Sunday School Funfair 2007

We just got back from church from the Sunday School Funfair for this year, and we had about 250 kids excluding our own SS kids and parents. The hall was jammed packed and there was hardly any moving room. It was good to see the kids having a gala time, making them feel at home in the church premise. That's what church premises should be, where non-Christians can feel at home in the house of God without any fear or trepidation.

One of the purpose of this Funfair is to announce and encourage new children to join our Sunday School (or Children's Church) in order to see them learn about God and Jesus and to see them discipled in the faith. As Rick Warren says, first we need the Crowd - such as in a funfair. Then we create a Congregation. Then we discipled the Committed.



Pray for the Sunday School, for without the children we will have a deterioration of numbers in the church, and there will be no future leaders for it.

Children having Fun with Teachers

Hi,

Every church needs a contact point with the community that the church is located. In our case, the church is located among Mandarin speaking people and being very patriotic, the community has never put any importance on English.

After much thought and trepidation, the church decided to start a community and charity project called Teaching English Tuition, and as a result, a bridge was built between the church and the community.

We anticipated a beginning class of 20+ children, because of our lack of trust in God, we bought only 8 tables each sitting 4. We had 40+ on our first day and it continued to increase every week for five consecutive week, until we had 70+.

Due to this bridge to the church, we also see a corresponding increase in the Sunday School and the Children's Bible Class. For 5 weeks, the numbers kept on increasing from 30+, 50+, 70+, and then 105 children.

One of the Teachers told us that she repented before God because we tried to limit the number of children coming, while all the time, God was doing a sovereign work and supernatural work of bringing in the children and mothers to the church. (Amazing also because we did not spend a single cent to fetch the children, the non-christian parents send their children to church !) And God has not stopped doing this.

Let us not limit God and tell God enough. Like the woman with the vessels for oil, let us continue to bring more jars for God to fill, until the whole of Segamat hears of the mighty name of Jesus and the power of His Good News. His Good News is for families to be saved, healed, delivered, changed and transformed into Strong and Victorious People. God wants to bring in the Harvest, it is our duty to pray for more workers and to conserve the Harvest.

One Speaker said, we are Committed to Serve to See Lives Changed.
Today, our Speaker said, You Love God, You must Love Souls.

God Bless You.
Steven Wong

Latest on Sunday School 3rd September 2006

We had a record Congregation at our Sunday School last week.

There were about 105 children in attendance. Praise God.

I believe that out of these children, many will become Committed to the Lord and some will eventually become future leaders of the church (Core). As they come into the church from a very young age, it is like coming for a 13 years bible course. If they become a Christian in Standard One and continue on with the church until Form Six, it will be like coming for a 13 years bible training.

Many of us became Christians only later in life. So these young ones, who know Jesus from a very young age, will have a better advantage over us.

Pray for us and help us to see them mature and grow into the Committed.