WORSHIP ORDER

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Call to Wor­ship – Joshua Chiang/Alan Ng

(Exo­dus 32, Psalm 106, Philip­pi­ans 4)

Come, let us put God in the cen­ter of our lives!

We rejoice in God’s stead­fast love!

Come, let our gen­tle­ness be a reflec­tion of God’s love.

We give thanks for Christ’s endur­ing grace!

Come, let us lay down our bur­dens and worries.

We offer our needs to God in prayer.

Come, let us focus on what is hon­or­able and true.

With hope, we turn now to God’s guid­ing word.

1^st Scrip­ture Read­ing – Christo­pher

 Psalm 106:1–6, 19–23

Prayer Leader – Edwin

2^nd Scrip­ture Read­ing – Christo­pher

 Exo­dus 32:1–14

Min­istry of the Table – Suen Kwong

(Gib­son   Sung Kok   William)

 Matthew 22:1–14

Min­istry of the Word – Dave

 Philip­pi­ans 4:1–9

Com­mis­sion & Bene­dic­tion – Edwin

Go now, rejoic­ing always in the Lord.
Stand firm in Jesus Christ and be of one mind in him.
Always act with jus­tice;
Let our gen­tle­ness be known to every­one,
and let us yield up our wor­ries on the altar of prayer.
And may God give you peace that passes all under­stand­ing;
May Christ Jesus guard your hearts and minds;
And may the Holy Spirit plant within you
.….…all that is hon­ourable, just and pure.

We go in peace to love and serve the Lord,

In the name of Christ. Amen.

WELCOME

Wel­come to the assem­bly this morn­ing. If this is your first visit, we hope you will find it edifying.

TODAY’S WORSHIP THEME

Chris­tians are called to encour­age and sup­port one another.

PRAYER

Most Holy God,

  we have made gods out of gold and clay;

  we have allowed wor­ries and doubts

  to cloud our vision and faith.

Do not think on these things, gra­cious God.

Find in us all that is hon­or­able and true,

  com­mend­able and excellent.

Shine in our lives,

  that we may reflect the just and right­eous parts

of our­selves.

For­give us when we reflect false gods or sinful 

val­ues.

Guide us back into your holy presence

  and trans­form us with your grace,

  that we may be the gen­tle and just people

  you would have us be and become.  Amen.

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REGISTRATION FOR ANGKOR OF FAITH 6

The sixth amaz­ing Angkor of Faith in Siem Reap will be held from 11 – 16 March 2012. Reg­is­tra­tion is now open.  Please reg­is­ter and book your flight as soon as you have decided to go to avoid disappointment.

The web­site for reg­is­tra­tion is: aof6.co.cc

All par­tic­i­pants are encour­aged to take the Jet­star Asia flight which leaves on 11 March after­noon and returns on 18 March late after­noon.  When you have reg­is­tered and booked your tick­ets, please inform Edwin.

FAMILY MEETING

We will have a fam­ily meet­ing on 30 Octo­ber (Sun­day) to dis­cuss inter­nal finan­cial mat­ters as well as plans for next year.  It is not an EGM but to keep every­one updated on the needs of the family.

CHILDREN’S VBS: PANDAMANIA

Reg­is­tra­tion for Pan­da­ma­nia is now open.  The invi­ta­tion cards are ready.  The Children’s Min­istry is “faith-ing” to have 80 reg­is­tered chil­dren at this amaz­ing camp where “God Is Wild About You” from 4 — 6 Decem­ber.  Let’s help make this a huge suc­cess for the Lord by actively recruit­ing participants.

PLEASE PRAY FOR…

Helpers for Pan­da­ma­nia… if you are inter­ested to help in this year’s Children’s VBS, please approach Jen­nifer Wong.

Another amaz­ing Christ­mas out­reach musi­cal in Decem­ber.  Pray that many vis­i­tors will come and be blessed by the cre­ative per­for­mance on the birth of our Lord.

Those seek­ing med­ical treatment:

 Kim Kai’s father who has an infec­tion after his surgery sev­eral months ago.  He is still in hos­pi­tal nurs­ing the infec­tion and under­go­ing rehab.

Jin Eng’s mother, who has sud­denly become aller­gic to many things, includ­ing her anti-allergy medicine.

Call to Wor­ship – Peter Lee

(Exo­dus 20)

O Lord, you are God.
There is no other God but you.
We renounce all that we have allowed
to come between us.
O Lord, we wor­ship you.
We praise and honor your name.
We wor­ship you on this, your holy day.
For your love, for your word,
for all that you have given:
O Lord, we thank you and praise you.
We love you.

1st Scrip­ture Read­ing – Jordan

Psalm 19

Prayer Leader – Mark

2nd Scrip­ture Read­ing – Jordan

Exo­dus 20:1–4, 7–9, 12–20

Min­istry of the Table – Wee Suan
(Gabriel Mar­cus Vernon)

Matthew 21:33–46

Min­istry of the Word – Edwin

Philip­pi­ans 3:4b-14

Com­mis­sion & Bene­dic­tion – Mark

Go now in the right­eous­ness of faith
and live by God’s just demands.
Let noth­ing claim your devo­tion above the Lord,
and count noth­ing of value above know­ing Christ.
Let us press on towards the ulti­mate prize, of being one with him.
And may God’s per­fect word revive your soul;
May Christ Jesus be your sav­iour and your rock;
And may the Holy Spirit strengthen you to press ever onward.
We go in peace to love and serve the Lord,
.In the name of Christ. Amen.

