The Methodist Church in Malaysia Family praises and thanks Almighty God for His sovereign guidance and rich blessings received in our just concluded 11th General Conference [20-23 Sept 2016] gathering and proceedings that went smoothly and edifyingly in Sibu.<\/p>\n
It was a fruitful time of fellowshipping, discussion, receiving input and reports, and discerning the will of the Lord of the Church in our decision making. The theme adopted for the 2017-2020 quadrennium is A Church after God\u2019s Own Heart [see item #5 below]. Please continue to uphold me in prayer as the Bishop, together with our brothers Anthony Row [GC Secretary] and Tan Swee Ann [GC Treasurer] as the elected GC Officers for the next quadrennium.<\/p>\n
Let me thank all our members and churches, as well as our friends from the wider Christian community in Malaysia for your steadfast prayers, warm concern and enriching support.<\/p>\n
I also take this opportunity to call on us in the Methodist Family to pray fervently for our beloved nation at this critical time of need as we face many moral, political, social, economic, environmental, health, ethnic and religious challenges. We can do this together by using the intercessory strategy of the Issachar Watchmen Movement of the Methodist Church in Malaysia below, and adding other intercessions that you may have before God\u2019s throne of grace.<\/p>\n
The 6 KEY STRATEGIC AREAS \/ PRAYER FOCI<\/strong> of the Issachar Watchmen Movement at the personal, local church, Annual Conference and General Conference levels are:<\/p>\n 1. We pray for the \u201cclearance\u201d\/ breaking down of the influence of \u201cthe cosmic powers over this present darkness\u201d, \u201cthe spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms\u201d [Eph 6:12] that infect our whole nation, invisibly and visibly.<\/p>\n 2. We pray for the rise, growth and completion of God\u2019s Church in Malaysia \u2013 as we prepare and look forward to receiving the unreached people groups in our land, especially the obviously bigger ones, so that the Church of God in Malaysia may be complete.<\/p>\n 3. We pray for the crucial institutions in our land at this time \u2013 viz Conference of Rulers, Parliament, Judiciary, AG\u2019s Office, Police Force especially the IGP\u2019s Office, MACC, the Military\/ Army, Bank Negara and the Education Ministry.<\/p>\n 4. We pray for progressive political re-structuring and reforms – so that there is greater effective \u201ccheck and balance\u201d in the governance machinery of our country.<\/p>\n 5. We pray for The Methodist Church in Malaysia to be a Church after God\u2019s Own Heart \u2013 experiencing:<\/p>\n > Every Methodist Personally Renewed in his\/her 1st love for Jesus. 6. We pray that we will successfully leave a generational legacy \u2013 where a new God-fearing generation is raised up in the home\/ family, the church and the nation.<\/p>\n May we as God\u2019s people called Methodists be A Church after God\u2019s own Heart, \u201ckeeping in step with the Spirit\u201d now and into the new quadrennium [2017-2020]. The Methodist Church in Malaysia Family praises and thanks Almighty God for His sovereign guidance and rich blessings received in our just concluded 11th General Conference [20-23 Sept 2016] gathering and proceedings that went smoothly and edifyingly in Sibu. It was a fruitful time of fellowshipping, discussion, receiving input and reports, and discerning the will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,211,10],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n> Every Methodist Church Congregationally Revived as in the Book of Acts.
\n> The General Conference to be Nationally Refocused and Reframedafter the Word of God and empowered by the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n
\nBishop Ong Hwai Teik <\/span>
\nThe Methodist Church in Malaysia<\/span>
\n27 September 2016<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"