Meeting the Church Leaders - 29 Sept 2012

Have you even wondered what the LCEC Chairman does? Or what do pastors do besides preaching every single Sunday? Do you even know that there is a position called the Lay Leader or a committee called the Pastor Parish Relations Committee!!


If you are interested to know more, do come by this Saturday as we have invited some leaders of our very own church TMCPJ to have a forum session with us. It will be a very casual session where they will share with us what they do as leaders and you are also invited to ask them question:)

See you at 5.40pm in the Church Hall.

Love,
MYF TMCPJ

CG outing this weekend!

Dear ALL,

We will be having a CG outing this Saturday! Kindly ask your CG leader what's going on! But before we leave church, we will be having prayer at 5.40pm and worship at 6pm together.

See you!

AWAKEN 2012

A youth-led church wide intercession & worship by youth, for youth and to all who wants to see the reawakening of the Malaysian Church and reigniting God’s power and glory in our generation. We want to invite you to participate with us! A bus will be leaving TMCPJ around 5.45pm so please contact Mei-Xin @ 012-3278015 if you need transport or any other information. Be part of the community! AWAKEN 2012 Facebook AWAKEN 2012 Event Page

MYF CAMP 2012: Youth With A Mission

MYF TMC PJ joins other youths AT SSMC

September 15. 6 - 10pm. it is a youth gathering to pray+worship. it is happening in SSMC. this event is to target the youths from churches in klang valley. we want to bring people from different churches to pray and worship TOGETHER. we want to awaken the eyes of people to the need for REVIVAL in our lives and land. there's much that there is going wrong with our country, in our churches and our lives. we want to share the need to pray for a difference in this land. there must be change. but what can we do you may ask? well, its simple. we can PRAY. we make our stand, we can be a change simply by PRAYING. that's out first step. and we're going to try to make that first step. :) A van will be leaving TMC PJ around 5.30pm! Not to worry, we will keep you updated!

Mentoring Youth Part II

by Dr Herbert Tan

Date: 28 July 2012
Day: Saturday
Time: 1pm - 6pm
Venue: TMC Methodist Church PJ

For more info, you can contact Mei-Xin at 012-3278015

This Saturday's BIG DAY OUT to KL Wesley

For those following our van, MEET IN TMCPJ AT 11.15am

MYF Camp 2012 =D

Kindly click "YOUTUBE" to watch this video more clearly on Youtube.


This year, by God's grace we are having a mission trip in place of our usual MYF camp! So instead of receiving, we will be sharing God's Word with other people! Registration forms will be out very soon. It will be during the Hari Raya weekend 18-20th Aug. We can only bring around 30 people in and we are keen to have youths who have a heart for God and his people. Hope to see you there!

Uncle Sam!

Remember him?


He was with us during our Youth Worship Workshop if you were there! This time, he will be spending several weeks with us to share on our Attitude Towards God. He is currently serving in Whispering Hope Methodist Church, a church that primarily caters to youths from other parts of Malaysia who will be in KL/PJ studying or working for a while. A thriving community of young people,  Dr Sam has been a blessing to many and will surely be to us as he shares on how our response towards what God has done for us be. 

23/06   Honour & Reverence
30/06   Trust & Obey

MYF small group bible study week

bring your bible!

NO Iphone,  

NO  Ipod, 

NO Ipad allowed

What we're up to this Saturday......

9 JUNE 2012

Holidays are here

As such, there is NO MYF meeting this weekend. We will also be having our biannual church camp, so please keep the families and individuals going in prayer. Pray that together we will grow as one body in Christ. Pray also for the upcoming Youth Prayer Conference (brochure is on the right). In the mean time, as we go our separate ways for these 14 days, keep everyone in your prayers! Pray that God will help us all to be persistent in our walk with Him as we develop a sensitive ear in our spirits to listen (and to obey). Short notes on what we learnt last week will be up pretty soon. Have a great week ya'll!

QT Challenge

We will be starting our daily Quiet Time together as an MYF starting tomorrow. Next weekend, we will meet up for the 1st time in small random groups to share on how God has spoken to us through His Word. Here is a short recap on what Mrs Louisa shared to help you begin your QT journey. Have fun!

WHY?

1. We were created and saved to have a love relationship with the living God.
2. Because we want to know God more. (There is a difference between knowing someone and knowing about someone. Example: Wayne Rooney.)
3. We want to know what He has to say to us. Doesn't everyone crave to listen to God? There's no short-cut. We hear by reading His Word.
4. We want to see what He has to show us.
5. We want to do His will.
6. We want to be changed and to become more like Him. (Relationship changes hearts. Example: couples grow to become more alike each day because they want to please each other)
7. God's word is our spiritual food. 

