Bulletin Announcements – 29 December 2013
Combined Lunch Today, 12:15pm @ Croydon Park Hall – Farewell to Rev Mark & Susan Boyley, Welcome to Rev Keith & Janette Noldt and Welcome Home to Peter & Kat Lau. It is a time for us to give thanks to God their ministry partnership with our church. Please bring a large plate of food to share.
Four Keys to Happiness – this February we will be looking at happiness and Sam Chan will be speaking. Invite your friends, and start the conversation with all your friends on what is happiness and how we can find it?
Growing Together, Serving Together! – Church Retreat on 14-16 March 2014 to be held at Stanwell Tops. Save the Date!
Rainbow Keung, our Short Term Missionary to Thailand has received financial clearance from GO International to leave for the field. She will be commissioned for her missionary service on 12 Jan, 2pm at WSCCC Chapel, Strathfield. We encourage everyone to be there to pray for our missionary partnership and to encourage her.
Children Ministry Announcement: we will not have Sunday school classes from 29th Dec 2013 until 26th January 2014. Parents, please make sure that your children are in your care. Term 1 for 2014 will start on 2 February 2014.
Notice from Diaconate: The weekly Wednesday 8pm combined prayer meeting will not be held on 1st January 2014. It will be resumed on 8th January 2014.
Notice of EGM on 26th January 2014: Notice is given hereby to all members to attend an Extraordinary General Meeting called by the diaconate to be held on 26th January 2014 at 12:30pm at the Chapel of the church.
Motion (1): To call Pastor Chadd Hafer as a full-time pastor of the church to serve CroydonPark@10 English congregation. His term will be 3 years and renewable.
Motion (2): To call Rev. Andrew Choy as a part-time minister of the church to serve the Cantonese congregation. His term will be 3 years and renewable.
Proxy forms will be available from any deacons or ministers and should be returned to deacons or ministers or by fax or email to WSCCC. Deadline of proxy form to be received as valid vote is 24th January 2014 at 12:30pm. Any proxy form received after the deadline becomes invalid and will not be counted.
Ariel writes – a weekly Scriptural devotion:
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year…. “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. (Exodus 12:1-2, 17a NIV)
The 1st of January is the Australian New Year’s Day, a day that is marked with BBQs and New Year’s resolutions. This year the 31st of January will mark the Chinese New Year, traditionally a day to honour families and wish for “good fortune”, “happiness”, and “wealth.” The 1st of Nisan is the Biblical New Year’s Day, the start of the month of the Exodus from Egypt. Of course there are many similarities between these festivals like families getting together and eating deliciously roasted meats but the last holds a deep contrast. God’s people were to mark their New Year in a solemn way with blood on their doors and eating bitter herbs – it was the Passover meal. The focus was not on wealth, health, or self but on a sacrificial lamb that paid for their sins. What a way to begin a new year!
from pastor Ariel