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W elcome and thank you for worshipping with us! We pray that what you hear and experience
here today will speak directly to your heart and that you will feel at home.
Welcome to our visitors and guests! We feel blessed that you have chosen to join us. We would love to
get to know you. Please take a moment to fill out a welcome card and place it in either the collection bag
or the office mailbox. If you are a guest, please do not feel obligated to give during the offering; today
you are our guests. We hope to see you worshipping with us again! Hearing impaired? See one of our
ushers to receive a hearing assistance device during the worship service.
Church Pamphlet is available in front of the sanctuary.
Joining the Church... After attending our services on a regular basis, we hope you are led to a deeper
relationship with this community—one that involves sharing in our covenant with God. Are you willing to
make that commitment? A decision to join any community of faith requires prayer, experience, and
discernment. We welcome everyone who is thinking about joining the church to meet with one of our
pastors in order to pray about and to explore this desire.
Sunday, OCTOBER 2, 2011
MORNING SERVICE ~ 10:00 am
Today’s Sermon: “The Participation of Children in the Assembly”
Preacher: Dr. Michael Goheen
Worship Leader: Pastor Andrew Beunk
AFTERNOON SERVICE ~ 1:00 pm (in Sanctuary)
Musical: “The Wonders in Creation”
By: Andrea Varnagy and Zsolt Farkas
“A TANGIBLE DISPLAY OF GOD’S RENEWING POWER” Website: www.nwcrc.ca
Office Hours: Tuesday to Friday, 9 AM to 3 PM
Deadline for Bulletin Submissions: Thursday @ 10 AM
8255 13th
Avenue, Burnaby, BC V3N 2G6
Phone: 604.521.0111
Email: [email protected] (general mailbox)
Calendar of Events at New West Church from October 3 to October 10 **
MONDAY, Oct 3
7:30 pm Gloria Dei Chorale practice
TUESDAY, Oct 4
7:30 pm Student Dynamics Leaders Meeting at the Groen’s
WEDNESDAY, Oct 5
8:45 am CONNECT Meeting at Church
12:00 pm Burnaby Pastors Luncheon at Church
7:00 pm ESL Class at Church
7:30 pm Prayer Meeting at Room #204 and Chris de Groot’s
THURSDAY, Oct 6
10:00 am Deadline for Bulletin Submissions
7:00 pm Worship Planning Team’s Meeting at Church
7:30 pm Discipleship Small Group at Pastor Andrew and Kim Beunk’s
7:30 pm Men’s Leadership Group Meeting at the Goheen’s
8:00 pm Worship Practice
SATURDAY, Oct 8
6:00 am Korean-English Morning Prayer
SUNDAY, Oct 9
MORNING SERVICE ~ 10:00 am
Preacher: Pastor Andrew Beunk
Worship Leader: Youth Pastor Dave Groen
EVENING SERVICE ~ 7:00 pm
MONDAY, Oct 10—THANKSGIVING DAY
10:00 am MUSIC IN THE PEWS
Song Selections:
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
Sing to the Lord of Harvest
Give Thanks with a Grateful Heart
He Has Made Me Glad
This is My Father’s World
Let All Things Now Living
Great is the Greatfulness
Now Thank We All Our God
*If able, please stand
Prelude
Call to Worship
Prayer of Invocation
*Sing: Binder#49 He is Exalted
*Sing: Binder#81 We Will Glorify
*Sing: Binder#3 Majesty
God’s Greeting followed by Mutual Greeting
*Sing: Hymn#453 Let All Things Now Living
Children’s message & prayer
Children Leave for Sunday School
Confession of Sin
Silent Prayer of Confession
Sing: Overhead Wonderful, Merciful Saviour
Assurance of pardon
*Song: Overhead Jesus, All for Jesus
Thank you for worshipping with us today!
Everyone is welcome to join us in the Meeting Hall (or outside if weather permits)
following the morning service for coffee and fellowship!
Childcare is provided for children ages 0 - 3 years during the morning service in the upstairs nursery.
Children aged 3 through Grade 3 will be invited partway through the service to join in a time of Children’s
Worship. Children aged 3 through grade 3 will first gather in the Meeting Hall for a time of singing, and then
go upstairs to the classrooms, from which parents may pick them up following the service.
Grades 4 through 6 from the Indonesian Evangelical Church Sunday School meet in the Beehive.
