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Next Worship Service

Sunday, March 24, 2024
Palm Sunday

Scriptures: Isaiah 50:4-9a
Message: “The Sovereign LORD
Preacher: Rev. Lian Chin-Siong

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Announcements

*** Announcements for the Week of March 17th ***

  • SMALL GROUPS MEETING
    1. The Word & Bread small group will meet in Room 702 after the service today.
    2. The Young Professionals will meet in Room 801 at 19:30 on Friday, March 22.
  • HOMELESS MINISTRY OUTREACH
    The Homeless Ministry team will start preparing meals in the 12th floor kitchen at 13:30 this afternoon. Any help is welcome!
  • MONTHLY BIBLE STUDIES
    The monthly Bible Studies will be held in Room 702 after the service next Sunday (3/24). Rev. Lian will conclude the Gospel Book of Mark and then introduces Ephesians and Psalms.
  • EASTER EVENTS IN THE COMMUNITY
    Please join SLPC’s Easter events on Sunday, March 31. We will help clean the neighborhood and also sing hymns in the nearby parks. If you can participate, please register online by clicking the link below for event coordination. Thank you. https://forms.gle/YjfTRfq4UcU3PQFJA
  • WELCOME TEAM RECRUITMENT
    EM’s Welcome Team is recruiting! If you would like to serve and engage more in EM, the Welcome team is a good place to start. Contact its team leader, Mandy, if you can lend a helping hand. Thank you.
  • OFFERTORY RECORDS VERIFICATION
    SLPC encourages its congregation to verify his/her offertory records through SLPC’s Line OA member service. Contact James for help on access.
  • CHURCH BUILDING OFFERTORY
    Please use the dedicated offertory envelopes, which can be picked up at the Welcome Tables, for the church rebuilding offerings.
  • SLPC PRAYER MEETINGS
    SLPC will host prayer meetings in Taiwanese and Mandarin in the 7th floor chapel every Thursday night from 19:30 to 20:30. Pastors of SLPC will lead the meetings. We encourage brothers and sisters to attend.
  • THE ELECTRONIC CONNECT CARD
    The electronic version of the Connect Card can now be accessed by scanning the new QR Code below.
    eConnectCard
    Or by clicking this link: https://forms.gle/AJqmNU2HkizjJXNH6
  • SCAN OR CLICK TO SIGN-IN EVERY SERVICE
    Please scan the service QR Code around the Chapel entrance or on the bulletin, or click the Sign-In link that will be posted in the EM Family Line group chat each Sunday morning for attendance.

***Special Notice***

Hello brothers and sisters in Christ! May the peace of Christ be with you!

The Taiwan CDC has loosened its policies on the COVID-19 restrictions. However, it’s an enclosed space inside the church. As a result, please observe the following guidelines when inside the church premises:

1. Please make sure you have your masks properly worn when entering and inside the church. Disinfect your hands with alcohol if necessary. Maintain social distancing whenever possible.

2. If you don’t feel well, exhibit symptoms of cold, or have been in close contact with people who are contracting COVID-19, please consider to stay at home and participate the online service instead.

3. Food and drinks are conditionally allowed inside the church compound.

Thank you and let’s worship God together on Sundays!


Electronic Sunday Bulletin
EM encourages its congregation to use the electronic version of the Sunday bulletin to save paper.  Please click the following link to access the eBulletin:

https://shorturl.at/rKMTU

Or scan the following QR code.

If you have any suggestion regarding the eBulletin, please let us know.  Thank you!


SERVE IN EM

Come and serve in EM!  You can join the Liturgy, the Audio/Video team, the Praise team, the EM Choir, the Homeless Ministry team, or the Kids Club.  Email: emcaresforyou@gmail.com for more info.

Bible Verse for the Week


Hebrews 5:8
"Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered"


WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL

Reconciliation and Forgiveness

Nigel Lindsay / Presbyterian Church in Grenada

Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. ~ Ephesians 4:31-32

Why block your relationships with God and those around you?

I have worked and lived as a social worker, mental health worker, community worker and church minister in the UK, Nigeria, Kenya, Grenada and for a short time in Fiji. All the places have slight variations, but what blocks people from achieving all God has planned for them is often unforgiven hurts from the past.

Sometime they cannot remember why they don’t speak to a certain person, but still the hostility continues. It causes more hurt to them that the person who upset them in the first place. Is that you?

Ephesians 4:31-32 says 31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. 32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

But forgiveness is difficult and we may need others to help us and we certainly need God to help us. The first stage has to be prayer for the person we need to forgive and for help for ourselves.

A child I worked with in school was so angry with classmates, I visited his mother. She was so angry about boys throwing mud at her house window, which had happened a year before, had been reported, and had not continued. She was stuck and showed hostility to people outside the home and the son was acting out Mum’s modelling. When I was able to work with Mum and found out about so many unresolved issues from her past and helped her forgive and accept, both mother and child were able to form good relationships for the future. In Matthew 6:14-15, after teaching the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus says: 14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

When we don’t forgive our relationship with God is blocked.

In Fiji, as I remember, when we first came to a community and were welcomed, we asked for forgiveness for the things we may say or do which may offend. As hard as we try not to wrong either in what we say, do or don’t do, cultures and peoples are all different and we will make mistakes. But we have a loving and forgiving God who died so that we can be forgiven. God expects us to follow his example and forgive too.

In many of our churches each week, we have a prayer to say sorry, and it is best to do it sooner than later. The longer you leave, it the harder it is. Unfortunately, in spite of regularly saying the Lord’s Prayer and teaching forgiveness, some people in churches hold on to un-forgiveness and it blocks them and blocks the church from growth numerically and spiritually.