20210404 English Bulletin

Vision: Building a Church after God's Own Heart SUNDAY 4TH APRIL WELCOME TO CAMBERWELL METHODIST CHURCH We are faith community that growing in our love for Jesus, who died for our sins, and raised from the death. We are called to follow Jesus, and to make disciple 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 to Get in Touch.

Silent Prayer ORDER OF WORSHIP Call to Worship Resurrection Sunday & Holy Communion Adoration & Praise (4 April 2021) Prayer <B e Still in the Presence of the Lord> Apostle Creed Welcome/Notices 110 <I Serve a Risen Saviour> Offering Intercessory Prayer John 20:11-18; Jeremiah 31:31-33 Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper A Life transformed and Renewed Scripture Reading Proclamation of the Word Chorus of Response Benediction Ministry Roster 4/4/2021 Preacher Rev. James Kong Worship Leader Daniel Ha Song Leader Cheryl Chan Backup Zoe Ha Pianist Sarah Ha Keyboardist - Accompaniment Faith & Kelly Cajon - Bible Reader Sammi Chua Multimedia Aaron Tiew Live Stream/PA Gerald Wong & Andrew Zhang Ushers Jacklyn & Jamilyn Wong Floral - HC Prep Mary Liew Preacher LP Chris Ting Ministry Roster 11/4/2021 Song Leader Jenny Chiu Worship Leader Joo Soo Lim Pianist Ing Soo Tiong Backup Michelle Ting Accompaniment Cheng Loon Keyboardist - Bible Reader Dominic Seow Cajon David Chieng Live Stream/PA Jin Loong & Bryan Law Multimedia Damian Seow Floral - Ushers Jonathan & Danielle Ting 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. Pray for coming back to church to 2. Pray for new LCEC 2021 and English worship working Committee that they may work together to reach out to families, our 2.1 Pray for ongoing streaming work to young people, and our community. be effective, and glorifying God; Please pray for the search of suirtable new pastor for English Congregation. 2.2 Pray for wisdom to discern how to allow congregation to come back to 3. P ray for Annual Conference continue worship with limited seat capacity due to be faithful in leading all churches in to social distancing; Australia, that we may work together to bring the gospel to the those who are 2.3 Pray for the small groups, and lost, and discipled to be fisher of men fellowships continue to connect with and women. each other, and reach out to other; 4. P ray for Boon Koh, his sister, Christina, 2.4 Pray for God’s break through in and her family in Canada: Samuel and all that church is doing so that we Ruth. may experience renewal in the life of community and ministry. 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 COMMUNITY WATCH Welcome Prayer Meeting We welcome everyone who join our Thursday (08/4)7:30PM To be led by LP Joo worship service. May the peace of God Soo Lim. Pray for Methodist Social Creed be with you! If you are a new friend to the #2 - Wesleyan CSC –values, purpose, and church, please introduce yourself. meaning of our Methodist movement (Via zoom). Mission Fund $1 A Day Family Devotion We invite all brothers and sisters to participate, as well as for all fellowships We encourage families to start a regular and small groups to promote and family devotion each week. It is our main encourage, so that we can offer what we thing for our church because we will have to expand the Kingdom of God. (For grow stronger, closer, and more love for details, please see P.10) God and one another. Let us not waste this time of being together…. explore Holy Saturday Easter Film: every opportunity to play, to read, to do something together, to pray and to sing ‘Jesus’ This film will be streamed on April together. 03 from 0900 - 2100 EST. Please go to the church website for the movie link details. Sunday Services Livestream http://cmca-camberwell.org.au http://camberwellmethodistchurch.org.au We continue to stream both 9am Chinese Do plan to watch this Easter film together and 11am English service online until with family and friends - in your homes. further notice. Online worship is one of the many things we do to worship God. Pastoral Needs If you have any pastoral needs, please do not hesitate to seek Rev. James Kong (0413 953 238) or local preacher Lina Lim, Chris Ting, or Joo Soo Lim. If you need the pastor to pray for you, do approach Rev. James Kong after the service. 5

