Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey

From UBF.org

Bosphorus University in Istanbul Turkey is the top university in Turkey. It was founded by American missionaries. However, when they left Turkey, they gave it to the government and it became secular. Everything is taught in English and the tuition is very affordable at about $750 a year. The application deadline falls around the second week of July.

Requirements:

• SAT scores: Math + Reading = 1250; Math = 680
• Application form and fee
• Official Transcript from high school
• Passport copy
• Language requirements: (non-applicable to native speakers of English): TOEFL or Bogazici Proficiency Exam or one year of English prepatory classes

For more information, go to http://www.boun.edu.tr/announce/yos_eng.html

Building Bridges with Muslim Neighbors

John Armstrong writes in his blog how to lead Muslim neighbors to Jesus.

I am reminded that a study undertaken by Fuller Theological Seminary revealed that the number one reason Muslims who converted to faith in Christ gave for becoming Christians had to do with the reality of the love they saw in their neighbors who were Christians.


Here is the link to the blog entry.

Dr. Joe Schaefer: A Friend Who Seeks to Model the Ecumenical-Missional Vision

This is from John Armstrong's blog -Acts 3. Joe Schaefer talks about the conference and about how to worship.

Here is the link.

There is part 2. Here is the link.

Further Ecumenical-Missional Insight from My Friend Dr. Joe Schafer

Dec 20th -Christmas Worship at St. Louis

Missionary Paul Choi of St. Louis invited us to the Christmas Worship Service at St. Louis.

Merry Christmas!
The place address is Christ the King's Ryan Center 7316 Balson Ave. University City, MO 63130. It is the Catholic school just next block from the Bible House. It will be no problem to find the place when you come to the Bible House. The service will start 2:30 pm, and after the service we'll have a Christmas dinner at the Bible House.

Please pray for Msn. Sarah Barry's necessary health and Christmas message based on Isaiah 9:6. May God be with you and bless Springfield ministry abundantly.

Idolatry in Scripture vs. Idolatry Today

What is sin in the Bible? What are idols in the Bible?
Idols equal sin?

Tim Keller in effort to reach out to postmodern people in NYC defines sin as:

making good things into ultimate idols

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Tim did a good job of contextualizing the concept and opened many hearts to the gospel.

This is a good beginning point but we need to do Acts 17:11.

Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.

When I say 'do Acts 17:11', we must take Tim's teaching and examine it with the Scriptures and see if his teaching is consistent with the Scriptures.

CARLTON WYNNE says that this is a simplistic view of idols and sin and we need to look into the Bible more deeply. We tend to be pragmatic and do not want to look into the word of God deeply. We have this propensity not to think things deeply and do a fashionable things. Idols are in and sin is out nowadays.

On the one hand we need to contextualize but we need not to be too simplistic. In all this, we need God's help in doing so. Here is Carlton Wynne's article on sin and idols.

Sin is more than idolatry. But bringing out idolatry is a good beginning point for reaching out to young people but this is not an end. This is just beginning.

The gospel declares that we are sinners. Idol worship is one component but it is not all inclusive.

The gospel is a good news because it deals with our sin which are manifested in various ways such as idol worship, greed and lust and so on. How do we get out of our sins? We must come to atoning sacrifice of our LORD Jesus whose blood is for our sins and sins of the world world. (1 John 2:1-2) We are changed by the good news of the gospel, not just identifying idols.

Ezekiel's contribution to mission

Elmer A. Martens wrote a piece on Ezekiel.
His main points are:

1. THE MISSION OBJECTIVE:
UNIVERSAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF GOD

2. ADDRESSING THE CLAIMS OF NONBIBLICAL RELIGIONS: THE INCOMPARABLE GLORY OF GOD

Here is the full article.

Pastor Andrew Vision Martin

Pastor Andrew, an author of two books-

• Crossing the Red Sea: From the Orphanage to a Despaired Teenage Father to a High School Dropout to a Servant of God

• His Vision, His Beauty, His Glory

visited the U of I UBF on Sunday, Nov 29th and shared the message based on Matt 18:2-4.
He talked about how he was changed by the word of God and encouraged us to be changed like little children and enter the kingdom of God.

Below you will find the video of his message and a special song by Grace and Mary Martin.