WELCOME
The church at Moul­mein wel­comes all to the assem­bly this morn­ing. We wor­ship here every Sun­day to praise and thank God who empow­ers us to bless oth­ers just as He has blessed us.

TODAY’S WORSHIP THEME
God’s dis­ci­pline allows us to share in his holiness.

PRAYER
No mat­ter how right­eous
we imag­ine our­selves to be, Lord,
your per­fect word reveals our imper­fec­tions
all too clearly.
No mat­ter how hard we strive
to ful­fill the require­ments of your law,
we always fall short.
We have for­got­ten that right­eous­ness and per­fec­tion
come not from rules and reg­u­la­tions
but from faith.
We have ignored the truth that your right­eous­ness
comes from faith.
Open our eyes to see that all we have accom­plished
is noth­ing com­pared to know­ing Christ
as our Lord.
Let us count every­thing as loss,
that we might gain heaven
and be found blame­less in Christ.
In the name of the Sav­ior we pray. Amen.

GREAT CHILDREN’S DAY
What an amaz­ing Children’s Day cel­e­bra­tion we had last Sun­day! A big thank-you to the organ­is­ers for the laugh­ter, cheer, fun, fel­low­ship and great food which the kids as well as adults enjoyed very much. The ice-cream man and satay lady have become a won­der­ful “fix­ture” in our Children’s Day celebration.

REGISTRATION FOR ANGKOR OF FAITH 6
The sixth amaz­ing Angkor of Faith in Siem Reap will be held from 11 – 16 March 2012. Reg­is­tra­tion is now open. Please reg­is­ter and book your flight as soon as you have decided to go to avoid dis­ap­point­ment.
The web­site for reg­is­tra­tion is: aof6.co.cc

All par­tic­i­pants are encour­aged to take the Jet­star Asia flight which leaves on 11 March after­noon and returns on 18 March late afternoon.

CHILDREN’S VBS: PANDAMANIA
Reg­is­tra­tion for Pan­da­ma­nia is now open. The invi­ta­tion cards are ready. The Children’s Min­istry is “faith-ing” to have 80 reg­is­tered chil­dren at this amaz­ing camp where “God Is Wild About You” from 4 — 6 Decem­ber. Let’s help make this a huge suc­cess for the Lord by actively recruit­ing participants.

PLEASE PRAY FOR…

Helpers for Pan­da­ma­nia… if you are inter­ested to help in this year’s Children’s VBS, please approach Jen­nifer Wong.

Another amaz­ing Christ­mas out­reach musi­cal in Decem­ber. Pray that many vis­i­tors will come and be blessed by the cre­ative per­for­mance on the birth of our Lord.

Those seek­ing med­ical treatment:

Con­tin­ued recov­ery for Kwai Yuong who is bat­tling with can­cer. We rejoice with Kwai Yuong over the pos­i­tive devel­op­ment fol­low­ing her chemotherapy.

Jin Eng’s mother, who has sud­denly become aller­gic to many things, includ­ing her anti-allergy medicine.

Stu­dents tak­ing their PSLE or other exams that they may stay focused in their studies.

WORSHIP ORDER

Call to Wor­ship – Peter Lee

(Psalm 72)

Give ear to God’s teach­ing. Lis­ten to God’s words.

We gather to hear sto­ries of old.

Give voice to God’s glory. Sing of God’s deeds.

We gather to sing praises to God.

Pre­pare for God’s work. Answer Christ’s call.

We lis­ten and learn, wor­ship and praise,

in order to serve in God’s world.

1^st Scrip­ture Read­ing – Wyn­nifred

 Psalm 78:1–4, 12–16

Prayer Leader – Edwin

2^nd Scrip­ture Read­ing – Ethan

 Exo­dus 17:1–7

Min­istry of the Table – Tat Chuan

Matthew 21:23–32

Min­istry of the Word – Mark

 Philip­pi­ans 2:1–13

 Com­mis­sion & Bene­dic­tion – Edwin

 Go now to will and to work­for God’s purposes.

Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus.

Let us be filled with the same love 

and look to the inter­ests of others.

With rev­er­ence for God, let us work out our salvation.

And may God quench your thirst with love and consolation;

May Christ Jesus strengthen you and encour­age you;

And may the Holy Spirit lead you on and make your joy complete.

We go in peace to love and serve the Lord,

In the name of Christ. Amen.

WELCOME

Wel­come to the assem­bly this morn­ing. If this is your first visit, we hope you will find it edifying.

TODAY’S WORSHIP THEME

It is not reli­gious activ­ity but faith that leads to new life in God’s king­dom.

PRAYER

God of ages past and days to come,

  when we grum­ble and groan,

  we are like chil­dren of the Exodus;

  when we doubt your authority

  and ques­tion your call,

  we are like priests and elders of old.

For­give us.

Make us new in your grace,

  and clothe us with your compassion.

Open our eyes to your presence

  and our minds to your guidance,

  that we may have the very mind of Christ.

In Christ’s holy name, we pray.