All that’s going on around Camberwell Methodist Church COMMUNITY WATCH Offering detail Gentle Reminder: Thank you once again for brothers and Please help to maintain the cleanliness sisters who faithfully support the ministry of of the fridge in the church kitchen. Do the church through finance, prayers, and bring the left-over food home. The fridge participation. May God bless you. Here is is currently used to store the pre-packed the bank detail for your reference: wafer and juice for the Holy Communion. Account name: Chinese Methodist Church in Australia Camberwell; BANK: Redeemer Methodist Church ANZ; BSB: 013 225; A.N: 4939 79025 Redeemer Methodist Church has Offering purchased a church building and is planning for renovation. Please support 21/3/2021 $10,499.05 our member church out of love. (Please refer to page 12). Children Sunday School Teachers Training (English) There will be a CSS Teachers Training on 24/04 (Sat) 9:30AM-4PM Venue: Church. We encourage brothers and sisters to serve in Sunday School ministry wither as teachers or helpers. Please grab the opportunity and register with CSS Superintendent LP Joo Soo Lim, lunch will be provided. CAMBERWELL METHODIST CHURCH 58 Cooloongatta Road, Camberwell, VIC 3124 • Tel: (03) 9889 0702 • www.cmca-camberwell.org.au Minister-in-charge: Rev. James Kong 0413 953 238 6

CAMBERWELL METHODIST CHURCH The Proverbs Challenge The Book of Proverbs is a READ & STUDY very visual book. This is a challenge for the Read through Proverbs individual or the family until you find a verse (Chinese or English). No that really stands out to matter how young or old you. Then study the verse you are, we would love to until you know what it see your creativity. means. Once completed, the best three submissions will be EXPRESS  framed and displayed in church. Find a way to express All entries will be your verse: photography, compiled into a memory graphics nature, book for our church for calligraphy, drawings, the 35th anniversary. paintings, ect. SEND IT IN! Send your verse to camberwell_methodist_c [email protected] by the 30th of April. And we will compile it into our very own Xia-En-Gia COVID-19 memory book. Each family or individual who contributed will receive a copy. 7

Devotion Week 9: 4th April 2021 Theme: Living HOPE- Because He lives Hymn: Because He Lives Because He lives, I can face tomorrow, Because He lives, all fear is gone; Because I know, He holds the future, And life is worth the living, just because He lives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI0jfzwqVNY 1Peter 1:3 (NIV) “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” Peter wrote this to the Jewish Christians who were suffering and being persecuted for their faith. We too are now facing a crisis of global proportions with Covid 19 and global unrest. The dreaded Covid-19 crisis is threatening lives and livelihoods on a scale not experienced by most of us ever before. Yet no doubt the message to us is the same. Our faith is not as strong as we would like it to be but through all this, we know God is with us and therefore we have hope. We have a living hope that can withstand the storms of life regardless how dark the skies. This hope is an anchor for our soul, firm and secure. Real Christian hope, a blessing of our salvation, is always alive and never dies because we have been born to ‘a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.’ Reflect: • How would you define hope? • What is the difference between the world’s kind of hope and the ‘living hope’ we have in Christ? • If you are struggling, perhaps going through a dark time of your soul, are you encouraged that our eternal destiny is with our Lord and this is only a passing thing? Prayer: Dear God, I know it is difficult when we are faced with sufferings and pains, it makes us doubt and question. Help us Lord to learn to live with our brokenness, help us see your goodness and mercies and stand firm and secure in you. Lord, we thank you that you are an anchor for our soul, our living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. And because He lives, I can face tomorrow, Because He lives, all fear is gone; Because I know He holds the future, And life is worth the living just because He lives. In Jesus’ name, we pray Amen

