Like That...

♥ Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.

♥ A couple had been married for 45 years and had raised a brood of 11 children and was blessed with 22 grandchildren. When asked the secret for staying together all that time, the wife replies, "Many years ago, we made a promise to each other that the first one to pack up and leave has to take all the kids."

♥ Smith and Jones were discussing the question of who should be head of the house--the man or the woman. "I am the head of my establishment," said Jones. "I am the bread-winner. Why shouldn't I be?" "Well," replied Smith, "before my wife and I were married, we made an agreement that I should make the rulings in all major things, my wife in all the minor." "How has it worked?" queried Jones. Smith smiled. "So far," he replied, "no major matters have come up."