Bulletin Announcements – 1 March 2015
- A Pinch Of Salt: CP10’s next Salt event will be an fun-filled outreach evening on Saturday 14 March. A tasty meal will be served at 6:30pm, with the main event following at 7:30pm. The theme for this event is, ‘Talking About Our Generations’. Invite a friend to come and enjoy the fun as people from different generations discuss, compete, debate and interact on questions of culture, church, lifestyle, values and beliefs’.
- The Diaconate has called an Extraordinary General Meeting at 12:30pm, Sunday March 15 (at the Strathfield chapel) for church members to vote to accept Kian Holik as a local missionary of the WSCCC. His term will be two years and renewable. Background information on Kian and his ministry is available on a separate insert, and please prayerfully consider this proposal. Proxy forms will be available from deacons, and must be returned to the church by 12:30pm, March 13.
- Chinese Christian Church (CCC) is celebrating their 50th Anniversary on the 16th August 2015 (Sunday) 2:00 pm at the Concourse, Chatswood. They are planning to have a combined choir singing The Lord’s Prayer and Hallelujah (from Handel’s Messiah) at the service. CCC is now inviting members of WSCCC to join this combined choir. If you are interested to join, please contact Ley Wan Tio (Mandarin Deacon) directly.
- Public profession of faith: If you have you become a Christian through repentance of your sins and trusting faith in the Lord Jesus, there will be an opportunity for you to publicly declare that faith by baptism or confirmation on the 24 May. A preparation group will commence meeting very soon. Please indicate your interest to Rev Ariel Kurilowicz today or next week.
Ariel writes – a weekly Scriptural devotion:
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to him, “King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.” (Daniel 3:16-18 NIV)
“But even if he does not,…” Just close your eyes and slowly repeat those words in your head. What do you feel? Fear – that you’re about to die? Surrender – knowing that your life is no longer in your hands? Resolve – the fact that you’ve come to a definite decision? Joy – that when your hour came you faced it with faith in God? I’m sure these 3 young men felt all these emotions at once with a good surge of adrenaline thrown in. Their hearts would have been racing and their breathing would have started to labour but none of that mattered for what shines through more than anything is their faith. What a privilege it must have been to be tested in this way and as you read these words consider the fact that right now around the world many Christians are.
from Pastor Ariel