A word from your pastor

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Isaiah 26:20-21
20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

I am feeling led to write a personal note to all those that call me their pastor and attend Bibleway Believers as their home church. I want to address some of the current issues that are taking place in our country and how they are affecting us as believers and members of the local assembly.
As we are all aware, the government has enforced a new law on Monday closing most of the businesses and institutions including places of worship allowing them only to be open for funerals, solitary prayers and livestream services without the audience. The new guideline is: stay at home and only essential travel.

In light of the current situation and national guidelines we have decided to suspend our services in our church building in Enmore. Instead we encourage everyone to have a house prayer meeting on Wednesdays evening starting @ 7:00pm.
For the services on Sunday we would like to switch entirely to the “live stream” online services by using only the necessary crew at our church that is needed to provide this service to our church members.
The service on Sunday will start @ 10:30am. We would like to start streaming about 10 minutes earlier for everyone to get set and connected.
The livestream url is open for this time and accessible via our internal website.
https://media.bibleway.co.uk/livestream

In most cases we will use the WhatsApp and SMS service as our tool of communication to our church members. Please make sure we have uptodate information. If you’re not on contact list, please text your number to Bro. Kamil Pisarski on +44 7547 305319

I ask that all of you be faithful in your streaming of the services. Do not stay and stream from your bed unless you’re not well enough, but please get dressed, be present, gathering your family together with your own home the same as if you were in church. We will use the modern streaming technology to still be able to have services provided for the sheep at our assembly. During the service please don’t get disturbed by a phone or going to the fridge, etc but take an active part in worship and preaching of the Word. You may post the amen, hallelujah, etc.. comments during the service using chat service below the streaming frame. It will be an encouragement and blessing for others.

Please keep this all as a matter of prayer, and I am asking all of you to continue to pray for me that God will give me grace and inspiration to preach to an unseen congregation.

Even though these things are happening all around us, we do not need to allow the fear and panic to be upon us. God is in control and He is an ever-present help in the time of trouble. We are all in this together and we will overcome this by His grace and mercy.

Let us all pray that this issue will not last long, and that in just a few weeks we can go back to normal in our daily lives once again.
God bless you keep you all is my sincere prayer.
Your friend and pastor,
Mirek Zalisz