PRAISE AND PRAYER - January to March 2012

CEF Malaysia 25th Anniversary, 15 October 2011

What abundant blessings we had at CEF 25th Anniversary celebration.  Friends of CEF came from far and near.  Old friends of 25 years and new friends from the recent training came to join us in the celebration.  What special blessing to have my Standard 3 school teacher and her husband, my Sunday School Superintendent who was also my mentor, joining us at the celebration.  OA pastors from Tanjung Malim came in a vanload.  CEF Thailand sent two co-workers all the way from Bangkok to join us. My home church Senior Pastor, Youth Pastor, lay leader and other church members from the Mission team and the pianist came in a vanload all the way from Penang.  And with them is the Master of Ceremony, Kam Hong, who was one of my first Good News Club students back in 1982.  The GNC was started after my 5Day Club training at my home church, before I joined CEF as a full time worker. 

What a blessing to have my GNC student from my 1990s GNC when I was staying at the Happy Mansion Apartment in Petaling Jaya.  Alex came to GNC when he was seven and his brother, Douglas, was five and sister, Emily, was three.  Now working in Penang Alex came and shared his testimony.  Unfortunately, Douglas and Emily and their parents were not able to join us in the celebration. 

Then we also had with us Brian and Adam. Unfortunately, Garry was not able to join us because he was not well.  These three brothers were my neighbours and attended the GNC at my place in Kepong and later moved to CEF office.  They are now attending Youth Fellowship.   What an abundant blessing to be able to see three decades of GNC children grown up and now serving in church.

We praise the Lord for friends who cooked a feast for the over 200 guests.  We thank the Lord for all of you who took time to come and join us in the celebration.  We thank the Lord for those of you who were not able to come but prayed for us.  We thank the Lord for some of you who gave your time and money to help with the anniversary.

 

A mother of the siblings of my former GNC answered the call when I called to invite her now grown up children for CEF 25th Anniversary.  This is what she said the moment she recognised me, “We were just talking about you.  My grandchildren are big now and if only you are still staying here and teaching the children like you used to teach my children every Saturday.

I want to send my grandchildren to your place for GNC.”  She is a non Christian who was sceptical when I first taught her children about the love of God and salvation in Christ but as the years went by she began to encourage parents in the neighbourhood to send their children to GNC.  She told these parents, “GNC had done my children good.  It will do your children good, too.”   After 20 years and you have a mother, now a grandmother telling you I want to send my grandchildren to GNC to learn what my children had learnt. What an encouragement! That is a good enough reason for me and for you to continue to teach the children the Word of God.  The truth had set these children free.   And they shine for Jesus in their own homes.

New Ministry – OA Ministry

Thank God for the opportunity to conduct a Bahasa Malaysia (BM) Super Seminar Basic for the Orang Asli (OA) at Tanjung Malim.  A group of 30 young people their pastors came together for the two-day seminar at Batu Pecah Church, Tanjung Malim. 

Not that my BM is very good now but it is God’s abundant goodness in providing this opportunity to serve in spite of my weakness in the language.  With the help of some of the pastors and the participants who helped me along when I was lost for BM words, we managed through the two days of learning together, working together, laughing together as the Lord increases the burden of our hearts for the OA children.  I was so conscious of the Lord’s presence as many of you prayed for me during the two days and it kept me going with my limited BM.

Training

Please pray for good respond and for the Lord to bless us in a special way as we learn together and encourage one another to persevere on in reaching and teaching our children God’s Word.

25 & 26 February, Super Seminar Basic at Kepong EFC

Please publicise the training among your Sunday School teachers.  You can contact;

Karen Lim

Handphone: 012 6273815

Email: karentiewgb@gmail.com

Registration close on 12 February to register.

10 & 11 March, Super Seminar Follow-Up at Wesley Methodist Church, Penang

This training is for those for had attended Super Seminar Basic.Please contact :

Lim Lean Mei

Handphone : 012-4210515

email: limleanmei@gmail.com

 

Workers

Pray with us that the Lord of the Harvest will send forth His workers soon.  Pray for these workers that they will be able to work in unity and humility, filled with God’s courage and determination to face the impossible when it seems everyone else has lost their courage and determination.  They will persevere for God’s glory and their integrity before the Lord.  They will continue to claim the sovereignty of God, and they will run hard to finish the race.

 

Books

My apology for the long wait for, ‘Shepherding a Child’s Heart’ and ‘When Sinners Say I Do’.  They are now available.

 

Thank You

 

Thank you for your partnership with CEF.  Your faithful prayer, generous gift and teamwork had helped to train more to reach more boys and girls with the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

Wishing you a Blessed New Year!

A year filled with lots of opportunities to serve the Lord and shine for Him.

To our Chinese friends,Happy Chinese New Year!

Khoo Siew Ean      

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The Wonder Devotional Book

 This is CEF gift to the churches to help the children in their walk with the Lord. 

We thank God for the good respond from the churches and their appreciation to CEF for making the WDB so affordable.  And we thank the Lord for those who had provided the funds for the first printing of the WDB. 

Let us pray that the 3rd series of the WDB will be ready soon so that we could print it locally and make the WDB 3 as cheap as the first 2 series. 

 

 

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