Lord’s Day, Vol. 3 No. 52
(1) Recounting with Thanksgiving
As the year 2015 draws to a close, we recount with thanksgiving God’s good hand in guiding His people at Blessed Hope Bible-Presbyterian Church (BHBPC).
(a) 3 January 2015
Thank God for the first Youth Fellowship meeting on Saturday 3 January 2015.
(b) 10 January 2015
Thank God for gathering a team to begin church visitation on every 2nd Saturday of the month.
(c) 11 January 2015
We commemorated BHBPC’s First Anniversary. Rev. Dr. Tow Siang Hwa, our pastoral advisor, conducted the Lord’s Supper. The anniversary message was “The Old Hundredth”.
(d) 12 March 2015
38,000 gospel tracts and invitation cards were distributed over a year and an additional 54,000 gospel tracts and invitation cards were printed for distribution.
(d) 25 March 2015
BHBPC mobile app goes ‘live’ in iTunes and in the Android store where members and friends can download the app for free. Information accessible in the app includes the weekly newsletter, BHBPC website, daily devotion and sermon podcast.
(e) 29 March 2015
First Annual Congregational Meeting was held after the worship service.
(f) 5 April 2015
BHBPC’s first Sunrise Service held at Gardens by the Bay on Easter Sunday with about 46 in attendance.
(g) 17-20 June 2015
Praise the Lord for BHBPC’s 2nd Family Camp with 46 campers at Hotel Jen, Puteri Harbour, JB. The camp theme was “Looking for that Blessed Hope” (Titus 2:13).
(h) 14 June and 19 July 2015
Thank God for the transfer of membership for Koh Seow Ngoh on 14 June and baptism of Francis Chee, Lillian Wong and Lee Wen Xuan, Janeen on 19 July.
(i) 30 August 2015
Thank God for BHBPC’s first gospel rally. The message was “If a man die, shall he live again?” (Job 14:14). There were 8 new visitors with one receiving the Lord as his personal Saviour.
(j) 20 September 2015
The completion of the devotional study on the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John written by JC Ryle and the beginning of a new devotional series on the Book of Romans made available both in the church website and mobile app.
(k) 25 October 2015
Thank God for a blessed ordination service for Rev Lek on Reformation Sunday with well over 200 in attendance to witness the special occasion. Rev Dr Jeffrey Khoo chaired the ordination service whilst Rev Dr Prabhudas Koshy gave the message entitled “The Power and Prospect of the Ministry” taken from 2 Timothy 1:6-18.
(l) 8 November 2015
The launch of the ‘Weekly Mission for Every Worshipper’ in which every worshipper is encouraged to give a gospel tract or an invitation card to a friend, a loved one or even a stranger and to invite him to church.
(m) 27-28 November 2015
48 members and friends attended BHBPC’s first family retreat at the Carlton Hotel Singapore. The theme for the retreat was ‘Rejoice in the Lord’.
(n) 13 and 27 December 2015
Transfer of membership of 5 candidates – James Lim Kheng Leong, Chong Wing Keong, Cheong Lian Neo, Chua Siew Eng, Megan Yap Kim Lan.
(2) Launch of 365-Day Devotional Bible Reading Program
We shall begin the ‘Reading the Bible through in one-year’ programme on 1 January 2016. Members and friends are encouraged to use the Andrew Murray 365-Day Devotional Bible for daily reading and to commit in this spiritual endeavour to complete reading the Bible through in the year. The daily reading consists of 2 chapters of the Old Testament, 1 chapter of the New Testament and a portion from the Psalms or Proverbs and a short devotion from Andrew Murray’s writing.
A 53-minute documentary on the Life of Andrew Murray (1828-1917) entitled “Africa for Christ” would be shown at the Praise Chapel after the worship service today.
Andrew Murray was a South African minister, writer and revivalist. For more than six decades he served with the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, preaching, teaching, and writing more than 200 books and pamphlets in which many of his works are considered as devotional classics.
Andrew Murray believed in the necessity of total surrender to God and in the importance of a deep and personal devotional life. May his life inspire God’s people to a deeper devotion and service for Christ! Amen.
Wishing all readers a blessed 2016.
Yours lovingly,
Pastor Lek Aik Wee