Amen.

HAPPY CHILDREN’S DAY

Join us for a time of games, food and fel­low­ship today!   The Children’s Min­istry has organ­ised this spe­cial occa­sion to cel­e­brate Children’s Day. We wish all our chil­dren a “Happy Children’s Day” and may you be blessed with abun­dant joy on the actual day (7 Oct 2011).

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REGISTRATION FOR ANGKOR OF FAITH 6

The sixth amaz­ing Angkor of Faith in Siem Reap will be held from 11 March – 16 March 2012. Reg­is­tra­tion is now open.  Please
reg­is­ter and book your flight as soon as you have decided to go to avoid dis­ap­point­ment. The web­site for reg­is­tra­tion is: aof6.co.cc

YOGA CLASS

The last intake of the Yoga Class for the year will start on 1 Oct.  The details are as follows:

Venue:     Moul­mein Church of Christ

Fees:        $72 (pro­ceeds will be donated to Friends of the Dis­abled Society)

Dura­tion:  8 weeks

Time:        3–4 pm

Please bring your own mat and hand towel. Those who are inter­ested, please reg­is­ter with Roog­manny or Jastina Chen.

PLEASE PRAY FOR…

The fam­ily of the late Fran­cis Lim who passed on last Sun­day.  Fran­cis led a colour­ful musi­cal career as a respected con­duc­tor of sev­eral pres­ti­gious bands.  He was also a music com­poser and had been awarded a pub­lic ser­vice medal for his achieve­ment. His daugh­ter, Les­ley Lim Wave Houng wor­ships with us at Moulmein.

WORSHIP ORDER

Call to Wor­ship – Alan

(Psalm 105:1–3)

O give thanks to the LORD, call on his name,

make known his deeds among the peoples.

Sing to him, sing praises to him;

tell of all his won­der­ful works.

Glory in his holy name;

let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

1^st Scrip­ture Read­ing – Ban

Psalm 105:1–6, 37–45

Prayer Leader – Mark

2^nd Scrip­ture Read­ing – Ban

Exo­dus 16:2–15

Min­istry of the Table – Patrick

(Allan   Joel Chi­ang  Sung Kok)

Matthew 20:1–16

Min­istry of the Word – Edwin

Philip­pi­ans 1:21–30

Com­mis­sion & Bene­dic­tion – Mark

Go out in the strength of God’s gra­cious gifts.

Live lives wor­thy of the gospel of Christ.

Let us stand firm in one spirit.

Strive with one mind for the faith of the gospel.

And may the power and the pres­ence of God go with you.

May the Call of Christ lead you into fruit­ful labour.

And may the Holy Spirit fill you with the joy of grace.

We go in peace to love and serve the Lord,

In the name of Christ. Amen.

WELCOME

The church at Moul­mein wel­comes all to the assem­bly this morn­ing. We wor­ship here every Sun­day to praise and thank God who empow­ers us to bless oth­ers just as He has blessed us.

TODAY’S WORSHIP THEME

God can bring bless­ing to us even in the midst of suffering.

PRAYER

God of life and wisdom,

we lay before you the idle grumblings

  that often over­take us.

When daily annoy­ances come,

may we be aware enough of your abundance

  that joy may over­come bitterness.

Where we have realcomplaints,

grant us first the grace of self-examination

  and then the gifts of care­ful, hon­est speech

and lis­ten­ing hearts.

And when the answer is unexpected—

  like manna instead of fleshpots,

or the last paid first—

  help us dis­cern the signs, wonders,

habits, and ways of your com­ing realm.

In Christ’s name we pray.

Amen.

PRAYING FOR OUTREACH EVENTS

We will have monthly prayer ses­sions for all our out­reach events espe­cially VBS and the Christ­mas musi­cal at the end of the year.   The first ses­sion will be held on the com­ing Sat­ur­day (17 Sep) from 7.30 pm to 8.30 pm. This prayer is for any­one who  wish to attend.

NEW VIDEO SERIES ON OUR WEBSITE

For those who missed our church camp this year, Dr Mark Love’s shar­ing on “Liv­ing In God’s Promised Future” has been uploaded on our web­site.  Randy Har­ris’ first series “The Spir­i­tual Life You Most Wanted” has also been uploaded. You can now access these videos from the church web­site at: http://www.moulmeinchurch.com/videos/

NEXT SUNDAY: CHILDREN’S DAY CELEBRATION

The Chil­dren Min­istry is orga­niz­ing a spe­cial cel­e­bra­tion for Children’s Day.  All are invited. Don’t miss this great oppor­tu­nity to bring our friends and fam­i­lies to join us for a time of games, food and fel­low­ship! The details are as follows:

Place: Moul­mein Church Build­ing
Date:  Sun­day, 25 Sep­tem­ber 2011
Time: 11.30am – 2.00pm

PLEASE PRAY FOR…

 Our build­ing sub­mis­sion to URA – that we may get a reply soon.

Children’s Min­istry as they step out in faith to organ­ise VBS for 80 kids when we have only 40 in church.  Let’s pray that this year’s VBS will be filled to capac­ity and that many vol­un­teers will step for­ward to fill the required roles.

Youth/Young Adults Min­istry that their cre­ative ener­gies and hard work will reach out to many at this year-end’s Christ­mas musical.

