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CHAIRMAN: ALEC CHENG
SPEAKER: Pastor ANDY tSE
SCRIPTURES: Joshua 24:14–15

Sermon Notes:

• The Call to Worship

   

• The Blessing of Children

   

• The Mandate to Instruct

   

News & Events:

October is Appreciation Month for pastoral staff and cell leaders.   Encourage brothers and sisters to recognise and appreciate Pastors, church leaders and cell leaders for their dedication and commitment.

• Due to Daylight Savings Time ending on 11/2 (Sat) night, please turn the clock 1 hour backward before going to bed on Saturday.
• Pastor Iain preached at LOGOS Mississauga this morning. Please pray that his sermon message will encourage and bless the congregation there.
• 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.
• PGC Child Dedication Service will take place on 11/30, 11:15-12:30 at PCA Big Gym. We’re excited to invite families to participate in our upcoming church-wide Child Dedication Service.  This special time allows parents to express gratitude to God and commit to raising their children in His ways. As a spiritual family in Christ, our whole church will join in offering support, prayer, and blessings to these families.  If you have children (up to 12 yrs old) and feel led to dedicate them this year, we encourage you to prayerfully consider this meaningful step.  Please reach out to Pastor Connie or Lucia as soon as possible to express your interest.  To ensure smooth planning, all required materials must be submitted by Nov/2.
• As one of the celebrative events for PGC 20^th Anniversary, a church-wide retreat will be organized during the Victoria Day long weekend on May 16-18, 2026 (Sat-Mon) at Trent University (Peterborough). Rev Peter Au (區應毓牧師/博士)  will be one of the guest speakers sharing at the Retreat.  Please reserve your dates to join this meaningful retreat and sincerely invite you to take part in the Retreat Committee and various working groups to be formed soon for organizing the event.  Stay tuned on any updates to be announced in due course.
• To encourage intergenerational worship, children and English committees have a soft launch since Oct/12 to welcome all children to join English worship singing time together from 9:30-9:50 AM. The launch will be extended to the month of November.  We strongly encourage all parents to sign in children at PGCKIDS table starting from 9:15am, and then accompany your children to proceed into the NEST and worship together.  Children staff will be present to sit with children whose parents may not be able to join English worship.  For details please contact Lucia and Pastor Connie.
• As Halloween is coming, we want to encourage families to understand how we can love our neighbours on that day. Please check out PGC Facebook post and link. You can also take some tracts and craft printouts for distributing lollypops on that night to share the gospel to children who come to your door.  Please also pray for Parents Fellowship that happens at MGC that evening.
• Parents Fellowship is coming again on 10/31 (Fri) night 7:15-9:30 PM at MGC. We welcome all parents to come join us for a fellowship with small group support and prayers.   Thankful to have Annie CMO to share with us “What to look forward as our children grow in different stages.”  There will be children and youth programs from 2 1/2 years old to Gr 12. Registration has started now.
• As of August 2025, PGC has a deficit of approximately $156,000. PGC needs sufficient operating funds every year to support development of various ministries.  Let’s keep the church’s needs in prayers, and respond to God’s love with generous and faithful offering: 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 sustaining political, social and religious unrests. Pray for all these spiritual warfare esp. when Halloween is approaching. Take the opportunity to spread the gospel with God’s love and bring hope to your friends and neighbors.
• Pray for Rev. Jim’s voluntary ministry during his Sabbatical leave these 2 months in Oct & Nov.
• Pray for Vika’s grandma who has been under treatment for her stage 3 skin cancer. May God heal her & continue to provide for her treatment.
• Pray for PGC pastors, deacons, cell group leaders, Sunday school teachers and leaders of various ministries. Thankful for their hard works and faithful serving.  May God continue to bless and protect them, and lead PGC to continue grow healthily.
• Pray for missionaries supported by PGC, as well as other mission fields in various places.

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.

PGC welcomes 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.