Board of Deacons

Deacon Andrew Lam

Welcome again to the church’s annual report.

This year, the church was finally able to be lively again and meet in person. Although everyone was still wearing masks, we could still feel the joy of seeing each other from our eyes. I hope that we will experience God’s abundant grace through the power of praying for each other and physical church service and fellowship. I would like to take this time to review with you what the BOD have done in the past year.

First, there have been two important times when the church gradually returned to normal from the pandemic. In mid-December of last year, the church officially entered the fourth stage of pandemic preparedness, and brothers and sisters were finally able to sing aloud in physical church services and fellowship groups (yes! Singing out loud is such a joy!) The church continues to be in the fourth stage of pandemic prevention. Which delayed resumption of children’s Sunday school till May 2022. At the same time, the 9am Cantonese service resumed.

One of the major events was the Mandarin congregation started their worship service at Boronia Grove Community Centre in April 2022. There were many difficulties encountered throughout the preparation process but through God’s provision and the unity of brothers and sisters, the congregation persevered, and the Centre continues to be used wisely. May God use this new place to reach out to more neighbours and let them know and accept the Gospel.

BOD has spent time preparing different facilities within the church. These include:

• Maintenance of projector lighting in Hall 1 and Hall 2.

• Installing a hot water heater and refrigerator in the kitchen.

• New cabinet in the flower arrangement department.

• New TVs in the children’s Sunday school classroom and Hall 2.

• Delivering cleaning and repair services for church premises.

We would like to thank everyone who participated.

Some of the things BOD are still working on and the challenges we are facing are:

• Repairing cracks in different areas of the building.

• Spring church cleaning and year end lunch.

• Preparing and setting up the church cloud system.

• Dealing with different government regulations.

• Promoting the importance of safety ministry training.

• Developing a child protection law for the church (now with over 115 Sunday school students).

• Increasing transparency of church finances

All of this also requires your participation and prayers.

Before I close, let me thank God again that the entire deacon board has been united in dealing with different challenges over the years. We have also brought different needs of the church to each congregation to build, protect, and prepare this place for God’s use.

Let Psalm 67:1-2 be our prayer.

May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine on us. so that your ways may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations.