2019 New Year Combined Sunday Service

January 6, 2019, 10:00 a.m.

Speaker: Pastor Joshua Cheng Interpreter: Stephen Tzeng

Worship Combined Worship Team

Prayer Pastor Joshua Cheng

Anthem "I Am No Longer My Own" Combined Choir

Scriptures reading Matthew 25:31-46 Pastor Tracia Wong

Pastor Dalen Men

Message "The Judgment of the Nations" Pastor Joshua Cheng

Interpreter: Stephen Tzeng

Covenant & Commissioning Congregation

¡±Pastoral Staff

¡±Elders & Deacons

¡±Congregational co-workers/

Fellowship & small group leaders/Sunday School teachers

¡±Stephen Ministry Director and Ministers

¡±Agape Caring Center co-workers

¡±Youth and Children Ministry workers

¡±Chinese School & After School Program Principal & Co-workers

¡±House of Abundance Leadership Council/Small group leaders/Sunday School teachers

¡±Administrative Staff

¡±All congregants

Offering Pastor Ken Wong

Announcement Pastor Ken Wong

Doxology Congregation

Benediction Pastor Ken Wong

~ New Year Lunch Follows ~

CONNECTIONS

Abiding and Advancing the Kingdom of God Class: We will start this class on Jan. 13 in E-7.

Family Life: We are continuing our study from the Gospel of John this Friday at 8 p.m. in E-10. Contact John Shao at john_shao@yahoo.comfor info.

Women's Group: We meet on the second and fourth Saturday of the month at Anni's home, 8:30 a.m. Contact Anni for more info: wonganniy@yahoo.com. The group is discussing "The Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren.

Sunday Small Group: Sundays at 1:30 p.m. at the Cheng residence. Contact Paul at paul.c.cheng@gmail.com for info. We will discuss "Radical Discipleship" by Edmund Chan.

Light House Group: Meet at Andrew and Liz's home on Friday night at 7:30 p.m. in Temple City. Contact Andrew at Andrewlamcpa@yahoo.com.They are studying "The Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren.

YOUTH

Sunday Service:Let's join our combined New Year's service in Main Sanctuary TODAY. A special lunch will be served in youth center. Pastor Ben will start a new sermon on 1/13.

Sunday School:All Sunday classes will resume on 1/13 at 11:30 a.m. Junior High students will be with Pastor Ben in E-9. Freshman and sophomore will be with auntie Virg and auntie Anni in E-10. Junior and senior will be with Dr. Glenn in youth center.

Friday Night Fellowship:Our new year FNF small group will begin on 1/11 at 8:00 p.m. in youth center. Come and join us!

January 2019 SENA: Pick up your own copy at pastor Ben's office after the service.

ALL CHURCH

Blessed New Year! Let us consecrate the first Sunday of the year to worship God with your heart, mind and strength. May the Lord richly bless you and your family this year. Please stay for lunch. Facility arrangement: Cafeteria: MC and HOA; Grace Hall: MC Senior; Chapel 2 & 3: CC; Youth Center and Patio: Connections and CIA; E3 & E4: Children.

Commissioning Ceremony: Today (01/06/19) is the New Year's Combined Service, and we will have a ceremony for the commissioning of our 2019 Elders, Deacons, and various ministry leaders. Please pray God gives them spiritual wisdom and grace.

2019 Elders: Joshua Cheng (Senior Pastor/Elder Board Chair), Ken Wong (Pastoral Elder), Dalen Men (Pastoral Elder), Tracia Wong (Pastoral Elder), Yvonne Tung (Secretary), Richard Chang (Treasurer), Vincent Cheung (Personnel Committee Chair), Kally Wong (Spiritual Formation), Alan Liang (Missions/Church Planting), Mindy Ying (Social Concern).

2019 Deacons: Sarah Chen (Deacon Board Chair), Peter Chan (DB Vice Chair/Finance), Pauline Kao (DB Vice Chair/ Admin. & Risk Management), Gang Chen (IT), Sam Fang (IT), Judy Peng (Missions), Edison Shu (Facility), Chris Su (Education), Lydia Wada (Education), Jenny Su (Social Concern), Lixin Yang (Social Concern) .

2019 Joint Board & Pastoral Team Vision Sharing: 1/13(Sun) 1-3:30 p.m. in Youth Center. Please pray,

2018Donation Receipt Deadline: The expiration dates for 2018donation receipts are as follows:All offerings for the year 2018 need to be specified on the memo as "2018 offering".

¡±Check Offering: Ends 1/6/2019 (Check issued date MUST be on or before: 12/31/2018).

¡±Cash Offering: Ends 1/6/2019. Please write "2018 offering" on the envelope.

2018 Payment Requisition Form Deadline: 1/6/2019 will be the last day to submit any 2018 ministry expense reimbursement requests. Any requests after 1/7 will be considered 2019 expenses.

­First Evangelical Church Association 1/6/2019

A joint and integrative ministry of spirituality, mission and social concern

FECA Theme for 2018: "Following Jesus with Daring Faith"

The Staff of the FECA office wishes all of you a blessed New Year!

"But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven. It is a land the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the Lord your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end."~ Deuteronomy 11:11-12

Vision Choir Retreat

Vision is looking for a host for their retreat to be held on February1-2
(Friday night Saturday afternoon). If you can host 16 people with sleeping bags and have a piano and room to rehearse, please contact Marshall Huang at Marshall.huang@feca.org.

The FECA Governing Board Meeting

The meeting will be held at 7:30 pm (dinner at 6:30 pm) on January 8 (Tuesday) in the evening at the FECA office; all 2019 Board members please attending accordingly. Please pray for God's presence in the meeting.

FECA 2018 Annual Report Is Now Available

Please be sure to obtain a copy from your church. If you have any suggestions for the improvement of the report, please contact office@feca.org.

*ACC: Anchor Community Church (a new church planted by FECDB)

*GCDC: Grace Covenant Disciples Church(a new church planted by FEC Arcadia)