WORSHIP ORDER

Call to Wor­ship – Orlando

(Exo­dus 15)
O Lord, majes­tic in holi­ness, who is like you?

In the great­ness of your majesty

you over­threw your adversaries.

O Lord, awe­some in splen­dor, who is like you?

Your right hand, O Lord, glo­ri­ous in power,

shat­tered the enemy.

O Lord, worker of won­ders, who is like you?

Sing to the Lord, my strength and my might,

you are my salvation!

1^st Scrip­ture Read­ing – Christo­pher

Exo­dus 14:19–31

Prayer Leader – Dave

2^nd Scrip­ture Read­ing – Christo­pher

Exo­dus 15:1b-11, 20–21

Min­istry of the Table – Wee Suan

(Gib­son   Sek San  William)

Matthew 18:21–35

Min­istry of the Word – Edwin

Romans 14:1–12

Com­mis­sion & Bene­dic­tion – Dave

Go now into the world and live for Christ.

What­ever you do, do it in hon­our of the Lord

giv­ing thanks to God.

Let us show for­give­ness to one another

as in Christ we have received forgiveness.

And may God pro­vide an escape from all that threat­ens you;

May Christ Jesus shower mercy on you and through you;

And may the Holy Spirit uphold you as you stand in Christ.

We go in peace to love and serve the Lord,

.In the name of Christ. Amen.

WELCOME

Wel­come to the assem­bly this morn­ing. If this is your first visit, we hope you will find it edifying.

TODAY’S WORSHIP THEME

We are to for­give oth­ers even as God has for­given us.

PRAYER

Lord,

your grace and mercy are ever-present in our lives,

your for­give­ness is bound­less in mercy

when we fail to live in Christ­like ways.

And yet, we are quick to carry a grudge—

quick to find fault,

quick to assign blame,

quick to harden our hearts toward others.

Set us apart, lov­ing God,

to extend and model the grace you have shown us

by offer­ing grace to others.

We pray in the name of the One who died

so that we might fully live.

Amen.

NEW VIDEO RESOURCE LIBRARY

In the past few years, Tommy Chia has been using his resources to record high qual­ity videos of the spe­cial lec­tures we organ­ised.  Through his faith­ful efforts in the visual min­istry, we now have a great col­lec­tion of at least 30 teach­ing videos by Lan­don Saun­ders, Mike Cope, Randy Har­ris, Mark Love, Doug Fos­ter and Kent Smith, among others.

They will be uploaded to our web-based video resource library when the edit­ing is com­pleted. You can access them at www.vimeo.com under “Moul­mein Visual Ministry”.

A big thank-you to Tommy Chia for his self­less con­tri­bu­tion of time and resources, which has made it pos­si­ble for us to have free access to the teach­ing videos on the Inter­net at no costs.

CHILDREN’S DAY CELEBRATION

The Chil­dren Min­istry is orga­niz­ing a spe­cial cel­e­bra­tion for Children’s Day.  The details are as follows:

Place: Moul­mein Church Build­ing
Date:  Sun­day, 25 Sep­tem­ber 2011
Time: 11.30am – 2.00pm

All are invited. Don’t miss this great oppor­tu­nity to bring our friends and fam­i­lies to join us for a time of games, food and fellowship!

PLEASE PRAY FOR…

Those who are:

• on over­seas work
  train­ing – Valerie Ho in KL for 5 months & Joel Tan in Florida
• study­ing over­seas
  – Yux­i­ang in ACU in the States

Children’s Min­istry as they step out in faith to organ­ise VBS for 80 kids when we have only 40 at church.  Let’s pray that this year’s VBS will be filled to capac­ity and that many vol­un­teers will step for­ward to fill the required roles.

Youth/Young Adults Min­istry that their cre­ative ener­gies and hard work will reach out to many at this year-end’s Christ­mas musical.

 WORSHIP ORDER

Call to Wor­ship – Peter Lee

 (Psalm 149)

Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song.

Let all God’s chil­dren rejoice!

Clap your hands and praise God with dancing.

Shout for joy and praise God with music.

For God brings jus­tice to the peoples.

God brings judg­ment upon the powerful.

Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song.

Let all God’s chil­dren rejoice!

 1^st Scrip­ture Read­ing – Jor­dan

 Psalm 149

Prayer Leader – Edwin

2^nd Scrip­ture Read­ing – Jor­dan

 Exo­dus 12:1–14

Min­istry of the Table – Michael (Bene­dict   David   Keen Hoe)

 Matthew 18:15–20

Min­istry of the Word – Dave

 Romans 13:8–14

Com­mis­sion & Bene­dic­tion – Edwin

 Go out in love, rec­on­ciled to one another in Christ.

Lay aside the works of dark­ness
and put on the armour of light.
Let us live hon­ourably,
ful­fill­ing the law through love for all.
And may God mark you out for sal­va­tion;
May Christ Jesus be present among you always,
And may the Holy Spirit rec­on­cile you to one another
.….…and ful­fil the law of love among you.

We go in peace to love and serve the Lord,
.In the name of Christ. Amen.

WELCOME

The church at Moul­mein wel­comes all to the assem­bly this morn­ing.  We wor­ship here every Sun­day to praise and thank God who empow­ers us to bless oth­ers just as He has blessed us.

