St James' Church

17 discipleship groups are starting on Phase 2 of our Teleios programme in Sept. The next round will start sometime in March next year. I trust that some of you will consider joining in then.

We welcome Pastor Sai Moi as she preaches the Word this morning. Sai Moi has served in another large Anglican parish for over 30 years in various pastoral capacities. As Vicar, I am only too glad that she can assist me in pastoring the flock (via the Cell ministry) and sharing in one of my key pastoral responsibility in the ministry of the Word. She has been visiting various Cells since she joined us on the 1st of June and I am sure by now, some of you have gotten to know her personally....

Have you ever wonder how we should respond to the sermons we hear every Sunday? Since I became a church-goer at 13, I must have listened to over a thousand sermons.
Before I can finish processing the one I heard last week, a new one comes hard hitting, in the face and soul-piercing. Often, I find some of the sermon series in SJC coming at me in that manner. It is easy to forget what was said, given our limited ‘storage’, as a more current one replaces what was heard a while back....

“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......

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