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SUMMARY:GIVE and Feast: Support Epworth Community Services
DESCRIPTION:Support Epworth Community Services’ work with disadvantaged children and youths at risk. \nFrom 1st Nov to 31st Dec\, donors who donate $5\,000 or more\, will be invited to First Gourmet at RELC for an Appreciation Dinner on Sat\, 18 Jan 2025. The Peranakan Dinner is curated by Epworth Executive Director\, Tan Khye Suan. \nFind out more \ntinyurl.com/partnerepworth
URL:https://www.brmc.org.sg/event/give-and-feast-2024-support-epworth-community-services/
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SUMMARY:Connect Experience (18 Jan - 20 Apr 2025)
DESCRIPTION:The Connect Experience (CE) exercise will run again from this January to encourage everyone to commit\, or re-commit\, to a Connect Group (CG). \nCE’25 will happen concurrently with the sermon series – “Who is Worthy of our Worship?” – based on Revelation from 18 Jan to 20 Apr 2025.  \nIf you missed the CE’25 registration deadline (14 Jan 2025)\, you are still very welcome to join a Connect Group anytime throughout the year.  \nJoin a Connect Group \nSee: Announcement and more information about CE’25
URL:https://www.brmc.org.sg/event/connect-experience-19-jan-20-apr-2025/
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SUMMARY:Registration for Baptism and Membership Course (1H2025)
DESCRIPTION:Registration for BMC 1H2025 opens on 15 Dec 2024 and closes on 19 Jan 2025. \nRegistration for Adult Baptism/Confirmation/Transfer of Membership  \nRegistration for Infant/Child Baptism \nPlease visit our FAQs for the criteria and other details. \nSchedule (Candidates must be present on all dates from the start of BMC) \n\n\n\nItem\nDates\n\n\nRegistration opens\n15 Dec 2024 (Sun)\n\n\nRegistration closes\n19 Jan 2025 (Sun)\n\n\nBMC session 1\n8 Feb 2025 (Sat)\, 10am-12pm\n\n\nBMC session 2\n15 Feb 2025 (Sat)\, 10am-12pm\n\n\nBMC session 3\n22 Feb 2025 (Sat)\, 10am-12pm\n\n\nBMC session 4\n1 Mar 2025 (Sat)\, 10am-12pm\n\n\nBMC session 5 (for parents)\n8 Mar 2025 (Sat)\, 10am-12pm\n\n\nPastoral Conversations\n16 Feb to 16 Mar 2025 (4 weeks)\n\n\nAdmin Briefing\n15 Mar 2025 (Sat)\, 10am-12pm\n\n\nBaptism Service\n29 Mar 2025 (Sat)\, 10am-12pm\n\n\nCARIM Service\n29 Mar 2025 (Sat) and 30 Mar 2025 (Sun)
URL:https://www.brmc.org.sg/event/registration-for-baptism-and-membership-course-1h2025/
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SUMMARY:Season of Christmas
DESCRIPTION:WHAT IS IT?\nChristmas is one of the two key moments of the Christian calendar (the other being Easter). It is not Jesus’ birthday we celebrate but the significance of his birth: God himself has come to us in Jesus Christ. \nWHY DO WE CELEBRATE IT?\nWe rejoice that God has bridged the chasm between humanity and himself. We remember the events and circumstances around Jesus’ birth (a “nativity”) – a mini Gospel anticipating the suffering\, death\, and\nresurrection of Jesus. \nTHE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS\nLike Easter\, Christmas is such a big part of the story of God that one day alone is not enough to celebrate – hence the twelve days. The length holds no significance other than to lead into Epiphany\, 6 January. \nWHAT DO WE DO?\nServices take on a celebratory note. The night before Christmas is often a candlelight vigil. Midway through the season\, on New Year’s Eve\, Methodists gather to renew our baptismal covenant with God. \nWhite is used as a symbol of joy. \nThe Gospel is retold\, with an emphasis on the Nativity. \nChristmas carols are sung throughout the twelve days. \nCHRISTMAS AND PAGANISM\nChristians do not believe that 25 Dec is the actual date of Christ’s birth. Rather\, the date has origins in the pagan observance of the winter solstice. Christians have never been shy to shine the light of\nChrist on cultural practices\, revealing its true significance. Hence\, new meanings have been given to the solstice – there is indeed a renewal of life\, and this comes in the person of Jesus. \nREFERENCES \nAlexander\, J. Neil. Celebrating Liturgical Time: Days\, Weeks\, and Seasons\, 2014.\nLathrop\, Gordon. Holy Things: A Liturgical Theology. Minneapolis\, MN: Fortress\, 1999.\nThe United Methodist Book of Worship. Nashville\, TN: The United Methodist Publishing House\, 1992.
URL:https://www.brmc.org.sg/event/season-of-christmas-3/
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