Hope of Jubilee - 40-Day Fast and Pray

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Today 7th Aug 2012 is the start of National Evangelical Christian Fellowship (NECF) 40-Day fast and pray initiative.  It is God's timing that as we start this fast and pray, it is also the 50th year of the formation of Malaysia as an independent nation.  This nation came into being from the joining together of Sarawak, Sabah and Peninsula Malaysia 50 years ago.  Since, the formation of Malaysia tremendous changes have happened, some good some not good.  In the area of freedom of worship and equality in many spears of life have not been as what the minorities wanted.  Foremost, for Christians is the total freedom to worship in the manners prescribed by our faith.  Christianity is teaching us love and this love have been demonstrated in the many charitable works done by Christians before the creation of our nation.  Like the Christians who came from Europe to set up schools, and hospitals to help the locals.  Some missionaries traveled deep into the jungle to serve the natives there.  They demonstrated their Christ-likeness in their sacrifice for the native people.  Yet today, how many of us even know who these missionaries were?  Never mind about this, the point is Christians served and are serving the people.

The 40-Day Fast and Pray is for this nation which we call home.  Even though many are not native here, but we are born here and call this country our home.  We fast and pray for God's intervention to put in a righteous government that works for the people.

For the past few years it has been observed that more Christians are aware of the need to pray for our nation as many Christians are turning up in prayer meetings organized nation wide.  The turn out in many of these meetings were phenomenal. Rightfully so as we need to stand and pray as One Body of Christ.

Praise and thank God for this nation with abundance that need to be utilized wisely.  Let us be discerning and wise in our decisions for this nation.

Medical Mission

On 29th July 2012 our Church sent a medical mission to the long houses in the vicinity of Sebuyau.  Two Life Groups ( Cells ) participated in this mission.  There were 5 doctors from our Church, Dr.Tiong. Dr.P.T Tan, Dr.Chen, Dr Wong, and Dr.Lee.  This mission was also a combined efforts of the Iban congregation together with the Emglish congregation.  Prior to this mission, the Iban congregation have been visiting long houses in Sebuyau on a monthly basis.  Before 29th July 2012 the Iban members were there one night earlier to prepare the arrival of the other members from our Church.  Praise God that it was a very successful mission because as many as 200 people in the long houses had their medical checks and in this process two patients were identified that they need to be admitted to the General Hospital for further treatment.  From the point view of our Church we were just doing a little to help these needy folks in the long houses.

Beside medical help our members also prayed for the people there.

This was the first medical mission and there will be more coming.

Thank God that we can do a little to help others who are in need.

Thanks to Bro.Tiong for uploading this video on to You tube so that others can also watch it.

Peter Truong Healing Service

Pastor Peter Truong is from Hope Church, Brisbane, Australia.  He has been in Kuching for the past two weeks to conduct several healing services for a number of churches.  He was preaching and teaching at our church last Sunday, and on Monday evening he conducted another Spirit filled healing service at our church.

In this service our church invited churches from Kuching to join.  Christians came from Good News Fellowship, Emmanuel Baptist church, Calvary Family church, St.Faith Anglican, Trinity Methodist church and of course not forgetting members from Hope church, Kuching.  Their pastor Dennis Lu also attended this service.

Probably about 200 hundred Christians were in the service, and there were a few non Christians invited by our members.  It was a Spirit filled healing service as many were expecting the move of the Holy Spirit in healing emotional, spiritual, and physical ailments.  Before the healing service started, Bro.Austin of St.Faith Anglican shared how he was prayed by Pastor Peter two years ago when he was having throat cancer then.  Doctors at the General Hospital here instructed him to go to Kuala Lumpur to seek treatment, but he did not go as he trust the Lord to heal him.  He went through the normal chemo and radiation, and praise the Lord that he did not drop any hair like the other patients.  That alone was a testimony to the others.  Later he was prayed by Pastor Peter and following that he was healed of his cancer.  Praise the Lord! 

The Spirit filled worship continued as the healing service was conducted.  That was the first time, I ever witnessed about 50 brothers and sisters were slain in one session after Pastor Peter prayed for them!  Glory to God!  Many were healed of their ailments, and some gave their testimonies later in the service.

