Bulletin Announcements – 11 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:
Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. (Galatians 3:7 NIV)
How simple, how cheap, how light. With faith there is no complexity, no rituals or multiple tasks to perform. No entrance exams or difficult tests to pass. With faith there is no expense, no gold, silver, or cash required. No saving or savings are needed. With faith there is no burden, no heavy loads to bear. The weight of guilt, grief, and shame is lifted; and worries float away. Faith is freely given and those who come by faith are free but their freedom does not leave them disbanded. No, faith’s freedom embraces them into God’s family as children! Children of Abraham no less. Children of God’s favoured, beloved, and friend. And how highly we ought to speak of him who by faith left family, land, and friends. Who against hope still clung onto faith. Who in faith took God at his word. And who by faith led Isaac up the mountain. Thus, under great stress, insurmountable odds, and at great cost Abraham’s faith in God shone through. And why such great faith? Because he had a great God; and his God is our God too!
from Pastor Ariel