“Jesus looked at him and loved him. ‘One thing you lack,’ He said. ‘Go sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.’ At this the man’s face fell. He went away sad, because he had
great wealth.” Mark 10:21-22
One of the many life lessons that thirty years of marriage has taught me is that you don’t make it to thirty years without emptying yourself and going all in. Day by day and year by year, my precious wife, Sharon, and I learned that “me” doesn’t become “we” without both of us putting everything we are and have on the table. This is true of our journey with God as well.
Jesus emptied Himself of all the glories of heaven to come to us and for us that first Christmas. For me to become His, I must also empty myself. As David Nasser (senior vice president for spiritual development at Liberty University) writes, the call to Christ is a call to die. Sometimes, like the young man in Mark 10:17-31, we’re willing to go 50/50 or maybe a little higher. Jesus named 6 of the 10 commandments and the young man was keeping all of them. Jesus then more or less referenced the first commandment which is “You shall have no other gods before Me.” (Exodus 20:3) For the young man, his wealth was the “god” he had put before God. Jesus loved him and was all in for him but the young man decided he didn’t want to “marry” God after all. In a sense, he just wanted to “date” Him.
How about you? Sooner or later, God will ask you to empty yourself of something you don’t want to let go of. It could be anger, addiction, selfishness, materialism or unforgiveness. It could be rude behavior, a critical spirit or a victim mentality. Whatever it is, it has become your “god” because you value holding on to it more than fully embracing Him. Remember, Jesus didn’t walk away, the young man did. Jesus is still standing there, inviting you to have a fully committed, nothing held back, relationship with Him. You are loved!
(TERRY ARDIZZONE)
PASTOR ASHOK AWAY ON DUTY
Please take note that Pastor Ashok will be away for the 44th Session TRAC from November 16-18, 2019. He returns to church office on Tuesday, November 19, 2019.
XEE SEMESTER 19
Date : Sunday, November 10, 2019
Week 4
Time : 12 noon-4:30 p.m.
Venue : Manse basement
Nov 24: Week 5
Dec 8: Week 6
Jan 4, 2020: Final
SUPER SENIORS CELL GROUP MEETING
Date : Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Time : 11:30 a.m.
Venue : Multi Purpose Hall
CELL LEADERS MEETING
Date : Sunday, November 24, 2019
Time : 11:00 a.m.
Venue : Room 3, 2nd Floor
POWER UP –
KIDS HOLIDAY CAMP 2019
Speakers : Pastor Steven Low
Mr Ponraj Navamani
Dates : Wed-Sat, December 4-7, 2019
Time : 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. (Wed-Fri)
8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. (Sat)
Venue : Multi-Purpose Hall
Get your registration form from the church office or contact Tien Bin @ 016-296 3811.
PLEDGE PAYMENT BY BANK ONLINE TRANSFER
The Finance & Stewardship would encourage pledge payment be done via bank online transfer or ATM and to submit the bank-in-slip within the same month. Please put the bank-in-slip into the Pledge Envelope and write your name or pledge number. UOB Account no: 171-315-561-1
HOSTEL LADY WARDEN FOR ORANG ASLI STUDENTS RAUB, PAHANG
TRAC is looking for full time, Hostel Warden urgently.
Required Experience, Skills & Qualifications:
In Education & related fields
Preferably a former Teacher/Headmistress (Bachelor degree) that is familiar with the workings of a school (especially on students’ transfer, admission and other relevant school administrations) and above all else a Faithful, Loving and Gracious Christian. Must have at least 5 years in the Education and related field. Please contact Koa Vi Vian for further details @ 012 214 1545.
COUNCIL OF CHURCHES MALAYSIA CHARITY BAZAAR
Date : Saturday, November 23, 2019
Time : 2:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Venue : CCM Centre (opposite UMMC)
Please refer to the notice board for further details.
THE CALL: WORSHIP – PRAYER – FELLOWSHIP
The goal of The Call is to connect younger generation of leaders in Malaysia, encourage and seek the Lord in unity for the revival of our generation.
Date : Saturday, November 30, 2019
Time : 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
(lunch provided)
Venue : Boiler Room (Putrajaya)
Organiser: Prayer United Youth
Please refer to the notice board for further details.
A FESTIVAL OF 9 LESSONS & CAROLS
Date : Sunday, December 1, 2019
Time : 6:00 p.m.
Venue : CCM Centre (opposite UMMC)
This is by Cantus Musicus. Free Admission. All are welcome.
