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20220814 English Bulletin

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WELCOME TO CAMBERWELL METHODIST CHURCH We are a faith community that is growing in our love for Jesus, who died for our sins, and is raised from the death. We are called to follow Jesus, and to make disciples of all nations. If you would like to know more about God, Jesus, or our church or the Bible, please use camberwellcmca@gmail.com / Minister-in-Charge Rev. James Kong 0413 953 238 / Assistant Pastor (English) Ps. Allan Quah 0402 675 219 to Get in Touch. 58 Cooloongatta Road, Camberwell, VIC 3124 • Tel: (03) 9889 0702 • www.cmca-camberwell.org.au

Silent Prayer ORDER OF WORSHIP Call to Worship Adoration & Praise 10th Sunday after Pentecost/Sacred Music Sunday Service Prayer Responsive Reading (14 August 2022) The Lord’s Prayer Welcome/Notices <B e Still in the Presence of the Lord> Offering Intercessory Prayer Psalm 150:1-6 Scripture Reading Proclamation 398 <All to Jesus I Surrender> of the Word 2 Thess 2:1-12 Chorus of Response Benediction The Coming of Jesus Ministry Roster 14/8/2022 Preacher Ps. Allan Quah Worship Leader Jimmy Kong Song Leader Jennifer Yap Backup Diana Kong Pianist Jason Ting Keyboardist Dennis Yong Accompaniment Steven Yek Cajon Bryan Law Bible Reader Kierren Kang Multimedia Esther Yee Live Stream/PA Jonathan Liew/Evan Kong Ushers Elaine & Joanne Wong Floral - HC Prep - Ministry Roster 21/8/2022 Preacher LP Lina Lim Worship Leader Steven Yek Song Leader Jenny Chiu Backup David Chieng Pianist Ing Soo Tiong Keyboardist - Accompaniment Cheng Loon Leong Cajon Jonathan Liew Bible Reader En Sing Lim Multimedia Wesley Chew Live Stream/PA Bryan Law/Andrew Zhang Ushers Cassandra & Josiah Tan Floral - HC Prep - 2

“God looks for those whose hearts are prepared to be intercessors before Him ...Intercessors can be the only ones standing between an individual or a nation and God’s wrath.” Henry Blackaby Weekly Praying for the Church 1. P ray for coming back to church to 3. P ray for Annual Conference continue worship to be faithful in leading all churches in Australia, that we may work together to 2.1 Pray for ongoing streaming work to bring the gospel to the those who are be effective, and glorifying God; lost, and discipled to be fisher of men and women. 2.2 Pray for wisdom to discern how to allow congregation to come back to 4.1 P ray for Jimmy Kong, Ken Hii, Clarence worship with limited seat capacity due Yek, Aunty Su King Ting, Mdm. Lu (Mrs. to social distancing; Kong’s mum), Christina (Boon Koh’s sister, Canada), Flora (Singapore) and 2.3 Pray for the small groups, and Ben (USA). Thank you all for upholding fellowships continue to connect with them in prayer. each other, and reach out to other; 4.2 P ray for our brothers and sisters who 2.4 Pray for God’s break through in contracted Covid and those in close all that church is doing so that we contact. Let us continue to uphold may experience renewal in the life of them in prayer as well as showing our community and ministry. care and support to them. 2. P ray for LCEC 2022 and English Ministry 4.3 P ray for the situation between Russia Committee that they may work and Ukraine, may the war end and together to reach out to families, our peace be restored. young people, and our community. 4.4 P ray for the Federal Government in Australia, to govern with integrity and bring benefits to the people. 3

“God looks for those whose hearts are prepared to be intercessors before Him ...Intercessors can be the only ones standing between an individual or a nation and God’s wrath.” Henry Blackaby Weekly Praying for the Church 5. P ray for our church family continue to 6. P ray for spiritual awakening experience living God in each of these household at Camberwell Methodist 1.1 your plead with the Lord to be Church. We pray for deeper relationship merciful to us and graciously draw us among the family members, deeper back to Himself and His ways. Ask Him to relationship between husband and show us unfailing love and grant us His wife, and deeper relationship between salvation that we may rejoice in Him. parents and children. I cannot stress more than saying this is the time, God 1.2 restore us again, O God our is at work through and in our families. Saviour...Will you not revive us again, Let us not look else where but instead that your people may rejoice in you? look within our daily relationship and Show us your unfailing love, O Lord, and our family. God is right there with us. grant us your salvation (Psalm 85:4,6-7); Seek Him first and His kingdom, all these things shall be added to you. 1.3 Thank God that He is willing to give the Holy Spirit to those who ask. Cry out to Him for an outpouring and mighty working of the Holy Spirit in our day. 1.4 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him. (Luke 11:13) 4

