Bulletin for December 11

• Yung’s retirement thanksgiving joint service will be held next Sunday at 10:30am. The speaker is ECD superintendent Dr. John Healey. There will be no Sunday School, Snack Ministry and Awana Clubs on that day. Parents please lead your children to have a seat in the children section. Children will only join the worship and choir presentation and will return to the Orange program afterward. And the farewell lunch will be after Joint Service at 12:30pm at Scarborough Buffet (1221 Markham Road & Ellesmere Road, NE corner). Please reserve your time to join. You can register with your fellowship chairperson with the fee or with Alice Kwong from Carmel Fellowship. Deadline of registration is today. If you have any performance, please register with your fellowship chair too. Lunch fees as follows:

• Finance announcement: Our church deficit amounts to $90,761.88 at the end of November. By God’s grace, we would need $209,876 offerings in December in order to balance and meet our bank’s requirement. As in Dec 4 we received $29,866. There is a gap of $180,010. Please continue to pray for our needs and brothers and sisters’ steadfast offering. On average each remaining week requires $60,003.
• Deadline of collecting encouragement notes for Rev. Yung’s special retirement bookletis today. Please return it to Grace Tang.
• Christmas Eve Musical Worship “A Child Is born” will be held on Dec 24 (next Sat) at 7:30pm. Please invite your family and friends to join this joyful event.
• Our target set for Pastor Lewis & Felain Lam mission fund this year is $10,000. We have received $9,870 right now. Please continue to support our missionaries in your prayer.

• If you haven’t filled out the faith pledge form, please get it on the reception table and drop it into the drop off box on the reception table. The 2017 goals for both the Mission Fund & Pastor Lewis and Felain Lam, ministering in the Germany, are $114,515 & $10,000, respectively. Please pray for these pledges and His guidance to respond to the need of the mission ministry for 2017.
• Currently, applications for next June’s (2017) baptism is OPEN. We are promoting baptisms early as the deadline for the English congregation is Feb 26, which is different than the Chinese congregation. The reason for the change is mainly to allow for more time to prepare the candidates. Please take note of the date, if it is missed, the person desiring to be baptized will have to wait for the next round. Please hand application forms to either Pastor Darren Tsang, Cecilia Ho, or Philip Cheung.
• We will be launching our newly redesigned church website in Feb. The website will have information about our church for seekers, sermons, announcements, and various forms which people can download, and more! As such, we will be printing a decreased amount of worship bulletins to encourage members to refer to the website either on their tablets or smartphones. We hope that the new website will be a great tool for us to use while also being more environmentally friendly and decreasing wastage.
• Pastor Darren Tsang will take a day off tomorrow, Dec 12 & next Monday, Dec 19.
• Pastor Anthony Yuen will take a day off this Friday, Dec 16.
• 2017 Church Calendar “You Lead Me All the Way” is available for pick up at the reception table. Please pick one calendar per family.
• 2016 Winter Camp will be held in Countryside Camp in Cambridge on Dec 26 to Dec 29(Mon – Thu). The theme is Inside Out. Please pray for the speaker, Pastor Aaron Owen, the message and the open hearts of participants.
• Joe Chan will take his leave from Jan to Apr next year to complete his D. Min thesis. The details are as follows: From January 2 to March 9, is his remaining annual leave of 2016, annual leave of 2017, study leave of 2017 and make up holiday. And from March 10 to April 30 is a no pay leave.