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CHAIRMAN: CECIL MAR
SPEAKER: PASTOR IAIN DAVIS
SCRIPTURES: ROMANS 12:9-21

Sermon outline:

• Genuine Christian Love is sincere
• Do not let evil triumph in your life, overcome it by pursuing the good!

News & Events:

• 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.
• The Appreciation Lunch hosted by English Caring Team for helpers serving in 2024 in music, AV, chair and scripture reading, as well as their families, will be held 12:30—14:30 at Cafetorium. Helpers who have already signed up please be reminded to stay behind and join together.
• Lunar New Year is just round the corner. PGC is pleased to receive some “Fai Chun”
  (揮春) from SOBEM.  Please feel free to pick up from Reception Table while stock lasts for your own use or to give out to bless others.   May brothers and sisters have a blessed Lunar New Year overflowing with God’s grace and mercies.
• PGC 2025 Calendar is now available. Please feel free to scan the QR code, or obtain a hard copy from Reception Desk for review.
• Thanks God for increasing attendance in different congregations of our PGC Sunday Service, and parking spaces in PCA has been reaching its capacity. “With permission from the Management Office of 180 Renfrew Drive, we can now park in their carpark even on regular Sunday.  We encourage young brothers and sisters to consider parking over there, or along Renfrew Drive, so that parking spaces in PCA could better serve families with children and the elderly.  We appreciate your attention and cooperation.
• 2025 Summer Camp registration and youth team recruitment will open online on Jan/29 coming Wednesday 10am. We urge our church to pray together for God's leading, providence and blessing for this vision of reaching children, building youth with lasting godly friendships.  Please pray for a confirmation of
  a rental venue and youth team recruitment.  May we all see God's glory and power in next generations together. https://peoplesgospelchurch.org/summercamp/
• PGC needs faithful response from brothers and sisters to God by making
  offerings to provide for PGC’s financial needs. Please choose any one below that suits you best:

  PAD Automatic Deposit	email completed form to offering@peoplesgospelchurch.org
  PGC Online Offering	https://pushpay.com/g/peoplesgospelchurch
  Cash/Cheque Offering	physical drop-off in donation box (at PCA Big Gym)
  For details: PGCmarkham.org/offering-en/

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 wildfire at Los Angeles. May God stop it from further spread and lead all rescue works.  Pray for those who lost their lives, families and properties.  May God grant comfort to the lost souls, and help the suffering ones who need daily and financial supports.
• Pray for the world in 2025 to have peace and God will end the ongoing armed conflicts with granting of peace and hope.
• 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 PGC’s direction and ministry plans for 2025. Pray that God will lead us to carry out all ministries with a united heart and achieve a healthy development of our church with God’s presence.
• 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.