YLDP (YOUTH LEADERSHIP TRAINING, TRAC)
Dates : Wed-Sun, December 11-15, 2019
Venue : Methodist Chefoo, Cameron
Highlands
Fees : RM300
To register: bit.ly/yldp2019
TEEN STREET BY OPERATION MOBILISATION
Dates : Wed-Sun, December 11-15, 2019
Venue : Kolej Tuanku Jaafar, Mantin
Cost : RM450 per person
Register: https://tinyurl.com/y3a6wdgy
JEREMIAH SCHOOL 2020
Dates : January 5-22 &
January 29- February 23, 2020
Venue : Both Port Dickson & JB
Cost : RM1,800 (TRAC Youth)
RM2,300 (non TRAC Youth)
Closing Date: December 1, 2019
Registration is now open online:
trac.org.my/index.cfm?&menuid=214
VACANCIES
1. Methodist Council Of Education
a. Human Resource Manager
b. Finance Manager
2. Wesley Methodist School @ Bandar Seri Coalfields
a. Accounts Executive
Please refer to the notice board for further details. Email application and resume to hr@mcoe.edu.my before 30th November 2019.
CONGRATULATIONS
Our heartiest congratulations to Dr Johanan Lawrence and Amanda Goh on their marriage on November 9, 2019.
UP COMING EVENTS (2019)
Dec 4-7 Kids Holiday Camp
Dec 8 SS Christmas Party
Dec 14 LCEC Budget Meeting
Dec 21 Christmas Musical Night
Quite simply, the church must accept the children. How? Simply by loving them and accepting him or her just as Jesus does. Surround them with a love that makes them feel safe and secure. A love that allows them to be children and be themselves. A love that is also expressed in firm and fair discipline. A love that treats each individual child as special. That is the love that Jesus showed these children and which we must show them as well.
But how can we do that specifically? First, we should accept our children’s statements of faith. We need to encourage our children to take a stand for Jesus at any age. That doesn’t mean that they have a clear understanding of all the theological truths we hold; they don’t understand the doctrines. But we allow them to say that they believe in Jesus with all their heart.
Second, we must teach them. That means more than just preparing a lesson for a Sunday School class. It means taking the effort to get to know each child as much as you are able. It means showing that you care for each child as a person. It means being willing to teach, as some of you have done, when no one else has come forward to be a teacher.
We also should listen to the lessons that our children are continually teaching us. The simple truths of the Bible which we have either forgotten or taken for granted are brought home with striking clarity and power by our children. There was a family who had a little girl named Rachel who had a terminal liver disease. Rachel struggled with this disease for over 3 years until she died from it. It was very hard and very sad for the family and for those who knew them and had been with them through this struggle. I conducted the funeral for Rachel and I remember watching Rachel’s older sister, Julia, before and after the funeral. Julia was running around smiling, bubbling, happy as can be. Her mother said to me that Julia can’t understand why everyone is so sad. To her it did not make sense to be sad. Rachel believed in Jesus. And if you believe in Jesus then when you die you go to heaven. That means that Rachel is with Jesus right now in heaven. What better place, what happier place could she be in than with Jesus in heaven?
That is the faith of a child! But you say, “But they don’t understand the hurt, the frustrations of this life, the difficulties and the disappointments!” You’re right, of course, they don’t. But I think they understand the basics of the Gospel much more clearly than many of us with our vast array of Biblical knowledge. Our children have so much to teach us if we are willing to listen to them. In what ways will you bless the children of our church in the weeks to come? Will you trust and accept the amazing gift of grace with the faith of small child? (PASTOR JERRY HOEK)
MISSION FAITH PLEDGE 2020
Date : November 2 & 3, 2019
(during worship services)
FUND RAISING FOR RAUB ORANG ASLI HOSTEL
A few members of Wesley Methodist Church, Teluk Intan will be setting up a handicraft stall in our church on Sunday, November 3 (after service) and the proceeds will go to finance the Raub Orang Asli Hostel Ministry.
CHURCH STAFF MEETING ON WEDNESDAY
Please note that the church staff meeting, will be held on Wednesday, November 6, 2019 from 10:30am-12:30pm. Kindly avoid calling the church office at the above time unless very urgent.
XEE SEMESTER 19
Date : Sunday, November 3, 2019
Week 3
Time : 12 noon-4:30 p.m.
Venue : Manse basement
Nov 10: Week 4
Nov 24: Week 5
Dec 8: Week 6
Dec 29: Final
CHURCH OFFICE OPEN
Please take note that the church office will be open on Saturday, November 9, 2019.
SUPER SENIORS CELL GROUP MEETING
Date : Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Time : 11:30 a.m.
