Youth Ministry Christmas Event on 24 Dec 2009.

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Worship Session

Children working on assignments

Jabez and Keetana Hard at work

Working hard at their tasks

Children being entertained by the Youth

Worship led by Rebekah and Jia Hui

Catching up with the actions of the praise song

Youth helpers with the children

Got the actions right

Ryan and John in a ball game

Calling ALL young adults from WRPF and their friends!!!
Come for a time of celebration, Christ, carols and communion as we remember the real reason for the season!

Please note that there will be a gift exchange.                                                                        Bring a gift starting with the letter ‘C’. (Be CrEaTiVe within a budget of $10!)

To RSVP or for more information, please send an email to  wrpf.christmas@gmail.com or contact Joanne @9029 0341.

SEE YA THERE!!

Have a blessed time everyone!!                                                    

We will lead new people through a process of five stages: 1) WINNING; 2) ASSIMILATING 3) BUILDING 4) EQUIPPING 5) SENDING. These are the different stages most people will go through in their spiritual growth in the church.

We WIN them by various programs like Alpha course or simply inviting them to church or to cell groups or even by sharing Christ with them in the office or school. Once they are won, ASSIMILATION is the next stage. We help them into baptism and establish them in the faith through follow up and help them to feel at home in the church and cell group as members. The third stage is where they grow in grace and in the knowledge of God through Sunday services, cell participation and Christian courses. this is the BUILDING stage. The fourth stage is that of EQUIPPING them with ministry skills such as evangelism, follow up, how to lead a cell group, how to serve in church, etc. The final stage of SENDING is when he or she who was invited is engaged in inviting others to Christ, in community service, or missions or some other ministry of reaching out to non-believers, thereby completing the cycle.

We also want to identify where people have fallen through the cracks or gaps between the stages and how we can help more people move through all the stages. For example, in 2010 we will be concentrating on following up guests and visitors that are invited to the sunday services. We want to do a thorough follow up of these precious people who have visited us. All this entails a great deal of attention to details, of data collection, and of stamina and motivation. Let us pray the Lord’s grace will see us through the implementation and sustenance of the work.

Kenny Chee

Senior Pastor

THANK GOD…

The prayer for church administrator has been answered and we have found one! Praise the Lord. That the economy in Singapore is mending quickly.

PRAY FOR….

1. HOPE cell outreach/harvest:

a) for loved ones and friends to be positive and responsive during Christmas to attend the cell harvest event and to received Christ as Savior.

b) that the cells will be prepared and in expectancy of faith to see what God will do when they act in faith and obedience to the great commission.

c) that the spiritual forces of evil will cease all operations against the salvation of lost and precious souls and cell cohesion and unity.

2. For the recruitment of Children’s pastor for the Good News Kids. We have tried Malaysian contacts, Singaporean contacts, and not a single application has arrived. Pray the Lord of the harvest will send a labourer to us.

3. For all the pastors and missionaries as they go through changes and transitions in their lives and do the detailed planning resulting from the consultancy and strategic planning retreat at Batam. Pray especially for Pastor Newman and family as they move on into a new chapter in his life, and for Stephen Tay as he process his term in Turkey and seek the Lord about the future.

4. For all the families and folks to be blessed in their “going out and coming in” during the vacation period. That family ties will be strengthened and deepened and tired minds and bodies refreshed.

5. For Simon and Rinda in their retreat ministry in Chiangmai, usually one of their busier periods, that the Lord will meet with many of the retreatants “face to face”.

6. For Judith Chia and the GNK core group, as she takes over the leadership from Salome Wong.

7. For the Board of Elders who have completed half the year of service. Another six months of serving and loving and leading God’s people. Pray especially for the President Alvin Lim.

8. For the Worship Ministry: the musicians, the worship leaders and singers, the AV helpers. That the Lord will refresh the teams and they will serve with faith, skill, zeal and love for the Lord.

9. For the pastors and leaders of ministry as they plan ministry for the year and implement a new budgetting process: zero and narrative budgetting process.

IF YOU HAVE PRAYER REQUESTS TO ADD, CLICK ON THE COMMENT FORM, AND ADD YOUR PRAYER REQUESTS.

Our last report ended with the “work in progress” of house moving, website designing and book editor.  We have moved into a 3 room Ang Mo Kio HDB apartment a month ago, taking our time to savor what the Lord has gift-wrapped to us in this beautiful nest.  The website design has met with some hiccups but God has graciously provided another website designer.  If all goes well, we hope to launch it early 2010.  The search for a book editor continues.

Aug – August started with a mini retreat with a group of 6 bankers as a follow up from a lunch time fellowship meeting.  It was also in this month that we did our first “reel” retreat using movies as retreat materials for personal reflection.  Six participants and two movies – “The Kite Runner” and “Ratatouille” from 7-11 Aug all took place at the Nest.  This was also with days of silence and accompaniment.

Sep – This month saw us going to KL, 18-22 Sep, to be with Spring Rain Revival Church on the invitation of Ps Nellie Chan.  SRRC is a Chinese church that’s been moved into a transitional situation due to change of Senior Pastor of the original church.  The group that stood with Ps Nellie is made up of lay people, keen but weak in the Word and knowledge of God.  We took the Saturday night service followed by a 2-day retreat.  We came home feeling the need for some kind of follow-up work, God willing, in the coming season.

Sep ended with the 2^nd Beginners’ (28-30 Sep) retreat with SJSM at Montfort Centre.  A total of 17 retreatants were at this retreat and as a spin off from this group, we have been invited to give retreat to Victory International Church and a SJSM cell group early 2010.  The dates for another two such retreats with SJSM have been confirmed for 2010.

Oct - Oct was a time for us to “put our own house in order” and the only meeting we took was to preach at City Gate Church, 11 Oct on “Truth Telling”.

Appreciate your ongoing prayers for us and the retreatants throughout this time.  This year we are seeing 5 missionaries and 2 pastors at these retreats besides returnees and a handful of newbies.  For all these we are grateful to God from whom all blessings flow.

Pipeline – To plan for 2010-2011 calendar and theme.  We are hoping to factor in a sabbatical training at St Buenos, God willing, in 2011/12.  This 3-month sabbatical training comprises a 30-day retreat component followed by equipping training for the retreat work.  Covet your prayers.

Simon & Rinda

10 Nov 2009

Our past church budgeting has a few limitations. We use the previous year’s budgeting figures and just increase them. We often do not know how the money spent benefits different purposes of the church.  Though this is a caricature, the need for  a new way of budgetting is called for.

The new budget, of course, hopes to change previous shortcomings. Applying principles from zero-based budgeting where budgeted items will have to be justified by ministries, as well as narrative budgeting to increase financial transparency in the church about how and where people’s monetary gifts are being put to use. The “face-lifted” budget hopes to improve on what the previous budget was not able to achieve.

While we have new requirements for our budgeting process, we also want to empower our ministry leaders to better guide their ministries based on how God leads them. The ministry leaders will then have the flexibility in guiding the finances, especially when each dollar sets out to achieve different aims for God.

Justin Lim gave a briefing to equip all pastors, financial committee members, and ministry heads on the new budgetting process.

While we are hopeful of the fruits of the new process, we also understand that any new project will meet with teething problems and this, at the initial stage, may prove to be challenging. Do pray along with us as we attempt to revamp our church’s budgeting process.  – Justin Lim