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“The Merciful Might of God”

CHAIRMAN: TIFFANY CHAN
SPEAKER: PASTOR ANDY TSE
SCRIPTURES: Luke 1:46-55

Sermon outline:

- To His Servant, Mary

- To His Servant, Israel

- In His Servant, Jesus

News & Events:

• “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us”

We joyously invite the whole church to come together this Wednesday on 12/25 for PGC Christmas Day Joint Worship taking place 10:30-12:30 at PCA Big Gym.  A new program where intergenerational singing, drama, guided prayers, dance and sermon will walk us through the journey where Jesus was born, concluded by preschoolers’ singing.

• • Please pray for all preparations and invite family and friends to come
  • Due to limited parking space at PCA, encourage parking at 180 Renfrew Dr (opposite to PCA) first to reserve PCA space to families with kids and seniors.
• 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.
• All HS girls are welcome to join their Christmas Potluck to be held on 12/22 (today) 5:30-9pm at Wendy’s place. Please contact Mina/Wendy for enquiry.
• Please note that there will be NO Sports Night on 12/25 and 1/1 due to Christmas and New Year Holidays respectively. Sports Night will resume on 1/8.
• There will be NO CrossRoads gathering on coming 2 Fridays due to Christmas & New Year Holidays. Gathering will resume on 1/10.
• English Caring Team would like to cordially invite helpers serving in 2024 in music, AV, chair and scripture reading, together with their families, for a lunch as a token of appreciation to their dedication and hard work. The lunch will take place 12:30-14:30 on 1/26 at PCA Cafetorium.  Please reply by 1/16 for preparation: https://forms.gle/yL17Y6NevwCNLMBs8, and contact Sabrena for enquiries.
• PGC English would like to invite your support in the following 2 areas. You do not need to be an expert to be able to help, just have a heart willing to serve:
  

  Serving Area	Target	Contact
  AV Team	Adult helpers	Joanne
  Welcome/Usher Team	Individuals or Family (born-again Christian, attending PGC for at least 1yr)	Annie Cmo/Sabrena

• English is launching a biblical foundations course in 2025. It contains 12 classes to be delivered in 2 parts. Part 1 will commence on 1/5 for around 3 months, taking place 11:15-12:30 on every 1st & 3rd Sunday.    Mandatory for those serving in English (Chair, AV, worship, etc.) but it also opens for everyone interested (G6 to adults).   Over 60 sign-ups has been received, and registration is extended with details available from the following link:  https://forms.gle/T3nHdYPKuukAL8MM8
• Youth Retreat will take place on 2/14-16, 2025 at Camp Shalom (1985 Beke Rd, Cambridge). All youths (G6-12)  are welcome to join either 2-night stay or a day visit on 2/15.  Earlybird registration with cheque payment should be made by 12/29.  For details & registration: https://forms.gle/XaKvWUW1smxYUWVz5.  We need more adult helpers to help in the retreat.  Please contact Pastor Iain / Pastor Andy if interested.
• Christmas is coming, Let’s remember our missionaries serving faithfully overseas for God, and consider preparing them cards or gifts to share our care and support.
• PGC needs faithful response from brothers and sisters to God by making offerings to provide for PGC’s financial needs. To achieve a better balanced budget for this financial year of 2024, please choose any one below that suits you best: (a) PAD Automatic Deposit (b) Online Offering (c) Cash/Cheque Offering.  More details about making offerings available on top of Offering Box.  Cut-off dates for 2024 tax receipt are 12/29 (by cash/cheque) and 12/31 (for credit) respectively.

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.
• Praise and count God’s blessings and continue to pray for God’s guidance to PGC at this year end of 2024:
  • Building of youths’ spiritual lives through summer camp
  • 16 brothers and sisters got baptized
  • Pray for God’s leading to have healthy development and spiritual growth at PGC with promotion of parents fellowship, as well as men and women’s ministries, to strengthen bonding and connection among congregants in Christ
  • Pray for individual PGC’s missionaries that God will keep each of them in peace and good health to continue expanding God’s kingdom

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.