TODAY’S WORSHIP THEME

Chris­t­ian dis­ci­ple­ship involves reorder­ing our priorities.

PRAYER

God of love and judgment,

when the Egyp­tians enslaved the Hebrew people,

your love set them free;

when rulers oppress the poor and powerless,

your judg­ment brings peace and justice

back to the land.

Move us, O God,

that we may ful­fill the law of love

and be a peo­ple who radi­ate your light.

Touch our hearts,

that we may come to love our neighbor

as we come to love ourselves.

Amen.

IN HONOR OF OUR TEACHERS

Last week, our chil­dren hon­ored their teach­ers as part of the Teacher’s Day cel­e­bra­tion.  Today, we have tea catered by the Fel­low­ship Com­mit­tee to honor all teach­ers for their love, com­mit­ment and faith­ful­ness in the teach­ing min­istry.  So join us for tea imme­di­ately after wor­ship today. Thank You, Teachers!

NEW BIBLE CLASS SERIES

Last week our new bible class series got off on a good start.  For those who were not here last Sun­day, the classes are:

1. Walk­ing Humbly – Youth classroom
2. Lov­ing Mercy – Auditorium
3. Doing Jus­tice – Fam­ily classroom

 This series will run for 8 weeks till 15 Octo­ber. We hope you will ben­e­fit greatly from this core gospel series.

CHILDREN’S DAY CELEBRATION

 Our children’s min­istry is orga­niz­ing a spe­cial cel­e­bra­tion for Children’s Day.

Place : Moul­mein Church Build­ing
Date  : Sun­day 25 Sep­tem­ber 2011
Time  : 11.30am — 3pm

All are invited. Bring a friend and join us for a time of games, food and fellowship!

 PLEASE PRAY FOR…

 Vic­tor Soh’s fam­ily (Bee Suan & two teenaged chil­dren) as they grieved over the loss of Vic­tor, 50, who passed away sud­denly on Wednes­day after con­tract­ing dengue.   Vic­tor and Bee Suan were con­verted at Moul­mein in the late 70s.

 Children’s Min­istry as they step out in faith to organ­ise a VBS for 80 kids when we have only 40 at church.  Let’s pray that this year’s VBS will be filled to capac­ity and that many vol­un­teers will step for­ward to fill the required roles.

Youth/Young Adults Min­istry that their cre­ative ener­gies and hard work will reach out to many at this year-end’s Christ­mas musical.

 WORSHIP ORDER

Call to Wor­ship – Joshua Chiang

(Psalm 105)

Give thanks for all the won­der­ful works of God.

Praise the Lord!

Sing a new song of praise to the God of all peoples.

Praise the Lord!

Pro­claim God’s name to all the world.

Praise the Lord!

We are God’s cho­sen peo­ple; God is with us always.

Praise the Lord!

Let our hearts rejoice, for the Lord is God.

Praise the Lord!

 1^st Scrip­ture Read­ing – Wee Suan

Psalm 105:1–6, 23–26, 45c

Prayer Leader – Dave

2^nd Scrip­ture Read­ing – Wee Suan

Exo­dus 3:1–15

Min­istry of the Table – Patrick

(Joshua Chia   Kim Fai   William)

 Matthew 16:21–28

Min­istry of the Word – Edwin

 Romans 12:9–21

Com­mis­sion & Bene­dic­tion – Dave

Go now and fol­low Jesus in the way of the cross.

Rejoice in hope,

hold fast to what is good,
per­se­vere in prayer.
Let us not be over­come by evil,
but over­come evil with good.
As far as is pos­si­ble, let us live peace­ably with all.
And may God hear your cries and deliver you;
May Christ Jesus repay you with full­ness of life;
And may the Holy Spirit be with you always
.….…nour­ish­ing you in love and hope.

We go in peace to love and serve the Lord,
.In the name of Christ. Amen.

WELCOME

Wel­come to the assem­bly this morn­ing. If this is your first visit, we hope you will find it edifying.

TODAY’S WORSHIP THEME

God often uses the unex­pected to accom­plish the divine will.

 PRAYER

Sur­pris­ing God,

  you have an uncom­fort­able habit

  of show­ing up where we least expect you:

  in a burn­ing bush,

  in the face of an enemy,

  in a live­stock feed trough,

  on a rough wooden cross.

Turn our lives upside down

with your rad­i­cal love.

Help us fully embrace your surprises,

even as we revel in the joy

  of being fully embraced

  by your all-encompassing grace

  and mercy.

We pray in the name

of your most amaz­ing sur­prise of all:

your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.

INTERNSHIP AT CITIVISION

Mithi­rand Vick­ram (Mit) who has been with us in the past year will be mov­ing to Citivi­sion church for a year as an intern.  We are glad he can be of ser­vice to Citivi­sion and wish him well in his new ministry.

NEW BIBLE CLASS SERIES

Thank you for sign­ing up for the new bible class series after the brief intro­duc­tion last week.

The three classes will meet in the fol­low­ing rooms:

1. Walk­ing Humbly – Youth classroom
2. Lov­ing Mercy – Auditorium
3. Doing Jus­tice – Fam­ily classroom

This series will run for 8 weeks till 15 Octo­ber. We hope you will ben­e­fit greatly from this core gospel series.  We will try to do an audio record­ing and make it available.