Order of Worship
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Prayer of Illumination
Scripture Reading: Hebrews 12:18-29 (pg. 1170-1171)
Sermon: “The Participation of Children in the Assembly”
-Dr. Michael Goheen
*Sing: Hymn# 376 All Glory, Laud and Honour
Prayers of the People -Pastor Andrew Beunk
Offertory: Andrea Varnagy and Zsolt Farkas
Offering(please mark clearly)
New West Church and its various ministries
Diaconal Benevolence
More information on page 7
*Sing: Hymn#585 Let Children Hear the Mighty Deeds
*Benediction
*Song: Hymn#632 To God be the Glory
Volunteers Today Next Week (Oct 9)
Greeters 10:00 Ralph & Janet Laninga
Carol Vandemeyden
10:00 Guy & Ann Budding
Nel Tamminga
Ushers 10:00 Al Pel, Bill TeBokkel 10:00 Fred Noort, Frank Vink
Nursery Cindy DeAnna, Lori-Anne Hill
Shelley DeGroot, Cassandra Noort
Andrea Andy, Joanne
Boessenkool, Harriet Busch, Ma-
rissa VanderMey
Sunday School:
Pre School
Kindergarten—Gr. 1
Gr. 2—3
Barb Van Ryk, Philene
Theresa Herfst, Joshua K.
Annette Lotz, Lorensia
Elly Hageman, Debbie
Theresa Herfst, Nathan
Annette Lotz, Nicholas
Refreshment Andre Van Ryk Shelley DeGroot
Powerpoint 10:00 Ken Radersma 10:00 Annette Faber
Library Gaileen Cox Betty Adema
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Offerings
Offerings during the worship service are for New West Church and local ministries as well as denomina-
tional ministries. There may be a designated special cause identified below. Please place your offerings
into the bag, using your current envelopes if you have them. There are also envelopes in the pew if you
are a guest or forgot yours at home. Cheques should be made out to the New Westminster CRC and
should indicate the ministry you are donating to. All donation dollars and loose change will be applied to
the following second collection:
Today’s Offering is for the Diaconal Benevolence. Your gifts help the deacons to provide assis-
tance to people within our own church family as well as the local community whenever the need
arises.
Next week’s (Oct 9) offering will be for the Faith in Action Vietnamese CRC, our brothers and sis-
ters in Christ who meet every week in Vancouver for Worship. They want to be a self supporting congre-
gation but are still requiring our financial support at this time. Please consider this congregation’s needs
prayerfully.
Thanksgiving Day (Oct 10): We will collect the “Fish Bank” and offering for the day will
be for causes that you designate on your gift. Some recommended causes are:
CRWRC relief for the recent flooding in Pakistan
Support for the upcoming Honduras service mission from our congregation to supply building ma-
terials
Support for the Cascade Christian Counselling Association, as they are very short of funds currently
Any other causes close to the heart.
Thank you for supporting New West Church and these various ministries.
Our Church Family
Pray for Alice Laarman. She was admitted to Burnaby
Hospital early last week. She suffered a fall last
Saturday and by Monday was in severe pain and
went to the hospital. The fall seems to have
aggravated the cancer in her back so she has also
been receiving radiation treatments. Alice is quite
weak and very discouraged. Pray for strength and
God’s continued grace.
We continue to pray for Johanna Beunk as she
remains in the Burnaby Hospital.
Ken DeJager remains in RC hospital. We continue to
pray for strength and that plans will be in place for
him to either return home or to some other care
facility.
We continue to pray for Len Vandop. He is now at
Queen’s Park Care Centre. Continue to pray that Len
will find forgiveness and peace with God, and pray
for the Vandop family during this difficult time.
We remember Jake Koole, Johanna Meyer, Chris
Eyzenga, Gerrit Kasteel, Valerie Vandervelden and
others in our church family who experience illness
and daily hardships.
What’s happening
TODAY
Morning Service: Today’s message will be on
the theme of “Children in Worship / Parenting in
the Pew”.
Afternoon Service: Today we will have an
afternoon service in lieu of our regular evening
service. We will be hosting a musical presentation
called “The Wonders of Creation” It is an
adaptation of Genesis to the language of music.
The Word will be narrated and a projector will
contribute to better comprehension. The musical
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PRAYER CHAIN
If you would like people to pray for you,
please call Willy Van Delft at 604-526-3556.
All prayer requests will be held in confidence.
will last about one hour, including introduction
and announcements. This Hungarian artist couple
(Andrea Varnagy and Zsolt Farkas) has been
touring the world to fulfill their mission. Their
playing is a very unique audio-visual artistic
way of Bible interpretation. The artists are not
asking for any honorarium, but donations for
their ministry will be gladly received. NOTE:
There will be a soup-Sunday lunch between
the two services so people can stay.
Honduras Trip (Nov 13-25) Meeting: Anyone who wishes to volunteer during the
Honduras Thanksgiving Dinner, Oct 15, is invited to
this meeting after church. If you have a favourite
recipe or can peel potatoes or cut veggies, you are
welcome to meet for a short time to help get
organized. Contact Lori-Anne Hill (604-395-4921).
