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CHAIRMAN: ALEC CHENG
SPEAKER: PASTOR IAIN DAVIS
SCRIPTURES: Exodus 5:1-6:12

Sermon Notes:

• The Israelites doubt God’s plan
• God’s plan is trustworthy and good
• Are you trusting God’s plan?

News & Events:

• Both PGC Membership Meeting and 2025 Joint Child Dedication Service will take place on 11/30.  Cantonese Sunday School, English Post-service Program, Nursery & PGCKIDS Ministries will be suspended for a week.  Please see details below:

(a) PGC Membership Meeting (09:30-10:45) @PCA Small Gym

All PGC members are requested to join our membership meeting, non-members are also welcome to join to know more about various ministries’ development and serving opportunities.  Meeting agenda will be emailed to PGC members.  Please reserve the date to join the meeting.

(b) PGC Joint Child Dedication Service (11:15-12:30) @ PCA Big Gym    

We’re excited to invite families to participate in this 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 11/2 (today).

• We are very grateful for the following 8 children from 5 families that will be dedicated by their parents on 11/30. Let their cell groups together with us all come together to worship and support their families as body of Christ together!

* Zoe Tse (Jenny and Pastor Andy)
* Gavin and Emma Tam (Flora and Ivan Tam)
* Edwin Ng (Emily and Ka Ho Ng)
* Akeilah and Akasha (Keith Fong)
* Taylen and Evan Wang (Leakey Zhao)

• 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.
• Executive Board has approved the following applicants to become PGC Members. If any PGC Member disagrees, please submit written reason to Deacon Cecil Mar of Membership Committee by 11/23.  They are: English (4) — Edison Lim, Ehvena Lam, Jonathan Kit Wei Lee, Tiffany Chan; HS (3) — Ronald Wei-Hon Lam, Nichole Xiao Hui Wang, Lawrence Shing Fan Leung; IGC (4) — Andbuty Choy, Kelvin Hung Kit Lam, Peggy Bik Kie Fong, Daniel Yan Che Chan.  Executive Board has also approved the application of Bertha Lam (Bethel) to become a PGC Member .  If any PGC Member disagrees, please submit written reason to Deacon Cecil Mar by 11/30.
• We encourage brothers and sisters who are PGC members to take part in appropriate ministry roles in our spiritual home serving one another. Many ministries require manpower support to allow better operation and healthier development with growth, namely AV, Welcome Team, Post-service programs, Youth Ministry and more.  We sincerely invite you to join serving in this spiritual home together.  Please contact Pastor Iain, Pastor Andy or Lucia if interested.
• English encourages cell groups to participate in the Gibson Centre Christmas Hamper Program this year by either giving financially for their purchase of hampers, or putting one together as a cell group. Financial commitments to sponsor a family would be approx. $180-$210 for a family of 4, and $270-$300 for a family of 6.   If you or your cell group is interested to participate, please let Pastor Iain know asap for sharing more details and notifying Gibson.  Hampers are due by 12/6 (Sat).
• 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. May God grant mercy and peace to those in suffer.
• 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’s needs of spaces and church building ministry, that God will lead us walk in His way and according to His will.
• Pray for PGC supported missionaries and other mission fields worldwide.

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.