We are expecting more worshippers at our onsite Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday services, so to manage the numbers for everyone’s safety, worshippers will have to register for these English and Mandarin services at reservation.plmc.org starting 4 Apr, 10am.

The theme for this year’s Good Friday and Easter services is Doors. Doors to Freedom, Doors to Life, culminating in Open Doors. This message is for everyone. So, if you have a friend or a loved one who needs to enter the door into God's love, invite them to our online or onsite English or Mandarin service.

14 Apr 2022 (Maundy Thursday)

• *English Holy Communion Service

8.00pm Onsite & Online

15 Apr 2022 (Good Friday)

• *English Services

9.00am Onsite & Online, 11.15am Onsite

• Mandarin Service

11.15am Onsite & Online

17 Apr 2022 (Easter Sunday)

• *English Services

9.00am Onsite & Online, 11.15am Onsite

• Mandarin Services

9.00am Onsite, 11.15am Onsite & Online

Note: No Youth Service on 16/4, No Filipino Service on 17/4, but Children's Ministry Silver Boxes continues.

Please collect the Holy Communion elements on Sat 26 Mar, 2pm to 4pm and Sun 27 Mar, 8am to 1pm, at the Fellowship Hall.

1 Thess 5:16-18 exhorts us to “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing….”

Let’s come together to seek first the kingdom of God at our monthly corporate prayer meeting on the first Wed of each month. The next one is on 6 Apr, 8 to 9pm on Zoom. Registration closes 5 Apr, 6pm.

Registration Link: https://tiny.one/April-CPM

This is the second part in the series on the Holy Spirit continuing from The Holy Spirit in the Gospel. Dr Lai Pak Wah leads us to explore the understanding of the Holy Spirit’s person and work among early Christians after the time of the apostles.

In John 14, Jesus promises that He will send a Helper, Comforter and Teacher to guide His disciples. The Holy Spirit came at Pentecost, thereby transforming the lives of Christians and empowering us to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth.

But who is this Holy Spirit? How does He relate to God the Father and The Son? This was a question that the early Christians struggled with before arriving at the answer we now confess: The Spirit is God.

Join us as we find out how the early Church arrived at this legacy, and what it means for us in our day and age. Join us at this session to understand the Holy Spirit in our heritage as we seek to grow deeper in the Spirit.

Look out for our final instalment of the series, The Holy Spirit in the Life and Ministry of John Wesley, by Bishop Emeritus Dr Wee Boon Hup on 23 July 2022. Be sure to join us for this session as we explore the workings of the Spirit in our Methodist heritage.

Date: 30 April 2022

Time: 10am – 12noon

Venue: ZOOM

Speaker: Dr Lai Pak Wah

About our Speaker:

Dr Lai Pak Wah is PRINCIPAL, LECTURER IN CHURCH HISTORY & HISTORICAL THEOLOGY at Biblical Graduate School of Theology (BGST). Pak-Wah obtained his PhD from Durham University, UK. He is the author of The Dao of Healing: Christian Perspective of Chinese Medicine and a certified Belbin coach. Pak-Wah was previously a full-time lecturer at the School of Business, Singapore Polytechnic, and engaged in investment promotion work with the Singapore Economic Development Board. He worships at Mt Carmel Bible Presbyterian Church where he serves as Elder overseeing the Hybrid Church Initiative. Pak Wah enjoys engaging in Tai Ji and Wing Chun martial arts as a form of spiritual formation practice.

Register by 24 April 2022 at https://bit.ly/359zShq or scan QR code to register. For any enquires, email Kwang Meng at kwangmeng@plmc.org.

The Parenting Teens Course (TPTC) was developed by Nicky and Silas Lee who are the co-authors of The Parenting Book and The Marriage Book. They created The Parenting Children Course (TPCC) and The Parenting Teenagers Course (TPTC), The Marriage Course and The Marriage Preparation Course.

The aim of TPTC is to equip parents and caregivers of teenagers with strategies to build a healthy relationship while guiding them into adulthood.