Venue : Multi Purpose Hall
OUR DAILY BREAD BOOKLET
Our Daily Bread Booklets from December 2019 to February 2020 are now available at the foyer.
SABAH MISSIONS TRIP
Dates : February 14-16, 2020
For more details, please text/whatsapp Stephanie Tan @ 017 675 1118
POWER UP –
KIDS HOLIDAY CAMP 2019
Speakers : Pastor Steven Low
Mr Ponraj Navamani
Dates : Wed-Sat, December 4-7, 2019
Time : 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. (Wed-Fri)
8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. (Sat)
Venue : Multi-Purpose Hall
Get your registration form from the church office or contact Tien Bin @ 016-296 3811.
YLDP (YOUTH LEADERSHIP TRAINING, TRAC)
Dates : Wed-Sun, December 11-15, 2019
Venue : Methodist Chefoo, Cameron Highlands
Fees : RM300
To register: bit.ly/yldp2019
TEEN STREET BY OPERATION MOBILISATION
Dates : Wed-Sun, December 11-15, 2019
Venue : Kolej Tuanku Jaafar, Mantin
Cost : RM450 per person
Register: https://tinyurl.com/y3a6wdgy
JEREMIAH SCHOOL 2020
Dates : January 5-22 &
January 29- February 23, 2020
Venue : Both Port Dickson & JB
Cost : RM1,800 (TRAC Youth)
RM2,300 (non TRAC Youth)
Closing Date: December 1, 2019
Registration is now open online:
trac.org.my/index.cfm?&menuid=214
MEMBERSHIP & BAPTISM CLASS
There will be Membership & Baptism Class soon for those who wish to be baptized and received into membership. Please register with the church office.
DAYSPRING POCKET DIARY 2020 FOR SALE
Cost : RM5 per copy
METHODIST PLANNER 2020
Kindly sign up on the list at the notice board if you wish to purchase. Cost: RM10 each. Kindly pay to church office.
SSMC VBS 2019: KIDS IN THE BOOK
SSMC in PJ will be hosting this VBS for kids in Primary School:
Date : November 28-30, 2019
Venue : SSMC, PJ
Register online:
https://www.ssmc.com.my/vbs-2019
FULL TIME WARDEN FOR RAUB ORANG ASLI HOSTEL
TRAC is looking for full time, stay in, salaried warden for the newly opened Raub Student House for Orang Asli children ranging from ten to seventeen years old. Accomodation and food provided is within the hostel itself. Retired teachers are preferred. Details can be worked out. Please contact Vi Vian @ 012-214 1545 if interested to consider.
VACANCIES
1. Methodist Council Of Education
a. Human Resource Manager
b. Finance Manager
2. Wesley Methodist School @ Bandar Seri Coalfields
a. Accounts Executive
Please refer to the notice board for further details. Email application and resume to hr@mcoe.edu.my before 30th November 2019.
CONGRATULATIONS
Our heartiest congratulations to Eng Hui and Shih Peng on their marriage on November 2, 2019.
UP COMING EVENTS (2019)
Dec 4-7 Kids Holiday Camp
Dec 8 SS Christmas Party
Dec 14 LCEC Budget Meeting
Dec 21 Christmas Musical Night
Years ago, I heard of a missionary who had faithfully served the Lord amongst a group of market traders. During many years of sharing the Gospel with them, he didn’t have a single convert. As he was about to retire, he was asked to train a new recruit, which he did. During that first week, that new recruit led one of the traders to Christ. The young man was initially delighted, and then sorrowful, as he’d been blessed, while the older missionary hadn’t. The older missionary was not in the slightest bit upset, as he said, “You’ve reaped what I’ve sown, and God has the glory.”
Sowing and reaping is an essential part of a farmer’s life and it should be a key part of the believer’s life too.
We’re expected to sow. Mark 4:14 says, ‘The farmer plants seed by taking God’s word to others’. Sowing God’s Word into the life of others isn’t just the responsibility of the pastor and leaders. It’s the responsibility of everyone in the church. Every member is a minister of the Gospel. Everyone has a part to play. Do you know how to share Jesus with someone? If not, then maybe it would be good to find out!
We reap what we sow. The quality of the seed is important. If we sow discord, gossip, and contention, then that’s what we’ll reap in our own lives, and from those around us. Learn how to sow good seed that’s worthy of God’s blessing, words of encouragement, building up and blessing are the good seeds to sow, especially the Gospel.
We reap more than we sow. No farmer sows one seed expecting the same return. They expect a significant harvest or there’d be no return for their labours. We should expect the same with our sowing – And the seed that fell on good soil represents those who hear and accept God’s Word and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had been planted! (Mark 4:20). Isaiah 55:11 says, ‘It is the same with My Word. I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it’. Are we expecting positive results? We should be. Not every seed flourishes, but enough do to create a harvest.