 PLEASE PRAY FOR.…

 Five church camp com­mit­tee mem­bers who are in Malaysia check­ing out on a place for our church camp 2012.

 The church as we learn to Walk Humbly, Love Mercy and Do Jus­tice in the next eight weeks.

Children’s Min­istry as they step out in faith to organ­ise a VBS for 80 kids when we have only 40 at church.  Let’s pray that this year’s VBS will be filled to capac­ity and that many vol­un­teers will step for­ward to fill the roles needed.

Youth/Young Adults Min­istry that their cre­ative ener­gies and hard work will reach out to many at this year end’s Christ­mas musical.

WORSHIP ORDER

Call to Wor­ship – Peter Lee

 (Psalm 105:1–4)

O give thanks to the LORD, call on his name,

make known his deeds among the peoples.

Sing to him, sing praises to him;

tell of all his won­der­ful works.

Glory in his holy name;

let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

Seek the LORD and his strength;

seek his pres­ence continually.

 1^st Scrip­ture Read­ing – Christo­pher

Psalm 105:1–11, 45b

Prayer Leader – Edwin

2^nd Scrip­ture Read­ing – Christo­pher

Gen­e­sis 29:15–28

Min­istry of the Table – John

(Gib­son   Kin Fai   Peter Tabalujan)

 Matthew 13:31–33, 44–52

Guest Speaker – Gor­don Hogan

Com­mis­sion & Bene­dic­tion – Edwin

 Go now secure in the love of God

from which noth­ing can sep­a­rate you.
Delight in seek­ing the Lord -
let us look always for the power and the pres­ence of God,
and let love, like yeast in dough, per­me­ate all we do.
And may God work for good in all things for you;
May Christ Jesus con­form you in the image of his love;
And may the Holy Spirit help you in your weak­ness,
inter­ced­ing for you, and in you, accord­ing to the will of God.

We go in peace to love and serve the Lord,
.In the name of Christ. Amen.

WELCOME

Wel­come to the assem­bly this morn­ing. If this is your first visit here, we hope you will find it meaningful.

TODAY’S WORSHIP THEME

Life in God’s king­dom is the great­est trea­sure we can possess.

 PRAYER

God of the ages,

we are wait­ing: wait­ing for grace,

wait­ing for peace, wait­ing for love,

wait­ing for your realm.

Patient and lov­ing God,

strengthen our faith,

that our wait­ing may be transformed

into hope and action.

Help us be peo­ple who know how to wait

  with hope and expectation.

Help us be peo­ple who trust your promise

  and your pur­pose for our lives,

  not only in this time of worship,

  but in the days and weeks and years to come. Amen.

 NEW BIBLE CLASS SERIES SIGN UP

The new bible class series begins on 14 Aug.  You can reg­is­ter for the classes on the notice board from this week.

DO JUSTICE (Mark McCurley) 

Both Old & New Tes­ta­ment make the case that God’s heart for jus­tice on behalf of wid­ows, orphans, immi­grants, and the poor is indis­putable, and that an encounter with grace will inevitably lead to a desire for jus­tice.   Gospel preach­ing that aims only to change hearts while remain­ing obliv­i­ous to unjust social struc­tures will never fully succeed.

LOVE MERCY (Tat Chuan)

Why would some­one risk his safety, destroy his sched­ule, and become dirty and bloody to help a needy per­son of another race and social class? And why would Jesus tell us “Go and do like­wise”? Like the wounded man on the Jeri­cho road, there are needy peo­ple in our path — the widow next door, the fam­ily strapped with med­ical bills, the home­less man out­side our place of worship.

God calls us to be min­is­ters of mercy to peo­ple in need of shel­ter, assis­tance, med­ical care, or just friendship.

 WALK HUMBLY (Dave Hogan)

A bat­tle rages within every one of us every day. It’s the clash between our sense of stub­born self-sufficiency and God’s call to rec­og­nize that we’re really noth­ing with­out Him. It’s pride ver­sus humil­ity. And it’s a fight we can’t win with­out look­ing repeat­edly to Christ and the cross.  This series raises a bat­tle cry to daily, dili­gently, and delib­er­ately weaken our great­est enemy (pride) and cul­ti­vate our great­est friend (humility).

 ON THE MOVE

Our warm wel­come to the Hogans:

    – Dave & Deb­bie who are back from their                    hec­tic home leave

– Gor­dan & Jane who are vis­it­ing us

A group of 12 — Dave, Deb­bie, Gor­don, Jane, Edwin, Tommy, Yuhan, Sue Ann, Mark, Karen, Berke­ley and Paige — will leave for Chi­ang­mai on Fri­day to attend the Asian Mis­sion Forum.  A record 250 par­tic­i­pants have reg­is­tered for the forum.

 LET’S PRAY FOR…

Sis Kwai Yuong as she com­pletes her last ses­sion of chemother­apy this week.  Let’s pray for full heal­ing.  We appre­ci­ate all who have shown love and sup­port dur­ing this dif­fi­cult time.  Also pray for Christo­pher whose mother is under­go­ing surgery for colon can­cer.  It is a very try­ing period for him.  But God’s mercy is everlasting.

