1. WELCOME TO CBCGL English Ministry Chinese Bible Church of Greater Lowell Pastor Peter Wu, Senior Pastor | Pastor Nathan Willems, Youth Pastor James Chung, Mandarin | Pastor Chen, Cantonese 197 Littleton Road | Chelmsford, MA 01824 978.256.3889 | english@cbcgl.org | www.cbcgl.org - Praise the Lord! We have collected a combined pledge of $850.00 last Sunday and reached a total of $1,903,44500 to date. Please continue to pray for and participate to pledge for the equipment expenditure, ask God ’ s blessing that we can move on to Phase II quickly after the completion of Phase I. Please issue the check to "CBCGL" with "Building Project" on the memo line for your donation. - Pastor Wu will teach two DMin courses in San Jose and Taipei, leaving on 1/18 and returning on 2/1. Please keep him in your prayers. He can be reached by email peterwu211@gmail.com during his trip.peterwu211@gmail.com - Starting 1/17 Children Sunday School starts new schedule from 10:00 AM to 11:15 AM. Students will have a recess between 11:15 and 11:30 AM in the kindergarten room, game room, or children library with supervision. Children Worship starts from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Please help your children to observe the new schedule. - Awana Ministry cordially invites all current and potential coworkers to participate in a training session on 1/31 1:30-3:30 PM at Children ’ s Chapel to improve our leadership and discipleship skills. - Youth ministry will send two short term mission teams to serve in Costa Rica this summer. The first fundraising event hosted by YMC is to sell NianGao (Chinese Rice Cake) for the Chinese New Year. Please place your order through Sophia Wong, Vivian Gillis, Grace Zhou or Tony Ge if you are interested and indicate your choice of flavors: red bean or brown sugar, $10 each. - The 2015 tax receipts for tithes will be available for distribution on Sunday, 1/31. Please come to the front lobby of the Mandarin sanctuary to pick up your receipt on 1/31 or 2/7 from 12:30 - 1:30 pm. CBCGL FAMILY NEWS Seeking to Transform Lives and Communities - Opportunities and Actions, John 9:4 FOCUS ON MISSIONS A Thank You Letter from Eva Lee Mission Field: Hong Kong Dec. 2015 Dear friends in Christ, My husband, Bill and I are thankful for each of you who have been an important part of our missionary lives. We thank you for your support over the past years. With God’s abundant provision, we continue to provide a Ministry Home for underprivileged migrant youths from China, co-workers’ families, Muslin friends and local high school students. Please pray that I have the wisdom to extend my friendship to two migrant youths from Beijing, who received scholarship to study here in Hong Kong. May our Lord's words and love prepare their hearts to receive and experience the ultimate grace from our Lord Jesus Christ. Eva - Youth LYTE team will host its Annual Youth Co-worker Appreciation Dinner on Jan. 30 th, 6-9 PM at the Cantonese Fellowship hall. We cordially invite all the parents to participate as well. As a tradition, the youth will prepare and serve dinner for the coworkers, while parents and youth enjoy a potluck dinner. This is a great opportunity to thank and encourage our youth coworkers, and to fellowship with students and parents. UPCOMING EVENTS January 24 th, 2016 Call to Worship Scripture Reading & Opening Prayer Songs of Worship Message "Who will overcome" 1 John 5:1-5 Pastor Nathan Willems Response & Offering Announcements Benediction and Doxology Sunday School: 11:45 AM