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Pray for his house church ministry at Northern Kentucky University and NKU UBF Christmas worship on Dec 6th.

3 Ways

Keller Writes in his blog:

There are two very different motivations for adapting and accommodating our message to the sensibilities of a group of people. The first motive is ‘ambition’ — we do it for our sake, for our own glory and approval. The other reason we may accommodate people is for their sake, so that we can gradually win their trust until they become open to the truth they need so much. The first motive will so control us that we will never offend people. The second motive will help us choose our battles and not offend people unnecessarily. Read more on Tim's article here.

This is a good article to read and think things through.

How can we do this? How can say such that there will be healing from God?

I think there are not just two ways but three ways.

1. Emphasize truth only. Be come legalistic and correct. Be self righteous and condemning everyone.

2. Emphasize grace only. Be tolerant and take a mentality of can we get alone. Say nothing to others.

3. The gospel way is to speak the truth in love. Jesus is full of grace and truth. Sometimes it is not what we say but how we say it. When Jesus spoke the truth in love, he was killed. But his death on the cross is our salvation.

Jesus showed us to do things differently and still ask us to follow him. (John 21:23)

Culture and Christ

If you want to make a powerful and lasting impact on the culture, you've got to do more than just consume it, critique it, condemn it, or copy it. The only way to truly change the culture is to create something new for it - something that will inspire people enough to start to reshape their world.

Here's how you can use your creativity to change the culture:

Representing Jesus and His Kingdom 2 Corinthians 5:16-21

Ed Stetzer on mission



Video key points:

1. We Get a New Perspective (16-17)

2. Sent on a Mission of Reconciliation (18-19)

To join in Jesus' reconciliation mission, we need to join Jesus in doing what Jesus came to do:

a. Serve

b. Save

3. Representing Jesus and His Kingdom (20)

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ; certain that God is appealing through us, we plead on Christ's behalf, "Be reconciled to God."

4. Because of the Work of the Cross (21)

Pray for Point

Point asks us to pray

We now want to kindly ask your prayer for our 2010 Xmas B. seminar (Dec.19-20, you can find the program in the attachment). We pray to invite 15 people. We are also inviting any coworker from any country who would like to join us and celebrate J.'s birth with us.

Lastly, I want to thank you all for your prayer support throughout this year. I have been just an unworthy sinner but God has been doing hiswork of salvation in this dark place despite all the odds. Let all glory belong to him forever. Thank you very very much.

Let's pray for Point and support by attending the Christmas seminar.
Program's link is here.

Gospel centered worship

The gospel changes our relationship with God from one of hostility or slavish compliance to one of intimacy and joy. The core dynamic of gospel–centered ministry is therefore worship and fervent prayer.

In corporate worship God’s people receive a special life-transforming sight of the worth and beauty of God, and then give back to God suitable expressions of his worth. At the heart of corporate worship is the ministry of the Word. Preaching should be expository (explaining the text of Scripture) and Christ-centered (expounding all biblical themes as climaxing in Christ and his work of salvation). Its ultimate goal, however, is not simply to teach but to lead the hearers to worship, individual and corporate, that strengthens their inner being to do the will of God.

From Justin Taylor.

Gospel Centered community as an effective vehicle for evangelism

Because the gospel (unlike religious moralism) produces people who do not disdain those who disagree with them, a truly gospel-centered church should be filled with members who winsomely address people’s hopes and aspirations with Christ and his saving work.

We have a vision for a church that sees conversions of rich and poor, highly educated and less educated, men and women, old and young, married and single, and all races. We hope to draw highly secular and postmodern people, as well as reaching religious and traditional people.

Because of the attractiveness of its community and the humility of its people, a gospel-centered church should find people in its midst who are exploring and trying to understand Christianity. It must welcome them in hundreds of ways. It will do little to make them “comfortable” but will do much to make its message understandable.

In addition to all this, gospel-centered churches will have a bias toward church planting as one of the most effective means of evangelism there is.

From Justin Taylor

Thanksgiving is all about Jesus

Why we give thanks?

When we give thanks, there is one who receives our thanks.

Are we thankful or we just to want to have a day off? Why are we thankful?

We know this in our head. We thank God for his saving grace that Jesus came into the world to save sinners. (1 Tim 1:15).

