COMMUNITY MATTERS

WELCOME

A warm welcome to all newcomers who are with us today. We would love to meet and get to know you. Please click here to help us get to know you better.

THE BIBLE CHURCH BROADCAST VIA WHATSAPP OR TELEGRAM

Via WhatsApp

All Members will be added onto the WhatsApp Broadcast. Save the number 8925-0242 into your phone's contact list.

For non-members, save the number 8925-0242 into your phone’s contact list and WhatsApp your full name to this number to join the broadcast. 

Via Telegram

Click the LINK to join the ‘Bible Church Broadcast’ Channel:

https://t.me/+3UDmAyazRsQzOTk1

VISIT A CARE GROUP

If you wish to visit or serve in CARE Groups (https://www.biblechurch.sg/care-groups), please contact Asst Ps Lai Keet Keong at keetkeong@biblechurch.sg or through WhatsApp or Telegram at 9618-7220.

PASTORAL CARE

Find out more about our pastoral care by clicking here.

Please feel free to contact any of our pastoral staff or the church office (office@biblechurch.sg or 6779-3255) via email or text messages should you require prayer. If you know of anyone who is facing financial difficulties, please let us know as well.

COUNSELLING MINISTRY

There are certain times in our lives when we feel stuck or unable to cope. If you are going through a season of challenges and need emotional support, the Lay Counselling Ministry in the Bible Church would love to pray and journey with you through your struggles and difficulties.

Trained counsellors are available to help with pastoral care and short-term counselling for children, youth and adults, including TBC members, regular attendees and those seeking Christian counsel.

Please click here to find out more.

SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES

If you are looking to serve in one or more of our ministries, please click here to find out more.

CHURCH COUNCIL ELECTIONS (APRIL 2023-MARCH 2025)

Election of the Church Council for 2023-2025 will be held on 14 and 15 January 2023.

1. Voting will be carried out using Google forms

2. Only the church administrators will be tabulating your votes. Your vote will be kept strictly private and confidential.

Nomination of candidates for the elections is now open and will close on 4 December 2022.

To qualify as a candidate for election to the Church Council, the candidate must be at least 21 years old and be a member of The Bible Church for at least 3 years besides satisfying the requirements of a deacon as laid down in the Bible.

If you wish to nominate a candidate, you must obtain the candidate’s agreement to be nominated and at the same time, have 5 seconders. A member can either nominate or second just one candidate in any one election. Nomination forms are available from the Honorary Secretary, Deacon Deborah Lim or from the Church Office (office@biblechurch.sg). Please submit the following to the church office by the deadline as follows:

• 4 December 2022: Completed nomination forms

• 11 December 2022: Write-up of candidate (for the purpose of collating candidate’s profile)

CHRISTMAS SERVICES

24 & 25 December 2022 (Saturday & Sunday)

Saturday English Service: 5.00pm

Sunday English Services: 8.30am & 10.15am

Chinese Service: 8.45am

Kids For Christ (KFC): 5.00pm (Saturday) & 10.15am (Sunday)

Light refreshments will be served after the services at the Grace Fellowship Hall. All are invited to join us in fellowship as we celebrate Christmas.

CHRISTMAS LOVE OFFERING

A Christmas love gift collection will be taken on 10 & 11 December 2022 for all the staff and members who are ministry-missionaries or those serving with para-church organisations, and are receiving support from church.

The collection at the onsite services can be put into the designated collection boxes at the exits of the Sanctuary. If you wish to give through the digital platforms, please kindly indicate “Christmas Love Offering”. You may click here for more information on the modes of giving.

The gifts collected will be shared equally among the following persons:

Church Council

THE BIBLE CHURCH, SINGAPORE 65TH ANNIVERSARY SERVICE

We will arrange for buses for those who need transport from Clementi Bible Centre to St Andrew's Junior College (SAJC) on 7 January at 3.00pm. Sign up is required. A sign up booth will be set up for three weekends starting 3 December at the Grace Fellowship Hall.