When Pastor Peter conducted an altar call and four non believers came forward and accepted Jesus as their personal Savior!  Hallelujah! 

The service started at 7.30 pm and only finished at 12 midnight.

Thank God for sending Pastor Peter Truong to our church!

 

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Books On Wheels

http://thestar.com.my/education/story.asp?file=/2012/7/29/education/11647403&sec=education

This is an unique effort by Pastor Cheli Tamilselvan and his wife Kong Lai Meng.  They were teaching in Kuching when they started this service to help the rural children to read.  They had a burden for the rural folks who were marginalized and many of their young did not go to school.  The read buses are 4 wheels drive packed with books and they were driven to rural communities.  The first outing was to outskirt of Kuching.

Since Pastor Cheli's and his wife transfers to Peninsular they have been reaching the communities there.




It is indeed commendable that Pastor Cheli has expanded this read bus service to Cambodia.  In Cambodia the bus is actually a tuk-tuk.
                                                                

I was talking to Pastor Fong who has taken over the job from Pastor Cheli in Kuching and I was told that due to lack of man power, the reading bus here had been reduced from 4 to 1.  However, whoever wants to reach the rural young readers can obtain the books from Pastor Fong.

Kong Hee Confident He Will Be Vindicated

 http://sg.news.yahoo.com/sixth-person-charged-in-city-harvest-case.html

As the court case of misappropriating of funds is going on now, Pastor Kong Hee said he is confident that he will be vindicated of any wrong doing.  The court will certainly be deciding soon whether he is innocent or guilty.  Even if he is found guilty, the process of the law will also allows him to appeal.  Meanwhile, a sixth person is charged for this case.  Ms Sherina Wee a former Chief financial director of the Church.

To read more clink on the link.

Pastor Peter Truong Healing Service

http://www.petertruong.org/

Pastor Peter Truong is from Hope Church, Brisbane.  He has been here to Kuching to minister to several churches in the past years.  His specialty is in the healing ministry but as he discerned the Spirit he will also prophesy.  On Sunday was his first visit to our church.  Prior to this he has already known a brother who has lent his private resort in Lundu for his ministry here.

Pastor Peter is a Vietnamese of Chinese descent and he is Teochew.

His message on Sunday was short as he wanted to spend more time ministering to our congregation.  His sharing entitled : Faith For Miracles.  There were three main points, a) Faith starts with believing in God's Words and promises, b) Faith requires actions c) Faith brings blessings and rewards.

After his sharing, all our members gathered at the front of the church to be ministered by him and our elders.  The Holy Spirit moved amongst us and many of us were healed of our ailments. Some were slain by the Holy Spirit.

In the afternoon Pastor Peter gave our church a training session cum practical on the healing ministry.  Before the practical he shared with us the main points of God's healing.  he said there are three kinds of healing a) Spiritual b) emotional and c) physical.  All these three types of healing will come into play as one proceed to heal someone. He also gave practical steps to take before praying for someone to be healed of his/her illness.  The session was well attended by our members and Pastor Peter was pleasantly surprised. 

One important point from his teaching is that any of us can heal through the power of our God.  No one is special.   Each of us have the healing power via the Holy Spirit.

Praise God and Thank Him for sending Pastor Peter to minister to us.

You can read his blog at  http://petruong.blogspot.com/

Ps Peter Truong Healing Ministry - slide show

Putting Sin To Death

http://www.christianpost.com/news/ji-packer-talks-mortification-how-to-put-sin-to-death-78426/

Putting sin to death seem like an impossible task.  But J.I Packer, Theologian said it is possiblw with God's help.  By ourselves we cannot do this. 

He defines sin as "in the sense of ungodly and anti-God inclinations in the heart." So sins are things that are anti-God so this definition covers a wide range of sins.  We need God's help to eradicate sins, he said, "God is great and all powerful and ready to help while "I am weak and in need of His help especially when trying to mortify sin."


J.I Packer also said that getting rid of sin is a process and this need to be done regularly.  Although sin may not be dominant in our lives but they are in our hearts.