Are we thankful for this saving grace as of the first importance or thankful for Turkey dinner in doing so we all become turkeys -fat and sleepy.

Without God's command to give thanks, we do not do so. It is indeed God's grace. But we should go one more step and thank God from our inner hearts.

We are here to follow God's laws but we are here to follow God's heart for us who loved us 'turkeys' and gave up himself for us.

I like to quote Ambrose's favorite Bible verse this Thanksgiving since I am reading Augustine's confession today:

He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. (2 Cor 3:6)

Doing what it seems to be good or Christian things to do on Thanksgiving kills us. We must be moved by what Jesus had done for us by the help of his Spirit and then do. We must be compelled by Jesus and by his Spirit.

We give thanks because God enables us to give thanks from our hearts through his words and by his Spirit. This is indeed God's mercy for us who are so forgetful of his saving grace and focus on surface stuff like turkey stuffings.

In summary, we are called to do counter cultural movement and follow Jesus confidently. We give thanks because of his saving grace and truth of the gospel which is shown in our LORD Jesus' death and resurrection.

We can look up to God and give thanks to God for giving us five loaves and two fish. We leap for joy because God is good and his love endures forever.

Counter-cultural community.

We are called to love as Jesus has loved us.n (John 13:34-35).
Jesus showed us how to live and how to love and how to form a counter cultural community.

The gospel changes everything.

Because the gospel removes both fear and pride, people should get along inside the church who could never get along outside.

Because it points us to a man who died for his enemies, the gospel creates relationships of service rather than of selfishness.

Because the gospel calls us to holiness, the people of God live in loving bonds of mutual accountability and discipline.

Thus the gospel creates a human community radically different from any society around it.

Regarding sex, the church should avoid both the secular society’s idolization of sex and traditional society’s fear of it. It is a community which so loves and cares practically for its members that biblical chastity makes sense. It teaches its members to conform their bodily being to the shape of the gospel—abstinence outside of heterosexual marriage and fidelity and joy within.

Regarding the family, the church should affirm the goodness of marriage between a man and a woman, calling them to serve God by reflecting his covenant love in life–long loyalty, and by teaching his ways to their children. But it also affirms the goodness of serving Christ as singles, whether for a time or for a life. The church should surround all persons suffering from the fallenness of our human sexuality with a compassionate community and family.

Regarding money, the church’s members should engage in radical economic sharing with one another—so “there are no needy among them” (Acts 4:34). Such sharing also promotes a radically generous commitment of time, money, relationships, and living space to social justice and the needs of the poor, the oppressed, the immigrant, and the economically and physically weak.

Regarding power, it is visibly committed to power–sharing and relationship–building among races, classes, and generations that are alienated outside of the Body of Christ. The practical evidence of this is that our local churches increasingly welcome and embrace people of all races and cultures. Each church should seek to reflect the diversity of its local geographical community, both in the congregation at large and in its leadership.

From Justin Taylor's blog.

Theological Vision for Ministry

From Gospel Coalition site:

You can find a statement of how we intend to discharge Christian ministry and interact with our culture in biblical and theological faithfulness.

We have been studying the Gospel Centered Life this semester. This article can be a good resource as we articulate the gospel in our daily work with Jesus.

Pretty good article. Here is the link.

Whitney Koch's Kenya short term mission report

Whitney's mission Report in Kenya from Jerry Park on Vimeo.

Michael Thompson from St. Petersburg in Russia

See Mike's prayer topics at UBF site:

We are praying for a Christmas worship that pleases God. Pray for Missionary Caleb who delivers the Sunday Message. Pray for me to be an effective evangelist. Pray for Charles and Ruth to take their calling seriously. Pray for Charles and Ruth to become mature enough to thank God for Russia and have a shepherd heart for Russians. Pray for the kids to whole heartedly learn Russian in order to communicate with them and make friends.

You must Follow me

This is my concluding message on the Fellowship series. This semester we looked at what it means to have fellowship in God via 1 John study.

We thank God for his grace to study 1 John so far.

John 21 illustrates Jesus and Peter's fellowship.

Here is the message.

Moscow Night by Two Abes (Song and Jun)

A song by Able Song, 15 Nov 2009 from Jerry Park on Vimeo.

The LORD is my shepherd by Alex Foster

A song by Alex Foster, 15 Nov 2009 from Jerry Park on Vimeo.