There will be also be a shuttle bus service from Potong Pasir MRT to SAJC between 3.15pm to 3.45pm on 7 January. Sign up is not required.

For more information, please contact Asst Ps Lai Keet Keong at keetkeong@biblechurch.sg or 9618-7220.

GOOD NEIGHBOURS x CHRISTMAS 2022

Missed out on our Good Neighbours initiatives over the past year? Come join us this Christmas to bring the love of Jesus to the last, lost and least!

#1 Kopi with Migrant Brothers: Christmas Edition

Since July 2022, a team of volunteers have befriended a regular group of migrant workers at Kranji Recreation Centre through bi-monthly visits. Over coffee and vadais, and sometimes a game of carrom or foosball, we have built relationships with these brothers who now look forward to our kopi sessions.

This Christmas, we welcome all with a heart for these brothers to join our Christmas kopi session –

11 December 2022 (Sunday), 4-6pm

Kranji Recreation Centre, 11 Kranji Close

Programme: food, simple games, and a short sharing of the Christmas message

Sign up here by 4 December 2022.

#2 Adopt-A-Family

Since December 2021, we have “adopted” almost 20 low-income families in West Coast. Through monthly visitations, volunteers have been able to forge relationships and extend care to these families beyond providing grocery vouchers. In the year ahead, we hope to expand our reach to up to 30 families – God-willing!

For CGs, families, or friends looking to do outreach together, this is a wonderful platform for you to begin!

January-June 2023 (6-month commitment)

Monthly visitations to a family in West Coast

Sign up here by 4 December 2022.

#3 Loving Gladiolus

Since May 2022, a group from the Ladies Ministry have conducted monthly baking/connection sessions with the girls at Gladiolus Place (GP) – a non-profit Christian residential refuge for at-risk teenage girls (13-18 years). This Christmas, some young adults will bring the girls for a Christmas Picnic at West Coast Park on 24 December 2022, 10am-2pm. Please pray along with us!

For ladies who wish to join the monthly connection sessions in 2023 (on an ad-hoc or regular basis), please sign up here by 4 December 2022.

For the wider congregation’s participation, we hope you will consider partnering us in loving GP by meeting their practical needs:

• Sponsor-A-Girl – Fund the everyday needs of the GP girls, including meals, pocket money, daily necessities and therapeutic interventions.

• Sponsor GP’s renovation – Contribute to funding the much-needed renovation of GP’s home at Mattar Road – from sunken grounds, to cracks on the wall and broken window panels. Your support will go towards building a safe sanctuary for the girls.

 Click here for detailed instructions on how to sponsor.

For more information, please contact Yi Ling (yiling@biblechurch.sg) or Jiahui (jiahui@biblechurch.sg).

FOLLOWING JESUS TESTIMONIES

We have asked various worshippers what they have gleaned from the pulpit series, with a guiding question:

"How have you been instructed or inspired to follow Jesus more closely or faithfully this year?"

Click on the button below and be encouraged by the sharing from fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.

And if you would also like to share your journey with us, click HERE!

FOLLOWING JESUS TO SHARE

As disciples of Christ, we follow not only Jesus’ footsteps but also his strategy in reaching out to the lost. Jesus' mission on earth is clear. He came to save the lost. He ate with them and had many conversations with them. In August, the church launched the SHARE CAMPAIGN to encourage all of us to follow in our Lord Jesus' footsteps to reach the lost. We are encouraged to:

1. SHARE a MEAL

2. SHARE a MESSAGE

3. SHARE a MEANINGFUL meeting

A small Group Christmas Party at the end of the year is one of the meaningful meetings that we are encouraging CGs to organise and invite their friends to join too. Programs and briefing will be provided to help you plan these parties.

To help in the planning of these parties, please click here to access briefing and training videos that you & your small groups can watch together to get started.

CONDOLENCES

Our deepest condolences to:

1. The family of Mdm Kwan Inn Tuck on her home calling on 26 November 2022. Mdm Kwan was the beloved mother of Chiew Yee Meng and mother-in-law of Kay.

