Issue No.43 — May till Oct 2013

PEM EVENTS

PEMNEWS

Message from Rosalinda Solano, Health Department, Peninsular Malaysia Mission

Revived and Reformed? Revival and reformation are widely talked about and studied topics these days, but do we experience revival and reformation in our lives? Probably yes, probably no, probably in some people it is more noticeable than others, I just wonder…, so the question still remains, even after learning so much about it, are we experiencing it?

What does it take to experience revival and reformation?

We need Christ, we need His Spirit to make the difference in our lives in order to be awakened and renewed to the life that we, as children of God should live. Paul reminds us in the book of Ephesians, he said “…you have heard about Jesus and have learned the truth that comes from Him, throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. Put on your new nature, created to be like God, truly right-eous and holy.” Eph 4:21-24

However, “The promise of the Spirit is not appreciated as it should be. Its fulfillment is not realized as it might be. It is the absence of the Spirit that makes the Gospel ministry so powerless”. COL p.328. So, while God’s people are still prioritizing petty worldly things and creating barriers for the Spirit to work then the Spirit’s power is withheld, and revival cannot be experienced, thus we have no reformation.

As God’s chosen people we need to experience Christ to be revived, before even trying to do anything at all as our efforts are fruitless anyways. We need to just ALLOW the Holy Spirit to make a change from within, then the results coming out of us may be that of a reformed life and then, only then will we start to revolutionize the world for Christ.

Let’s ponder on our lives now and pray earnestly that the Holy Spirit may be poured on us daily, so that we may experience true revival and reformation.

UPDATES OF THE EVENTS

Adventists @ Penang

On May 4, 2013, the Adventists @Penang Project, which launched in Penang and the planned events by the respective PEM departments and the SDA Churches in Penang from 2013 till 2015. We hope to have many special events by the PEM departments with the help of all membership in the Penang SDA Churches, and also to help them double their present member-ship among Penang SDA Churches. The aim to attain a baptismal goal of 180 souls per year by the end of 2015.

Updated Education Incentive

Distribution Dates: PEM Education Excellence Incentive Program has rewarded the students

on the following dates.

Regional Pastors Meeting Dates Southern Pastors Meeting - May 13, 2013 Northern Pastors Meeting - May 15, 2013 Central Pastors Meeting - May 20, 2013

Sabbath School Leaders Meeting Dates

Southern Region - July 28, 2013 Central Region - September 8, 2013 Northern Region - October 20, 2013

Stewardship Certification for Pastors

PEM Stewardship, Planned Giving & Trust Services Ministry organized a Stewardship Certification Semi-nar for Pastors, from June 17-18, 13. This seminar is a milestone as it is the first time a stewardship certi-fication seminar was organised exclusively for the Pastors and stewardship leaders in PEM. The main objective of the Seminar was to equip Pastors and Stewardship leaders in better understanding biblical stewardship principles and to be mentors in leading and nurturing others to be faithful stewards of God.

The main objective of the Seminar was to equip Pastors and Stewardship leaders in better understanding biblical stewardship principles and to be mentors in leading and nurturing others to be faithful stewards of God. A total of 31 participants, comprising of 29 Pastors from the English, Chinese, Tamil and Bahasa speaking churches and 3 treasurers, attended the Seminar. The Seminar consisted of 11 sessions led by Pr. Wendell and Pastor Edmund Liah. There was also a Strategic Planning session led by Alex Rajakumar, the Hon. Director for Stewardship, Planned Giving & Trust Services, PEM.

At the end of the Seminar, Certificate of Participation and a CD containing the Seminar ma-terials were presented to all participants. A special dedication prayer for commitment was offered by Pastor Leong Fai following his closing remarks.

18-May-13 Malacca

31-May-13 PD, Indian Camp

8-Jun-13 PEM Office

22-Jun-13 JB English

22-Jun-13 Kluang & Kulai

22-Jun-13 Penang

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Women Ministries Certification

Women’s Ministries Leadership Certification was conducted from June 15-16, 2013, at Mission Office. The Speakers were the following:

Madam Goh Cheng Siew, who taught WM Social & Legal Issues, Pastor Terrance Sim taught, “How to Prepare a Talk/ Sermon,” and Mrs. Tea Liu

Khim taught, “Balancing Home and Career.” Altogether 11 ladies attended the training: 4 from Sungai Way SDA Indian

Church; 2 from Puchong SDA Chinese Church; and 5 from Kuala Lumpur English Church.

Pathfinder Leadership Award Training—Parts 1 & 2

The Pathfinder Leadership Award—Part 1 for the Klang Valley Path-

finder Clubs were conducted from April 14—16, 2013 in the Mission

Conference Hall. Pr. James Edward and MG Renitta Edward were the

Instructors for the Seminars, where 30 Pathfinders and Master Guides

participated.

The PLA—Part 1 for Northern Regional Clubs was conducted from Sept. 27—29,

2013, in the premises of Penang English and Lighthouse SDA churches. About 28

Pathfinders and Master Guides participated in this training. Pr. James Edward,

MG Bernard Khit and MG Renitta Edward were the Instructors for the seminars. Hope

to train more Master Guides for the service in

the Lord’s vineyard.

Nearly 50 Master Guides and Master Guides in Training attended the Part 2 of

Pathfinder Leadership Courses from October 4—6, 2013, in Villa Dominic,

Genting Highlands. Pr. Simon Siew, SAUM Youth Director and Pr. James

Edward, PEM Youth Director, were the Instructors of these courses. Orienteer-

ing Honor was also completed as a part of the Leadership courses. The PLA-

Part 3 will be completed in 2014.

