Welcome to our Church - Bethesda Frankel Estate Church · 2018. 11. 22. · Dr Andrés Panasiuk 11 Oct Debt & Counsel Dr Andrés Panasiuk 18 Oct Generosity & Honesty Elder Caleb Chua

My Response: Our Response dur ing the ser vice is an act of wor ship. Do wr ite your r eflections on a Response For m and place it in either of the Offer ing bags or in the Black Box at the Hall entrance. Holy Communion: We welcome baptized believers to join in the Lord’s Supper.

Offering: Red Bag - General & Ministry Fund/Blue Bag - Missions Fund. If giving by cheque, you need to address it to: “Bethesda Frankel Estate Church”

4 La Salle Street, Singapore 456930. Tel: 6448 1800 Fax: 6448 0831 Email: [email protected] Website: http://bfec.org.sg Church Office Opening Hours: Mon-Fri: 9am-6pm Sat & Sun: 9am-1pm

Welcome to our Church

For Internal Circulation Only 4 October 2015

Jeremiah 6:16a: This is what the Lord says: “Stand at the cross roads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.”

Rooted in the Living Word Empowered by the Holy Spirit Abiding in Christ only Daring to Hope and to Love Yielding Fruit To God’s Glory

I. THE BEGINNING OF THE PROBLEM The concept of surrendering ourselves completely to God belongs at the heart of the conflict of the ages. Lucifer: (see Isaiah 14:12-15 and also Ezekiel 28:11-19) In the 1950’s: there was a change in how we present the Gospel “Commitment”: ____________________________________________________________________________________________ “Surrender”: _______________________________________________________________________________________________

“Surrender is not the surrender of the external life, but of the will; when that is done, all is done.” “There are very few crises in life; the great crisis is the surrender of the will.” — Oswald Chambers

II. THE MOST IMPORTANT EXAMPLE OF SURRENDER Jesus: (see Philippians 2:5-8) He handed over presence , power , position and prestige .

He gave his life in an act of His own will. "When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit." (John 19:30) What do you need to surrender to God?

See: Philippians 2:9-10 1 Corinthians 15:24, 25, 28 III. A PERSONAL CALL TO SURRENDER Are you willing to be a slave of Jesus Christ and subject all things under His Lordship and authority ... or are you going to continue struggling to fight a lost war? Questions for Discussion: 1. What do you think "surrender" means to each one of us? What is the area of our lives that's harder to surrender to the Lord? 2. Read 2 Chronicles 29:11-12. Can you make a list of the responsibilities that belong to God when we talk about finances and suc-

cess in life? 3. Read Genesis 1:28 and Genesis 2:15. What is the job that God has entrusted to us concerning money an possessions? What does

He expects from us according to 1 Corinthians 4:2?

Topic : "Surrender to His Lordship" Scripture : Mark 8:34, 35

Services : - 8am and 10am services Speaker : - Dr Andrés Panasiuk Latin American Director Compass—Finances God’s Way

Your family? Your dreams? Your business? Your money?

Your loneliness? Your pain? Your sufferings? Your insecurity?

The Compass - Finances God’s Way international team at BFEC last Sat, 26 Sep.

Have A Prayer Request? Write it in the Response For m

so we can alert the F.I.R.E. team to pray with you.

Keep this for your Prayers & Participation

Reminder: Please submit any announcement for consideration in the next bulletin by Tuesday through your Ministry Head

4 October 2015

Frankel Intercessors Ready Everywhere & everytime

51 Cell Groups… meet during the week. Contact Shirley Soo to join

Tel: 62414622 Email: [email protected]

9214 (Seniors): Bible Study Fellowship (Sun 10am @ Class Rm A1); FrankeLights (Bible Study) (Mon 10-11.30am @ Vineyard); Games @ Upper Rm (Tue 6pm, Thu 3pm, Sat 9.30am)

