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For Internal Circulation Only 14 Dec 2014

My Response: Our Response during the service is an act of worship. Do write your reflections on a Response Form and place it in either of the Offering bags or in the Black Box at the Hall entrance. Holy Communion: We welcome baptized believers to join in the Lord’s Supper.

Offering: Red Bag - General & Ministry Fund/Blue Bag - Missions Fund. If giving by cheque, you need to address it to: “Bethesda Frankel Estate Church”

4 La Salle Street, Singapore 456930. Tel: 6448 1800 Fax: 6448 0831 Email: bfec@bfec.org.sg Website: http://bfec.org.sg Church Office Opening Hours: Mon-Fri: 9am-6pm Sat & Sun: 9am-1pm

2014 Motto: “But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” 2 Peter 3:18a

Pulpit Series: “Who is Jesus?” Services:- 8 - 9.30am & 10– 11.45am

Topic: “I am the Way & the Truth & the Life”

Scripture Text: John 14: 1-14 Speaker:- Elder Ernest Chew

1. Connections & Corollaries:

John's Gospel's Seven Signs & Seven Statements.

“I AM…” and “You are/will be....”

2. Context: From the Crowds to the Inner Circle,

Communion, Conversations, Concerns (John 13-17)

3. Crossroads: “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).

Three-in-One -- the Way Home

3.1. “I am the Way” -- Identity, Itinerary, Road and Route

Link with “I am the Door” and “the Good Shepherd”.

3.2. “The Truth” -- Integrity, Revelation of Reality

Link with “I am the Light of the world” and “the True Vine”.

3.3. “The Life” -- Indwelling Relationship

Link with “I am the Living Bread” and “the Resurrection and the Life”

Life anew, abundant, eternal through Cross and Resurrection, conversion and renewal.

“Jesus is the way to the Father's house and the truth about the Father's heart; but He is also the one who brings us the Father's

help as we abide in Him and share His life” (Warren Wiersbe, Jesus in the Present Tense, p.120).

4. Challenge: Where are you today? Who is Jesus to you? Why One Way?

“The way is not an abstraction, a slogan, a principle. It is a metaphor: a road, a path, a street, a highway, a trail, and

simultaneously a person, a body that we can see and a spirit that we cannot see …” (Eugene Peterson, The Jesus Way, pp.36-37).

It is a metaphor that leads to metamorphosis!

4.1. “You are the Walkers”

4.2. “You are the Truth-Tellers”

4.3. “You are the Life-Transformers”

The testimonies of St Thomas, St.Catherine, Fanny Crosby, Pope Francis and Philip Ng.

Your test and testimony?

Come, Walk, Know, Live…

Christmas Super Sunday Next Sunc @ 10am at level 2

Keep this for your Prayers & Participation

Reminder: Please submit any announcement for consideration in the next bulletin by Tuesday.

14 Dec 2014

Have A Prayer Request? Write it in the Response Form so

we can alert the F.I.R.E. team to pray with you.

Frankel Intercessors Ready Everywhere & everytime

51 Cell Groups… meet during the week. To join, contact Francis Soh,

Tel: 64495648 /96919178. Email: francissoh@bfec.org.sg

9214 (Seniors): Fellowship (Sun 10am); Games (Thu 3pm)

Church Prayer Ministry: Fri 8pm 2Cor 9:15 - Speaker: Letch .

Foreign Indian Workers’ Fellowship: Sat 9pm. Ground Floor Classroom at front

playground.

Ministries’ Christmas Celebrations This week: 1. Ladies’ Group: Carolling this Tue, 6.30-10.30pm. Meet in church.

2. Peranakan Service: Christmas celebration this Sat,3-7pm in church.

Pulpit Series: “Who is Jesus?” Date Topic Speaker

Today I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life Elder Ernest Chew

21 Dec I am Jesus Pastor Tang Kok Fai

BFEC Christmas

Devotional

JESUS - THE GIFT FROM GOD’S HEART

A Weekly Devotional to prepare us for Christmas

OTHER MEETINGS THIS WEEK

Spare copies

available at the

church office.