Joan Ger­man who under­went hip surgery at TTSH the past week as a result of a fall.  She is from New Zealand and is here for a hol­i­day with her hus­band, Richard.  They will remain here till she is well enough to return home.  They are friends of Gor­don Hogan from the church in Tuaranga.

Yux­i­ang who is on an intern­ship in Turkey for the World Wide Wit­ness pro­gramme organ­ised by ACU.

Yuhan who is in Cam­bo­dia with NUS.

WORSHIP ORDER

Call to Wor­ship – Peter Lee

 (Gen­e­sis 45, Psalm 133, Romans 11, Matthew 15)

When hatred and divi­sion sep­a­rate us, O Lord,

your love binds us together.

When past quar­rels estrange us from one another,

your love binds us together.

When we feel excluded and left out,

your love binds us together.

When we seek to keep your love for ourselves,

your love binds us together.

Bind us together, O Lord.

Bind us together.

 1^st Scrip­ture Read­ing – Christo­pher

Psalm 133

Prayer Leader – Dave

2^nd Scrip­ture Read­ing – Christo­pher

Gen­e­sis 45:1–15

Min­istry of the Table – Wee Suan

(Gib­son   Sek San   Wee Teck)

 Matthew 15: (10–20) 21–28

Min­istry of the Word – Gor­don Hogan

 Pio­neer­ing Sto­ries of Missions

Com­mis­sion & Bene­dic­tion – Dave

 Go now as cre­ators and pre­servers of life,

and live together as one.
Do not fol­low blind guides,
but let us always be pre­pared to hear the Word of God anew,
even chal­leng­ing us from unex­pected sources.
And may God bless you with life for­ever;
May Christ Jesus heal you of all that would harm you;
And may the Holy Spirit cleanse your hearts

of all that would defile you.

We go in peace to love and serve the Lord,
.In the name of Christ. Amen.

WELCOME

The church at Moul­mein wel­comes all to the assem­bly this morn­ing.  We wor­ship here every Sun­day to praise and thank God who empow­ers us to bless oth­ers just as He has blessed us.

TODAY’S WORSHIP THEME

Con­fess­ing Jesus as Lord pro­duces a trans­for­ma­tion in our lives.

 PRAYER

Lov­ing God,

  call us together as your people;

  trans­form us with your love.

Trans­form our hearts,

  that we may love generously.

Trans­form our eyes,

  that we may see your grace.

Trans­form our hands,

  that we may serve others.

Trans­form our spirits,

  that we may be the body of Christ,

  gath­ered to worship

  and sent out to serve. Amen.

WONDERFUL SPIRIT

Last Sun­day we expe­ri­enced a won­der­ful spirit of unity and love in hon­or­ing our pio­neers – Gor­don and Jane Hogan – who has blessed us with their ded­i­ca­tion and ser­vice.  In hon­or­ing our pio­neers, we learnt the impor­tance of respect­ing and appre­ci­at­ing what the pre­vi­ous gen­er­a­tion has done for the king­dom.  We are really blessed by the entire Hogan fam­ily at Moulmein.

There is cer­tainly greater appre­ci­a­tion for the pio­neers among our young now.  God be praised for such won­der­ful spirit in the church.

CHURCH PHOTO

We had fun tak­ing a con­gre­ga­tional photo last Sun­day.  Not only was the turn-out great, it was sig­nif­i­cant to have the photo with Gor­don and Jane Hogan.  This might be their last trip to Sin­ga­pore in view of Jane’s heart con­di­tion.  But she cer­tainly looks great on this trip and is also her usual self — always cheer­ful and spritely.

NEW BIBLE CLASS SERIES

The three new Bible classes – Walk Humbly, Love Mercy and Do Jus­tice – will start offi­cially next Sun­day. We will have brief intro­duc­tion to the three dif­fer­ent classes today so that you can make an informed deci­sion. For even dis­tri­b­u­tion, each class will be lim­ited to 20 peo­ple.  Once the limit is reached, you will have to sign up for the other classes unless they are all filled too.

 CHRISTMAS OUTREACH

The youth and young adults are start­ing their Christ­mas musi­cal rehearsal today.  They would like to recruit a few adults for some roles in the per­for­mance. The com­mit­ment will be around once a month from now until Novem­ber with more fre­quent prac­tices in December.

 The last Easter drama con­veyed the mes­sage of God’s trans­form­ing love very pow­er­fully and we are work­ing together closely for this musi­cal to reach out to more peo­ple this Christmas.

PRAYERS NEEDED FOR.…

 The church as we seek to learn what Walk­ing Humbly, Lov­ing Mercy and Doing Jus­tice means.

 Children’s Min­istry as they step out in faith to organ­ise a VBS for 80 kids when we have only 40 at church.  Let’s pray that this year’s VBS will be filled to capac­ity and that many vol­un­teers will step for­ward to fill the roles needed.

Youth/Young Adults Min­istry that their cre­ative ener­gies and hard work will reach out to many at this year end’s Christ­mas musical.

That the Moul­mein church will seek actively to be good news in our community.

WORSHIP ORDER

Call to Wor­ship – Peter Lee

 (Gen­e­sis 45, Psalm 133, Romans 11, Matthew 15)

When hatred and divi­sion sep­a­rate us, O Lord,

your love binds us together.

