Hello dear brothers and sisters!
How are you? I hope this post finds you well. =)
The National Prayer and Missions Month Booklet is finally out. It’s been a great privilege preparing, compiling and collating this NPMM booklet. Much have been learnt, and it’s great joy to know and be reminded that there are others throughout the nation and around the world who worship and serve the same God, our Lord. It’s not perfect, but i pray that it will, at the very least, serve the purpose of uniting us to pray for one another.
Just a few tips for printing out this year’s NPMM booklet and using it:
1. i know some of us might think that it’s still a bit early for a 7th of Aug start, but can i suggest that the booklets be printed out as early as possible while you are not too busy with uni work as the semester starts to rush through. don’t keep it till the last minute. things can go wrong easily, and when each booklet is quite a few pages thick, you don’t want to be wasting resources too. =)
2. do try to print out one copy first in case there needs to be a change in the printer’s setting.
3. remember to print the document in booklet form.
4. i have ‘locked’ the document, so hopefully there won’t be any accidental changes that might affect the formatting etc.
5. there is an introduction article by Dr TY Yong included, so i would suggest that the booklet is given out at least on Friday the 6th, for a 7th August start on Saturday. this way, the members can have some time to read through the introductory article before the 7th. do have a quick look through of the booklet and hopefully you’ll understand what i mean.
6. the early bird registration period in the convention advertisement is actually 15 July 2009 to 31 August (as opposed to 1 July to 31 Aug as written in the advert in the NPMM booklet).
If any of these doesn’t make sense, do let me know as soon as possible, and i’ll help to explain as best as i can.
As for National Prayer Day, i urge you to start discussing with the other centre leaders (if you haven’t done so already) to decide on what to do for the day. We strongly encourage you to have a statewide NPD (for states with more than one centre), so that we can be united together, to pray for one another, for other centres in the state, centres in Australia, missionaries and nations. However, it is entirely up to you to decide the exact program for the day, or to incorporate worship, sharing, fasting, etc.
By the way, just a lil’ reminder, that early bird registrations for Convention 2009 will start soon, on the 20th of July. *fuh… exciting times!*
And if you have any problems at all regarding all these, DO NOT hesitate to let me or any of the EXCO members know, ok?
with much love, and in His service,
Jacqueline
EXCO OCF Aus 2009