• 1 day without food: no feeling
• 3 days without food: feel's weird. Close friends and family will notice differences in your attitude.
• 1 week without food: other people will notice differences in you. You become very weak and powerless towards sin.
• More than 3 weeks without food: You return to dust and ashes. Your spiritual life is good as dead.

HOW?

1. Set aside 15 minutes. Go to a quiet place and devote that 15 minutes to God. Tell the people around you not to disturb you.
2. When you are settled, ask God to speak to you.
3. Have faith. (Faith is something you will grow in as your learn more about God: Faith comes from the knowledge of God. Read about faith in Heb 11)
4. Begin reading.
5. Meditate. (Reflect and ask God how you can apply the verse to your circumstance today)
6. Pick a sentence that "jumps out" or one that touches you. Chew on it.
7. Journal:

• Date
• Scripture
• Nature of verse: (Example to follow, command to obey, error to abstain from, sin, promise...)
• Something new you learnt about God. "God is..."

WHAT?

Here are few verses to help you begin if you don't know where to begin... 

1. Jeremiah 29:11-14
2. John 14:1-21
3. Romans 12
4. Matthew 5:13-48
5. Proverbs 3:1-6
6. Luke 6:27-42
7. 1 John 4

Mr & Mrs Evans

This week, we are beginning a new series titled Get Real.
It is about seeing God, not as a separate entity from who we are and uninvolved with our Monday to Friday lives. Mr Richard Evan's and his other half will be kicking off our new series! Beginning with Mrs Louisa Evans, who will be sharing on Quite Time: practical ways for youths to engage with the Word of God each day. What does it mean to be quiet anyway? Why do we need to be quiet? Many still sees it as my devotion to God in terms of works. "I have to do this. If I don't do it, I fail as a Christian" as opposed to, "I really want to see and listen to what God has shown and said. I want to know more. I want to see Jesus evidently in my life"

The week following next, Mr Richard Evans will be ministering on Spiritual Maturity and seeing the need to listen to Him everyday (through His Holy Word and the guidance of His Holy Spirit) and slowly developing the habit and love of spending time with Him everyday. Spiritual maturity in any person isn't so much of our own effort and hard work, but rather, it is being able to see Jesus Christ more and more and seeing ourselves as less and less. Seeing ourselves in dire need of a Saviour. 


 To find out more, join us in TMC PJ Church Hall this Saturday at 5.40pm! We begin with prayer (please please try not to come barge in). Worship starts at 6.10pm.

Bible Study this Saturday!

 "For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others... and to give His life as a ransom for  many,"

This verse in Mark 10 beautifully paints a picture of our study this week: Christ on the road to calvary, simply because of this hefty 3 lettered word that has brought all creation into slavery: SIN. As we prepare to listen to God's word this weekend.

Here are 2 chapters you may begin with:
Mark 14 & 15

Bible Study this Saturday!

Read Me so you have a rough idea of what's going on this Saturday! (click on the links below)


            Mark 2 
              & Mark 7

Set Apart From The World

"Set Apart From The World"

MYF 28/04/12

1 Peter
The background: A letter written to a group of persecuted Christians for their faith.
                    Even though they were persecuted, they had to submit to the authorities.

How should we react?
If the governing authorities do not do right, God will remove them in time.

Reminder: Repentance
                Guarding our hearts


What is your IDENTITY?

A chosen people:

Chosen to make the idea of one God known to the world

Responsible for sharing the word of God with others.

A royal priesthood:
To upload order

To bring healing

To bring people to God

A holy nation:

Ones set apart to carry God's standards

It doesn't necessarily mean that we then live a hermit's life, but we live in the world, not of the world.

What is our mission then?
To declare the praises of him who has called us out of darkness into His wonderful light

A people belonging to God:

Sons and daughters of a King

If we are shown mercy, how then do we live differently?

We choose to become a people who choose a different lifestyle:
Eg. We don't operate in a manner to use people.
       We stay watchful of constructive or destructive comments

How do I show my chosenness to God through....
- Social networking?
- My career?
- My school life?
- My life partner? Or my choices towards the future for a life partner?

Ways you can help and show your christian values on twitter or fb:
State something you are grateful for and end with #GreatfulProject


In conclusion,
Romans 12:1-2
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. ² Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is —his good, pleasing and perfect will.