When past quar­rels estrange us from one another,

your love binds us together.

When we feel excluded and left out,

your love binds us together.

When we seek to keep your love for ourselves,

your love binds us together.

Bind us together, O Lord.

Bind us together.

 1^st Scrip­ture Read­ing – Christo­pher

Psalm 133

Prayer Leader – Dave

2^nd Scrip­ture Read­ing – Christo­pher

Gen­e­sis 45:1–15

Min­istry of the Table – Wee Suan

(Gib­son   Sek San   Wee Teck)

 Matthew 15: (10–20) 21–28

Min­istry of the Word – Gor­don Hogan

 Pio­neer­ing Sto­ries of Missions

Com­mis­sion & Bene­dic­tion – Dave

 Go now as cre­ators and pre­servers of life,

and live together as one.

Do not fol­low blind guides,
but let us always be pre­pared to hear the Word of God anew,
even chal­leng­ing us from unex­pected sources.
And may God bless you with life for­ever;
May Christ Jesus heal you of all that would harm you;
And may the Holy Spirit cleanse your hearts

of all that would defile you.

We go in peace to love and serve the Lord,
.In the name of Christ. Amen.

WELCOME

Wel­come to the assem­bly this morn­ing.    If this is your first visit here, we hope you will find it meaningful.

TODAY’S WORSHIP THEME

God can turn the dif­fi­cul­ties of our lives into bless­ings.

 PRAYER

When hatred and divi­sion sep­a­rate us, O Lord,

your love binds us together.

When past quar­rels estrange us from one another,

your love binds us together.

When we feel excluded and left out,

your love binds us together.

When we seek to keep your love for ourselves,

your love binds us together.

Bind us together, O Lord.

Bind us together. Amen

HONORING OUR PIONEERS

The church at Moul­mein is deeply grate­ful to Gor­don and Jane Hogan for pio­neer­ing the mis­sion­ary work in Sin­ga­pore.  Bro Hogan has since a young man of 31 years set his heart on mis­sions and ever since then worked res­olutely for the cause of the kingdom.

His mis­sion­ary zeal led him first to Pak­istan in 1960 and then to Sin­ga­pore in1968 at a time when the church was in tur­moil.  From a con­gre­ga­tion of 8 mem­bers includ­ing his fam­ily, the church at Moul­mein grew to be a most mis­sional con­gre­ga­tion – plant­ing churches, pro­vid­ing infra-structure sup­port, equip­ping and pro­vid­ing for full time ministers.

Bro Hogan encour­aged groups of peo­ple from Moul­mein to move out and start new con­gre­ga­tions.  He often urged Moul­mein to give away every­thing she has to sup­port the Lord’s work in the region.  Moul­mein acquired the prop­erty and built the Jurong build­ing (1974).  Moul­mein also led the way in rais­ing two mil­lion dol­lars for the Bedok build­ing project (much of it con­tributed by the con­gre­ga­tion, from 1983 for almost a decade).

Gordon’s tire­less efforts in mis­sions and fund rais­ing had made it pos­si­ble for mem­bers to not only start new churches in Jurong and AMK, but also sup­ported min­is­ters like Fran­cis Pavlas,  Eddie Ee, John Lach­mana, Frank Leong, Richard Loh, Andrew Ng, Chang Chee Wee, Foo Sek San, Eric Tan and Edwin Choy.

His faith and com­mit­ment is inspir­ing and worth emu­lat­ing. Hence, we want to honor Gor­don and Jane for giv­ing the best years of their lives to the kingdom.

 CHURCH PHOTO

We will be tak­ing a group pic­ture as a church today.

 TEA IN HONOUR OF THE HOGANS

As part of our cel­e­bra­tion to honor our pio­neers, Gor­don and Jane, tea will be pro­vided today.

 NEW BIBLE CLASS SERIESThe three new Bible classes – Walk Humbly, Love Mercy and Do Jus­tice – will start next Sun­day.  Today we will have a brief intro­duc­tion to the 3 dif­fer­ent classes to help you make an informed choice of what you want to study.

 LEAVING US

The Hogans (Gor­don & Jane) will be leav­ing Sin­ga­pore early Mon­day morn­ing for the US. We thank them for being with us and will always cher­ish many fond mem­o­ries of them.

 Also return­ing to US is Xiang Xiang who will resume her stud­ies at ACU after spend­ing sum­mer in Turkey on the World Wide Wit­ness programme.

 CHRISTMAS OUTREACH

The youth and young adults will be start­ing their Christ­mas out­reach rehearsal next Sun­day, 21 August. They would like to recruit a few adults for the play. The rehearsals will be held once a month and will be more fre­quent in Decem­ber. If you are inter­ested, please let Sue Ann know by this week as the cast would like to begin rehearsals next week.

 DIRECTORY UPDATE

Please check your per­sonal par­tic­u­lars before the new direc­tory is sent for print­ing.  It is posted on the white board at the back of the audi­to­rium.  Par­ents are also to check their children’s particulars.

If you are not listed in the direc­tory, please fill up your per­sonal details – name, address, home and mobile num­bers, email, dates of birth and bap­tism – on the sheet labelled “New Additions”.