2. The family of Mdm Koh Ah Moe on her home calling on 27 November 2022. Mdm Koh was the beloved mother of Susan Chew and Siew Hwa.

COMPARATIVE OFFERING (S$) STATISTICS (NOVEMBER 2022)

Please click here for more information.

STAFF MOVEMENT

1. Snr Ps Beh Soo Yeong is on leave until 5 December 2022.

2. Angela Ong will be on leave from 5 to 8 December 2022.

3. Tan Beng Hwee will be on leave from 5 to 9 December 2022.

4. Dexter Chiang will be on leave from 6 to 8 December 2022.

5. Asst Ps Gift Daniel will be on leave from 8 to 22 December 2022.

6. Asst Ps Anthony Chok is on leave until 9 December 2022.

7. Asst Ps Timothy Lee and Tracey are on leave until 19 December 2022.

UPCOMING EVENTS

KIDS FOR CHRIST (KFC) CHRISTMAS EVENT

Please click here to sign up by 12 December 2022.

THE PRE-MARRIAGE COURSE (TPMC) 2023

Dates: 28 January; 4, 11, 18 & 25 February 2023 (Saturdays)

Time: 1.30 – 4.30pm

Venue: Rooms #04-01/02

Registration closes on 22 January 2023 (Sunday).

TPMC provides couples (in courtship or a steady relationship) Christian principles and practical handles to build strong and healthy marriages. Over 5 sessions, couples will learn the critical importance of commitment and other pillars of marriage, as well as how to make a marriage work. These include:

• Learning to recognise and appreciate each other’s differences (gender and personality)

• Skills necessary for relationships to grow (how to listen, express feelings and resolve conflicts) and how to make each other feel loved and respected

• Developing emotional and sexual intimacy (in marriage)

• Sharing life's journey through goals, values and dreams

The course is designed so that couples will have ample opportunities to discuss and dialogue, as a couple, on critical issues regarding marriage, with the couple’s privacy respected. This course is compulsory for members who are planning to have their marriage solemnized by the Church* in 2023/2024, and is also suitable for pre-Christians. Your friends are welcome to join the course.

COURSE ADMIN

1. Every couple who are planning to have their marriage solemnized by the Church will be paired with a marriage counsellor for at least 4 sessions to go through the Prepare and Enrich assessment tool (USD35 per couple) as well as a marriage mentor couple to walk with them through the first year of marriage.

2. Please purchase two recommended books before the start of the course: Married for God by Christopher Ash and The Meaning of Marriage by Timothy Keller.

For more information or to sign up, please click here or contact Asst Ps Timothy Lee at timothy@biblechurch.sg.

*Pending the fulfilment of all criteria according to our marriage policy.

WORSHIP SERVICES

1. English Services

Sat English Service: 5.00-6.15 pm

Sun English Service 1: 8.30-9.45 am

Sun English Service 2: 10.15-11.30 am

Sun Crux (Young Adults): 2.00-3.30 pm (Will resume on 1 Jan 2023. Meanwhile, please join our English weekend services. )

Weekly sermon videos can be accessed here from every Monday.

Live streaming of the English service has stopped wef 26 & 27 Nov. Please click here to request for a private link.

2. Kids for Christ

Sat Preschool & Primary:  5.00-6.15 pm

Sun Preschool & Primary: 10.15-11.30 am

3. Teenacity

Sat Service:  2.30-3.45 pm (Will resume on 28 Jan 2023. Meanwhile, please join our English weekend services.)

Sat DG time: 4.00-5.30 pm (Will resume on 28 Jan 2023. Meanwhile, please join our English weekend services.)

4. Chinese Ministry

Sun Service: 8.45-10.15 am

OUR MISSION:

TO GLORIFY GOD BY BEING DISCIPLES IN A DISCIPLE-MAKING COMMUNITY OF JESUS CHRIST

Copyright © 2022 *The Bible Church, Singapore*, All rights reserved. 

*Electronic Bulletin 3 & 4 Dec 2022 (Vol 45 No.49)*

For internal circulation only