Toronto Jaffray Chinese Alliance Church

It’s time for a night of Bible Study!  Bring your friends + pens/pencils and your bible to the Church at 8 pm!

• Aletheia Fellowship Program: BYOB this Friday for Bible Study. you know you wanna Know! 8pm, Aletheia Lounge..
• Hosanna Fellowship Program: It’s BIBLE Time everyone :) 8PM at CHURCH! Bring your pens/pencils, Bibles, yourself and your friends! :D See you there!
• Mosaic Men’s group will be held this Saturday at 7:30pm @ church office (optional: bring your own dinner to the office @ 6:30pm). The men will be studying the series: The Quest for Authentic Manhood by Robert Lewis. For more information, please contact Pastor Arthur.
• Mosaic Women’s group will be held this Saturday at 7:30pm @ Melissa Kwan’s home. The women will be studying “The New Eve” by Robert Lewis. For more information, please contact Melissa Kwan.
• Junior Choir has a practice today from 12:15-1:15pm in the Choir Room. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Dorinda Mui.
• Jaffray Leadership Retreat will be held on Saturday October 25 (Sat) from 9:30am-4pm. Jaffray’s leaders (e.g. elders, deacons, cell group leaders, ministry coordinators) are invited to attend. The topic of discussion will be on mentorship. Other brothers and sisters are also invited to attend. Lunch will be provided. Please register with elder Alex Cheng (adparade - at - gmail.com ) as soon as possible.
• The Outreach ministry is planning to deliver flyers to our neighborhood to advertise the tutoring program on October 19, 12-1pm. Please come out to help! If you are interested in becoming a tutor for the upcoming terms, please contact Adrian Yu.
• The monthly fellowship luncheon will be held next Sunday right after the Sunday School. Timothy Fellowship & Youth Career Group will do the setting up and clear up of the lunch program.
• Christmas Baptism classes will be held on Sundays from 12:30–2pm in the Board Room on November 2, 9, 23, and December 7. Interviews will be held on Friday December 12 (5-7:30pm) or Sunday December 14 (12:30-3pm). Those who are planning to get baptized please contact elder Judy Ng or Pastor Arthur.
• The Annual General Membership Meeting will be held on November 16 at 12:15pm, for the election of the 2009 elders and approval of the 2009 fiscal budget. A financial consultation meeting has been planned on October 26 at 12:15pm. All members are encouraged to attend. The proposed 2009 budget is available for picking up outside the sanctuary.
• Our TJCAC Annual Mission Conference will be held on November 7-9 (Fri-Sun). The speaker is Rev. Jonathan Teo and our theme is “Lord, please send me”. Please plan to attend all sessions.
• The updated individual offering records (Jan - Sept 2008) are now posted in the East-side bulletin board upstairs. For any inquiries, please contact deaconess Karen Lung or elder Patrick So.
• The Board of Elders has approved the hiring of Pastor Matthew Gunn to serve as the Assistant English Pastor for a one-year term starting November 1, 2008. His main role will be to pastor the children as well as assist in the junior high and youth ministry. Please extend a warm welcome to Pastor Matthew and his wife Bora.

OTHERS:

• Teens Conference 2009 is looking for Team Captains! If you like to serve the Lord by leading a group of crazy teenagers for 2 days, download registration forms at www.afc-ca.org/TC2009. There will be FIVE mandatory leadership development sessions: Nov 1 (AFC), Dec 6 (AFC), Jan 10 (TCMC), Feb 7 (TCMC, with coaches), Feb 14 (AFC, optional), and Feb 21 (TCMC). Looking forward to hearing from the captain hopefuls!
• Operation Christmas Child is an annual ministry of Samaritan’s Purse. They help distribute millions of Christmas gifts and Gospel tracts in shoe boxes to needy children around the word. Parents are asked to help your children to place gifts in a shoe box as instructed by the flyer, with $7 cheque for postage. Please bring the gift boxes back to the church office on or before Nov 16(Sun). Flyers & shoe boxes can be picked up outside the sanctuary. Please contact deacon Victor Chin for information.

This week…..we’re having “Cell Group!”  Come to Savio (50 Tideswell blvd.) at 8 for a night of bonding with your cell group as well as to worship God!