Ladies’ Group: Tue 8pm @ Annexe 29/9: Mrs Rochelle Panasiuk 6/10: Mrs Doreen Seow 13/10: Mrs Peck Suat Mui 20/10: Mrs Priscilla Tay 27/10: Mrs Ang Woon Chuan

Church Prayer Ministry: Fri 8pm @ Chapel 2/10 “Lectio Divina” : Elder Caleb Chua 9/10 A Pattern of Prayer. ACTS : Michael Mak 16/10 Prayer Busters : Letch 23/10 Grow@Noon Ministry : Jason Sin 30/10 Open Ministy : Paul Tan’s group

Peranakan Ministry: 2nd & 4th Sat 4pm @ Chapel 10/10 Di panggil bagi maksudnya : Pastor Eddie Chandran 24/10 Menjawab kepada maksudnya : Pastor Felix Lo

Foreign Indian Workers’ Fellowship: Sat 9pm @ Class Rm A1

International Fellowship (Indonesian & Filipino): Sun 10am -11.40am @ Lvl 3 Excel Room & Class Rm C3

WAG: Sat 31 Oct

Community of Care and Compassion : Mr Lawrence Ko

Venue: Home of Ang Chin Guan and Cynthia,19 Jalan Terang Bulan, Singapore 457296 (Tel: 62418469)

OTHER MEETINGS THIS MONTH

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Stewardship as a Disciple of Christ:

Navigating Your Finances God's Way More often than not, when we think of stewardship, we think of fi-nances, tithes and offerings. But it’s much more than that. Steward-ship is, in fact, our obedient witness to God’s sovereignty. It’s what motivates us as followers of Christ to move into action, doing deeds that manifest our belief in Him. This pulpit and cell group series chal-lenges us to take our journey of discipleship to the next level in all aspects of our lives. Ask your friends to join us.

TODAY Surrender to His Lordship

Dr Andrés Panasiuk

11 Oct Debt & Counsel Dr Andrés Panasiuk

18 Oct Generosity & Honesty Elder Caleb Chua & Michael Mak

25 Oct Saving & Investing Ng Geok Chye & Cheok Cheng Jan

1 Nov Work & Children Elder Roland Tan & James Sim

8 Nov Finishing Well Hoong Ngee Khoon

Sunday Prayer Hour & Shepherds’ Staff TODAY

"Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful." Col 4:2

We urge members & all leaders to stay for an hour to pray at the Chapel from 12.30pm - 1.30pm TODAY.

After that Shepherds’ Staff will continue from 1.30pm to 2.30pm immediately after Sunday Prayer Hour. All cell lead-ers, asst leaders, shepherds, ministry heads & teachers, please gather for Church Direction & Calendar for 2016, & Budget Matters.

Mother’s home cooked Sesame Oil Chicken and fried mixed vegetables served with Sotong fishcake + Ngoh Hiang + fragrant rice, including Ching Tng dessert (back by popular demand) at $6. Lovingly

prepared by the Dorcas Group Team. All proceeds will go to buying of bibles & bible materials for China.

Cafe Leaf

Sign up to join a CG To get the most from this series, do join a small group if you are NOT already in one right now. A chart showing the current small group meeting days, times & locations is available at the Registration Booth outside the Annexe.

Our Congratulations to

Daren Tan & Michelle Kuek on their marriage celebra-tion yesterday, 3 Oct, officiated by Elder Jimmy Tan

11th China Bible Distribution Trip to Shandong & Hebei

28 Frankelites are going on this trip from 24 Oct to 2 Nov, to meet leaders & believers from the Three-Self Patriotic Movement Churches. They will distribute bibles in various churches, and give out bible tools to students at a seminary. They will also visit old folks

nursing centre & intellectually disabled centre.