If you wish to learn more about parenting teenagers and to interact with other likeminded parents and facilitators in a small group setting, sign up at https://bit.ly/3LWl6M3

Here are what some of the parents have to say:-

“Very important to model the right behaviour and values to our children- in the family and our marriage.”

“To show more compassion to our teenager at home, as we understand he is in transition from a boy to a teenager juggling with various issues - establishing own identity, striving to be independent, trying to manage his emotions due to hormonal changes, etc.”

“Opportunity to talk to the kids using the homework as discussion point.”

“I have made a conscious effort to listen more and to allow my daughter to decide on things that affects her - to exercise responsibility and awareness.”

Date: Sat 30 Apr, 7, 14, 21 & 28 May 2022

Time: 3.30 to 6pm

Venue: Online

Cost: $10 (per person for materials)

Registration Closes:16 Apr 2022

Payment Mode:

(Indicate the Reference Code FLM2 when making payment)

1. Bank Transfer: Paya Lebar Methodist Church; DBS BANK LTD 023-905121-9

2. PayNow/PayLah to UEN S87CC0520L

Registration is complete only after payment. Please email a screen shot/copy of payment receipt to Andy Toh at familylife@plmc.org.

For enquires, please email Andy Toh at familylife@plmc.org

• With effect from Sat 19 Mar 2022, worshippers to our Onsite Services need not make reservations. Capacity limits have been increased and zoning lifted, so we encourage you to join us. However, as there are still capacity limits, entry will be on a first-come-first-served basis and there will be no entry once the worship venues are full, so worshippers are advised to come early.

• Reservations for Silver Boxes still applies, and our online services will continue.

• Safe Entry, mask wearing and no singing still continues. All worshippers must be fully vaccinated or show proof of exemption.

• Worshippers to the 9am English Service are strongly urged to leave the church premises and car park as soon as they are dismissed to make way for worshippers attending the 11.15am English and Mandarin Services.

Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, which falls 40 days before Easter (excluding Sundays). Some churches observe Ash Wednesday with a special service where the foreheads of the worshippers are marked with a mixture of oil and ashes, and the words, “Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return” are spoken by the presiding pastor or priest to remind the congregation of their mortality.

Lent is a season of preparation, meditation and prayer, much like Advent. However, unlike Advent, the events anticipated are of a much more solemn nature – the suffering and sacrificial death of Jesus Christ, and the themes of this season are repentance and confession, fasting and self-denial, salvation and spiritual discipline.

The season focuses on the life and ministry of the Lord, and His last days in Jerusalem. The liturgical colour is purple, again a symbol of penitence and preparation, but also of the Passion (i.e. suffering) of the Messiah.

The last week of Lent is called Holy Week in many churches, and is marked by Maundy Thursday services commemorating the Last Supper, and sometimes, ritual foot-washing, and the stripping of the altar symbolizing the stripping away of Jesus’ physical vestments and dignity.

Good Friday services commemorate the crucifixion and death of Jesus, and His “seven last words” are usually meditated on. The liturgical colour of Good Friday is black for darkness, forsakenness and death.

The annual registration starts from 8 March 2022 for children born in the year:

2017 (Kindergarten 2)

2018 (Kindergarten 1)

2019 (Nursery)

2020 (PreN)

2021 (Playgroup)

All registration will be conducted at the Kindergarten Admin Office, Covenant Centre level 2.

For enquiries, please call: 6285-3730 between 9am to 3pm.

Premiere on April 15, 2022 @eagles.org.sg

Streaming till June 5, 2022

A declaration of hope with the Resurrection of Jesus, an abiding hope when all else fails. Presentation of songs, poetry, scriptures and message featuring Peter Chao, Founder of Eagles Communications, Crosswinds and Imelda Teo with music by Dr Kelly Tang, Singapore Cultural Medallion laureate and Dr Sydney Tan, a well-known music arranger for Singapore National Day Parade since 2002.

Register your participation and tickets at eagles.org.sg.