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“Godly Stewardship of the Church”

CHAIRMAN: CECIL MAR
SPEAKER: PASTOR IAIN DAVIS
SCRIPTURES: 1 TIMOTHY 3:1-13

SERMON NOTES:

• What are the qualifications for Elders & Deacons?
  Giftedness + Moral & Spiritual Character

• Organizing ourselves according to God’s word does 2 things:
  1. Empowers the church to serve as God’s witness in the world
  2. Protects the church from destruction.

News & Events:

• All are welcome to join the English Fellowship Lunch with Baby Shower for Pastor Iain & Vika today 11:15-12:30 after service at PCA Cafetorium. Dessert will be arranged.  Feel free to bring your own food and join together.
• 2024 PGC Baptism is scheduled on 8/11 this year. If you have already accepted Jesus Christ as savior, we invite you to apply for baptism. Encourage you to contact your Pastor or Cell leaders for enquiries.  Baptism application forms are available at the Welcome Desk or download from here: https://peoplesgospelchurch.org/baptism/
• Thank you for brothers and sisters from each Zone & Cell involved in taking turns to set up the venue for Worship Service every Sunday. PGC is now recruiting 30 adults from Cantonese and English Ministry to take turns for the venue set up every Sunday. The setup starts at 8:15AM and takes about 30 minutes, with tasks include extending the bleachers, laying plastic carpets, placing curtains and black mats, and adding chairs for joint worship services. The team also needs to collect the curtains, black mats, tables and chairs and all displayed items after the service.Participants will be divided into groups of 4, taking turns approximately every 4 to 6 weeks. Invite you to participate, cooperate, and allow the church brothers and sisters to focus on worshiping God every Sunday.  Please contact Mabel for enquiries, and sign up at Welcome Desk or through this link: : https://forms.gle/hBPeHNwrKNW2qjqp9
• Praise God for His blessings regarding our PGC Summer Camp! All preparations have been intensively underway.  Please continue to pray for God's protection and guidance in youth recruitment and hiring.   Gr 6-8 Sports & Bible camp remains open for registration: https://peoplesgospelchurch.org/summercamp/

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 loss of life and damages in the recent Taiwan earthquakes. May God
  heal the injured, comfort saddened hearts and guide all relief and restoration works.
• Pray for Myanmar now under severe attack from the local military, and their youths now scared and feeling hopeless as they will be drawn into the army starting April.
• Pray for baptism this year that brothers and sisters yet to get baptised will take the chance to witness God’s change of their life and glorify His name.
• Pray for summer camp: government funding, venue rental & youth team recruitment.
• Pray for the soonest and full recovery of Vika’s grandma Olga after the heart surgery.
• Pray for God’s comfort over the family of Tobi, Shanon and Sara for the loss of their grandfather in HK.
• Pray for Ethan already in Ecuador. Pray for God to use him to care for the people there.
• Pray for PGC’s supporting missionaries and their families who are serving faithfully to extend God’s Kingdom in their respective missionary fields under this era of instability.

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 capital every year for development of church ministries. Encourage b/s to make financial offering based on bible's teaching  & God's provision.