Your prayer support is appreciated:

That this trip will honour & bring glory to God, and be a blessing to the local Christians

That the Holy Spirit will give each member wisdom & sensitivity, & will be personally blessed & touched by God

For safe journey, good health & team unity

By faith, they are trusting God to provide for 3000 copies of Bibles for the believers, & bible tools for the students in Shandong & Hebei province. If you are led to support financially, please forward your contributions to team leader Ong Teck Chye, 94237818 [email protected] as well as support Café Leaf today.

Learn The Ukulele & Serve in Missions Course starts: 5 Oct (Mon) 3pm - 4pm (Beginners); 4pm - 5pm (Refresher) at the Vineyard, level 2. $30 for beginners (includes tuner & handbook), FOC for past students. Con-tact: Francis: 9691-9178, Edwin: 9004-9132

This Friday (9 Oct) will be Children’s Day.

KSS is celebrating advance Children's Day TODAY at the Upper Room.

They will be teaching the little children how to prepare creative

sandwiches and make them into little “Masterchefs”.

Dental Mission to Ilo Ilo A team led by Elder Alex is in Ilo Ilo, Phil-ippines, from 1 to 5 October for dental mis-sions. The 6 members of the mission team are Elder Alex & Corinne Lo, Joseph &

Tabitha Oh, a colleague of Tabitha, Ms Doris Chua, & Doris' mother, Joanne. Please pray for the Lord to open the hearts of the community and parents as the team will be performing dental screening and education for the students living in squatters. Pray for Elder Alex and brother Joseph Oh as they share the message during the second and third service respectively at Evangel Tabernacle Church in Iloilo City pastored by Rev. Lim Toh Nee & Lily.

A worldwide non-profit interdenominational ministry that teaches people of all ages how to handle money based on the principles of the Bible.

Vision: To see everyone, everywhere faithfully living by God’s financial principles in every area of their lives.

Mission: Equipping people worldwide to faithfully apply God’s financial principles so they may know Christ more intimately, be free to serve Him and help fund the Great Commission.

We thank God for ministries in Singapore, China, Philippines, Korea, Australia, Sri Lanka and opening doors to Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Hong Kong in Asia Pacific.

Pray that we will continue to depend on God and not on ourselves, nor our own knowledge as we share through His Word on how to handle finances God’s way;

Pray for God to develop Compass Singapore through partnership with Bible Society and working with churches to conduct small group Bible studies; and

Pray that BFEC 6-week pulpit and cell group series will see many putting Jesus as Lord first, growing more intimate with Jesus, serving Him now, giving generously as God bless them and live with eternity in perspective.

We also thank God for the Frankelites who volunteer their service to Compass; please cover them in your prayers.

Michael Mak - Executive Director, Singapore Nothing happens by chance and God led me to this ministry in 2014. I was appointed

Compass Singapore Executive Director in Nov 2014. An answer to

my half time prayer as God led me to a ministry that uses my finance background of over 30 years as CFO. However, this is a discipleship program where the focus begins with handling money, God’s way.

Thank God for giving everyone good health and pray that He continues to give us good health

Pray that we continue to abide in Jesus and keep our eyes focused on Jesus

Ng Geok Chye – Certified Trainer Singapore

Praise God for opportunity to be involved as a facilitator in the Compass courses. The testimonies of the participants have been a personal blessing. They shared

how they were challenged to be faithful steward of their time, treasure and talent.

Pray that more Christians in churches, homes and marketplace will avail themselves with the Compass material especially the young people starting their careers and families.

Pray that it will be a tool for evangelism.

Lau Mian Yi - Certified Trainer Singapore

Pray for God’s continued guidance for my role in Compass

Pray for wisdom in how to bring Compass to a wider audience, especially for those in the sub-30 generation.

Pray for my family to be built on financial principles based around Compass’s vision, mission and values

Hoong Ngee Khoon - Executive Director Asia Pacific

Thank God for the opportunity to serve Him and the support of Mei Lin, Benjamin and Benaiah in the disciple-ship and marketplace ministries

Pray that God will continue to use me effectively to

impact lives at home, in Church, at work, in business and for mission and communities locally and overseas.