All that’s going on around Camberwell Methodist Church Church Announcements Welcome Family Devotion We welcome everyone who join our worship service. We encourage families to start a regular family devotion May the peace of God be with you! If you are a new each week. It is our main thing for our church because friend to the church, please introduce yourself and we will grow stronger, closer, and more love for God leave your contact details. and one another. Let us not waste this time of being together…. explore every opportunity to play, to read, to Gentle Reminder do something together, to pray and to sing together. The church strongly recommends facemask to be worn Pre-Father’s Day Celebration(28/8/2022 indoor together with frequent washing of hands. If you Sunday @1:30-4:00PM) have any symptom, please go for testing and isolate until the test result returns negative. All young men, 13 years old and above are welcome. Afternoon tea would be served. Speaker: Rev. Michael Prayer Meeting Drennan. Topic: “Being a Dad is No Joke” Please reserve the date and scan the QR Code to register. Thursday (18/8/2022) 7.30PM via Zoom and will be led (Refer to poster on Page 9) by Brother Boon Koh. We invite all brothers and sisters to serve in prayer ministry Friendship Evangelism Baptism & Membership Sunday’s Basketball session will be from 3-4pm at Boroondara Sports Complex, 271C Belmore Rd, We invite those who wish to get baptised or accepted Balwyn North VIC 3104 (Bring along a basketball) as members to register so we can arrange the COVID safe protocols apply and children under 10 necessary classes. years old must have parental supervision. Please contact Joseph on 0411 539 082 for more information. Pastoral Needs LCEC Meeting (20/8/2022) @9AM If you have any pastoral needs, please do not hesitate to seek Rev. James Kong(0413 953 238), Ps. Allan Venue: Annex. Stewards to submit Report on or before Quah(0402 675 219) or local preachers: Lina Lim, Chris 16/8, to Rev. James Kong, Choo-Kai Kang and Star Ting, or Joo Soo Lim. If you need the pastor to pray for Guo. you, do approach Rev. James Kong or Ps. Allan Quah after the service. 5

All that’s going on around Camberwell Methodist Church Church Announcements 2nd Local Conference Annual Conference Ministry English Family Discipleship Talk via zoom 2nd Local Conference will be held at Church Annex on 03/9/2022@10AM. We hereby inform all the Date: 16-18/9/2022. Speakers: Robin & Ruth Lim. members of the Local Conference (pastors, retired Talk 1: Restoring Our Understanding of Discipleship, pastors, Local Preachers, stewards, District Steward, Talk 2: Discipling One Another in Marriage, Talk 3: Conference delegates), do reserve the time to attend. Discipling Our Children, Talk 4: Healing and Equipping At the same time, please submit your respective report for Discipleship. We strongly encourage you to attend. before 28/8/2022, the reporting time allocated for every Please register at https://forms.office/r/MWMjQVgzQG committee is 3 minutes. or scan the QR Code. (Refer page 8) 2022 Annual General Meeting 2022 Annual General Meeting will be held on 04/9/2022@7.30PM. We invite all members to reserve the time to attend. Election will be conducted in the AGM. Offering detail Thank you once again for brothers and sisters who faithfully support the ministry of the church through finance, prayers, and participation. May God bless you. Here is the bank detail for your reference: Account name: Chinese Methodist Church in Australia Camberwell; BANK: ANZ; BSB: 013 225; Account Number: 4939 79025. We have prepared an Offering Box in the Lobby for envelope offering. Offering: $6,145.47 (31/07-05/08/2022) Description Abbreviations Bank reference Tithing TITHE C9/E11 C9 TITHE Paul WONG General GEN C9/E11 C9 GEN Paul WONG Thanksgiving TKS C9/E11 C9 TKS Paul WONG Mission MIS C9/E11 C9 MIS Paul WONG Theological student THE C9/E11 C9 THE Paul WONG Special SPE C9/E11 C9 SPE Paul WONG Others OTH C9/E11 C9 OTH Paul WONG Building fund C9/E11 C9 Camberwell mc Paul WONG, E11 Mercy mc Paul WONG…...... 6

Family Devotion 2022-08-14 When I am Old Psalm 71:1-11 – Forsake Me not When my Strength is Spent The older I become, the more I appreciate this psalm. It focuses on God's special blessings for those who are getting older. \"Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails\" (v.9). What does God do for us as we get older? He helps us meet and solve some of our problems in our later years. Take the problem of weakness, for example. David talks about that in verse 9: \"Do not forsake me when my strength fails.\" The outward man is failing, but the inward man can be renewed daily. God will provide you with the spiritual strength that you need. Another problem we face as we get older is confusion. \"In You, O Lord, I will put my trust; let me never be put to shame [confusion]\" (v.1). We can't always keep up with so many rapid changes in this world. As we get older, we might say, \"I don' quite know what's going on.\" But God says, \"Look, don't worry about it. You trust Me, and I'll never allow you to be confused.\" A third problem we experience is that of living in the past. Too often, we say, \"Back in the good old days,\" I've concluded that perhaps the good old days were not that good. David acknowledges, “For You are my hope, O Lord God” (v.5). He was living in the future. We don’t know what the future holds, but we do know that God holds our future. Finally, we face the problem of complaining. How easy it is to complain as we grow older. But David said, “Let my mouth be filled with Your praise and with Your glory all the day” (v.8). When we’re walking with the Lord, He takes care of weakness and confusion. He takes care of our fear of the future. He also substitutes praise for complaining; therefore, we grow old graciously. – Warren Wiersbe's – A Daily Walk Thru the Psalms, 2011, pg 189. Reflection: How is God speaking to me through these verses? How can I apply what I read and heard today? Each phase of life has unique advantages and problems. And God stays with you through each stage. Are you facing the issues of old age? Are you struggling with weakness, confusion, living in the past, and complaining? Bring your fears to God. He delights in caring for His people. To Praise Him and Pray: Psalms 71 Song - Proclaim - https://youtu.be/gxW-_zYCqvo 7

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