Prayer Request

1. Please intercede for Anniversary dinner & Celebration meeting.

2. Please intercede for Majors Raelton & Lynn Gibbs.

3. Please intercede for John, Shirley, Cheryl, Robin & Michelle Lee .

4. Please intercede for Hock Sun & Sek Lian, Phee Keat & Peggy, Tuan Ewe, Tuan Ean.

Announcement

1. Youth Fellowship (Drama Practice)
Date: 01/09/13; Time: 7.30pm; Venue: Community Hall
All youth please take note.

2. Soldiers Enrollment
Those who are going to be enroll as senior soldiers and adherent, please see Major Tan after refreshment, thank you!

3. 75th Anniversary Committees Meeting (Final)
Date: 01/09/13(Sun), Time: 12.15pm; Venue Corps Worship Hall
All Committees please take note and attend the meeting.

4. 75th Anniversary Dinner
Date: 07/09/13 (Sat), Time: 7.00pm, Venue: Holy Spirit Cathedral.
Please come and share this celebration with us, if possible do come early to help up. We are pleased to inform that, all our table is now sold off, to God be the Glory!

5. 75th Anniversary Celebration Lunch
Date: 08/09/13 (Sun), Time: 12.30pm, Venue: Community Hall.
Please stay back after the Corps Anniversary Celebration for Lunch fellowship.

6. Methodist Bible Conference
Date: 12-14/09/13, Time: 8.15pm, Fees: Free; Venue: Penang Wesley Methodist Church;
Speaker: Rev. D. A. Carson.
All are welcome!

7. Malaysia Day Celebration (Combined Churches Prayer)
Date: 15/09/13 (Sun), Time: 7.30pm, Venue: Komtar G. Dome
Please do come and join to pray and celebration for our nation.

8. Lt. Andrew & Fiona’s Wedding
Date: 14/09/13 (Sun), Time: 10.00am, Venue: Ipoh Corps.
Those who received the invitation card, please reply RSVP to Lt. Fiona, and please inform Corps Officer for transportation arrangement. Thank you.

9. Women’s Camp
Date: 20-22/09/13, Venue: Putri Resort, Melaka; Fees: RM250.00

Unforeseen Consequences

When I was a teenager, I went to a concert, and after it I saw a young woman sitting alone. I offered her a cup of tea. Gratefully, she accepted. She and I have now been married for 43 years, have five children and two grandchildren - and all because of that cup of tea.

We can never foresee the full consequences of even our smallest action. So it was with Adam and Eve. They were warned not to eat the fruit of one particular tree and were told what would happen to them if they did so. But they took no heed and did it anyway. It seems a very small, innocuous thing that they did. Taking a bite from a piece of fruit hardly compares with theft, rape or murder. Yet it resulted in God’s unprecedented anger. Why?

Because God is perfect, even the smallest of our sins offends him and places a wedge between him and us. Not only that, but Adam and Eve showed no regret and refused to accept responsibility for what they had done.

Consequently, they were ‘banished… from the Garden of Eden’ (Genesis 3:23 New International Version). They lost the peace, security and beauty that they had once experienced. Whereas before they would have lived for ever, now they would experience death. They were separated from God - they no longer knew his closeness.

As a result, we have inherited that legacy. We show all the same traits that Adam and Eve displayed. We are born with a longing for what they lost - peace, security, beauty and a never-ending life. Because they do not sense his closeness, many people do not believe that God even exists.

Yet, despite the fact that humankind continues along the path that Adam and Eve took, God longs to give us back what once we had.

UK & Ireland War Cry August 2013
War Cry photo

Prayer Requests

1. Please intercede for Cadets public welcome meeting on 25/8/13

2. Please intercede for 75th Anniversary Celebration and Dinner

3. Please intercede for Thean Sin, Saw Aing, Hock Hin, Grace and Matthew Tan

4. Please intercede for Ang Chye Thiam and family

Announcements

1. 75th Anniversary Committee Meeting
Date: 25/8/13 (Sun), Time: 12:15pm; Venue: Corps Worship Hall
All committee please take note and attend this important meeting.

