Announcements

1. Prayer Ministry
Date: 27th May 2011 (Friday) Time: 8:15pm Venue: Corps Worship Hall
All are welcome.

2. Youth Fellowship
Date: 22nd May 2011 (Sunday) Time: 7:30pm Venue: Corps Compound
Programme: Floorball. All youth are welcome.

3. Children Holiday Day Camp
Date: 6-10 June 2011 Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm Venue: Penang Corps Fees: RM80.00
Please contact Capt Brenda for more details.

4. YMCA Christian Fellowship
Date: 26 May 2011 (Thur) Time: 8pm Venue: YMCA, Macalister Road
Speaker: Capt Tan Guat Hai. All are welcome.

5. Youth & Women's Camp
Those who going to the camp, please take note of things to bring for the camp.

6. One Ringgit Per Month
Encourage brothers and sister to give one ringgit a month for Corps Social Ministry.
You can even extend the invitation to your family and friends.

7. Hands On Team visit From USA Eastern
Hands On Team will be visiting Penang on 14 June 2011 - 5 July 2011, while in Penang, they will be involving in Corps and Community works.

Prayer Request

1. Please pray for Devi's husband, Ravindren for his Salvation

2. Please pray for Robin Lee, who will be going for further study at UTAR, Perak.

3. Please pray for Corps Family: Sunny, Rachel, Elizabeth, Susan & John Zachariah

4. Please pray for Corps Family: Choong Eng, Jenny, Sheila, Chris Lee, Scott and Chui Peeng.

5. Please pray for Penang Open Day on 3rd Sept 2011.

Announcements

1. Corps Sport and Outing
Date: 17 May 2011 (Tuesday - Vesak Day) Time: 7:30am Venue: Sungai Sedim, Kulim
Please let Jacinta know your attendance. Ladies please help with food and drinks. Thank you.

2. Adult Cell Group
Date: 20th May 2011 (Friday) Time: 8:15pm Venue: Corps Worship Hall
All are welcome.

3. Children Holiday Day Camp
Date: 6-10 June 2011 Time: 8:00am - 5:00pm Venue: Penang Corps Fees: Early Bird (Closes 30Apr) RM60.00....Late (closes15May) RM80.00...
Open for register now. Please contact Capt Brenda for more details.

4. YMCA Monthly Service
Date: 26 May 2011 (Tuesday) Time: 8pm Venue: YMCA, Macalister Road
Speaker: Capt Tan Guat Hai. All are welcome.

5. Penang Open Day Committee Meeting
Date: 22 May 2011 (Sunday) Time: 12:30pm Venue: Corps
Committee members please be reminded.

6. One Ringgit Per Month
Encourage brothers and sister to give one ringgit a month for Corps Social Ministry.
You can even extend the invitation to your family and friends.

Prayer Request

1. Please pray for Corps Sport and Outing, going to Sungai Sedim.

2. Please pray for Issue of Malicious Reports in Utusan Malaysia.

3. Please pray for Corps Family: John, Shirley, Cheryl, Robin & Michelle Lee.

4. Please pray for Corps Family: Dave, Lily & Daniel Clarke.

5. Please pray for Penang Open Day on 3rd Sept 2011.

Mother's Day Sunday Worship 2011

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Mother's Day Dinner 2011

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Cell Group 6 May 2011

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What is ‘why’?

Major Mark Herbert begins a three-part series entitled A Study Of Haggai

STUDY PASSAGE HAGGAI 1:1–11

TIME doesn’t always fly; in some circumstances, it can feel like time has stood still. Less than two years ago men with white hats, yellow coats and hobnail boots arrived at William Booth College to commence the largest, single building project in the United Kingdom Territory since the first college was completed in 1929. As the project draws to its climax, we anticipate with growing excitement the stronger impact and influence the college’s ministry will have around the Army world.

William Booth College is in good company with others who have been through a building project. Six hundred years before Christ, a growing number of Jews returned from exile to a Jerusalem that lay in ruins.

The prophet Haggai recalls the story in our study passage. His Old Testament prophecy has an intensity about it that easily gets under the skin; but this is the role of the prophet. The prophet sees what others can’t, hears what others don’t and says what others won’t. Therefore, we should give Haggai a measured reading and take note when he says ‘give careful thought’ (1:5; 1:7; 2:15; 2:18) and ‘be strong’ (2:4 all quotations from New International Version).

The Temple had not been rebuilt, even though the foundation had been laid 15 years earlier. It still lay in ruins. The Jews were eager that the altar should be built but, as opposition grew, their determination waned and the project came to a halt.

