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Call to Worship

Doxology

Worship in Songs
AM: God the uncreated One; My Soul will Wait (Psalm 62); Knowing You
PM: This Is Amazing Grace; God of Angel Armies; Let Us Exalt His Name; The Lord Is My Salvation

Scripture Reading: 1 Samuel 26:1 -25 (ESV)

Message
AM: Faithful in the Waiting
PM: Lessons in the Wilderness: The Journey Continues                                 

Response Song
AM: Let Us Exalt His Name
PM: God is for Us

Mission Focus; Corporate Life & Prayer

Offering

Benediction

Announcements  

Speakers:
Ps Ng Zhiwen — 8.30am & 10.30am                             
Ps Dev Menon — 4.30pm 

8.30am
Service Coordinator: Dn John Chua
Worship Leader: Eld Justin Low
Vocalist & Musicians: AM Music Team 4

10.30am
Service Coordinator: Timothy Ong
Worship Leader: Eld Tiew Chew Meng 
Vocalist & Musicians: AM Music Team 4

4.30pm
Service Coordinator: Melvin Soo
Worship Leader: Dn Nicklaus Yu
Vocalist & Musicians: PM Music Team 4

Pastors (more info)
Rev Dr Alby Yip, Senior Pastor (10.30)	9844 9536
Rev Dr Dev Menon, Pastor (4.30)	9829 6051
Rev Lim Jit Thye, (Cantonese-Mandarin)	9182 6957
Rev Daniel Nge, Pastor (Mandarin-English)	8428 0525
Rev Vernon Quek, Pastor (10.30)	9796 0196
Rev Ng Zhiwen, Pastor (8.30)	9092 6095
Rev Paul Yeo, Pastor (Mandarin)	9751 1897
Rev Chris Rajendran, Pastor (Tamil)	9446 7416
Rev Danny Chua, Pastor (4.30)	9239 4160
Ministry Staff (more info)
Preacher Choo Han Boo, Hokkien Service	9450 2789
Mrs Emily Quek, Special Projects	9001 2926
Mrs Sha.ron Quek, Overseas Ministries	9788 0195
Dr Quek Tze-Ming, Ministry Staff	9060 8340
Mrs Jacqueline Ong, Youth Ministry	9322 7629
Miss Vanessa Khoo, Women’s Ministry	9880 4507
Mr Joel Khoo, YAs/Discipleship	9368 9221
Mr Timothy Ong, Missions Educator	9271 5785
Ms Elizabeth Hira, Children’s Ministry / DHF	9239 0680
Mrs Debbie Wong, Children’s Ministry	8833 1994

  

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Our Church

A&A Building Project – We have just completed the material testing of existing structure and our consultants will be preparing their submission to BCA. The process for obtaining the approval to proceed with the steel structural works on Level 5 is likely to take some time. As such, decision was made to remove current scaffold until Notice of Approval from BCA is obtained. Based on cost analysis, this would be most cost effective than to pay for extension of the use of scaffold. Moreover, it would also restore the use of playground to ZBK children in the interim. Please continue to keep the project in prayer, for God’s clear direction and wisdom upon our consultants in addressing the authorities’ requirement.

Christianity Explored (CE) – Praise God for 7 seekers and friends who joined us for the first week of the course this past Wednesday evening. Pray that each of their hearts will be turned to the Lord, and there will be a continued desire to return each week to learn and discover Jesus through the Gospel of Mark. Pray for God’s guidance and directing through His Spirit to be upon our table hosts and members as they journey alongside in the next 6 weeks.

Our People

Quek Tze Ming – We thank God that BPCIS has officially formed an ordaining council for our brother Dr Quek, to discern his calling in becoming a Minister of the Gospel. Please pray for him in this journey!

Our Denomination

Shalom BP – We thank God that our sister church ordained a new minister of the gospel yesterday! Please do pray for Rev Low Jun Yew and his young family, as he comes alongside their current Pastor, Ben Tsao, in ministering to our brothers and sisters in Pasir Ris.

