Coming Up
National Church Conference
Aug. 25-27 at FGA, Kuala Lumpur
THEME: Transformation - Leading with Creativity and Conviction in Crisis
SPEAKERS: Rev. Barry Boucher and Paul De Jong
REGISTRATION FEE: RM100
The presence of a church is felt in its community when it goes out to serve the neighbourhood in areas where help is sorely needed. Many churches have successfully started and run community programmes that have impacted their neighbourhood.
In line with this, NECF Malaysia is organising this conference to spur churches to move out of their doors into their communities. The conference will feature some successful community programmes, such as dialysis centres, children's homes, disaster relief work, drug rehabilitation centres and two grocery-related ministries that sell essential goods at either subsidised prices or free-of-charge to the needy. Churches and para-church organisations running these programmes will share their stories.
Pastors, leaders and all Christians who desire to make a different in their communities are strongly encouraged to attend the conference to be inspired and also to network.
Rev. Barry Boucher is one of the three founders of The Life Centre, Ottawa (Canada). He has been deeply committed to citywide ministry and has been actively involved in the Ottawa Pastor's Prayer Fellowship. With his wealth of experience, Barry will be sharing on the importance of "Spiritual Fathers" and "fatherhood" to nurture and equip the younger generation.
Barry will also share ways how we can rediscover our calling, not so much as a vocation, but to lead the church to impact the community, that will transform the nation through the local church.
Two particular themes he will be addressing are 1)Transformational Prayer 2)Authentic Relationships.
Paul De Jong - New Zealand has a Christian heritage; however, it is besieged by a host of social ills and ranks among the countries with the highest teenage pregnancy, alcohol abuse and suicide rate. This diversified ethnic and cultural backdrop with a myriad of social problems is similar to Malaysia. Paul, senior pastor of LIFE, one of the fastest growing churches in Auckland, will share his church and leadership models which have played an influential role in TRANSFORMING the multi-ethnic city of Auckland and culture for Jesus!
Students' Ministry Forum
Sept. 7 at Canning Garden Methodist Church, Ipoh
Theme: "Students & Schools Ministry - A Partnership between Parents, Teachers and Churches"
The future of our nation rests on our youths. The Church therefore needs to proactively and passionately pursue ministries that reach out to them, especially the teens in schools.
This pursuit is all the more urgent considering the constantly-changing education policies, and the fact that the policies and school authorities dictate how schools are run and how our children's mindset is shaped.
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Retreat for Full-time Single Women’s Workers
Sept. 10–12 at Port Dickson
Single women who are serving full-time in Christian ministries are invited to a retreat for a time of rest, recreation and networking.
Organised by the NECF Malaysia Women's organisation, the retreat is fully sponsored by appreciative Christians who wish to honour these single ladies who have devoted their lives to the service of God.
Two speakers - single ladies themselves who have been in ministry for a long time - will be sharing their experiences.
They are Dr Teresa Chai, currently the President of Alpha Omega International College and also Mission Pastor of Grace Assembly, Petaling Jaya; and Nesam Ebenezer who had served in Malaysian Care in various caring ministries for 20 years. Presently, she is a lay pastor at St Paul's Church, Petaling Jaya.
Although single women, like the Apostle Paul, have many advantages over their married colleagues, they face unique challenges in their work.
Hence, the retreat provides a good opportunity for them to invigorate their spirits in a time of ministering and bonding with other like-minded servants.
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However, reaching out to youths in our schools cannot be done in isolation by the concerned parties (teachers, parents or churches). To achieve far-reaching impact for our nation and churches, effective Students and Schools' Ministry (SSM) requires the synergic partnership of all - teachers, parents, churches, and concerned para-church ministeries.
In light of this, NECF Malaysia, through the NECF YouthNet, and several organisations will be jointly holding a special forum to brainstorm ways to effectively impact students. The organisations include the Malayan Christian Schools Council (MCSC), Teachers' Christian Fellowship (TCF) and Scripture Union (SU).
The forum aims to:
- Re-look at schools as an important mission-field and chart long-term strategy towards developing our youths as nation-builders of tomorrow;
- Bring together parents, teachers and churches to synergise their roles as agents of transformation, for example through parent-teacher association and schools' Christian Fellowships; and
- Brainstorm how to make SSM effective and impactful.
Parents, teachers, youth workers (including uniformed bodies), senior pastors, church leaders and youths are strongly urged to attend.
Malaysian Youth Missions Conference 2009
Sept. 20 - 23. at D’Village Resort, Melaka
The conference kicks off the vision to start a Malaysian youth missions movement to stir Malaysian youths to take up the call of the Great Commission. It is initiated by the Youth Track of Malaysian Centre for Global Missions in partnership with others including NECF YouthNet.
There will be over 20 workshops highlighting the various aspects of missions involvement, Missions Fair, testimonies from young Malaysian missionaries and tentmakers serving in various nations and Cultural Tent experiences.
Registration fee is RM270 by 1st August and RM290 thereafter.
Contact theplan09@gmail.com or visit www.theplan09.weebly.com for more information.
RunNat 09
October 10, 5.00a.m. to 12p.m.
Christians, especially Christian youths, throughout Malaysia who wish to experience the thrill of running and praying at the same time for their cities are urged to sign up for RunNat (Run for the Nation).
It may not come close to extreme sports, but RunNat is nevertheless a challenging event as the runners will have to focus on their five km-run while taking turns to pray aloud.
The vision of the national run is simply to inspire our youths to have a prayerful heart for the nation; the spillover effect is that Christians across denominations will be united in prayer for the nation.
And so on October 10, runners in all the state capitals of Malaysia will hit the trail at 5.00a.m. for their run past homes, schools, offices, government buildings and religious sites.
In teams of three to five, they will pray for the people in the buildings as they pound the streets. And instead of carrying torches, they will carry prayer cards which they will pass to the next team at the end of their five kilometre- route.
The run is organised by Sports Partnership Malaysia, supported by NECF Malaysia and covered by the GDOP (Global Day of Prayer) Kuala Lumpur committee.
On May 23, 2010, RunNat will partner GDOP Malaysia for a 10-day "Olympic-type" prayer run where the last team of runners will enter the Melawati Stadium in Shah Alam and run around the track to kick off the GDOP Concert.
This prayer run was first held on Oct. 5, 2007 where 105 Christians in various teams ran a total of 160 km within the Klang Valley.
For further details and to register as a runner, visit www.runforthenation.com or email enquiry@runforthenation.com or organising chairman Victor Chua at 019-2246886 or victor@runforthenation.com
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