Board of Mission 2021 ‘$1 a DAY for Mission’ Campaign Dear Minister-in-Charge and Pastors, As you know, ‘$1 a day for mission’ is one of the main sources of income for CMCA Board of Mission. We hope to continue this campaign to raise awareness for mission in 2020-2021. We found these ideas for piggy bank craft using recycle bottles very interesting and would recommend your Sunday school to explore further for 2020 Piggy Bank project for KIDS4Mission (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iou_W3iIqtk&ab_channel=FindIdea or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnrCJeuGA2k&ab_channel=Isa%27sWorld ). We hope Sunday school children will make their own ‘piggy bank’ and use it to save money for mission. We hope parents can get involve with their children and contribute toward the campaign as well. Please send the donation of ‘$1 a day for mission’ together with all the contributions collected on Mission Sunday (22/8/2021) to CMCA account before Oct 2021. Be sure to list out the fund collected separately as “$1 a day for mission” when sending it to AC Account. Immanuel, Rev David Tiong (Board of Mission) 9

Streaming Holy Saturday Evangelistic Movie (The Life of Jesus from the Gospel of Luke) event on the 3rd of April (0900 to 2100 EST): INSTRUCTIONS i. Go to the English Church website: www.camberwellmethodistchurch.org.au ii. Select the ‘Events’ tab at the top of the website. Scroll down the events page and click on the ‘CLICK HERE FOR THE STREAMING LINK’ button. iii. As a CMC member, join the website as a member (You can join as a website member at anytime) by entering your email address and a password. iv. Once you become a website MEMBER, Log in again with your email and password at the ‘Members Login’ tab to watch the evangelistic “EASTER MOVIE” with your friends and family. 10

Redeemer Methodist Church Chinese Methodist Church in Australia Church Building Pledge Towards the end of 2008, the LCEC of Carlton Methodist Church, led by Rev Gloria Ling initiated a church planting vision in the greater Sydney area. After a period of prayer, research and searching for a suitable location, The City of Parramatta was finally identified as the potential area for our church plant, this also facilitated the attendance of Sunday services for our brothers and sisters who live in the North and North-West of Sydney. The City of Parramatta, part of western Sydney is targeted by the state government as Sydney's second CBD, and has attracted many immigrants, including Chinese as their home. By 2041, its population is forecasted to grow to half a million, double its current population. On 5th July 2009, the first thanksgiving Sunday service was held at The Centenary Uniting Church in Parramatta (rented premises) and thus, Parramatta Preaching Point (PPP) was born. Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts. Zechariah 4:6 In the following years, under the shepherding and nurturing of Rev Gloria Ling, Rev Kong Eing Tiong, Rev Kam Lee, Rev Chiu and Rev David Tiong, and the effort of brothers and sisters, the membership and finance of the church gradually improve and stabilise. With the blessing of the Lord, on the 8th of Jan 2017 Bishop Dr Rev James Kwang inaugurated PPP as Redeemer Methodist Church (RMC) as a testament to the grace and faithfully of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Under the Lord’s providence and care, RMC continues to grow, but more space is need for future development of the Church. The Centenary Uniting Church (our landlord) is unable to provide the extra time slot needed for us to grow and we are unable to find a more suitable location to rent in the nearby area. Under such circumstances, on 29th June 2017 the LCEC agreed to establish the church building committee to kick start our church building project to better serve the needs of our ministry. After years of prayer and fundraising, and with the generosity, dedication and support of our brothers and sisters, RMC raised nearly $600,000 church building fund by the end of 2020. So, the Church building committee began looking for a suitable site for our church building aggressively. Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labour in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. Psalms 127:1 Entering the 2021 Lunar New Year, on 16/2 evening at an auction, we secured the property at 3 Hartley Road, Seven Hills, NSW (on the fringe of the City of Parramatta, part of Western Sydney) for $626,000 (plus stamp duty and handling fees ~ $650,000) for our church building project. Once again, we witness the goodness and faithfulness of God. We also need $200,000 for renovations, equipment and furniture, a total of $850,000. We pray and hope that as our brothers and sisters in Christ, for the love of God and his people, you will graciously contribute toward the fund we needed to complete our vision of building a church, a spiritual lighthouse for the greater western Sydney and expand the Kingdom of God. May all glory be to God. RMC Minister-in-charge, Church Building Committee Chair, ________________________ ________________________ Rev David Tiong Brother Kai King Ling 11