Sign Up for “THE GREAT PIE
EVENT” today! If you love pie,
you cannot miss the Honduras
fundraiser. And better yet, if you bake pies, keep us
in mind. The dessert for the dinner will be a barrage
of donated pies of all kinds. Tables will be given a
pie or two or three and they can barter and banter
for other tables pies (for a trade of course). You
could leave having tasted a handful of different pies
in one night! When you are doing your fall or
thanksgiving baking this year, please consider
donating a pie for the Honduras Thanksgiving
Dinner on October 15. Sign up sheet is posted on
the Student Dynamics’ Bulletin Board today. Any
questions, contact Lori-Anne Hill.
What’s happening
next SUNDAY
PowerPoint Presentation Large Prints
are available for Seniors: Please ask them
from ushers next week at the entrance.
For persecuted church: Iran: Pastor Youcef had his first
court hearing on Sept 25 where
he received a death sentence for apostasy from
Muslim Court. The penalty will be executed unless
he recants his Christian faith. Pray that justice can
be done and he will remain strong in the Lord.
Somalia: A decapitated body was found on Sept
2nd
in South West Somalia, which was Juna Kamil.
Following his conversion, he was kidnapped 3 years
ago by 3 suspected Islam extremists from Al
Shabaab terrorist group. This group has ties to Al
Qaeda and has vowed to get rid of Christianity in
Somalia. Pray for Juna’s family and other believers
to remain strong in their faith and the terrorists to
know the love of Jesus Christ.
Vietnam: Father Ly, 65, was sentenced back to
prison for his work in advocating religious freedom,
democracy and human rights. He was sentenced 8
years in prison in 2007 and released temporarily in
2010 to undergo a year’s medical treatment for
serious health problems that left him partially
paralyzed. Pray that Father Ly will experience the
Lord’s comfort, charges against him to be dropped,
and his health will improve. Pray that religious
freedom and human rights to be well respected in
Vietnam. Nonetheless, the churches are still
growing in other areas.
China: Pastor Zhang Rongliang, a prominent house
church leader was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison
in 2004 and had been released early due to his
poor health. Thank God now he is at home with his
family. Pray that God will protect him and all the
underground churches’ members and leaders. The
churches are still growing. Pray also for the Chinese
scholars who spent time here, attended Bible
studies and now have gone back to China.
Indonesia: Last Sunday, a bomb explosion took
place at a church right after the service. The church
was badly damaged and several believers were
injured. Pray for the believers in Indonesia.
Egypt: A Coptic Christian was murdered. Some
want Egypt to become Muslim country.
There are many other countries who are still in
much trouble and need prayers. Many people in
Syria have been killed. People in Pakistan are
suffering from floods. Nov 13 will be a day of
prayer for the persecuted Christians. Thank God for
the many Christians who are working in those
countries. May the Lord protect them and may they
have fruit on their labor. To God be the glory. Have
a blessed week. -Willy Van Delft
CRWRC East Africa Drought
Response: With thankfulness to God
and to our wonderful supporting churches
and donors in Canada, CRWRC is very pleased to
announce that a total of over $2.6 million has been
contributed in Canada towards the needs of victims
of drought in East Africa. Of this amount, $2.24
million is eligible for matching by the Canadian
government, which will deposit an equal amount
into the CIDA-managed East Africa Drought Relief
fund, to which organizations like CRWRC can apply.
Thanks to funding from the Canadian International
Development Agency through the Canadian
Foodgrains Bank and support from other CFGB
members, members of the Integral Alliance
worldwide and many others, your donations and
those of the CRC in the USA were multiplied with
an additional $6 million in grants. CRWRC’s
drought response efforts in Kenya, Ethiopia and
Somalia are now reaching 150,000 people (21,000
households) who were in urgent need of
assistance. We thank you for your tremendous
generosity, and thank God that we are in a position
to show his love and mercy to so many people in
need.
RAYE POINTS
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Seniors’ Coffee Social: will be held at
Pastor Andrew and Kim Beunk’s house.
Their address is 8772 Yarrow Place,
Burnaby. All Seniors are welcome to attend! For
further information or directions, please call
Pastor Andrew at church.
New west Church
news & announcements
NEW MEMBERS/PROFESSION
OF FAITH class: Are you considering
joining New West, or publically
professing your faith in Christ? Pastor
Andrew is leading a “New Members Class” which
will be divided into two parts. The first part will
cover the “accents” of Reformed Christianity as
well as CRC history, and the second part will serve
as an “intro.” to New West Church. Part one will be
offered on two consecutive Saturday mornings
from 8:30—12 on October 15 and October 29
(will begin with light breakfast). Part two will be
offered on a Sunday after the worship service on
November 6. All classes will be held on the second
floor of the Beehive. This format is different than
the New Member’s Class offered in the winter. The
winter class is offered over a period of 6 Sunday
morning sessions. If this time format is more
convenient please consider joining us now, or wait
until the winter if that better suits your schedule.
