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CHAIRMAN: ALEC CHENG
SPEAKER: PASTOR IAIN DAVIS
SCRIPTURES: ROMANS 13:11-14

Sermon outline:

• Live according to the situation we are in now; Christ is returning soon!
• Our behavior now tells about what we believe about Christ’s return
• Putting on Christ or Putting on the World?

News & Events:

• Thanks God for leading PGC in the past 20 years since our establishment.  To celebrate our 20th Anniversary, PGC has scheduled on Jun 1^st the following 2 programs:
  • Anniversary Sunday Service (10:30 – 12:15) at PCA Nest (Big Gym)
  • Anniversary Luncheon (12:45) at Golden Palace Banquet Hall

Tickets will be sold @$35pp (free for under 10yrs old).  Please reach out to Mrs Connie Sung for details and enquiries, and your cell group leaders for reservation.

Cordially invite you to join us in praising the Lord for His grace and mercies and celebrating together this remarkable milestone of PGC.

• English Prayer Meeting will take place 11:15—12:30 after service today at Cafetorium. Please join and pray together for each other and for our church.
• Lent, beginning from March 5 this year, is a 40-day period of fasting before Easter when we shall prepare ourselves for Easter, to focus our hearts on the suffering of Jesus and be filled with gratitude for His sacrifice. The Pastoral Team recommend congregants to take this Lent period and make some changes in our daily living.  The practice of “fasting” can take forms of giving up certain foods, social media, gaming, movies/tv shows.  Meanwhile, let’s practice fasting for a purpose, namely reading bible, spending time in prayers, listening to sermon, leading your family in Easter devotions, etc.  Let us get ourselves prepared and be full of hope on Easter Day.
• The Children's Ministry Committee will excitingly launch 2025 Family Devotional Campaign for Lent from Mar 5 - Apr 20. There are two sets of materials to bless parents, one for ages 0 - 6 and another for ages 6 - 11.  These materials will empower parents and children for a journey towards Jesus: contemplating His great love through His teaching, suffering and salvation, with reminders and encouragement to love God and show love to our neighbors.  Starting next Sunday each child can collect one devotional bunny “Hope” a progress chart, and devotional materials from the nursery sign in or Sunday school teachers. There will be a pizza party on Apr 27, and those who complete more than 80% of the activities will receive a small gift.
• Please note that PGC will have 2024 donation receipts available for distribution after mid March.
• Praise the Lord for His indescribable gifts for our church’s next generation through summer camp every year in the past! We are grateful that children’s camp registration is already full, and we are excitingly planning and hopeful for a full house for Gr 5-8 fellowship camp where lasting, strong and godly friendships will be made!  Please pray, register and invite friends to taste the goodness of God and develop strong godly friendships.  We also need to pray earnestly for youth team recruitment, and the confirmation of a venue. Let’s continue to pray together.
• Let's respond to God's love through our faithful and generous offering, returning to Him our first fruits, from what He has blessed us with. This is an act of worship! Please choose any from below that fits you best.

Prayer & Praise Items:

** Encourage use of PGC’s Prayer Card and be quiet, humble, turn back, seek and wait for God together (https://peoplesgospelchurch.org/files/2023prayercard.pdf) **

• Pray for the world to have peace and God will end the ongoing armed conflicts with granting of peace and hope. Pray that the political and economic disputes between states will be settled soon.
• Pray for the upcoming Ontario election on Feb/27 and the federal election at the end of the year, that God will lead to the election of the right candidate to serve for the sake of the people.
• Pray for God’s peace and comfort to Daniel’s family as Daniel’s grandmother recently went to be with the Lord.
• Pray for Vika’s grandmother who has been diagnosed with stage 3 skin Cancer. May God heal her, and provide for her treatment.
• Pray for God’s leading of our whole church to carry out all ministries in one united heart and achieve a healthy development of our church with God’s presence. Pray also for the development of PGC’s land in the best time in God’s plan.
• Pray for God’s provision for summer camp 2025: serving youth, camp venue and funding.

Offering:

^“Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.”

- Malachi 3:10 (NIV)

PGC needs sufficient funds to provide for the needs of our different ministries.  Let’s respond to God’s love through our faithful and generous offering: PGCmarkham.org/offering-en/

Welcome your opinions and suggestions that help us improve further on Sunday Service, Sunday School and different ministries.  Drop them into our PGC Drop Box (for Offering & Opinions Collection) at PCA Big Gym.  Our pastoral staff and church leaders will review and follow up where appropriate.  Look forward to hearing from you.