Dr. Joseph Chung goes to Uganda at the age of 70.

Dr. Joseph Chung who has served the Korean UBF and then Chicago for the past 40 years will go to Uganda at the age of 70. Dr. Chung and his wife Esther visited the U of I and encouraged us to continue in Jesus.

Here videos from Dr. Chung and Esther Chung.

Mike Rora, 2nd year chem major and Joseph Jung, Ph. D. candidate in nuclear engineering sang special songs for Dr. Chung and his wife Esther.



Their visit challenged us to love God and obey God's commands based on Gen 12 and Matt 28 to go and preach the gospel to the ends of the world.

Dr. Chung asked to pray for him and his wife.
Here are his prayer topics:

1. Be with God.
2. Protect God's protection on my wife from mosquitoes and tropical diseases.
2. Be a blessing to Uganda coworkers and Uganda students.

Kenya Report by Whitney Kock this Sunday

Mark Yoon who is a UBF staff at Keyna wrote about Whitney's Kenya short term mission like this:

Whitney Koch finished her short-term missionary devotion in Kenya successfully and gracefully. One of our shepherdesses commented: "Whitney is not like usual Americans: She is humble and gentle to be with us!" I felt it is God who sent her to us and led her to find God's calling to Africa.

Whitney is coming to U of I to give us a brief report on Kenya this Sunday
Let us welcome her and pray for her.

Here is Mark Yoon's full report on her trip from the UBF site.

Several of us are traveling overseas this Winter breaks.

• Miriam Cowen is going to Kenya coming January as well. Please pray for her and support her. Miriam's site, A voice in Kenya can be reached here.
• Abe Song is going to Russia and London, UK.
• Danny Kim will be traveling to Mexico City, Mexico.
• Please remember them in your prayers. Let's pray for God's world mission and pray for us to send harvest workers.
  

2 Samuel 11 reflection

From Youthwork

At our staff conference we are studying 2 Samuel. We just studied David and Bathesheba.
Here are some useful link to look at how the temptation worked in David.

One of the most telling stories in the Old Testament deals with King David and Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11). A quick read gives the impression that David had a sexual problem, but reread the opening verses in context and deeper issues emerge. Consider:

• Kings go to war in the springtime, but David didn’t go. For some reason he stayed behind.

• One evening David got out of bed . . .

• And walked around the roof of the palace.

Consider the context of the story:

• David’s identity was wrapped up in military conquest. They even wrote songs about him.

• Some degree of tension existed between David and his wife Michal (recorded several chapters earlier).

• David had multiple wives by this time.

Many suggest King David couldn’t sleep because he was restless. His very manhood — defined through battle — was challenged by his remaining home. This would explain the extraordinary power of the temptation and the determination that led him deeper and deeper into sin.

Read more.

What do you think–is gambling a sin?

From Kevin DeYoung's blog

In his massive book on The Doctrine of the Christian Life, John Frame argues that gambling is often wrong, but not always. He says gambling can be linked to the worship of chance; it can be addictive; it can involve covetousness; it can be a waste of time and money; it can be thought of as a substitute for useful work; and it can fall under the control of organized crime. So although Frame doesn’t think gambling is sinful in all circumstances it “is often or generally sinful, given the conditions in which we live” (806-807).

Read on.

Christmas 09 preparations

Abe Song and our students are meeting to brain storm for the Christmas worship service. Please pray for them. Below are their brain storming notes. Continue to pray for them to have a student led service and bring their friends to Jesus.

CHRISTMAS '09

Theme: ???
Date: Tentative is Dec 6th vs. Dec 13 (second Christmas!?)
Location: Colonial Room (AS will reserve the place and food will be catered)

Speaker: PAL for Dec 6th
Passage: John 1:1-18
Key verse: John 1:14
Brief Description (in PAL's words):
The title is "The Incarnational message!" I will focus heavily on incarnation (flesh) part. Know that God came in flesh is important for us to live. John 1:14 (our Key verse for Dec 6) is the Christmas geared toward Christmas theme. "The word became flesh" is good news of great joy for all people [(Luke 2:11-13, (Russian, Chinese, American, Indian, African, Korean, Latin American, European, etc, etc, etc)]. I'll send you the MSS at the end of November.
Presider: PT?
Lunch: Tentatively, catered food from the University

