Bulletin Announcements – 8 November 2015
- NextGen conference 2016 in Katoomba – the conference is for young people who are keen to serve and teach the gospel to others. The dates for 2016 are 11-15 January and please talk to Leo Leung for more details (0422540606 or leoleungll2@hotmail.com).
- CPM will be having a special baptismal service on 15/11/2015, the service time will change to 1pm and will be using CP@10 hall. The baptism candidates are: XU XiaoXue, ZHOU YuQiong, TANG MeiQing, GAO Ya, YU Le, JiQing GUO.
- Baptism Service will be held on the 22nd November 12:30pm at WSCCC Strathfield (Chapel). Please come along and support those who will be making a public declaration of their faith in Jesus. English: Sarah Chen, Joshua Ho, Kelvin Ho, Samuel Lo, Athene Luo, Edward Tang，Yiting Wang，Calvin Yeung; Cantonese: Ada Law, Barry Mar, Ping Yip; Mandarin: Jing Guo, JianQiang Liu, YuanGuan Liu, HaiXia Qiao, WenYing Xie. Confirmation (English): Josiah Holik, Rebecca Sit.
- 29th of November: A service for the entire family; kids, parents, and grandparents. Full of fun, fantastic music, engaging storytelling, and God’s Word. A great service to invite your friends to, especially if they have kids!
Ariel writes – a weekly Scriptural devotion:
“For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.” (Ecclesiastes 12:14 NIV)
Let me tell you why we need a God who is just. The book of Ecclesiastes opens (1:2) and closes (12:8) by telling us that “Everything is meaningless.” Then it shows us how we live in a cruel and unjust world; where wisdom brings grief, pleasures doesn’t please, wealth never satisfies, oppressors rule, wickedness abounds, the innocent suffer, and in the end everyone dies. And so life indeed is meaningless unless of course someone can set things right. And that is why we need a God who is just, and the verse above tells us that all this “meaningless” matters to God! In fact, if he didn’t care about right and wrong he wouldn’t be worth loving to begin with but… the verse above is intended for everyone, including you and me. Suddenly loving this God falls out of the equation and fear takes its place. So will this just God now also show us mercy? Fortunately for us he does by sending Jesus. This new equation is beautiful in its simplicity and grace: Jesus substitutes himself for me and allows himself to be judged for my wrongful deeds. I just love this merciful God who is both just and my justifier.
from Pastor Ariel