St James' Church

“Spiritual formation” is a phrase that is not as commonly understood as similar phrases like ‘discipleship’ and ‘leadership development’ yet it is something which I observed in recent years as critical in a spiritual leader’s development....

School is over for the day. It needed a 30-minute bus ride and a 15 minute walk to get to the church. In the heat of noontime, and carrying that heavy school bag, I was all hot and sweaty by the time I arrived.................

I shared about my late Aunt’s conversion to Christ last Sunday. This week I was exchaning thoughts with an old friend on how the church community in KL/PJ have been effectively witnessing (through Alpha and other ways). One by one, our relatives are being reached by the Gospel. This seems very unlikely when we first came to Christ in our teen years. But churches have been both obedient and living out their faith and thus, the witnessing impact....

We were very blessed at the recent Combined Camp at Concorde Hotel, Shah Alam (Malaysia). About 200+ campers from all three congregations were gathered.  Every session was interpreted into Mandarin, which worked well. Many were able to interact more closely across congregations and I am sure the bonds formed can be further strengthened with future opportunities........

The revised design will be submitted to URA soon for final approval, after securing approvals from National Parks and LTA. We are still keeping to schedule and aiming for reconstruction to start in early 2009......

In our effort to “love and change the world,” often we neglect to put sufficient effort to love and reach out to our neighbours next door. In the second greatest commandment, our Lord Jesus urged us to look across our shoulders: “to love our neighbours as ourselves.” Who may they be?

Mothers’ Day is probably one of the most commercialised events, where restaurants and related business profit from each year. It was however, not invented by the Florists’ Association; nor by a group of restaurants. It has its roots in the church’s tradition of Mothering Sunday, where it initially began from the thought of the Church as a ‘Mother Church’ and from there, moving on to celebrate the place and role of mothers in families............

This Sunday is our Trinity Theological College Sunday. We welcome Dr Tan Kim Huat to all our Services......

We can look back at a year and be thankful not just for the events but for the richness of life and ministry which we all share as a body.......

(An article by Archbishop Peter Jensen, Sydney) ONE OF THE GRAVEST weaknesses of contemporary Christianity is the little attention paid to the wrath of God. We have become sentimental and have so stressed the love of God as to become unwilling to talk about his wrath......

We were blessed by the visit of the team from Holy Trinity Brompton this week. It was led by Revd Nicky Gumbel and apart from renewing our vision for evangelism, there were also some worship events.......

It is encouraging to see the building fund going pass the $8 mil mark.  The design work of the building is coming along well......

Our JYM youths had an interesting 4 day Adventure Camp experience at Kota Tinggi this week. Though the wet weather scuttled many parts of the programme, it was one which bonded many of them closer together.............

Both Pas Andrew and me were away over two weekends to minister to a group of Canadian Anglican leaders. We met at a beautiful retreat center near the border, south of Vancouver. In spite of various challenges including visa difficulties, jet-lag and the cold, as a whole, the ministry went well...............

On Wednesday evening, we had 20 guests turning up at our Alpha Introduction Dinner. I have not met anyone of them before. It is a precious opportunities to meet those who don’t normally turn up in our church. The Alpha Course provides this special opportunity. Do pray that even more guests will turn up when the 3 Alpha Courses start this week. Each of them is precious in the eyes of our Lord. Do pray that they will make new friends and meet Christ in some way. And have you invited someone yet? ................

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