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EIGHT MILE PLAINS METHODIST CHURCH
1. Mandarin Evangelistic Film Premiere Screening – “A
Life Conveying a Story of Love”: The event was a joint
effort between Australia East District and Media
Evangelistic Ltd., held at 7:00pm on 12 August at Eight Mile
Plains Church.
2. Methodist Medical & Mission team organised a trip to
PNG from 25 July to 6 August. Our sister Holly Zhou joined
this trip.
3. Rev Peck Kui Kwang visited us on 24 July and shared the
vision of purchasing land and building a church for Faith
Methodist Church.
4. Thanks to Bishop Kwang and Mrs Kwang for their pulpit
ministries on 17 July in the Chinese and English services,
and at Mansfield Preaching Point.
5. Methodist Senior Fellowship General Meeting was held
at 9:30 am on 9 July in church. We thank God that we have
elected the working committee members for a 3-year term.
In a second election among the working committee, the
following members have been elected into the respective
positions:
President: Raina Ling Vice: Mary Pau
Secretary: Ann Lo Vice: Carrie Ting
Treasurer: Tony Go Vice: Peter Chiang
Program/Activity Organiser: Teck Wong
Vice: Uong King Pau
Transport Organiser: Huong Ly
General Affairs Organiser: Leanne Lim Vice: MuoyTe
Nominations: Teck Wong, Uong King Pau, Tony Go
6. Mansfield Preaching Point Building Fund: Thank God for
His grace that there has been prominent growth across all
areas, including the gatherings, participants, the number of
brothers and sisters taking part in serving, and the offering
collections. It is expected that our Preaching Point will be
upgraded to a Local Church in the foreseeable future. In the
last Local Church Executive Committee, it was resolved that
a Building Fund would be set up for our Preaching Point.
7. Youth and Junior Youth Winter Evangelistic Camp was
held at Bornhoffen PCYC from 5 to 8 July. Mrs Kim Kwang
was the camp speaker together with Bishop Kwang as the
special topic speaker and counsellor. We thank them for
their faithful services in Him.
8. Church Mandarin Young Couples Camp – “Good Family
Instituted by God”, and Church Mandarin Youth Camp –
“Family Members vs Lover”, were held from 1 to 3 July in
Bornhoffen PCYC. Sister LC Jong was the speaker.
CARLTON METHODIST CHURCH
1. 7th Anniversary of Parramatta Preaching Point: We celebrated
the 7th anniversary of Parramatta Preaching Point
on 3 July. CMC brothers and sisters, along with the church
choir, joined this celebration of God’s grace.
2. 2nd Couple’s enrichment seminar: There were around 50
participants in the 2nd couple’s enrichment seminar on 9
July. All couples presented the hymn “Love is as strong as
death” during the Sunday service on 17 July.
3. Membership Enrolment: During the Youth Sunday service
on 10 July, six brothers and sisters became CMC members:
Terry Jin, Shanshan Wang, Sandy Deng, Siewkiu Yong,
Hans Huang and Rita Yang.
4. LAMM course in Sydney: Rev Dr Rev Michael Tan taught
the unit Old Testament Survey part 2 from 15 to17 July. All
the participants learnt a lot from him.
5. Bible Quiz was held on 30 July in CMC. PPP also sent a
team to participate. There were six teams, with 120
congregation members in total. We focused on the book of
Daniel this year. Everyone enjoyed this event.
6. Evangelical Sunday: Hong Kong United Methodist
Children’s Choir was at CMC to worship together and
present hymns on 31 July. Rev Ping Kwong Li was our
preacher for the service. All brothers and sisters stood up
after the sermon and responded to the altar call.
7. Faith MC fundraising: Rev Peck Kui Kwang came to CMC
and PPP on 7 August to
help raise funds for Faith
MC. May the Lord bless
his labor for His church.
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