Bulletin Announcements – 20 November 2016
- Baptism Service will be held on 27th 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. Cantonese: Mei Ran Yan, Seai Ting Wong; Mandarin: Dong Ling, Ying Liu, Li Ming Zhang, Fu Hin Zhao, Yu Wang, Hai Hong Fan, Yi Hong Guo.
- CPM will be having a special baptismal service on 4/12/2016. The service will start at 12:30pm and will be at CP10 hall. The baptism candidates are: Kin Ling Tong, Jessica Peng, Si Qi Xue and Owen Wang.
- Announcement from the Diaconate:Notice is hereby given to all members to attend an Extraordinary General Meeting on 11thDecember 2016 at 12:30pm at the Strathfield Chapel of the church to vote on the following two motions: (1): To appoint Fiona Fung as a part-time deaconess (50%) of the church, serving at the Cantonese congregations. Her initial term will be 2 years and renewable. (2): To appoint Jonty Perret as a part-time (2 days a week) Children’s Ministry Coordinator at Croydon Park (CP10). His initial term will be 1 year and renewable. Information about the background of both Fiona Fung and Jonty Perret is available on the separate insert in the bulletin. Proxy voting forms will be available from any deacons or ministers. The final date for the return of proxy forms is Friday, 9th December 2016 at 12:30pm.
Ariel writes – a weekly Scriptural devotion:
But someone drew his bow at random and hit (Ahab) the king of Israel between the sections of his armour.… The blood from his wound ran onto the floor of the chariot, and that evening he died. (1 Kings 22:34a, 35b NIV)
A person of no consequence randomly lets an arrow fly that by chance happens to strike the king of Israel between his armour and causes his demise. A one in a million shot and he wasn’t even aiming! It just wasn’t king Ahab’s day, was it? But here, in every ounce of randomness and every gram of chance, lies the full weight of God’s sovereignty. If only we would go back a few verses we would see that God warned king Ahab that he would die if he went to battle. But Ahab refused to heed God’s word and went anyway. He even disguised himself so as not to be seen and then attacked; and it actually worked! But someone drew his bow at random… and the rest is history. There’s a lesson here, isn’t there? Behind the pages of history and even the curtain that hides our tomorrows; God is sovereign still.
from pastor Ariel