Date post: | 04-Mar-2016 |
Category: |
Documents |
Upload: | hif-hif-hanoi |
View: | 213 times |
Download: | 1 times |
SundayBulletin Westlake Speaker: Pastor Jacob Worship leader: Ella Walls Announcements: Jim
MyDinh Speaker: Pastor Nelson Worship leader: Sarah Morris Announcements: Vince
Finance October Offering MTD:
ONLINE GIVING: For details on using PayPal, Credit Cards or automated giving, visit www.hif.vn/donate
USA DONATIONS: Send checks to: Elim Fellowship, 1703 Dalton Road, Lima, NY 14485-0857. In-clude a note: “Preferred for Hanoi Interna-tional Fellowship”.
LOCAL TRANSFERS: email [email protected] for banking details.
Contact Pastor Jacob [email protected] Pastor Nelson [email protected] HIF Office [email protected] Eldership Team [email protected] KidzQuest WL [email protected] KidzQuest MD [email protected] Host Team [email protected] CityPartnerships [email protected]
www.hif.vn
UNIFIED WORSHIP | GENUINE RELATIONSHIPS | TRANSFORMATIONAL OUTREACH 20 OCTOBER 2013
Yangon: “Hanoi 20 years ago” By Pastor Jacob
This was the line I heard several times during my visit to Yangon, Myanmar last
weekend. Because of the nation’s recent opening up of international commerce and
foreign aid, expatriates are flocking by the thousands to the ancient capital of Burma.
A city of six million, Yangon is on the verge of modern development and an attractive
place to make a difference or a profit.
First impressions were:
the city is open and green, lush with
trees and wide boulevards, somewhat
like Chiang Mai;
there is only car traffic with motorbikes
being outlawed and bicycles forbidden
to ride on major roads;
the people are diverse with over 200
ethnic groups and a melting pot of In-
dian, Chinese, Burmese and other re-
gional descent;
there is a small but growing middle
class, some new shopping malls, but no
foreign fast-food chains;
the poor have it difficult without the
ability to purchase a car, ride motor-
bikes, or limited bicycle access.
For my two-day visit, I was hosted by
Pastor Hideki and his wife Yumi of New
Life International Fellowship (NLIF).
Former residents of Ho Chi Minh City,
we were able to catch up after not meet-
ing for eight years. Over dinner, I met
with several council members of the
church, which was mutually encourag-
ing. On Sunday it was my privilege to
share the message during service, pre-
senting The Antioch Model of an inter-
national missional church from Acts 11
and 13. It was great to share our “Love
Hanoi” vision and challenge the con-
gregation to come up with their own
ideas during small group discussions.
The message and vision was well re-
ceived!
The Luchtenburg family and Rohan,
previous members of HIF Westlake,
send their love and greetings to all. A
number of people had traveled to Ha-
noi and visited HIF, something we’d
love to see more of!
This brief visit was part of an effort to
network international churches in our
region and globally. As lead facilitator
of the Missional International Church
Network (www.micn.org), it is my mis-
sion to connect, inspire and engage
int’l church leaders to be missional in
theology, vision and action. Following
my trip, the MICN leadership gathered
in Bangkok for three days to pray and
plan. MICN has begun its second dec-
ade with big dreams. Our next confer-
ence will take place in Beijing the end
of April, 2014. HIF has benefited great-
ly by being part of this network and it
gives us an opportunity to impact int’l
churches across the globe!
PRAYER Join us for pre-service prayer every Sunday, 30 minutes before the start of service at both service locations. You can also get prayer re-quest cards at the infor-mation table and fill out
the prayer cards to make your request
known, then drop them in the offering bag or hand it to an usher or
you can email [email protected].
There will be a Baptism class on October 27, at
the HIF Center after the worship service. The
Baptism class will be conducted by David Wa-
ters and is open to both the My Dinh and
Westlake congregation. The actual baptism
event is tentatively scheduled for the 10th of
November. Please watch out for further an-
nouncements in the bulletin as to where the
baptism venue will be. For those who are in-
terested about baptism and would like to be
baptized as well, please sign-up for the bap-
tism class at the information table or email
This Sunday, City Partnerships Spotlight fea-
tures ‘TeaTalk Vietnamese Club (TVC)’. This
club aims to help foreigners coming to Vietnam
to better understand their culture and conse-
quently for the Vietnamese to understand for-
eign cultures as well.
“Do you want to discover a new culture? Do
you want to learn a new language and have
more opportunities to develop lasting friend-
ships? Do you want to feel less confused and
more competent in everyday activities such as
shopping and buying cheap?”
This maybe some of the topic being discussed
when you join a TeaTalk session. TeaTalk is
located at No. 9 G1-Trung Yen, opposite 91
Trung Kinh.
seek God deeper and hold onto Him more tight-ly. When I am afraid and fear, God is my hope and help. Late one night, I awoke in the midst of another nightmare. But this time, it was different as I sensed a voice, a presence beside me praying forme, pro-tecting me. I know that even though I am in a low valley, God’s presence and reality in my life doesn’t change. He is Emmanuel. Now when I have night-mares again, I will wake up, pray, read the Word and praise. I am no longer afraid of nightmares any-more.
(Translated from Chinese by ‘redclaypot’)
Nightmares have always plagued me since that night when my father killed my mother, and I was but a little child at a tender age. My childhood days and growing up moments were all filled with nightmares, fears and sleeplessness. It became very much worse in 2010, and affected my daily activities. When I was at a loss as to how to continue with going for-ward in my life, God searched me out and I gave my life to Jesus. Two months after that, I came to Hanoi as part of my university’s student language immer-sion and exchange program. It was in February 2011 through Pastor Nelson’s preaching on James that God moved me to ask for help and healing. Through the months of spiritual battling, right up to June that year, I continued to have nightmares, and often woke up unable to breathe properly, with shivers, feeling my entire body incapacitated and unable to move. A very deep sense of fear and darkness will overwhelm me during these times. Afterwards, when I thought I have con-quered my fears and gotten rid of the nightmares, occasionally the nightmares will return and make me question if I had indeed been saved by grace in Christ. Even as recent as 14 Oct, a few days ago, I was still struggling with nightmares. But when I recount my journey, I am reminded that God has given me much grace and showed me in-comprehensible miracles. The most important bless-ing is that these fears and nightmares drive me to
“God is my hope and help” (A Testimony by Tracy)
www.facebook.com/
hifvietnam