We celebrated the Corps (church) 11th anniversay last weekend. Saturday evening the folk especially the youth worked till the early hours of the morning decorating the Social Hall, the Praise chapel and Main auditorium. They put in plenty of hard work.
Sunday morning at 9.00 a.m. we had a special Prayer meeting. This lasted for 45 minutes. We thanked and praised God for all the years of blessing.
At 10.00 a.m. we began our Celebration and Worship meeting. Different sections took part. There was plenty of singing and praising God.
Young people and older folk from Bukit Panjang Family Centre joined us for worship. Major Ruth Pascoe who led the meeting, also prached the word with the subject "ONE BODY! ONE ARMY! ONE MISSION! ONE MESSAGE!
WBC VISION FOR 2020
ONE ARMY - all the internal matters of life and faith as the Body of Christ that equip for ministry in the congregation and for mission in the world. Intentional discipleship.
"to equip God's people to do His work and build up the church the Body of Christ. This will continue till we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God's Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ." Ephesians 4: 12-13
ONE MISSION - WBC congregation sees the community as our mission field. Here we put the theology of compassion into action by 'scratching where people itch.' We become the 'shadow of God' (William Booth) to our confused and hurting neighbours and intentionally incorporate peole with needs and the disadvantaged into our church family network, intentional compassion.
ONE MESSAGE - Focus on the powerful and transforming Gospel of Jesus learning to communicate this effectively to lead pre-Christians to salvation, intentional evangelism.
Glory be to God!
I need to add this bit of information. In actual fact my wife and I started to have Sunday worship when Haven first opened. The first meeting was held in August 1981 and on 30th January 1982 the Pasir Panjang Corps was officially opened. It existed for 20 years and officially closed in 2002. My wife and I were there when it all began and we were again present for the closure! In fact I was invited to preach the last message by Major Allen Sattterlee the Corps Officer.
When Praisehaven was opened, the Pasir Panjang Corps folk moved to Upper Bukit Timah to form the William Booth Corps in 2002. We were present in that meeting.
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