James Sim - Director Asia Pacific Service Center

Compass Asia Pacific reaches to these countries namely Australia, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia,

Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. My role is to support these countries.

Pray that each country will have a local Executive Director to lead Compass.

Cheok Cheng Jan - Director Asia Pacific Service Center & S’pore

Please pray for me to further develop and grow the ministry from the experience built over the last 26

years in the banking industry.

To fully commit, rely and depend on God for the growth of this Ministry; for the family.

Thanksgiving for God’s protection and provision over the years. Pray that family can serve the church as one family unit.

Pastoral Tip 18 4 Oct 2015

Dear brothers and sisters

Many of us think we don’t need help with our finances. We’re adults, after all, and we can make our own decisions. But the truth is we all need help. God wants you to be financially free. And it is also important to know why you want to become financially free. This may seem like a “no-brainer.” After all, why would you want to be in financial bondage because of debt? Nevertheless, your motivation for becoming debt free is important. Learning and practicing God’s biblical principles of finances to become debt free, actually is a path to know Christ more intimately and be financially free to serve Him.

Transfer ownership to God. Most Christians have been taught to handle 10% of their money God’s way through giving a tithe, but they are clueless with what to do with the other 90%. One powerful principle to remember is that all 100% of it was given to you by God. Recognize that God really owns what you have and that includes your family as well as your time and things. You and I are just merely managers of the wealth God gives us. (Psa. 24:1)

Hold Loosely to Everything In the book of Ecclesiastes, King Solomon mentions several times how stressful life can be for those whose life’s goal is the pursuit of wealth or riches. Is it wrong to have nice things? Certainly not! But those that are consumed with wanting more live a stress-filled life.

Solomon talks about how the poor man has peaceful sleep after spending his day laboring in the field, while the rich man tosses and turns worrying about how to hold onto all his wealth. If you can learn the value of holding loosely to what you have, the pressure will begin to roll off your shoulders. Holding loosely does not mean you live flippantly and do not take careful consideration for what you have. It means that you recognize that it is all God’s to begin with anyway

Be Faithful with What We are Given It is easy to be tempted to live above your means and to be enticed by how the media defines success. Why not instead choose to be different? Decide today that you are going to be more intentional with your money and empower yourself to say no.

Get out of debt. Break the habits that keep you in debt – like spending more than you earn and, borrowing. Save so you don’t have to borrow. (Pro. 15:16)

Refuse the temptation to make hasty financial decisions. Don’t buy into get-rich-quick schemes or be pressured to make quick decisions based on incomplete information. (Pro. 21:5) Seek wise counsel. (Pro. 15:22)

Learn the Value of Contentment Learn to be content with whatever condition you are currently in. A discontented spirit produces greed and covetousness. Contentment results from a proper relationship with God based on accepting the lifestyle that He has made provision for in your life. (Phi. 4:11-12) Your life is as rich as you want to make it. Contentment is a choice.

Accept God’s provision for you. Learn to accept God’s provision for you; accept His provision without resentment. Sometimes He’ll do this through the abundance of others; however, He never promises to provide equally for everyone. (2 Cor. 8:14) God is wiser than you are and He will provide for your needs just as He promised. (Mat. 6:31).

Believe God’s promise that your needs will be met. God’s promise is God’s word of encouragement for us to claim by faith and cling to in difficult times. God’s promise is a declaration of His intention to graciously bestow a gift upon His children. God’s promise usually meets a specific need in your life.

Trust God and be willing to submit to His will and direction. We say we trust God, but there’s a great difference between saying and trusting. Often we trust if it’s convenient or necessary as a last resort. God expects us to trust Him daily, in all things. (Pro. 3:5-6; 19:21)

Our failure to view this present life through the lens of eternity is one of the biggest hindrances to seeing life and finances in their true light. Yet Scripture states that the reality of our eternal future should determine the character of the present life and the use of money and possessions. "For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?” Mar. 8:36.

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