For those who wish to make public profession of
faith or others who wish to join New West from
other church traditions, you will be encouraged to
attend all the sessions (2 on Saturday, 1 on
Sunday). For those familiar with our tradition and
history, you will be encouraged to attend Part two;
the 1 Sunday session. If you are at all interested
or have any questions, please contact Pastor
Andrew at 604-521-0111 or [email protected].
The men’s leadership group will be
meeting this Thursday 6 October at 7.30 pm at
Mike Goheen’s place. We are reading and discussing
Drama of Scripture, pp.15-79 for this Thursday.
Honduras Thanksgiving Dinner - Saturday,
Oct 15 at 6 PM in JKCS gym: A number of
people have asked about tickets and the money
aspect. First of all, tickets do not have to bought in
advance, we really want to know if you are coming.
Please let one of us going this year, or the Church
office know if you plan to attend. Please invite others
too! That helps us prepare the evening, meal and
seating. At the dinner you will be given the
opportunity to support the group going in November.
The suggested ticket price is $35. Anything above the
first $15 per meal will be tax receipt-able. We hope
to raise $5000 to cover our in-country cost of
materials. We are all paying our own way and our in
-country accommodation and living expenses. We
appreciate the congregation's support and pray
that others will consider going in 2012. –Mike Hoyer
Special Announcement for Thanksgiving—
Operation Thanksgiving: 2010 Statistics from
Immigration Canada state that there are 218,161
international students in Canada, 43,425 of whom
study in Vancouver. Thousands have just arrived a few
weeks ago, lonely, homesick, excited, and curious. A
sad fact is most will never enter a Canadian home in
their three or four years in Canada. We can change
that! This Thanksgiving why not include 1 or 2
international students for dinner? This is a friendship
approach to Canadian culture, to the meaning of
Thanksgiving and for the international student to see
God’s love in action. Perhaps it could lead to a long
term friendship.
Contact your church coordinator who will help
coordinate the visit. Give them: information on your
family, time of dinner, and can you pick up your
student at the sky train or SFU, as well as how many
Oct 2 Sophia Eyzenga
Oct 3 Julie Van Tol
Oct 4 Peter Baelde
Oct 5 Annie Kleywegt
Oct 6 Nellie Noort
Natalia Malagon
Oct 8 Ralph Mellema
Oct 9 Rebecca Visser
Thomas Van Tol
Thomas Van Belle
If we have missed your
birthday this week, or you do
not wish to have your birthday
shown in the future, please
contact Fera at the office so
we can update your
information in our database.
students you would like to invite.
Deadline for response is Oct. 2, 2011.
Church coordinator: Kim Beunk, 604.517.8772,
This ministry is promoted by International Student
Ministries Canada in Vancouver.
1 Adult Assistant Counselor is still
needed for GEMS girls club for
mentoring young women grade 3-7 in their faith and
life. Please contact Marnie Goheen, if you are
interested: [email protected] / 604-421-7497
Community
announcements
Cascade Christian Counseling Association: The annual membership and donation drive is
schedule to begin Oct 11th. Cascade is committed to
carrying out God’s command to show His mercy and
the healing power of the Holy Spirit to those who are
suffering from emotional and relational distress.
Please remember CASCADE, the Board, staff and
clients in your prayers. You may call you local church
contact person, John VanderWoude, or the Cascade
office (604-585-1411) for more information.
Food Needed for Union Gospel’s
Thanksgiving Dinner: on Oct 10th. They need
donations, like canned ham, turkey, veggies, coffee,
sugar, etc. Please donate and put them in the “Union
Gospel” box beside the mail slot. For more info,
please contact Klazina Noort at 604-524-0874 or
FROM COUNCIL
Bulletin Summary of Council Meeting
Held September 7, 2011: Pastor Peter Brouwer and Sam VanRanden
attended the council meeting providing a report
on behalf of the Steering Committee for the
Faith in Action church. Based on reports from
the Steering Committee, Steering Committee
Minutes, and the Report to Classis, council
approved the motion that NWCRC ceases to be
the calling church to Faith in Action Church as
of December 31, 2012.
Council appreciates the initiative of John
Vanderwoude, Esther Do, and Pastor Andrew to
bring back the ESL classes.
Council appreciates the initiative of Monique
VanderWart, Marnie Goheen, Edna Hogeterp,
and Rebecca Visser starting the new program in
our church “Connect” on Wednesday mornings.
Our Treasurer, Harry Boessenkoel has begun
the task of preparing the 2012 Church Budget
and ministry leaders are reminded to submit
their 2012 budgets to Harry.
Next Council Meeting: September 28, 2011
If you wish to receive an electronic copy of the full
Council minutes please email the Council Clerk, May
Baelde, with your full name at [email protected].
Hard copies of the minutes are available at the
Church office.