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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:EQUIP - Growing as Disciples of Christ (GDIC Module 1)
DESCRIPTION:The Growing as Disciples In Christ (GDIC) programme is made up of three modules\, based on the established 2:7 series by The Navigators\, starting in February 2025. \nModule 1 – “Growing Strong in God’s Family” – provides the building blocks for inculcating important spiritual habits for every disciple including: \n\nMemorising key Scripture verses\nSpending daily quiet time with God\nPraying to communicate with our Heavenly Father\n\nSession Format  \nExperienced GDIC facilitators will encourage and engage each group in lively and open conversations every week\, whereby participants will share key reflections from spending quiet time\, review memory verses and discuss Bible content. It will be a journey of discipleship and mutual encouragement with like-minded brothers and sisters \nModule 1\, themed “Growing Strong in God’s Family”\, will begin in the 2nd week of February 2025 and runs over a period of 12 weeks (see schedule below). \nThere are three sessions available for Module 1 \n\nTuesday AM Group (10am-12pm)\nSaturday AM Group (10am-12pm)\nSaturday PM Group (3-5pm)\n\nMeetings will mostly be conducted via Zoom\, with a few onsite meetings – these typically were the highlight for our past participants. \n\n\n\nSESSION\nTUE (10AM-12PM)\nSAT (10AM – 12PM) \nSAT (3-5PM)\n\n\n1\n11 Feb 2025 (onsite)\n15 Feb 2025 (onsite)\n15 Feb 2025 (onsite)\n\n\n2\n18 Feb 2025\n22 Feb 2025\n22 Feb 2025\n\n\n3\n25 Feb 2025\n1 Mar 2025\n1 Mar 2025\n\n\n4\n4 Mar 2025 (onsite)\n8 Mar 2025 (onsite)\n8 Mar 2025 (onsite)\n\n\n5\n11 Mar 2025\n15 Mar 2025\n15 Mar 2025\n\n\n6\n18 Mar 2025\n22 Mar 2025\n22 Mar 2025\n\n\n7\n25 Mar 2025\n29 Mar 2025\n29 Mar 2025\n\n\n8\n1 Apr 2025\n5 Apr 2025\n5 Apr 2025\n\n\n9\n8 Mar 2025\n12 Apr 2025\n12 Apr 2025\n\n\nHOLY WEEK\n\n\n10\n22 Apr 2025\n26 Apr 2025\n26 Apr 2025\n\n\n11\n29 Apr 2025\n3 May 2025\n3 May 2025\n\n\n12\n6 May 2025 (onsite)\n10 May 2025 (onsite)\n10 May 2025 (onsite)\n\n\n\n  \nSubsequent modules \nAfter Module 1\, you are strongly encouraged to continue on with Module 2 ‘Growing Your Roots in Christ’ and Module 3 ‘Bearing Fruit in Christ’\, which will run for 11 weeks each. \nTo register
URL:https://www.brmc.org.sg/event/equip-growing-as-disciples-of-christ-gdic-module-1/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250305
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250420
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SUMMARY:Season of Lent
DESCRIPTION:WHAT IS IT?\nLent (from the Old German for “lengthen”) is a time of preparation for the celebration of Easter. In the Early Church\, new believers prepared for their baptism at Easter through an extended time of fasting and reflection\, imitating the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. \nWHY DO WE CELEBRATE IT?\nWe repent of our sins as we meditate on the price Jesus paid for us and our salvation. In penitence we learn to deny ourselves through fasting\, that we may carry our cross and follow Jesus to Calvary. \nTHE CULMINATION AT HOLY WEEK\nThe climax of Lent is in its final week\, known as Holy Week\, when we journey with Jesus to the Cross and grave. Palm Sunday marks the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. Maundy Thursday is when we remember how the Passover Lamb calls us to serve one another. Good Friday is when we remember the death of Christ on the cross. \nWHAT DO WE DO?\nLent begins with Ash Wednesday\, when a service is usually conducted\, and ash is imposed on our foreheads as a visible sign of repentance. Throughout Lent we meditate on the suffering and death of Christ. \nPurple is used to signify repentance and royalty. \nAsh is imposed on our foreheads as a sign of repentance \nWe practice self-denial through fasting. \nFASTING AND SELF-DENIAL\nFasting is traditionally a fast from food\, either a complete fast from eating within certain hours of the day\, or restricted to a simple diet such as bread and water. In recent times fasting can take the form of an abstinence from luxuries that our heart craves. All these forms seek to help us learn to deny ourselves and keep our eyes on Jesus. \nREFERENCES \nThe United Methodist Book of Worship. Nashville\, TN: The United Methodist Publishing House\, 1992.\nSenn\, Frank C. Introduction to Christian Liturgy. Minneapolis\, MN: Fortress Press\, 2012.\nTruscott\, Jeffrey A. Worship: A Practical Guide. Singapore: Armour Publishing\, 2011.
URL:https://www.brmc.org.sg/event/season-of-lent-3/
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SUMMARY:Maundy Thursday
DESCRIPTION:WHAT IS IT?\nMaundy Thursday is marked by a service in the evening\, which itself initiates the great three-day long liturgy (Friday\, Saturday\, and Sunday) known as the Easter Triduum. \nWHY DO WE CELEBRATE IT?\nMaundy Thursday gets its name from the Latin “mandatum”\, meaning “commandment”. We remember Jesus’ new commandment to love and serve one another\, a posture necessary for communion at his table. Fittingly\, Maundy Thursday also commemorates the institution of Holy Communion \nTHE WASHING OF FEET\nUnlike Holy Communion\, foot washing is not a sacrament since it is not an act commanded by Jesus. Rather\, we wash each other’s feet in imitation of what Jesus did at the Last Supper\, enacting humble servanthood as a response to the command to love one another. \nWHAT DO WE DO?\nWe retell the Gospel accounts of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples\, and instituting the sacrament of Holy Communion. There is no benediction\, and the people depart in meditative silence\, since the liturgy continues the next day. \nPurple is used to signify repentance and royalty. \nFoot washing is sometimes re-enacted. \nWe celebrate Holy Communion \nTHE STRIPPING OF THE SANCTUARY\nAt the end of the service\, the altar cloth (on the communion table) and parament (hanging on the pulpit) is removed\, along with the altar cross\, altar Bible\, and other decorations. The Sanctuary remains bare to symbolise the desolation and abandonment of Jesus in Gethsemane and in the suffering that follows. \nREFERENCES \nFrank C. Senn\, Introduction to Christian Liturgy (Minneapolis\, MN: Fortress Press\, 2012).\nUnited Methodist Church\, The United Methodist Book of Worship (Nashville\, TN: The United Methodist Publishing House\, 1992). \n 
URL:https://www.brmc.org.sg/event/maundy-thursday-3/
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SUMMARY:Maundy Thursday Service 2025
DESCRIPTION:Maundy Thursday service with Holy Communion will be held on 17 April 2025 at 8pm at the Auditorium. \nAll are invited. \nLearn more about Maundy Thursday \nPulpit Calendar
URL:https://www.brmc.org.sg/event/maundy-thursday-service-3/
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