All are welcome at Okdale Baptist Church on Markham Cresent in Oakdale. We meet on Sundays at 11.00 am and 6.00 pm. There is also sisterhood meeting each Thursday at 2.30 pm and people from other churches in the area are part of this group. We also meet for prayer every Tuesday evening at 7-8 pm.  We are looking to improve the facilities here at Oakdale so that other weekday ministries can be started. We are in the process of looking at the work to be done and applying for grants to do the work. Meanwhile, I am starting a Bible study concerning Biblical prophecy concerning Israel, Old Testament prophecy on Jesus and on world events before they happened. We have an amazing Word of God with scriptures that will excite you when you realise that evnts that have taken place in the last 6000 years are recorded so long before they came to pass. The Bible Study will be entitled Biblical Prophecy and will be starting in February 2012 and there will be a afternoon study and an evening study. Dates and times yet to be anounced.

I want the people of Oakdale to know that I am available to listen and pray with anyone in need and will be in the church weekdays from 9.30 am to 12.15 pm and from 1.30 pm to 4.00 pm. Our services are on Sundays at 11.00 am  and 6.00 pm. Please ring me on the numbers below if I am not at the church when you call because I may be out on a visit or other ministry. Please be assured that anything shared with me will be kept confidential and I want you to know that I am here to listen with God's help to bring healing, encouragement, comfort and love to those in need. I am not here to preach to you try to convert you. So feel free to call in on me at any time during those hours. I appologise to anyone who has tried to see me during the hours stated above with me not being there. If these times are not suitable then please call me on Church number: 01495230251 or call in to see me.  When volunteers are available there is a Street Pastor presence at Oakdale on Friday evenings twice a month.  Susi and I are living near Blackwood in Caerphilly County and praise God that he found us a good sized rented house to accommodate our large family! We have five children. We are enjoying our ministry and have established many sound relationships with the local churches and people. I pray that you look to Jesus for all your answers to life's ups and downs. Read the Bible and pray regularly. Build up a relationship with the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the Creator of Heaven and Earth. He is not too big to be aloof and distant, no, he stooped down to us by giving His life. God loved us so much that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16). STATEMENT OF FAITH (A) PRIORITIES   The scientific aspects of creation are important, but are secondary in importance to the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as Sovereign, Creator, Redeemer and Judge. The doctrines of Creator and Creation cannot ultimately be divorced from the Gospel of Jesus Christ. (B) BASICS   The 66 books of the Bible are the written Word of God. The Bible is divinely inspired and inerrant throughout. Its assertions are factually true in all the original autographs. It is the supreme authority, not only in all matters of faith and conduct, but in everything it teaches. Its authority is not limited to spiritual, religious or redemptive themes but includes its assertions in such fields as history and science. The final guide to the interpretation of Scripture is Scripture itself. The account of origins presented in Genesis is a simple but factual presentation of actual events and therefore provides a reliable framework for scientific research into the question of the origin and history of life, mankind, the Earth and the universe. The various original life forms (kinds), including mankind, were made by direct creative acts of God. The living descendants of any of the original kinds (apart from man) may represent more than one species today, reflecting the genetic potential within the original kind. Only limited biological changes (including mutational deterioration) have occurred naturally within each kind since Creation. The great Flood of Genesis was an actual historic event, worldwide (global) in its extent and effect. The special creation of Adam (the first man) and Eve (the first woman), and their subsequent fall into sin, is the basis for the necessity of salvation for mankind. Death (both physical and spiritual) and bloodshed entered into this world subsequent to, and as a direct consequence of, man’s sin. (C) THEOLOGY   The Godhead is triune: one God, three Persons—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. All humankind are sinners, inherently from Adam and individually (by choice) and are therefore subject to God’s wrath and condemnation. Freedom from the penalty and power of sin is available to man only through the sacrificial death and shed blood of Jesus Christ, and His complete and bodily Resurrection from the dead. The Holy Spirit enables the sinner to repent and believe in Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit lives and works in each believer to produce the fruits of righteousness. Salvation is a gift received by faith alone in Christ alone and expressed in the individual’s repentance, recognition of the death of Christ as full payment for sin, and acceptance of the risen Christ as Saviour, Lord and God. All things necessary for our salvation are set down in Scripture. Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. Jesus Christ rose bodily from the dead, ascended to Heaven, is currently seated at the right hand of God the Father, and shall return in like manner to this Earth as Judge of the living and the dead. Satan is the personal spiritual adversary of both God and man. Those who do not believe in Christ are subject to everlasting conscious punishment, but believers enjoy eternal life with God. (D) GENERAL The following are held by members of the Boards (Directors) of Creation Ministries International to be either consistent with Scripture or implied by Scripture: Scripture teaches a recent origin for man and the whole creation. The days in Genesis do not correspond to geologic ages, but are six [6] consecutive twenty-four [24] hour days of Creation. The Noachian Flood was a significant geological event and much (but not all) fossiliferous sediment originated at that time. The ‘gap’ theory has no basis in Scripture. Nor has the day-age idea (so-called ‘progressive creation’), or the Framework Hypothesis or theistic evolution. The view, commonly used to evade the implications or the authority of Biblical teaching, that knowledge and/or truth may be divided into ‘secular’ and ‘religious’, is rejected. By definition, no apparent, perceived or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record. Of primary importance is the fact that evidence is always subject to interpretation by fallible people who do not possess all information. For detaled and extensive evidence for my viewpoint and why I believe these things please visit: http://creation.com/ What I cannot accept after giving it much prayer and study is: Theistic Evolution http://www.allaboutcreation.org/theistic-evolution-faq.htm