2. Corps Sport & Outing
Date: 31/08/13, Time: 8:00am, Venue: To be confirm


3. 75th Anniversary Dinner
Date: 07/09/13 (Sat), Time: 7:00pm, Venue: Holy Spirit Cathedral
- We wish to include as many Corps members as possible, those who have financial difficulties may please see Bro Tan or Bro Steven for more information.
- To those who still holding the dinner tickets, please return your unsold ticket to Major Brenda as soon as possible.

4. Women's Camp
Date: 20-22 September 2013; Location: Putri Resort, Melaka. Fees: RM250
Speakers: Col. Bronwyn & Lt-Col Evelyn. Please see Major Brenda for more information.

What Have You Done?

Tell a young child not to do something and not only do they often do that very thing, but they also may try to get a companion to share in their misdeed. We humans are social animals and tend to find comfort and courage when someone else is supporting us in what we are doing.

So, too, then with Eve. No sooner had she eaten the forbidden fruit than she shared it with Adam 'who was with her’ (Genesis 3:6 New International Version). Adam was by Eve’s side, yet did nothing to dissuade her from loitering near the tree that contained such a strong temptation. He also did nothing to stop her taking fruit from it and eating it. If that wasn’t bad enough, he then accepted her offer and ate the fruit himself. Immediately, the pair experienced guilt for what the they had done.

Even if no one else knows what we have done, we can feel so bad about our wrongdoing that all we want to do is hide. Though our actions may be a secret, guilt can make us feel as as though everyone knows.

We feel shame and regret. We wish the ground would open up and swallow us. We cannot understand how we allowed ourselves to get into such a position. Oh, how we wish we could turn back the clock and do things differently!

Such thoughts were possibly in Adam and Eve’s minds after they had disobeyed God. Feeling the need to hide, they covered themselves with fig leaves (see 3:7). Whereas they had once felt safe and secure in God’s care, now they felt exposed and vulnerable. And there was a new element in their lives - they feared God (see 3:10).

God knew that there was only one reason for this change of attitude. He knew what they had done, but he still wanted to hear it from them. ‘Have you eaten from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?’, he asked (3:11).

When we get things wrong and feel as though we want to hide, God does not abandon us. He is still willing to speak to us. But he asks that we are honest that we have failed.

UK & Ireland War Cry August 2013
Library photos

Prayer Request

1. Please intercede for General Elect, Commissioner Andre Cox

2. Please intercede for 75th Anniversary Celebration and Dinner

3. Please intercede for Choon Eng, Jenny, Scott an Chui Peeng

4. Please intercede for Chris, Sheila & Declan Lee

5. Please intercede for Dave, Lilly, Daniel & Jacqueline Clarke

Announcements

1. Youth Fellowship
There will be not program during the school holiday for 2 weeks. All youth please take note.

2. Prayer Ministry
Date: 9/2/2013 (Fri), cancel due to public holiday.
Kindly see Major Tan for a copy of prayer request. 


3. 75th Anniversary Committee Meeting
Date: 11/8/13 (Sun), Time: 12:15pm; Venue: Corps Worship Hall
All committee please take note and attend the meeting.

4.Family BBQ Dinner
Date: 16/08/13 (Fri), Time: 6:30pm, Venue: Penang Children's Home
Please do come and join us for this special event together.

5. Banana Leaf Ministry
Date: 17/08/13 (Sat), Time: 11:00am, Venue: Community Hall
Please do come and help in the banana leaf ministry. Volunteers needed.

6. 75th Anniversary Dinner
Date: 07/09/13 (Sat), Time: 7:00pm, Venue: Holy Spirit Cathedral
- We wish to include as many Corps members as possible, those who have financial difficulties may please see Bro Tan or Bro Steven for more information.
- To those who still holding the dinner tickets, please return your unsold ticket to Major Brenda as soon as possible.

7. Women's Camp
Date: 20-22 September 2013; Location: Putri Resort, Melaka. Fees: RM250
Speakers: Col. Bronwyn & Lt-Col Evelyn. Please see Major Brenda for more information.