Christmas Day Service Thu Dec 25… One Service Only @ 9.30am,

Speaker: Elder Melville Szto Bring your loved ones & friends to this

evangelistic service

Theme: “Where is He?” We would like all parents to encourage

& support their JSS-going children to

invite their pre-believing peers to this exciting & energetic evangelistic event!

You could even arrange to pick them up!

Front Car Park lots for 1st Time Guests To help 1st time guests to BFEC, from today, we will reserve 3 lots in the front car park for their use. Please help us inform

your guests. Signages will be put up. Members can still park in

remaining lots and at the back car park. Back Car Park Reminder: should you park at the back car park, you must (1) place your

name & mobile number on your dashboard if you double park and

(2) be prepared for the event that your car may only be retrieved after the

second service is over (around noon).

This year, our traditional Christmas Cheer Gift offerings

will be received during Sunday Services in December.

May we prayerfully consider setting aside this gift, to be put in envelopes provided marked “Cheer Gift Offering”

created for your use and placed into any offering bag.

As before, the Cheer Gifts received will be apportioned

to our full-time, pastoral & missionary staff (as their bonus),

associated missionaries and the needy. Cheques must be

addressed to “Bethesda Frankel Estate Church Ltd” and not to any individual or ministry. Envelopes are available

at the entrance.

Cheer Gift 2014…

Do help yourself to the invite cards

Gifts to every Frankelite family…

If you would like additional copies of the Calendar or the Book as a gift

to friends, please buy copies from the tables outside Annexe.

*Book: $16.

*Calendar: Free-will offering; proceeds to Bible Society of Singapore.

Baptism Service Today… Let us rejoice with 2 brothers & 3 sisters

as they go through the waters of baptism. May they grow in the grace &

knowledge of our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ.

Baptisers - Elder Chong Kum Wah (8am Service)

Elder Roland Tan (10am Service)

8am Service: Sister Chow Ah Keng 周雅卿

10am Service:

1. Sister Brenda Tan Si Hui 3. Brother Joshua Lee Jun Yi

2. Sister Tan Hui Jin 4. Brother Josiah Tan Hsien Hwee

Grow@Noon goes Carolling - 20 Dec & 21 Dec, 5-10pm!

We will be visiting 6 places, including a foreign workers'

dormitory. Appreciate your prayers for Grow@Nooners

in this evangelistic outreach.

Vocation, Work and Ministry Biblical Graduate School of Theology (BGST) is partnering

with BFEC & Bethesda Chapel to bring theological education closer to us. This

inaugural course by Tan Soo-Inn will help you better understand the context of

the world of work today, the Bible’s teaching on work and vocation, and what

one has been called to do to be part of God’s purposes.

Starting 27 Jan 2015 (over 11 Tue nights). Venue: Bethesda Chapel

(near Kembangan MRT station). Course fee: $360(credit)/$252(audit).

Sign up for the FREE INTRO SESSION!

For above 2 courses please sign up at the table outside the annex

after service or tel: 64491843 or email: seowcheng@bfec.org.sg

Dates: Fortnightly Thu, starting 8 Jan 2015

Time: 7.45 -10 pm Venue: Chapel Cost : $20

Topic: Becoming a Friend of the Faithful God - Precept

Upon Precept (Gen Part 3)

This is an Inductive Bible Study Course on Abraham. Learn principles and

truths from the life of Abraham, the friend of God, that will ground you in

your faith, challenge you in your walk, and give you hope in your future. In the life of Abraham, we see God's choosing and the further unfolding of

His redemptive plan. You can join in without having attended Gen Pt 1 & 2. Praise God for a great turnout of foreign Indian workers last Sat to hear the

Christmas message. 15 indicated they want to accept Jesus as their personal Saviour, 37 indicated they wanted to know more about Jesus. Pray for follow-up of all

concerned.

Each family/household is given a complimentary copy of the Book &

Calendar. To facilitate distribution, we are giving them out via the small groups.

If you haven’t done so, small group leaders or appointed representatives

are to collect these outside the Annex after the Worship Services today.

Those who are still not in any small groups may sign out for your copy

(1 per family).

A must-read,

find out how

BFEC’s story

is linked to

other brethren

churches!

Be sure to also get our special BFEC Calendar,

printed in association with the Bible Society of Singapore.

2. 2015

Church

Calendar

1.

“The

Brethren

Story”