Sunday
Worship Service| MISSIONS SUNDAY
“We cried as we went out to plant our seeds. Now we will celebrate and
shout as we bring in the crops.” ~Psalms 126:5
Morning Worship Service |Time: 11.00 am
Pa
Vumsuan, Chairman-TBMC, Welcome the congregants and made brief introduction of
Rev. Malcolm Eberhard, an Australian national and the speaker for today’s
worship service. Paite shawl and tie were gifted to him as a token of love. He
then went on with the Missionary Fields report from: Nepal, Karbi Anglong,
Manipur and Dhemaji with the help of slide shows through a projector.
Rev.
Malcolm introduced himself briefly and made his sermon based on the scripture
portion of Luke 18:35 - 19:10 which was about the healing of a blind beggar and
the transformation of Zacchaeus, the chief tax collector, both by Jesus Christ
while on His way between Nazereth and Jericho. The first character is of a
blind beggar, an oppressed class in the society, who stood in public places having
no other means of livelihood than begging. Jesus healed him from his blindness
and freed him from dependency. The second character is about a tax collector
who belonged to a wealthy/ rulling class. When he heard about the coming of
Jesus, he climbed up a tree on the road-side desiring to see Jesus. His meeting
with Jesus transformed his life – once a proud and corrupt officer now became
an honest and humble person. Transformation can be achieved only by the grace
of God which is a free gift for us, but it costs God very dearly. Reverend
concluded his sermon with a heart-touching story of Scottish soldiers captured
by the Japanese soldiers during the World War II. At the end of the war when
the prisoners were released, they had no hatred towards their captors.
Pastor
V. Nenglian then made a Pastoral Prayer for the congregants as was usually done
on every first Sundays of a month.
Announcements:
ü
Question Paper for 2nd
Sunday school exams is out. The same can be downloaded from the church’s
website. Annual Sunday school final examination is slated for 15/11/2015.
ü
Joint Worship Motivation programme
will be held on 7th November 2015 hosted by both the EBC churches in
Delhi alongwith ZCF Delhi beginning from
9:30am.
ü
Missions outreach programme will be
held on 14th November 2015.
ü
MTF Delhi invites the congregants to
support and participate at their rally to be organized on 4th
November 2015 (Wednesday), 2pm at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.
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Evening Worship Service |Time: 4.00 pm
Pastor
V. Nenglian made a summary of the Sermon of the morning worship service and
also reproduced in brief the report made by the Tualsung Baptist Missions
Committee (TBMC) earlier. He then made a Pastoral Prayer for the congregants as
was usually done on every first Sundays of a month.
Report
from the Moonlight Ministry was made by Evan. Paul Pauzakham, their Director.
He mentioned how his ministry, based on the scripture portion from Matt. 5:14
‘You are like light for the whole world’ was established, grew and expanded
from a very humble beginning. The ministry based only on faith, hope and a
meager sum of Rs.1000/- only, way back in 2008. He elaborated the calling he received
for the ministry. He compares himself with the moon. The moon has no light of
its own but reflects the light it received from the sun. He has nothing in
himself but just that he transmits whatever he receives from the Lord to the
unbelievers. The Ministry has 10 Prayer support team members who are acting
like the managing board.
He
started his ministry with a secular approach like Spoken English Course, Guiter
Class, Tuition class, etc. amongst the Muslims. Later, he balanced those
classes with counseling and discourse on some simple Christian faith. As time
passed, he faced obstacles financially and in balancing the Spoken English
course with sharing the Gospel. He is now convinced that real success in our
purpose comes only after we sacrificed things that we hold too dearly. The
moment he focused on the Gospel he began to win lost souls. His ministry is
expanding as he received sponsors from various sources. He also thanked EBCC
Delhi, Dwarka, for extending financial support. The ministry is not free from
problems. One big challenge they are facing currently is that of cultural
differences. They are looking out for one translator and one local evangelist.
Based
on the scripture portion from Luke 10:25-37, he gave a short sharing on ‘The
Good Samaritan.’ Once a man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho was waylaid by
robbers. He was left half dead and unconscious. Meanwhile a priest and a Levi
both came across this helpless travel but ignored him. Later, a Samaritan also
came travelling that way and when he saw that man, he felt sorry for him. He
treated his wounds and take care of him.
He
concluded this story by adding that like this Samaritan we should never pull
back our hands, rather we should stretched our hands out to help others. Later BYF
combine team of JNU and Vasant Areas presented a melodious choir.
Announcements:
ü
Question Paper for 2nd
Sunday school exams is out. The same can be downloaded from the church’s
website. Annual Sunday school final examination is slated for 15/11/2015.
ü
Joint Worship Motivation programme
will be held on 7th November 2015 hosted by both the EBC churches in
Delhi alongwith ZCF Delhi beginning from
9:30am.
ü
Missions outreach programme will be
held on 14th November 2015.
ü
MTF Delhi invites the congregants to
support and participate at their rally to be organized on 4th
November 2015 (Wednesday), 2pm at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.
~Lian
Suantak, Content Writer, EBCC Delhi.