Outreach:
Pamphlet for students -- ??
Fishing -- interested students on set date
Google doc prayer sheet -- AS

Programs:
Introductory video -- PT, JT
special song -- brothers and sisters
special performance -- DK, JC perform clarinet duet
special dance -- MK and the children

Miscellaneous:
special invitation letters --
special Christmas gifts -- sisters

What we do when we were children will have influence on what we do as adults

Ed Stetzer comments on Barna's new findings:

When we think about the mission to make disciples we obviously need to do more than provide good teaching for adults and provide a cool/fun atmosphere for the young ones. What might this mean more specifically as we consider how the church teaches children and youth, and develops parents who are capable of discipling their own children working in partnership with the church?

Read more.

Learning Evangelism by Jesus

Jerram Barrs shares from his many years of experience in building relationships with people who are not Christians and what we can learn from Jesus' interactions with unbelievers. Today's broadcast will motivate and encourage you to simply enter into the lives of others with the realization that God will use you for His glory.

Here is the link.

Tim Keller in St. Louis

Dr. Tim Keller--author and pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, in New York City--will visit the Covenant Seminary campus on November 17. In a special session, Dr. Chapell will ask Dr. Keller questions--gathered from the student body--about work, ministry, and latest book Counterfeit Gods, in the Rayburn Chapel from 3:30 - 4:30 pm.

Here are some Tim Keller audios.

Where is Uganda?

"only country in the world to have halved the rate of AIDS infection"'

'"millions were killed through brutal and random murders"

"Christians have suffered persecution and also seen renewal" (From Operation world.)



See more info on Uganda. CIA Fact Book. Here is the link.

2009 Christmas offering for Uganda

09 Christmas offering will go to Uganda. In particular we will support to build a hospital.

Please pray and prepare for this effort. You will find more at UBF web site.

Abe Jun's reading list

Abe Jun is reading two books this month.


1. Just Do Something: How to Make a Decision Without Dreams, Visions, Fleeces, Open Doors, Random Bible Verses, Casting Lots, Liver Shivers, Writing in the Sky, etc. by Kevin DeYoung and Joshua Harris

2. The Reason for Sports by Ted Klug.

His reviews will be posted shortly.

The (Sometimes) Futility of Good Intentions

Kevin DeYoung maintains that our good intentions do more harms than good. In particular, he give an example of giving aid to Africa.

Here is the link to his article.

Processing guilt

Life with a mission blog writes on how to process guilt.

We are left with a choice: with can let the guilt throw us back into the behavior that got us into trouble in the first place, or… learn from the guilt – and do our best to move on.

How to do process guilt?
Read more from the blog.

Young Pastors

Al Mohler wrote a very encouraging piece for the young pastors.

Here is the link.

We thank God for raising the future leaders for this nation and for the whole world.

U of I Dad's weekend

My son Sammy invited his dad, Sam Lee and his brothers and his mom to football game (U of I vs. Northwestern). By God's grace we enjoyed the game. Please pray for us to remain in God's words and in his love.

The LORD's prayer by Shane and Shane

Shane and Shane has a good version of the LORD's prayer.

Here is the link.

Children, Continue in Christ

This week we will do 1 John 2:28-29 and Psalm 23 and mediate what it means to remain in Jesus and continue in him.

Here is the link to the message.

Stephen Seo at Chapelhill

Here is Stephen Seo's blog link.

Go Tarhills.

Graciela Choo at Houston, TX

From UBF website.

Pray for Grace(iela) and Joshua Choo in Houston.

Until recently, I've been going to Rice University to ask people to Bible study, since it's so close by. But last week I went to Houston University, to stick our flag in the ground there. The students there were pure hearted, like the Galileans. The people I met gave me their actual phone numbers, and some of them even set up times to meet me for one-to-one Bible study.

Because parking at Rice is expensive, I tried to visit Houston University, which has free campus parking. But on my way there, a graduate student from Rice University called me, telling me that he was waiting for me to have Bible study. So I turned around and headed back to Rice University to have Bible study with him. He then showed me a place where I could park for free at Rice. I thank God for his love for two college students, even though I had such narrow vision.

