Chairperson: Jason Chow
Speaker: Rev ET Wong
Worship leader: Team B
Proclamation
Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth,
burst into jubilant song with music;
make music to the LORD with the harp,
with the harp and the sound of singing,
with trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn—
shout for joy before the LORD, the King.
(Psalm 98:4-6)
Opening Prayer
Singspiration
Ten Commandments
Scripture Reading
Sermon
When We Feel like Blaming God
Response Hymn
Closing Prayer
Doxology
Benediction
Threefold Amen
Announcements
A warm welcome to everyone who's joining us for the first time this morning. We are delighted to have you here.
Annual Tax Receipt 2020: Finance Department has started emailing out the tax receipt for offerings in the 2019-2020 financial year. For those who made an offering but are not on our email list, please contact our Finance Deacon Amy Yeung or the English congregation deacons to obtain your receipt.
Overseas Mission Fund and Hardship Fund Financial Report - April 2020
Church meetings during Alert level 2:
i) All Sunday services, small groups and meetings are to remain online.
ii) The church building will not be opened unless it is absolutely necessary. If there are any urgent needs that you need to go to church, please contact Stanley beforehand.
iii) The Pastors may carry out special pastoral visitation during level 2. Please contact your pastors if you are planning to do any pastoral visitations.
Church meetings during Alert level 1:
All church activities will be back to normal, subject to the recommendations or requirements from the government.
Church Camp: will be held on 27-29 November. We are looking for volunteers to help with organising. Please get in touch with Nixon if you want to help or find out more.
Mid-Autumn Gala: The Cantonese service is organising a mid-Autumn gala in late September, open to the public. If you’re interested in performing an item on the day, please let Nixon, Jeri or Vincent Liu know.
Church 26th Anniversary: It will be held on the 7th of June at 10 am. Our theme this year is “Staying Connected.” Click to see the poster.
TNT: The current series is called #AskPastorET at 11 am on Sundays (Link: https://meet.google.com/jct-tqpo-xav). Please click here to see the list of topics that Pastor ET will be covering this month. If you have a question for Pastor ET, they can be submitted through this link: https://forms.gle/W9XwNKQDvojuY8C26
Bible Reading Plan
We would like to invite you to join our Bible reading plan community on YouVersion. We aim to encourage us to read, study and meditate the Word of God together. We have started a new plan called "30 Days In The Gospel Of Mark" on Tuesday (28/04). If you already have a YouVersion account, you can join by clicking this link. If you have any questions, please read this step-by-step guide or email Pastor ET @ et.wong@holywordchurch.org.nz.
Mission Information
Mission Department had a meeting on 23rd April and made the following decisions to increase this year’s budget, please remember us in your prayer:
a. M3 will support Laidlaw Bible College-New Zealand, along with eight local Christian organizations we have committed in the previous year.
b. M4 will continue to support the 5 missionaries, with a slight adjustment to the amount. In addition, we will further our support to Lanka Smile for a year. And we will make an offering to the Taiwanese organization that initiates the “Pray for Muslim in 30 days” campaign.Please pray for S&C and H&P are still waiting for the Covid-19 situation to be under controlled before they can return to their mission fields.
Colombo in Sri Lanka is currently lockdown indefinitely. Church services are now moved to online. Please remember Rev Janet’s well being.
Praise the Lord! The church in Tanzanian has found a permanent meeting place near the city and has applied for registration to become an independent church. The church expansion project is now in full swing. The whole project will require around USD92,000. Pray that God will give more strength to the church committee to accomplish God's plan. May the church can become a blessing to the local Chinese people.
Prayer Items for the Week
Pray for the upcoming Evangelism Explosion course. May the Lord stir the participants’ enthusiasm of evangelism and prepare the non-believers’ heart, so that more people can become gospel warriors and know the Lord.
Pray for brothers and sisters in HWC that they will still draw near to God and actively participate in various church meetings via the online platforms over the period of pandemic lockdown.
Pray for all areas affected by the coronavirus. We pray for God's healing.
Pray for pastoral recruitment for the Senior Pastor, Cantonese and English services.
Pray that brothers and sisters can live out the church motto this year - "Renew our lives, become His disciples."
Last Week's Sunday Service Attendance
English Service: 70 online
Cantonese Service: 137 online
prayer meeting: 31 pre-service, 74 after service
Mandarin Service: 44 online, prayer meeting: 14
Next Week's Roster
Chairperson: Nicholas Powell
Speaker: John Tucker
Worship: Team A