We need to be active reapers. The common misconception about the principles of sowing and reaping is that we sow the seed, and then wait for God to do the reaping for us. When we do this, we miss an important part we are to play. We sow the seed, God gives the increase, but we’re to reap (or gather) the harvest. So, we all must become a sower and a reaper.
Let’s ask God each day for opportunities to sow and reap. Let’s be looking out for those opportunities and grab them with both hands. When we do, everyone will rejoice with us and give praise to God for His abundant harvest. (PHILIP ASSELIN)
PASTOR ASHOK & CHURCH LEADERS AWAY
Please take note that Pastor Ashok & the church leaders are currently at the Leaders’ Retreat & Planning Session @ PDMC from October 26-28, 2019.
SIT DOWN EXERCISE
Please take note that the Sit Down Exercise is held on every Saturday at 10:00am, Rooms 2 & 3, 2nd Floor.
CHURCH OFFICE CLOSED
Please take note that the church office will be closed on Tuesday, October 29, 2019 in lieu of the public holiday.
CHURCH STAFF MEETING ON WEDNESDAYS
Please note that for the next two weeks in a row, the church staff meeting, will be held on Wednesdays, from 10:30am-12:30pm. (Dates: October 30 & November 6, 2019). Kindly avoid calling the church office at the above times unless very urgent.
2ND OFFERING
The 2nd Offering for the month of November will go to Salvation Army.
TALK ON ADDICTION-
COMPUTER GAMES, PORNOGRAPHY & SOCIAL MEDIA
Speaker : Ps Paul Vijayan (Kingdomcity)
Date : Saturday, November 2, 2019
Time : 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Venue : Wesley Methodist Klang
Rooms 4 & 5, 3rd Floor
Open to youth only. All youth are welcome.
MISSION FAITH PLEDGE 2020
Date : November 2 & 3, 2019
(during worship services)
XEE SEMESTER 19
Date : Sunday, November 3, 2019
Week 3
Time : 12 noon-4:30 p.m.
Venue : Manse basement
Nov 10: Week 4
Nov 24: Week 5
Dec 8: Week 6
Dec 29: Final
SUPER SENIORS CELL GROUP MEETING
Date : Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Time : 11:00 a.m.
Venue : Multi Purpose Hall
POWER UP –
KIDS HOLIDAY CAMP 2019
Speakers : Pastor Steven Low
Mr Ponraj Navamani
Dates : Wed-Sat, December 4-7, 2019
Time : 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. (Wed-Fri)
8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. (Sat)
Venue : Multi-Purpose Hall
Get your registration form from the church office or contact Tien Bin @ 016-296 3811.
YLDP (YOUTH LEADERSHIP TRAINING, TRAC)
Dates : Wed-Sun, December 11-15, 2019
Venue : Methodist Chefoo, Cameron
Highlands
Fees : RM300
To register: bit.ly/yldp2019
TEEN STREET BY OPERATION MOBILISATION
Dates : Wed-Sun, December 11-15, 2019
Venue : Kolej Tuanku Jaafar, Mantin
Cost : RM450 per person
Register: https://tinyurl.com/y3a6wdgy
JEREMIAH SCHOOL 2020
Dates : January 5-22 &
January 29- February 23, 2020
Venue : Both Port Dickson & JB
Cost : RM1,800 (TRAC Youth)
RM2,300 (non TRAC Youth)
Closing Date: December 1, 2019
Registration is now open online:
trac.org.my/index.cfm?&menuid=214
MEMBERSHIP & BAPTISM CLASS
There will be Membership & Baptism Class soon for those who wish to be baptized and received into membership. Please register with the church office.
METHODIST PLANNER 2020
Kindly sign up on the list at the notice board if you wish to purchase. Cost: RM10 each. Kindly pay to church office.
CHRISTIANITY EXPLORED TRAINING
Date : Saturday, November 2, 2019
Time : 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Venue : KCMC
Trainer : Craig Dyer
For more info, CEMINISTRIES.ORG/EASTASIA
SSMC VBS 2019: KIDS IN THE BOOK
SSMC in PJ will be hosting this VBS for kids in Primary School:
Date : November 28-30, 2019
Venue : SSMC, PJ
Register online:
https://www.ssmc.com.my/vbs-2019
UP COMING EVENTS (2019)
Dec 4-7 Kids Holiday Camp
Dec 8 SS Christmas Party
Dec 14 LCEC Budget Meeting
