Bulletin Announcements – 4 January 2015
- No Sunday school class from today to 25 January 2015. Please make sure that your children are under your care during the service. Term 1 2015 will start 1 February 2015 for Sunday school and 3 February 2015 for Play Group.
- TAG Tuesday – if you are able and would like to host a bible study group for young adults and students on Tuesday night next year at your home, then please talk to Sam Chui. This would be a great opportunity to meet and serve the young people and we are looking for a number of people and families.
- Announcement from the Diaconate: The diaconate is pleased to announce that Bithiah Ng has been appointed to be part-time ministry assistant of the church commencing on 5th January 2015. Her main duties are to assist the ministers and pastors in taking up some of their administrative workloads and at the same time to expose in ministry experience for her future ministry opportunities. Her working days and hours are as follows: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons (1:00pm to 5:00pm) and Sunday morning (10:30am to 3:30pm with 1 hour lunch break).
- If you wish to support the church electronically, you can donate to these church accounts: WSCCC General Offertory, BSB 082 080, Acc 48 243 6244; WSCCC MTEC Missionary Giving, BSB 082 080, Acc 52 856 0495. Please make sure that you reference/detail your donation as “donation” or “faith promise giving” or whatever else is appropriate. If you wish to set up a regular direct transfer, please set it up as direct transfer rather than direct debit.
Ariel writes – a weekly Scriptural devotion:
Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favour rests.” (Luke 2:13-14 NIV)
The birth of Jesus was filled with the miraculous but here it is also full of the spectacular! God revealed his glory in the fields just outside of Bethlehem in a breath-taking way. It is here that the heavenly host burst out in praise with some very old but timely news. Old – because this news about being in a relationship (at peace) with God through His grace (favour) is from the beginning. This was always how one came into a relationship with God. But also timely – because a little baby lay in a manger just a few kilometres away that would not only show everyone how such a relationship worked but also make it possible for everyone to have it. Ultimately, it is only through this tiny human being that anyone can find God’s favour. Jesus, is the reason the angels give God the glory for ultimately he grew up to be a man who paid for your sins and mine thus making it possible for us to find God’s favour, and what glorious news indeed that is!
from Pastor Ariel