“The death of the firstborn”

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CHAIRMAN: Johnathan Tang
SPEAKER: Rev. Iain Davis
SCRIPTURES: Exodus 11

Sermon Notes:

– God is Sovereign over Life

– God is Sovereign over Death

– God is Sovereign over Salvation

News & Events:

• Ash Wednesday on 2/18 has started the 40-day season of Lent this year.  It is a period of fasting before Easter when we shall prepare ourselves for Easter, to focus our hearts on the suffering of Jesus and be filled with gratitude for His sacrifice.  Recommend congregants to take this Lent period and make some changes in our daily living.  The practice of “fasting” can take forms of giving up certain foods, social media, gaming, movies/tv shows. Meanwhile, let’s practice fasting for a purpose, namely reading bible, spending time in prayers, listening to sermon, leading your family in Easter devotions, etc.  Let us get ourselves prepared and be full of hope on Easter Day.
• 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.
• English Appreciation Lunch hosted by Caring Team for 2025 helpers and their families, will be held 12:30—14:30 at Cafetorium. Helpers who have already signed up please be reminded to stay behind and join together.
• Rev. Tam is taking stress leave to care for himself and his family. Please keep him and Annie Cmo in your prayers, that God will comfort them, and bring them peace.
• Please note that 2025 Donation Receipts are now available for pickup after service at Reception Table inside PCA Big Gym. For enquiry, please contact Alec or Iris, or email to offering@peoplesgospelchurch.org.
• Another Special PGC Membership Meeting will be held on 3/8, 12:45-13:30 at PCA Big Gym with the agenda item “Updates on PGC’s Land Development”. PGC Members please reserve your time to attend on that Sunday.
• Pastors Iain & Andy have been teaching and preaching on the issue of Membership, and we would like to hear from you! If you are interested in talking about membership please sign up, and we will host an event where we can talk, share and have an open dialogue. All are welcome!
• PGC church-wide retreat will take place on 5/16-18 at Trent University Peterborough . If you have registered for the early bird discounted rate on or before 2/15, please be reminded to make payment by 3/1 to avoid falling back to regular rate.  Registration remains open with regular rate now (online registration: forms.gle/NEQqPm2yT9pxMpeR6) .  Please approach Millie or Retreat Registration Table set up today for in-person registration, payment and more details.
• Praise God! Children’s Camp is sold out, and Youth Fellowship Camp is nearly full. Please pray for the recruitment of our Youth Ministry Team—especially for an adult Camp Director and additional high‑school‑aged Counselors. May God be glorified through PGC’s disciple‑making summer ministry, and may He provide the CSJ youth funding needed for this work.
  peoplesgospelchurch.org/summercamp/
• There remains some extra hard copies of the PGC 20^th Anniversary Publication for purchase at $20 each on a first-come-first-serve basis while stock lasts.. If you are interested, please make payment and collect one at Reception Table.
• 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.

Prayer & Praise Items:

** Encourage use of PGC’s Prayer Card and be quiet, humble, turn back, seek and wait for God together (pgcmarkham.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.