Lord’s Day, Vol. 12 No. 43

(1) Visitation and Prayer

A visitation was made with Sister Marie Paula Bredemeyer at the hospital on 22 October 2024. She was admitted to the A&E and was treated for an infection. She is undergoing treatment for a cancerous tumour in the liver. The radiation treatment that was concluded last week shows good results. Sister Marie needs dialysis treatment and carries out water dialysis from home. 

Please continue to uphold Sister Marie in prayer. Remember also Wee Lee and Wee Liat as they take care of their dear mother. 

Sister Marie was baptised together with her sons Cher Wee Lee and Wee Liat during the Baptismal Service on 20 December 2020 [Lord’s Day, Vol. 8 No. 52, 27 December 2020].

Testimony of Marie Paula Bredemeyer

I grew up attending church regularly, both Catholic and Christian churches. Going to church was always performing an action of penance for me.

I have always believed in God but never realized

that God saved me by grace and not by works, until my sons explained it to me, and started praying with me together.

When I was diagnosed with kidney failure in 2015, I was very upset, but there were a lot of people who came and prayed for me, from Christian pastors to my relatives including my sister-in-law, Lily. This provided me great comfort and I began to learn a lot more about what it means to believe in Christ, and have since grown closer to Him each day.

I look forward to our nightly family prayers to connect with Christ. As I grow closer to Christ every day, I also realise I worry less for though I may not know what the future holds for me in this world, I know where my loved ones and me will be headed after this life in this world, and that provides me great comfort.

My favourite verse which provides me great comfort every day as I battle my illness is Philippians 4: 6-7, “Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”

My next step with this baptism is to share my joy and confidence in God with others.

Testimony of Cher Wee Liat

I was born into a Christian family, and hence grew up already knowing about God, through attending Sunday School, Youth Fellowships and regular Church services. Probably because I was born into a Christian family and from young being exposed to Christ, I did not experience any dramatic enlightenment that swept over me when hearing about Christ.

I will say that I always believed in God and that Christ was the only true God in the world. But I don’t think I truly grasped the meaning of being God’s disciple, of putting all our faith in God, and to be committed by truly living according to God’s will. It was kind of always that believing in God was what I needed to do, and going to church is what I do, as I was being taught since young. But God has always been just one part of my life, a section where I compartmentalize when I need to go to church and do what I have been taught since young.

The turning point came when my mom was diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease Stage 4 (Kidney Failure) in Sep 2015. I was shattered and devastated and was blaming myself for not going with her to see the doctor each time she went and hence didn’t pick up on the warning signs earlier. But somehow, during that time, I started praying to God with all my grievances and casting all my burdens and worries upon Him, and after that, I felt comforted, as if a huge load had been lifted from my arms. I knew somehow that regardless, God would pick us up and carry us, no matter how broken we were. How I got through everything since then was through this daily speaking with God, through the relationship I started to form with Him, and I knew that everything will be done according to God’s will and He will always provide, as Matthew 21:22 states “And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” As I received God’s comfort bestowed upon me, I started to pray with my mom and brother every night since 2018, and that drew our family closer together in Christ.

God has indeed touched me, showed me the way, and I ask for his grace and mercy upon me and pray that everything I do will be according to God’s will. Today’s baptism is a culmination of that relationship with Christ, where Christ is a full part of my life and not one part. It is the day I tell God that I’m committed to make him the full part of my life.

Testimony of Cher Wee Lee

I was always a Sunday Christian, being born into a Christian family, going to Sunday School and attending Church, not because I truly wanted, but because I was taught to do that, and if you don’t, you will get scolding from your parents and relatives. I do believe in Christ, I have no problem with that, but I have never knew the extent or what it meant to have a commitment to Him.

Things changed when my mom was diagnosed with kidney failure in 2015. I was extremely worried and lost, and started praying to God to help my mom get better. God answered my prayers, by allowing my mom’s condition to be stabilized since. Since then, I realized that God answer prayers, and that I could go to Him for anything and everything. Luke 11:10 says “For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” And I realized also that we are saved by grace not by works, so despite me not having done anything much with regards to being committed to Christ, He has continually provided for me. 

Of that I am extremely thankful for God’s mercy and then realized that the only way to glorify God’s name was to take actions to show my commitment to Him through this baptism today. I am still a work-in-progress, and I am thankful to God for being in my life and pray that my faith and commitment in Him will grow every day through His Grace.

Pray for Wee Lee and Wee Liat, that the Lord may strengthen them as they care for their dear mother sister Marie during this time of need. It is her prayer for healing from the infection, that she may be discharged from the hospital to be home and able to come to church for worship.

(2) Tracting, Visitation and Prayer

On 15 October 2024, during a regular tracting session on Tuesday afternoons, in a block of flats in Stirling Road area, Pastor Lek and Lois Lek visited the home of Mdm. Lee Suan Luan. She was an elderly lady aged between 80 and 90 years old. A helper was in the home with her. When Lois was putting a tract at the gate of the home, Mdm. Lee gave the invitation to come to her home. 

Mdm. Lee, a baptised believer, was now no longer able to go to church. She was joyous to have Christian visitors that day. Choruses were sung to encourage her heart in Mandarin – “God Will Take Care of You”, “He Will Hold Me Fast”, “Only Jesus, only Jesus”. 

A tract was given to the helper to help Mdm. Lee tune in to join our online Mandarin Service at 10 am every Lord’s Day.

Thank God for the blessed time of fellowship in the Lord with this dear child of God, Mdm. Lee, at her home. Do remember Mdm. Lee in your prayers also.

May the tracts distributed accomplish God’s purpose in the salvation of souls and the edification of the saint to the glory of His Name.

(3) Old Paths Conference

Do register for the Old Paths Conference as registration closes on 3 November 2024. During last year’s Conference, the King James Bible without Chapters and Verses was distributed. The church has been reading through the Old Testament Scriptures this year and has more than ¾ completed. This year, God willing, the Westminster Annotations, a commentary by the Westminster divines, is being prepared and will be printed. It will provide a complementary reading of the Bible. 

Yours lovingly,

Pastor Lek Aik Wee