20220828 English Bulletin

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 [email protected] / 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 12th Sunday after Pentecost/ Missions Sunday Service Prayer Responsive Reading (28 August 2022) The Lord’s Prayer Welcome/Notices <B e Still in the Presence of the Lord> Missions Sharing Offering Isaiah 6:1-13 Intercessory Prayer Scripture Reading Video from Board of Missions Proclamation 406 <Take My Life and Let It Be> of the Word Matthews 6:9-11 Chorus of Response Benediction Our Father in Heaven Ministry Roster 28/8/2022 Preacher Rev. Meng Tee Gan Worship Leader Michael Fung Song Leader Natalie Law Backup Gladys Chandra Pianist Adeline See Keyboardist - Accompaniment Simon Wong Cajon Bryan Law Bible Reader Maddie Tiong Multimedia Adrian See Live Stream/PA Wesley Chew/Jin Long Wong Ushers Joyce & Jaden Wong Floral Jing Jing Ngu HC Prep - Ministry Roster 4/9/2022 Preacher Rev. James Kong Worship Leader Daniel Ha Song Leader Cheryl Chan Backup Zoe Ha Pianist Venus Kang Keyboardist - Accompaniment Faith & Kelly Cajon - Bible Reader Verene Kang Multimedia Aaron Tiew Live Stream/PA David Ha/Gerald Wong Ushers Stephen Siew & Dominic Seow Floral - HC Prep Cerene Koo 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, Christina (Boon to social distancing; Koh’s sister, Canada), Flora (Singapore) and Ben (USA). Thank you all for 2.3 Pray for the small groups, and upholding them in prayer. fellowships continue to connect with each other, and reach out to other; 4.2 P ray for our brothers and sisters who contracted Covid and those in close 2.4 Pray for God’s break through in contact. Let us continue to uphold all that church is doing so that we them in prayer as well as showing our may experience renewal in the life of care and support to them. community and ministry. 4.3 P ray for the situation between Russia 2. P ray for LCEC 2022 and English Ministry and Ukraine, may the war end and Committee that they may work peace be restored. together to reach out to families, our 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 Pastor on leave do something together, to pray and to sing together. Rev. Yu will be taking leave from 31/8/2022 till Pre-Father’s Day Celebration(28/8/2022 28/10/2022. Sunday @1:30-4:00PM) Gentle Reminder Speaker: Rev. Michael Drennan. Topic: “Being a Dad is No Joke” The church strongly recommends facemask to be worn indoor together with frequent washing of hands. If you Friendship Evangelism have any symptom, please go for testing and isolate until the test result returns negative. Sunday’s Basketball session will be from 3-4pm at Boroondara Sports Complex, 271C Belmore Rd, Prayer Meeting Balwyn North VIC 3104 (Bring along a basketball) COVID safe protocols apply and children under 10 Thursday (01/9/2022) 7.30PM via Zoom and will be led years old must have parental supervision. Please by Ps. Allan Quah. We invite all brothers and sisters to contact Joseph on 0411 539 082 for more information. serve in prayer ministry 2nd Local Conference Baptism & Membership 2nd Local Conference will be held at Church Annex We invite those who wish to get baptised or accepted on 03/9/2022@10AM. We hereby inform all the as members to register so we can arrange the members of the Local Conference (pastors, retired necessary classes. pastors, Local Preachers, stewards, District Steward, Conference delegates), do reserve the time to attend. Pastoral Needs At the same time, please submit your respective report before 28/8/2022, the reporting time allocated for every If you have any pastoral needs, please do not hesitate committee is 3 minutes. to seek Rev. James Kong(0413 953 238), Ps. Allan Quah(0402 675 219) or local preachers: Lina Lim, Chris Ting, or Joo Soo Lim. If you need the pastor to pray for 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 2022 Annual General Meeting Annual Conference Ministry English Family Discipleship Talk via zoom 2022 Annual General Meeting will be held on 04/9/[email protected]. We invite all members to reserve Date: 16-18/9/2022. Speakers: Robin & Ruth Lim. the time to attend. Election will be conducted in the Talk 1: Restoring Our Understanding of Discipleship, AGM. Talk 2: Discipling One Another in Marriage, Talk 3: Discipling Our Children, Talk 4: Healing and Equipping for Discipleship. We strongly encourage you to attend. Please register at https://forms.office/r/MWMjQVgzQG or scan the QR Code. (Refer page 8) 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 for 14/8-19/08/2022 will be published next Sunday. 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 2022-08-28 Recruiters Luke 10:1-6 – 10 After this the Lord appointed seventy- two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. 2 And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. 3 Go your way; behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves. 4 Carry no moneybag, no knapsack, no sandals, and greet no one on the road. 5 Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house!’ 6 And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him. But if not, it will return to you. A vast task confronts you, and you spring into action. You organized committees. You buy supplies. You manage a phone-a-thon. Wait! Have you forgotten to pray? Prayer was at the top of Jesus' list when accomplishing any task. In addition to setting this example, Jesus taught how to divide the labor long before the days of personnel assessment profiles, project-management software, and planning calendars. As you read Luke 9: 51 – 10:42, understand the priority of prayer and place it at the top o your to-do list. Jesus sent out seventy-two of his disciples in pairs to spread the good news about him. Despite this promising start, his mission was still understaffed. The first step he took in solving this problem was to instruct his followers to \"Pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send more workers into his fields\" (Luke 10:2). They had a huge task, and getting it done meant asking God to send more people. Likewise, we have a huge task today to further the gospel's spread. No one person, however, can save the world single-handedly. You can't be a missionary to Rwanda, live at home, minister to your family, and tell your coworkers about Christall at once. But you can list the people and causes that matter to you and pray that God will send people to each one. You can also ask him to help you take advantage of the opportunities to share the gospel that come your way. If you have friends and relatives who don’t know Christ, pray for them. ask God to send believers into their lives who will address their concerns, objections, and needs, people who will lead them to the Savior. – Tyndale – The One Year Through the Bible Devotional Reflection: How is God speaking to me through these verses? How can I apply what I read and heard today? To Praise Him and Pray: Make Me a Blessing https://youtu.be/LqyhlKx1VII 7

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