Joshua and I really give thanks to God for using us who are small like mustard seeds in his gospel ministry. In the midst of our busy daily schedule from morning to night, we are praying to meditate on the word of God as a priority and be molded into people of God. We have prayed for 6 weekly one-to-one Bible studies, and God has given us 6 one-to-ones every week thus far. We thank God, and we pray that God may use us mightily in campus ministry.

Washington Harvest festival 09

Jacob Lee of Washington UBF sent this note to us:

"And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!’” -Romans 10:15
We held the Harvest Festival from Nov 6-8, 2009.

The theme of our Harvest Festival was "Beautiful Feet." The feet is not the most beautiful part of our bodies.
But God said that it is beautiful when we bring good news to the lost sheep in this postmodern generation.

Our guest speaker Glenn from the Cross World mission said that Jesus is our feet inspector when we see him in the Kingdom whether we used
our feet to bring good news or doing something else. He also said that Jesus will ask us whether we raised up disciples who can teach others based on 2 Tim 2:2 by asking, "Did you raise disciples?" It was a refreshing event to challenge our faith.

Dr. John Jun emphasized to teach students to obey the word of God depending on the authority of the Bible instead of becoming a cultural Christian.

I thank you for your prayer support and love for this event."

Here is the report

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Evangelical Christian Union luncheon on Nov 18

Those who want to come for lunch and interact with other Christian groups, this is a good opportunity.

Samuel G. Lee's presentation -Bible meditation through Testimony writing

Samuel G. Lee is a UBF staff at Ottawa, Canada.
He presented at the Bible teacher work shop at Chicago on Nov 9th.
Here is his presentation.

UBF site posted this workshop. Here is the link.

Miriam Cowen's special song

Abe Jun at the piano

Free Audio book download

Desiring God & christianaudio have partnered together to offer a free download of John Piper's Desiring God for the month of November!

Here is the link.

Happy downloading and listening John Piper's book.

The Heart of the Addict

Here’s a video of Ed Welch on the curriculum, Crossroads: A Step-by-Step Guide Away from Addiction (which is available both as a study guide and as a facilitator’s handbook)

Anyone wants to start a small group and walk with your friend who needs your help?

Remain in him

This week we will look at 1 John 2:18-27.

We will explore what it means to remain in him.

Here is the Sunday message.

Free eBook on Discipleship

From Resurgence site

http://theresurgence.com/grow-free-ebook-post

Exporting Prosperity gospel to Africa

From Christianity Today

The Prosperity Gospel from The Global Conversation on Vimeo.

Why should I be thankful?

In my recent trip to Korea Joshua Tice and I visited pastor Son Yangwon's memorial museum at Yeosu, South Korea, which is located at the southern tip of Korea.

Pastor Son was a short man. His real life size piture is shown in between me and Joshua.

During the Rebellion in Yeosu and Sunchun just before the Korean war, two high school sons of Pastor Yangwon Son were shot to death by their communist friend. At the funeral service, the tearful pastor gave thanks for two things: first, that their going to heaven was better than going to America where he wanted to send them to study; second, for the opportunity of glory to give his sons as offerings of martyrdom. If we look for things to give thanks for in our lives, we can find a lot, and if we look for things to complain about, we can also see a great number of things.

He later forgave the killer and adopted him as his son.

Read more.

How Grace changes men

Here are three talks by Bryan Chapell from the Gospel Man conferences:

• How Grace Changes Men: Part 1
• How Grace Changes Men: Part 2
• How Grace Changes Men: Part 3

From Gospel Coalition blog.

Deeper Roots of Christ 2.0 Launch service

On Sunday Nov 1st, we launched the Deeper Roots of Christ 2.0. This is our student organization at U of I.

This service was organized and led by students. This was a bring a friend service. Most of us brought one or two friends.

Paul Toh delivered the message on 1 John 2:15-17. His sounded like St. Augustine. We pray for him to grow as a servant of God's word for this generation. Here is the message and his PPT.

Alex Foster sang a special song for us. In addition, under the leadership of Miriam Cowen, Mike Rora,Mary Koh, Danny Kim, Sammy Lee and Alex Foster led the praise.

We thank God for his blessing on this service. Two newly wed couples graced us with their presence: Christine and Geoff and John and Liz Jung. We pray for them to be exceedingly fruitful in Jesus.