Haggai speaks the word of God to his people. Little is known about Haggai, but through his leadership he encouraged the rebuilding of the Temple.

The piercing question in 1:9 is at the core of these early verses. God asks: ‘Why?’ So, what is ‘why’?

Simply stated, humankind’s priorities were not the same as God’s. The people were saying it was not the right time to rebuild the Lord’s house. Perhaps they were right. They lived with the political pressure of re-establishing their community with the aftershocks of a changed political landscape. The economy wasn’t in great shape; questions were undoubtedly asked about better ways of spending money. Some things never change!

God disagreed. There is never a good time to go against God. God says what, where and how to build. Haggai records, for future reference, the link between behaviour and circumstances (1:6 and 9–11).

Frustration, tiredness and emptiness are common emotions when the choices we make go against God’s plans. What is the ‘why?’ of verse 9? The text speaks of poor decision-making, blurred focus and mixed priorities. The comfort of a nice home (1:4) can be a distraction. As a consequence, the harvest failed – itself a sign of the judgment of God. No rain, no crops, no Temple. God extends grace, but also he disciplines and judges.

There is a more significant point from this text – so obvious, it is almost missed. Things began to change when God raised up a leader to lead his people: ‘The word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai’ (1:1). When God’s time has come, our time has come. Haggai was a leader who did the right things at the right time for the right reasons. Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Haggai saw the need to dream and could imagine what had not yet happened. We should never underestimate the power of a leadership moment that is the catalyst to changing a culture.

Building projects that bring honour and glory to God are biblical. The legacy of the William Booth College building project will not be the new or refurbished structures nor the quality of the food. The legacy will be the high calibre of leaders shaped by all that is offered from the college.

The necessity to build a temple may not be relevant for today, but the priority of leadership remains. There is a leadership vacuum – a shortage of people with the capacity for leadership.

William Booth College is now a training facility that will help to identify, train, send and provide continuing development opportunities for the next generation of spiritual leaders. Some might think that the money invested in refurbishing the college could have been better spent.

But God’s priorities must become our priorities. Haggai’s story tells us that when the leadership is clear, people gather around a common cause, temples are built and God is given his rightful place.

Announcements

1. Prayer Ministry
Date: 13th May 2011 (Friday) Time: 8:15pm Venue: Corps Worship Hall.
All are welcome.

2. Corps Council Meeting
Date: 10th May 2011 (Friday) Time: 8:15pm Venue: Corps Worship Hall
Corps Council Members, please take note.

3. Children Holiday Day Camp
Date: 6-10 June 2011 Time: 8:00am - 5:00pm Venue: Penang Corps Fees: Early Bird (Closes 30Apr) RM60.00....Late (closes15May) RM80.00...
Open for register now. Please contact Capt Brenda for more details.

4. Senior Citizen's Fellowship
Date: 14 May 2011 (Saturday) Time: 8:00am Venue: To be inform
All senior are welcome to join us in this fellowship.

5. Corps Sport and Outing
Date: 17 May 2011 (Tuesday - Vesak Day) Time: 7:30am Venue: Sungai Sedim, Kulim
Please let Jacinta know your attendance. Ladies please help with food and drinks. Thank you.

6. Penang Open Day Committee Meeting
Date: 22 May 2011 (Sunday) Time: 12:30pm Venue: Corps
Committee members please be reminded.

Prayer Request

1. Pray for Captain Harry, Brother Chew Pong Hoe (Ah Boy) and Sis Rachel for speedy recovery.

2. Please pray for all Mother's

3. Pray for our Territorial Commander, Col Gillian Downer.

4. Pray for Penang Open Day to be held on 3rd September 2011

5. Pray for Senior Citizen's programme 14/05/2011 and Corps Outing 17/05/2011.

Recognising Jesus

by General John Larsson (Retired)

STUDY PASSAGE: LUKE 24:13–35

WOULD we recognise the risen Jesus if we met him? Two of his disciples didn’t – and that was on the first Easter Sunday after they had been told that he was alive again!

Luke tells the story in chapter 24:13–35. Cleopas and another disciple were walking to Emmaus, ‘talking with each other about everything that had happened. As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; but they were kept from recognising him’ (vv14–16 all quotations unless stated otherwise, from New International Version).

Or, as Mark puts it: ‘Jesus appeared in a different form to two of them while they were walking in the country’ (16:12).

The two disciples told the stranger why they were downcast. They had hoped Jesus was the one who was going to redeem Israel, but he had been crucified. That morning some women disciples had found the tomb empty and an angel had said he was alive. Some of their companions had later been to the tomb but had not seen him.

