Care Hub is formed to support and journey alongside our members / worshippers whose lives and livelihoods have been affected by this crisis. The end goal of Care Hub is pastoral care, for someone to journey with them and remind them they are beloved of God and to find strength in God to face the challenges.

Each individual has a different starting point in their journey. But each will appreciate a spiritual friend to journey alongside. This spiritual friendship is the backbone of Care Hub.

As each individual has different needs, Care Hub serves as a one-stop helpline where an individual can obtain support in the church in various areas.

Care Hub has 2 levels of support:

1. A Spiritual Friend aka Care Befriender is assigned to each Applicant for a period.

2. Professional Intervention will be provided on a needs basis, for example:
   a. Professional Counseling
   b. Spiritual Direction
   c. Career Coaching
   d. And more…

If you have been affected by this crisis, Care Hub is here to support you. Please let us know here https://carehub.plmc.org. We are rolling out the English version of Care Hub first, and the Chinese version will follow.

Praise God that PLMC is celebrating her 88th Anniversary on Sunday 12 July, and the PLMC Family Virtual Choir will be our exciting project together! Your participation in this project will be a reflection of our thanksgiving to God for His faithfulness these 88 years, an encouragement to all that we are one in the family of God despite the restrictions we are facing to worship onsite and to spur us to go deeper in Word, Spirit and Community.

Registration details: bit.ly/PLMC88ann

PLMC members who are eligible, please go to https://forms.gle/4ETncmVVFKqrj3yd7 and fill in your details by 7 July. An electronic copy of the letter of endorsement will be emailed to you by 12 July.

Do choose your school carefully, as we WILL NOT ACCEPT requests for a change afterwards. Please email jerlyn@plmc.org for clarifications.

IMPORTANT:

• There will be NO IN-PERSON REGISTRATION AT SCHOOLS for the 2020 Primary One registration due to the pandemic.

• Parents will have to complete an online application form to register their child, using their SingPass, at MOE website.

KEY DATES to note:

• Registration: From 9.00 am on Thursday, 23 Jul 20 to Friday, 4.30 pm , 24 Jul 20

• Result: Thursday, 30 July 2020 via SMS

For more information, please go to
https://beta.moe.gov.sg/primary/p1-registration/

Bishop Dr Chong Chin Chung has given his blessing for the Methodist Church in Singapore to explore reinstating the celebration of the Holy Communion. Hence, we are making preparations to celebrate Holy Communion during our English and Mandarin Services hopefully at an opportune time soon. We have arranged for individually sealed packs of the Holy Communion elements to be sent to your homes. Please do not use your own bread and juice.

Please complete and submit this form - https://bit.ly/HC-Delivery - latest by 6.00pm on Sunday 14 Jun 20.

Beat The Blues

• Sat , 27 Jun | 10.00am–11.00am

• Speaker: Mr Benson Soh

• Register here: https://bit.ly/3dLfsKD by 21 Jun

The link to the webinar will be sent to you after your registration.

How do you bounce back from the everyday stuff that makes you feel down? Sometimes life overwhelms us, and we feel down. We have no energy, don’t want to do anything but sleep and not meet anybody. Or we slump into can’t-get-anything-done, dragging-my-feet and feeling-super-down blues. Do you lack passion and motivation? Are Monday mornings sluggish and tense, with a sense that life is empty and work is unpleasant but unavoidable? As the old adage goes: when life throws you lemons… we make lemonade. But what if we can’t? The key is to learn helpful ways to manage your mood, stress and anxiety.

• Speaker: Mr Benson Soh
  In 1980, Benson began his career as a Licensed Social Worker and gained extensive knowledge with more than 4 decades of clinical and social work experience. He has served in various organization such as the Singapore Children’s Society, the Samaritans of Singapore (SOS) and Parkway Pantai, helping people from various age groups and facing different challenges. He uses an integration of approaches in his counselling practice with clients distressed with depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and many other mental health issues. Currently he works part-time at Fitness & Health International and as an academic staff member for ECTA and Swinburne University of Technology teaching Suicide and Crisis Intervention.

In Phase 1 after the Circuit Breaker is lifted from 2 Jun 20, churches will be allowed to conduct weddings and funerals with strict restrictions, but not regular worship services. Meetings and activities like teaching classes, cell meetings, spiritual direction, counselling, and social, worship or prayer gatherings are also prohibited onsite, but are encouraged to continue online. Please look out for the various online offerings by the various ministries here in PLMC TODAY.

Ps Christopher Chin has started producing sermons and worship videos in the Peranakan and Indonesian languages to reach out and minister to people who are comfortable in those languages. If you know of anyone who would be blessed by this, please bless them with the resources here: bit.ly/perMin

Silver Boxes

• Pray for the P6 children who are back in school and the children who will be alternating between HBL and school. May the Lord continue to help them to have a regular Quiet Time with the Lord.

• Pray for our online programmes for our children and Silver Boxes Connect. Pray for our Zoom meetings with the children fortnightly that there will be a good time of bonding and connecting with God and one another.

• Pray for the families, especially those in single parent families, that the Lord will cover them and sustain them during this time.

Sonshine Kids

• Pray for the children to continue to trust in the Lord and encounter God during this time, even though we are not able to meet physically.

• Pray for our weekly zoom meetings. We have been having very good attendance, so pray that the children will still continue to come weekly.

1. Pray for participants and facilitators of DISCIPLE 1 course that while they take a week of recess before resuming the course, they will continue to grow in the Word as they reflect on the lessons. Pray also for good health and protection from the pandemic.

2. Pray for the upcoming webinars: Sustaining Marriage During COVID-19 and Beat the Blues, that the respective speakers will receive God’s wisdom and guidance as they prepare for the talks. Pray also for the participants that they will be blessed by the talks.

• Thank God for a successful YACC Combined Cell Webinar held on 30 May 2020. Pray for YA Community to continue to connect with and encourage one another online.

• Pray for our young adults who are securing internships or are looking for jobs.

• Pray for our young adults who are returning to work with the gradual re-opening of economic activities.

• Pray for those serving as frontline workers, especially for the medical staff and others supporting the fight against COVID-19 in other capacities. Pray over their health and well-being.

With the nation-wide closure of all non-essential businesses and offices including our Church Office, we understand that there will be anxiety, frustration, sadness, anger, helplessness and a whole slew of other emotions.

As your pastors, we want you to know that we are here for you.

• You can email us at pastors@plmc.org or call us at 62851234

• Send prayer requests to prayernet@plmc.org.

• Please stay home as much as possible.

• Maintain safe distancing and good hygiene practices.

• Fellowship online or through calls, praying and encouraging one another.

• If you need to go out, wear a mask and see a doctor even if you are mildly unwell.

• If you are concerned about any symptoms you may have, refer to sgcovidcheck.com and seek appropriate care.

If you need someone to talk to about how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted you and your family, your job and your future, you can call the National Care Hotline which has been set-up by MSF at 62026868.

PLMC Inner Healing Ministry continues online on second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at 7.30pm. Email requests to plihm@plmc.org