Campus Ministry
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UNITAR
Meeting the students at 7.30pm every Tuesday at Kelana Jaya campus. We have about 15 students coming to the fellowship. I am trying to rope in more lay members to help run this ministry on a weekly basis. Thus far over 8 fellowships have been organized.
MAHSA
We are meeting for fellowship for the past 3 weeks. Each week meeting new students. In the process of organizing a formal gathering. More information will be available soon.
UNISEL
We have already established contacts with the students. Roughly 6 students have stepped forward but we expect more to come. We are now collaborating together to study the possibility of organizing a Christian fellowship with TMC Bukit Rotan.
Fulltime Ministry
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We have identified those who have calling to serve fulltime ministry. These names have already been brought to the attention of the BOM and TAC President. We are currently awaiting official response from BOM on this matter. Please pray for them.
| Name | Church | Ministry | Status |
| Mr. Noel | TMC Asahan/Jasin | Pastoral | Studying at Full Gospel Christian International, Puchong (on his own) |
| Mr. Nelson | TMC Rawang | Pastoral | Interviewed by BOM |
| Mr. Rohin | TMC Kuantan | Pastoral | Interviewed by BOM |
| Mr. Vincent | TMC Kampar | Pastoral | Applied |
| Mr. David Thanival | TMC Jelapang | Missions | Applied |
| Mr. Edwin | TMC Jelapang | Missions | Applied |
| Mr. Joseph Ambrose | TMC Ipoh | Missions | Committed |
| Mr. Edwin Selvanesan | TMC Banting | Part Time church worker | Applied |
UNITAR. Campus Ministry
Posted by revjonathan | Filed under Announcements & Updates, YD's Voice
Come and join us in UNITAR Campus ministry, on Tuesdays at 8.00pm. Contact Hannah 0175045581 for Location.
YD’s voice, MYF Sunday
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The World Around
We live in a postmodern culture where there is no commonly held standard of right and wrong. This attitude increasingly affects youths, even those who profess faith in Christ.
The waves of information technology age, have influenced our culture badly. Whether we like it or not, the knowledge we have obtained or continue to obtain, controls our beliefs, values and feelings. Many youths have been led astray. In their minds, there’s nothing wrong with being a Christian and continuing to do immoral things. At present we find more and more youths caught up in struggles, such as drinking and smoking. We have to combat against these postmodernism values.
Church
Daug Fields said in his book Purpose Driven youth Ministry, “Imagine a sports dynasty for a minute, and pick your favourite. Its success can’t be attributed to any one component; several factors combine to produce success. A true dynasty is stronger than its one great player. It must also have supportive key players, a motivating head coach, experienced assistant coaches, a position in the free agency market, a risk-taking owner, a productive front office and a strong farming system. Average sports fans don’t consider all of these factors when they watch their favourite team play. Instead they focus on the team’s best player and falsely assume that the teams’ success is due to that one great player.”
Daug’s finding gives us a similar picture for our churches. Sadly, many in the church view the youth ministry with the same mentality. We look for that one great player (the pastor) who can save the youth ministry that will attract the youths to stay on in church. A healthy youth ministry is built on a strong leadership of adult volunteers who express their passion by caring and taking time from their busy lives to build relationships with youths and help them to grow in their faith.
Parents
MYF has been a platform for youths to strengthen their faith in Jesus and a source of encouragement to them to live godly lives. I belief that parents who have trusted God and sent their children, with prayers to MYF, are truly blessed. Many Christian parents are playing defence with their children when they ought to be playing offense. Playing defence means hoping your children won’t smoke, won’t drink, won’t do drugs, and won’t get into trouble. As good as that is, that’s too low a goal for Christian parents. We ought to raise our children to play offense – to learn how to change the world for Jesus Christ.
Sometimes our dreams for our children are too small. We want them to get an education, find a career, settle down and marry a good person. That’s not enough. Do you want your children to serve the Lord? It won’t happen by accident. You must sharpen them like arrows and aim them in the right direction.
Youths
TAC-MYF youths, remember that you are handpicked by God to be His arrows. God has great plans for you. Arrows are not meant to be kept safe in the quiver. He wants you to eventually release that arrow to make an impact in the world with the love of Christ.
As we celebrate MYF Sunday on 19th July 2009, let us be grateful to God for the MYF he has designed in our churches. Pray that God will continue to inspire our young to think differently and move strategically.
Have a Blessed MYF Sunday. May our youth fellowship continue to be God’s arrows in Malaysia.
May our good Lord continue to bless and lead us to greater heights.
Soli Deo Gloria,
Rev. Jonathan Jesudas Youth Director Tamil Annual ConferenceYD’s Voice
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Youth ministry is a challenging ministry. Nowadays getting youths to attend a regular Sunday worship service itself is a challenge. Today many youths are challenged to follow the fast moving worldly lifestyle. The world appears to be much more attractive, fun and interesting than our church activities. In olden times, the church was the only happening place. There were no discos, pubs, theaters, food-stalls, cyber cafés or shopping malls for them to hang around.
But don’t rush to give up hope! I strongly believe our prayers and God’s love will win them back. What are our youths looking for? Youths at present need not only friends who are willing to listen but role models and leaders who can challenge them to live a purposeful life and disciple them to live a godly life. It’s not the nice banquet looking church or concert-like worshiping church.
If our churches could have, one dedicated, charismatic, “hero”, who is able to be a friend of youths, willing to spend time at the “Teh tarik shop”, go for bowling, movie etc. I think we have won half the battle.
We need to rebuild relationships with our youths. It is not just having some programs every Sunday.
Soli Deo Gloria,
Rev. Jonathan Jesudas
Youth Director
Tamil Annual Conference
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