‘[Jesus] said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

‘As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

‘When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognised him, and he disappeared from their sight. They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

‘They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.” Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognised by them when he broke the bread’ (vv25–35).

We don’t know exactly how they were kept from recognising him, or in what way Jesus appeared in a different form. The two disciples would have known Jesus well – an ancient tradition even has it that Cleopas was Joseph’s brother, and therefore an uncle of Jesus. But the Lord was clearly sufficiently different in his risen form for them not to know immediately who he was.

If they did not recognise Jesus on the first Easter Sunday, how much more are we in danger of not recognising him today when he draws near to us? We have the added challenge that Jesus ascended into Heaven 40 days after that Easter Sunday, and his physical appearances on earth ceased. From that time on, encounters with Jesus have been in the nature of a spiritual experience. Sometimes such experiences have been dramatic, as was Saul’s on the Damascus road, and he could hardly have failed to recognise Jesus in that encounter. But for most of us, the approach of Jesus has been gentler – and more easily missed.

The signs of his approach can vary, but are often the same as those the two Emmaus disciples experienced. When words of Scripture suddenly light up for us, and when – in that beautiful phrase – our hearts burn within us, they are sure signs that Jesus has drawn near and wants to share with us. And when we recognise his presence and quietly say to him ‘Stay with me’ and then listen to his voice within, we soon know that we are meeting with the risen Lord.

But how easy it is for us to miss him. We hurry along the road – there is so much that has to be done – and when Jesus draws near we don’t recognise him. And instead of an Easter morning in our soul there is emptiness.

When, some weeks before his death, Jesus wept over the city of Jerusalem, he exclaimed, ‘You did not recognise God’s moment when it came’ (Luke 19:44 New English Bible). Had Cleopas and his companion not recognised God’s moment when it came to them on the Emmaus road, there would have been tears in Heaven.

May there never be tears in Heaven because we have failed to recognise such a moment!

Announcements

1. Adult Cell Group
Date: 6th May 2011 (Friday) Time: 8:15pm Venue: Bro Tan home.
All are welcome.

2. Mother's Day Celebration
Date: 7th May 2011 (Saturday) Time: 7:00pm Venue: Corps
Lots of food, fellowship, games, prize and fun awaits you.
Men are welcome to cook for competition, please give your name to Capt Tan and Lieut Fiona

3. Youth & Women's Camp
Date: 1-4 June 2011 Venue: Eagle Ranch, Port Dickson
Registration date has closed.

4. Children Holiday Day Camp
Date: 6-10 June 2011 Time: 8:00am - 5:00pm Venue: Penang Corps Fees: RM60.00
Open for register now. Please contact Capt Brenda for more details.

5. Senior Citizen's Fellowship
Date: 14 May 2011 (Saturday) Time: 8:00am Venue: Abu Siti Lane
All senior are welcome to join us in this fellowship. Please contact Captain Tan for more info.

6. Corps Sport and Outing
Date: 17 May 2011 (Tuesday - Vesak Day) Time: 7:30am Venue: Sungai Sedim, Kulim
Please let Jacinta know your attendance. Ladies please help with food and drinks. Thank you.

7. Penang Open Day Committee Meeting
Date: 22 May 2011 (Sunday) Time: 12:30pm Venue: Corps
Committee members please be reminded.

Prayer Request

1. Pray for Captain Harry, Brother Chew Pong Hoe (Ah Boy) and Sis Rachel for speedy recovery.

2. Pray for Mother's Day Celebration on 7th May 2011

3. Pray for Corps Children's Day Camp,

4. Pray for Penang Open Day to be held on 3rd September 2011

5. Pray for other Corps Ministries: Cell & Prayer Group, Children's Ministry, Women Ministry, Youth Ministry, Banana Leaf, Senior Citizen, Youth Hostel and etc.

Costly praise

Costly praise

by General John Larsson (Retired)

STUDY PASSAGE: MATTHEW 21:6–11

SOMETIMES when we look at a Bible narrative it is a small detail that can catch the eye. In the story of the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday there is a notable example of this.

We know the scene. When Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey he was met by a large crowd that praised God, shouting: ‘Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!’ (v9 all quotations from New International Version).

Here is the small detail. We read that some in the crowd ‘spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road’ (v8). We are so familiar with the story that it is easy to miss the small detail that praise was offered in two different ways.

Those who cut branches from the palm trees and spread them on the road did their praising on the cheap. The trees were not theirs, and cutting off a few branches was no problem to them. Praising the Lord cost them nothing.

