Sunday Service
- Adult 1st Service: 9AM
- Adult 2nd Service: 11AM
- Youth Service: 10:45AM
Two Services from February: Another Growing Pain!
As we watch the remodeling of our New Life Kids (NLK) wing coming to completion, we are getting excited thinking about what God will do for our children in that facility. Let's pray that God will raise up great men and women through our children's ministry who will live and die for Him in their generation.
Starting from next Sunday, we will have two worship services beginning at 9 and 11AM. And this is how the worship service will look like:
Welcome & Church News
Praise
Shepherd's prayer (Children get dismissed after the prayer)
Praise
Testimony (if there is any)
Mes...
Once a Shepherd, Always a Shepherd
We often hear, “Once a marine, always a marine.” This expression does not mean that a marine, once he joins the Marine Corps, does not ever get discharged but stays there until he or she dies. This means that once a marine, he or she embodies the spirit of the marine corps. I think this truism is perfect for Shepherds of house churches; “Once a Shepherd, always a shepherd.”
House church is the matter of spirit. If people understand and adapt house church as a program, I am sorry to say that they inevitably fail. These people wonder why they do not bear fruits when ...
3 strand prayer service is heating up
3 strand prayer is in full swing right now. Looking at the lines of cars rushing toward the church in the cold around 5 AM in the morning, I think about how we are a blessed congregation and church. I guess the pastor next to my church had a chance to come in to work early one day (American pastors don’t pray early in the morning, so they normally start work at 8 in the morning), and he asked what we were doing so early in the morning, marveling at the crowd.
This year, we had about 100 more in attendance than the last year on the first day. On the second day the ...
Family Reunion
This past week was pretty busy for me and my wife. It was because my niece from New Jersey, my younger brother's family and third older sister's family from Atlanta visited us for about a week. I invited Grace, my niece, who is a senior in high school, to come down so she can go to our youth group's winter retreat since she has never been to any youth retreats in the past. The two families from Atlanta came to see how I was doing because they were concerned about my eyes.
It wasn't easy hosting nine extra people all at my house for several days. Although we didn't eat ...
New Changes to Come in 2014
In this new year of 2014, there will be several new efforts or changes in our church. I would like to share some of them with you. The Parenting Bible Classes for Infant/Kindergarten and Elementary Age will disappear and instead will be replaced by Parenting Seminars from the spring quarter. There are many who do not have a chance to attend Parenting bible classes due to their short term nature with us, or some members missed taking the Parenting bible classes in time to be helpful after taking other requisite classes. To help with this situation, we decided to change ...
Being rich towards God
In our western culture, so many Christians have lost the heart of worship because we store up things for ourselves but not rich towards God. Many Christians are living in danger cultivating self-sufficient lifestyle that is deadly to their faith. The accumulation of wealth can be a great enemy to our spiritual life, because we would less likely to depend on God.
According to Jesus, some men will go far to forfeit and exchange their souls to gain the world (Matt. 16:26). Jesus is simply addressing the senselessness of the worldly ambition. Jesus talked about a rich fool ...
Greeting the End of This Year with Joy
Looking back this year, I am grateful to God’s grace for plenty of fruits in our church this year. First of all, we have been blessed to see many souls saved through our ministry. 170 people received Jesus as their Savior, and 162 people received baptism. I am truly grateful when I think about the joy of Mokjas, other people around them, and especially God when these people received Jesus and baptism.
Up to last Sunday, 250 new people enrolled in our church, but we don’t have big difference in Sunday attendance because many of these new people stay for a short ...