True Education Conference

The aim of true education is to restore human beings into the image of God as revealed by the life of Jesus Christ. Seventh-day Adventist Church is truly blessed to have the light of True Education. Through the lights given to Mrs Ellen White, together with many dedicated church members in the last cen-tury, many Adventist education institutions were established to deliver Christian Education. Today we are the second largest

Christian School system in the world. We have a total of 7,598 educational institutions operating in over 100 countries around the world with over 1.5 million students world-wide. On 14-16 Aug-13, almost 50 educators and parents came together in the Peninsular Ma-laysia Mission office conference room to be refreshed of the idea of True Education, to learn the techniques of teaching & coaching children in the kindergarten and to explore the possibility of homeschooling. Praise the Lord that we have Dr Lily Wong (an Expert in early childhood educa-tion and education psychologist) and Mrs Nancy Arias (Principal of a multi-grade academy in USA, and homeschool mother of 2 adult children). We had sharing of homeschooling experience by Dr Danny Oh of PAH through Skype and presentation of Griggs International Academy pro-gram from Michigan, USA, an Adventist distant learning program (homeschool program) for Kin-dergarten to Grade 12. The joys seen on the face of the kindergarten teachers and parents show that they have learnt much from the Dr Lily Wong and Mrs Arias. God willing, the Education and Children department of PEM will continue to organize True Education Confer-ence yearly on the third school holiday. If you are interested, do call Ms Renitta at the Mission office.

Welcome to the PEM family

Congratulations to Pastor Frendy Rubil and his wife, on

the delivery of their first child, Baby Mia Allysandra Au

Frendy, who was born on May 2, 2013, at 9:22 a.m. in Penang Adventist Hospital,

Penang

CONGREGATION GOAL Actual

Alor Setar Company 1

Bagan Datoh Church (Ind) 3

Banting Church (Ind) 3 1

Bukit Jelutong Company 3

Damansara Company 4

Farlim Church 2

Ipoh Church (Chi) 5

Ipoh Church (Eng) 4 1

JB Church (BM) 8 8

JB Church (Eng) 8 4

JB Group (Ind) 3 2

Klang Company (BM) 6 1

Klang Company (Ind) 3

Klebang Church (Ind) 5 2

Kluang Group (Chi) 2 2

Kota Bharu Church (Chi) 2

Kota Masai Group (BM) 10 2

Kuala Lumpur Church (Chi) 5

Kuala Lumpur Church (Eng) 10 1

Kuala Selangor Group (Ind) 3

Kuantan Company (Chi) 2

Kulai Church (Chi) 2 2

Kulim Group (Eng) 4

Kulim Company (Ind) 2 4

Lighthouse Company (Eng) 15 4

Megah Ria Company (BM) 10 5

Melaka Church (Eng) 3 5

Muar Church (Chi) 1 1

Nibong Tebal Company (Ind) 2

Pandamaran Group (BM) 6 1

PAH Church (BM) 4 2

Penang Church (Chi) 6 7

Penang Church (Eng) 12 2

Penang Church (Ind) 4

Petaling Jaya Church (Chi) 7 3

Petaling Jaya Church (Eng) 25 6

Pontian Church (Chi) 5

Puchong Company (Chi) 8 3

Puchong Group (Ind) 1

Seremban Church (BM) 5

Shah Alam Church (Ind) 5

Sitiawan Group (Ind) 3

Skudai Church (Chi) 6

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Sungai Petani Group (BM) 1

Sungai Way Church (Ind) 2 3

Taiping Church (Eng) 1 4

Tampin Group (Chi) 1 2

Teluk Intan Church (Ind) 5

Ulu Tiram Group (Chi) 2 5

USJ Company (Eng) 6 5

CONGREGATION GOAL Actual

Total Baptisms 253 81

28th Indian Churches Annual Camp

The 28th Indian Churches Annual Camp was hosted by Banting SDA Indian Church, from 31st May till 2nd June 2013, in NUBE, Port Dickson. About 350 church members from all the Indian churches gathered together to listen to the sermons focused on the theme, “Fight the Good Fight.” Pr. Paulraj Masila-mony, from Singapore, was the Guest Speaker of this camp. The Indian Pas-tors were also involved in the programs of the camp. There were activities and meetings for the children, youth and the married respectively by different speakers. We hope to have more spiritual-based which helps us to grow in grace and Spiritual truth annually.

Report of the Education Excellence

The PEM Scholar Fund comprises of two programs,

Education Excellence Incentive Program and Reading

Program. The Education Excellence Pro-

gram has been introduced from this year

2013 by the PEM Education Department.

This year, 2013, about 50 students ap-

plied for this program and 35 students

received the incentives, as per the guide-

lines provided. The total amount given

out was RM4510.00. The students were

from the following churches —Melaka (2), KL English (2),

Klebang (3), JB English (2), Sungai Way (3), PJ Chinese (2),

KL Chinese (2), JB Indian (1), Teluk Intan (1), Kluang (5), PG English (1),

PG Chinese (1), PJ English (4), Puchong Chinese (4), Kulai Chinese (1),

and Kulim Indian (1). We hope more students will apply for this incen-

tive program and be inspired to improve their scholastically.

WELCOME to PEM Family Congratulations to Pastor Joshua Jeyaraj John and his wife, Ava Jeyaraj, on the delivery of their Second child,

Baby boy, who was born on October 27, 2013, at 9:40 a.m. in Penang Adventist Hospital, Penang.