But for those who spread their own cloaks on the road it was a different story. Their robes would be trodden on not only by the donkey and the colt, but also would be trampled on by the crowd that followed. At the very least the cloaks would be dirtied and might even be torn. This was praise at a price – it was costly praise.

I think that Jesus would have noticed the difference. He had an eye for costly praise, for costly devotion.

Just the previous evening, when he was dining in Bethany, a woman who had lived a sinful life in that town brought an alabaster jar of perfume and poured the perfume over him. ‘Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of perfume? It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages and the money given to the poor.” And they rebuked her harshly. “Leave her alone,” said Jesus. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me… Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her” (Mark 14:4–9).

Jesus honoured her costly devotion. The critics thought it a waste of money. But not Jesus. He knew the power of deep devotion, and called what she had done a beautiful thing. He honoured her costly thanksgiving and praise. And the next day, as he entered into Jerusalem, he would have known the difference between those who cut off palm branches from the trees and those who were prepared to lay their robes on the road.

It has always been so. Jesus honours devotion and praise that are costly. The world may say, ‘Why this waste?’ – as they did to the early Christian martyrs when they prepared to die rather than give up their faith.

The critics may say, ‘Why this waste?’ – as they did to Father Damien, when that brilliant young Belgian priest announced that he would be devoting his life to serving the needs of people with leprosy on a remote Pacific island.

And some may ask, ‘Why this waste?’ – as they asked young Samuel Brengle, when he abandoned the prospect of a glittering ecclesiastical career to join with the early-day Salvation Army. But not Jesus. He understood the meaning of costly devotion and knew that what each was doing was a beautiful thing.

It is still so today. I once preached about costly praise on a Palm Sunday, using as my text this difference between praising the Lord with a branch or a robe. Many years later a woman Salvationist said to me: ‘I was a visitor in your meeting that Sunday. My own corps officer had just asked me to take over the youth group. I didn’t want to do it. I enjoyed simply coming to the meetings on Sunday and worshiping and praising the Lord. But when I heard that message I knew that my praise was costing me nothing, and that the Lord wanted more from me. So I said yes to the request – I placed my cloak in the road, and took over the running of the youth group.’

I have no doubt that, as her praise became costly, it became a beautiful thing in the eyes of the Lord.

What kind of praise will we be offering to the Lord this Palm Sunday?

Good Friday Service 22 Apr 2011 - Photos

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Youth Fellowship - 24 Apr 2011

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Easter Sunday 24 April 2011

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Announcements

1. Helping Hand Project
Latest update, RM 1,935 was raised for PNG, thanks to all.

2. Adult Cell Group
Date: 6th May 2011 (Friday) Time: 8:15pm Venue: Bro Tan home.
All are welcome.

3. SAFE Committee Meeting
Date: 1st May 2011 (Sunday) Time: 12:30pm Venue: Corps

4. Mother's Day Celebration
Date: 7th May 2011 (Saturday) Time: 7:00pm Venue: Corps
Lots of food, fellowship, games, prize and fun awaits you.
Men are welcome to cook for competition, please give your name to Capt Tan and Lieut Fiona

5. Youth & Women's Camp
Date: 1-4 June 2011 Venue: Eagle Ranch, Port Dickson
Registration date has closed.

6. Children Holiday Day Camp
Date: 6-10 June 2011 Time: 8:00am - 5:00pm Venue: Penang Corps Fees: RM60.00
Open for register now. Please contact Capt Brenda for more details.

7. Senior Citizen's Fellowship
Date: 14 May 2011 (Saturday) Time: 8:00am Venue: To be inform
All senior are welcome to join us in this fellowship.

8. Corps Sport and Outing
Date: 17 May 2011 (Tuesday - Vesak Day) Time: 7:30am Venue: Sungai Sedim, Kulim
Please let Jacinta know your attendance. Ladies please help with food and drinks. Thank you.

9. Penang Open Day Committee Meeting
Date: 22 May 2011 (Sunday) Time: 12:30pm Venue: Corps
Committee members please be reminded.

Prayer Request

1. Pray for Captain Harry, Brother Chew Pong Hoe (Ah Boy) and Sis Rachel for speedy recovery.

2. Please pray for officers who has their additional appointment or appointment changed.

3. Pray for Corps Children's Day Camp, Territorial Youth & Women Camp.

4. Penang Open Day to be held on 3rd September 2011

5. Youth Hostel, to be run by Penang Corps.

Youth Fellowship 17 Apr 2011

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