08 February 2010
Kulai Church Report 2009

Church Extension
As the congregation grows, Kulai Church had a vision on church expansion few years ago. The owner for the shop next door is a butcher and running his business of selling pork each morning insisted that his shop is not for sale.

In year 2009, he came to us on one Sabbath morning and requested a talk with our church elders. Here he questioned: “Aren’t you guys wanted to have my shop? I am now willing to let go!” We grasped this golden opportunity seeing it as miracle wrought by God.

Financial is always a big issues to us but not to God. As we had little faith in raising the Church extension fund, God had impressed many of our beloved members, included members from Ulu Tiram and Skudai Church, to make it a success even in this time of recession. Among the RM60000 we raised, RM10000 was contributed by a sister who had missed the church for years yet showing great concern while she knew the need of God’s House in extension. Let God’s name be praised.

We would like to show our appreciation to Kulai’s church elder, deacons and committee members where they had played a major role in this project. In saving the cost, the backdrop of the church was done by the gifted hands of our sisters in Christ. Not to forget our PEM Mission who also supported this project, financially and spiritually.

The church, right after extension was utilize for the big event of the years: Cracking the Prophecy, The Year End Evangelist Crusade.

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Evangelist Meeting November 28th – December 5th 2009

The year end evangelist meeting was highly anticipated. We had invited Pastor Emmanuel Baek, an international evangelist from The Amazing Facts as our guest speaker. We had our ground work done throughout the year by Bible study and visitation. Prayer was offered that the seeds sowed will bring in shelves.

Flyers were printed and distributed 2 weeks ahead. Friends and nonmembers were invited. It was not easy to have 8 series of meeting each night. Praise the Lord there we had about 150 attending the meeting, included 15-20 new visitors each session. Many souls were touched and revived; they rededicate their life to God. Some had made a firm decision to follow Jesus while some were still in struggle.

One of our brothers whom had been working on Sabbath day had committed to have Sabbath off after the meeting. He is willing to quit the job even if he is not allowed to keep the Sabbath. These are the works of the Spirit.
 

Baptism

As the evangelists meeting go on, some had been touched to follow Jesus. The Baptism on the Sabbath afternoon was a joy to all of us and to the heavenly court. We had 14 souls who are willing to surrender their life to Jesus.

Living With Hope

Kulai Church together with Kluang Group had order 30000 booklets of Living with Hope. Our members had been looking forward to participating in this project.

We divided them in a group of 5-6, going out in the morning to distribute the booklet door to door. It was hard to work under the blazing sun, but we had the mission that this “Hope” must reach to our neighborhood.
We help ourselves when we help other. Some of the youth are revived through this program. It is indeed a fulfilling experience to cooperate with our Heavenly Father. Jia Sheng, 14 year god, our newly baptized member requested us to bring him in for this project lest he stayed home and tempted by the PC game. What a change where he used to reject us for church activities because of PC game.

Often we see no hope in entering to the apartments or condominium. But Woon Cheng, our sister who had a good courage, received the permission of entering the compounds from the guard house upon request. We never thought that it was that easy. As we approach another apartment, our hope dash away when our request were rejected. But we were then enlightening because the security guards were willing to help us in distribute the booklets. Believe it or not, about 3000 booklets were actually distributed by the security guards around JB and Kulai areas. When God is at work, marvelous work will be wrought. It was a touching scene when you see these guards reaching out the booklets to every householder that passes by.
Shi Yun, 19 years old was distributing the booklets in City Square, a Shopping Mall. The group had been doing the work quietly or they will be chased out by the security guard and she was one of them that drove out by one of the security guard. She did not give up and she found herself a place again to distribute the booklets even though she knew that the security guard was not afar. When she was about finished after two hours of distribution, the security guard approached her and frightened her off again. But to her surprise, the security was asking for a booklet because he himself is also a Christian but had not been attending the church for long. In fact, I believe that God had been touching his heart for allowing His Words to be distributed for two hours.

One of our sister, having no way to distribute the booklet because all work had been done in her area, she posted them to all her relatives and friends far off. There are many to tell but in short, every member was giving a chance to participate in this program subsidy by PEM Mission.
 

Christmas Program

Our Christmas Program was specially designed for Living with Hope Project. Seeing “no hope” in entering to shopping mall, we find out another “hope” that we can freely distribute this message of Hope. We offered caroling activities to the marketing managers of 3 shopping malls, where one of them is TESCO. We were not only singing but we also brought along “Christmas gift” for them.

TESCO had rejected our offered but we carried on our out-reach program for 3 days, starting from 22-24th. We visited old folks home, Calvary Health Care center and even some restaurants/ cafes for the caroling program. TESCO call us out of the blue during the program and invited us there the very first night.
All of us were so nervous because we only had 2 sessions of song practice before this. Surprisingly, many stopped by and listened to us, of course, we had our “gift” ready for them. The TESCO manager was so happy that we make it so beautifully, we sung very well according to him. I believe the angels were praising and singing together with us that few nights. We were then given a permission to freely distribute the gift of “Living with Hope” in the compound of TESCO. It was a marvelous scene when you see all of them excluded Muslim, with this book in their hand when they were doing their shopping.

God command us to go and share the Gospel and we are to believe that He will take care of the outcome.