Idols form your mind.
Give YOUR BODY over to God today and allow him to transform and renew your mind! :)

xx

Guarding Your Heart

There is no denying the world we currently live in is filled with evil, yes.. Evil.. Many people generalize evil to be something magical, something spiritual, something only the "bad guys" contribute to. Well let me tell you here, evil exists in this world not just in the "bad guys" alright? It is here and it is everywhere... Temptation to wrong, greed for money, pride in position, all these are evil too. Now we need to open our eyes to all that is around us, we need to know how the world is.. Now in doing this we are NOT blending in with the world, just KNOWING what is out there.. In knowing what evil awaits us out there in the world, we know what to prepare ourselves for.

Yesterday for myf, Miss Christina Ong shared on Setting Boundaries and Guarding your Heart.

Luke 6:45

A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

She shared our heart is the center of our well being, it controls our thoughts, desires and passion. That my friends is already such a good reason why we need to guard our hearts, I feel.. I mean think about it, Luke 6:45 above tells us good things come from a good heart, and vice versa, if now in this world we let our hearts be corrupted with greed, lust, pride... Imagine what garbage will come out of our lives.

Matthew 7:21-22

²¹ “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. ²² Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’

Here Christina was sharing to us about how we are fed with so many half truths in this world. Half truths being phrases telling us Jesus loves you no matter what you do, He doesn't look at your past, do not worry.. Seem true to you? Yes it is true, BUT!! The bible also tells us, when we receive God's gift of love and salvation, we no longer live as our old selves.. We are a new creation~

Psalm 119:9-11

⁹ How can a young person stay on the path of purity?
   By living according to your word. 

¹⁰ I seek you with all my heart;

    do not let me stray from your commands. 

¹¹ I have hidden your word in my heart

     that I might not sin against you.

Above lies the answer to what is the best way to guard our hearts.. We hide God's Word close to our hearts.. Spend time with him daily and learn from our meditations with Him. What about the times where we fail to guard our hearts? Yes friends, we are not perfect and all knowing.. There will be times when the evil one will get a strike on us. In those times, do NOT dwell in your hurts and bitterness. Give them to God and turn to Him, for He will heal your heart and give you a new one in return with a new well spring for life~ :) It says so here in Ezekiel 11:19

¹⁹ I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.

In conclusion my dear friends, guard your heart, for it is the source of life. With the word of God as the protective boundary.. And when we fall. Go back to God and allow Him to create a new heart for us!

Blog Revamp!

There here begins the revamp of this MYF blog which was once... Umm... Slow? Never mind that, ANYWAYS... Now it is gonna be updated regularly every Saturday night :D Ain't that great?! Haha! There will be pictures, (if there are any) this is why you do not hide from your friendly neighborhood photographer Joel So, or Sarah Chen, or Uncle Gary, or ... Okay whoever holding the camera! Alright, so what have MYF been up to lately, we just begun our series on Holiness, having Rev. Ting to speak on Repentance last Saturday.

Ingredients of Repentance

1. was the feeling of Remorse

The deep grieve in you that pulls you down with regret, wishing you never done what you just did...

(Luke 15:17-18)

2. The Turn

Here is the point where you make that U-turn away from your sins. It is not just turning away, but it is turning away and looking to God.

(Luke 19:8, Mark 10:21)

3. Change of Motivation

No point just turning away and changing the attitude in you, this ingredient pushes us to change our motivation in life... Our motivations could be to earn more money? Have a higher rank? Have more fun in the wrong ways? This is where it all STOPS and we have our motivation to be to please God.

(Matthew 3:4, Mark 10:21)

4. Trust God completely.Trust His Grace.

Trust Him that when He said it is finished on the cross, He meant it. Trust that His grace is sufficient for you. Rev. Ting went on to tell us that repentance is a gift from God. (Acts 5:31, 13:4, 19:4)

And she emphasized that repentance ALWAYS comes with forgiveness for our sins. (Acts 2:38, 3:19, 11:18) Repentance, my fellow MYF-ers, heals your well being. Your sins may seem more important to you. This is very real.. Yes, your sins may have the better for you... But when you do come to your senses and return back to Dad, your Father. He will run to you and throw a feast for you.

Just like the prodigal son who returned hurt and empty...

This is a painting by a famous artist in history named Rembrandt, this was his painting on The Prodigal Son Returns. Take a moment and observe this painting how the father embraces his son with love even though he returns so filthy. His father knew the point was NOT what his son had done, but the point was the repentance in his son's heart. (Luke 15:11-32)

A wise man once told me, you may run a 100 steps away from God, BUT the moment you take that 1 step back... God your Father, will run the 99 steps to you and hug you so tightly telling you He loves you, and He has been waiting for you to come back...