“Fearing the word of the LORD”

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CHAIRMAN: JOHNATHAN TANG
SPEAKER: PASTOR Iain Davis
SCRIPTURES: Exodus 9:20-21

Sermon Notes:

• Ignoring the word of the Lord leads to death
• Fearing the word of the Lord delays destruction
• Faith in the Lord leads to life

News & Events:

• Pastor Andy preached at Chinese Gospel Church Scarborough this morning. Please pray for his sermon message to encourage the congregation there.
• English Prayer Meeting will take place 11:15—12:30 after service today at Cafetorium. Please join and pray together for each other and for our church.
• High School girls monthly gathering has been rescheduled to today 11:15—12:30 at PCA Room 308. Welcome all ladies from university and up to join together.
• High School (HS) boys will restart gathering on a monthly basis on every 2nd Sunday from February during post-service time.
• English is launching2 Sunday School courses (Feb-Jun) on the 1st and 3rd Sunday.  Strongly encourage all congregants (Gr 6 to adults) to sign up and enrol in the course you are interested in by Jan/25 (today):
  1.  New Testament Overview (by: Pastor Andy & Jon Lee)
  2.  Intro to Spiritual Disciplines (by: Pastor Iain & Alec Cheng)
• PGC cordially invite for your presence at the Ordination Service for Pastor Iain Davis and Pastor Andy Tse 10:30am on 2/15 (Sunday). Praise to the Lord!  Light refreshments will be served at 10:00-10:25, and there will be PGCKIDS and Nursery Service (11:30-12:30) that Sunday.
• Our English Pastors, Pastor Iain and Pastor Andy, are pleased to meet with you for caring, prayer needs, or sharing about life. Please feel free to sign up for your coffee time with them.
• Church Administrative Transition: The handover of church administrative responsibilities has been successfully completed, and Bertha has officially assumed the role. May the Lord bless her with wisdom and grace as she serves and grows together with us. Mabel will leave the Church Admin position in Feb. We thank her for her years of faithful service. May the Lord continue to bless her in her life and ministry with PGC.
• PGC church-wide retreat (May 16-18) will start registration from 1/25 (today) with early bird discount available until 2/15. Please approach the booth set up on 1/25 & 2/1 (this and next week) near Reception in Big Gym for registration and more details.  Looking forward to your participation in joining this meaningful retreat and taking part in various working groups for organizing the event.
• Invitation for all to praying for Summer Camp 2026 ministry, that God would use it for His Kingdom, and that many lives will be built up and transformed in Jesus Christ. May God also bless and provide in our CSJ funding application for youth employment.  All registration and applications open Monday, Jan/26 at 7:00AM peoplesgospelchurch.org/summercamp/
• There will be a Special PGC Membership Meeting to be held on Feb/8, 12:45-1:30pm at PCA Big Gym with the agenda item “Church Conflicts and Unity: Updates and Decisions from the Board”. The meeting will be for PGC Members to attend only.  Would PGC Members please reserve your time to attend.
• Sunday Morning Prayer Meeting (bilingual) takes place 08:30 — 09.15 at PCA Room 303 every week. Welcome all to join anytime during the period, form groups yourselves, and pray together.
• Hard copies of the PGC 20^th Anniversary Publication are now available. For those who have signed up for purchase, please make payment ($15) and collect your copy at the Reception Table.  Some extra copies are available for last minute purchase on a first-come-first-serve basis while stock lasts.

Prayer & Praise Items:

** Encourage use of PGC’s Prayer Card and be quiet, humble, turn back, seek and wait for God together (https://peoplesgospelchurch.org/files/2023prayercard.pdf) **

• Pray for the world as many places remain in warfare, churches are persecuted, many peoples are injured and weak physically and mentally. Pray for God’s grace and mercy in granting hope and peace to the world.
• Pray for God’s leading and guidance on the organization and serving teams of upcoming retreat, as well as summer camp. May God grant us unity, closely bond in Him to build up each other and glorify His name.
• Pray for church unity with love and accommodations in Christ among brothers and sisters in PGC that God will help us remove any barriers, conflicts and misunderstanding in our spiritual home.
• Pray for God’s wisdom to our pastors and church leaders to have biblical discernment, and our congregations be thirsty for God’s words. Let us be rooted in Christ and not be influenced by the secular world.
• Pray for Vika’s family that both her brother and mother are looking for work. May God provide for them jobs to be able to support their family and their needs in Ukraine.

Offering:

^“Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.”

– Malachi 3:10 (NIV)

PGC needs sufficient funds to provide for the needs of our different ministries.  Let’s respond to God’s love through our faithful and generous offering.

PGC welcomes your opinions and suggestions that help us improve further on Sunday Service, Sunday School and different ministries.  Drop them into our PGC Drop Box (for Offering & Opinions Collection) at PCA Big Gym.  Our pastoral staff and church leaders will review and follow up where appropriate.  Look forward to hearing from you.