Our World

Nepal – Thank the Lord for placing the Tibetan Buddhists on our hearts and giving us a desire to reach them with the Gospel. Thank Him also for the faith and obedience of our members to join Him in what He is doing in that region. Keep in prayer for the 4 tracks being carried out in the next 2 months, that the Gospel work may grow and our brothers and sisters there will be strengthened in their faith and love for Jesus. Pray also for more labourers to be raised and sent out into His harvest.

Indonesia – Pray for Brother SL’s visit to Singapore next weekend for a training conference here. May this be a time of good learning and refreshment for this brother who is ministering faithfully in a hard place for many years. Pray also that there will be good attendance for a ministry sharing that he will be doing at Zion Bishan, next Sunday, (4 Oct), at lunchtime after the 10.30am service.

1. Our deepest condolences to Dn Gary Lee and family on the Homegoing of his brother-in-law, the late Elder Edmund Kwok (Zion Serangoon) who was called Home to be with the Lord on 20 Sep 2026. Please uphold the bereaved family in prayer.
2. Ps Dev is preaching at Hebron BP this morning.
3. Ps Alby is preaching at Baptist Fellowship Church this morning.
4. Congratulations to Grace Tan on her marriage to Gabriel Tham on 26 Sep 2026! May God bless them in their holy matrimony.

Fri, 2 Oct
Prayer Meeting: 8.00pm
Register at zionbishan.org.sg/fpm

Sat, 3 Oct
Youth Fellowship: 4.00pm
Register at zionbishan.org.sg/yf

Sun, 4 Oct
Worship Services:
8.30am, 10.30am & 4.30pm

1 Samuel

04 Oct
The Rejected King
Ps Alby Yip

11 Oct
David Facing Challenges
Ps Alby Yip — 8.30 & 10.30am
Dr Quek Tze-Ming — 4.30pm

18 Oct
Death of Saul & David’s Song
Ps Danny Chua

25 Oct
David Anointed King of Israel
Ps Ng Zhiwen — 8.30 & 10.30am
Ps Vernon Quek — 4.30pm

                    

                                                                                                  

                  

By Ps Vernon Quek

‘So teach us to number our days…’^[1]

These were some of the words that our late brother Edmund Kwok (see Family News) meditated on for his devotions last Sunday the 20^thof September. They were God-given words for the last morning devotions that he would have here on earth.

Later that day, at a shopping mall in Jakarta, Uncle Edmund (as I affectionately call him) had a heart attack, and went Home to the LORD shortly after despite the best resuscitation efforts of the hospital just a few minutes away. He was 68 years old.

Uncle Edmund’s sudden loss is a great shock to many of us, understandably given how suddenly he passed. He was and still is very precious to the Zion BP Church family – the local church he was a part of for most of his life before moving to Crossway Church a few years ago to support his son Edric who planted and pastors that church family.

As stories came in and were shared, it was clear that the LORD loved Uncle Edmund dearly, and had used him to point many others upwards to Himself. Our entire bulletin wouldn’t be enough to share all these stories, but let me share just one of my many memories.

The Kwoks and the Queks have always been close. It’s not very well known, but Edric Kwok was my late father Elder Quek Swee Peng’s Godson. Uncle Edmund was our youth deacon in YF back in the 1990s. He faithfully took time every Saturday to turn up for YF, to spend time with us and mentor us each week.

Back in 2011, when I was considering moving back to Zion Bishan after spending some time on Zion Serangoon’s staff team, Uncle Edmund was one person I approached for advice. He was one of the older leaders I was closer to in Zion Serangoon, and so his advice carried a lot of weight on whether I would move over. He encouraged me to remember the wider 

Kingdom, and that even though it would mean we would see each other less in our weekly lives, that serving the LORD where the LORD wanted me to serve was the most important thing to do – that the LORD would never fail to look after us if we faithfully obeyed Him in going anywhere for the Kingdom’s sake.

Uncle Edmund’s was an important voice that the LORD used to lead me to return to serve in Zion Bishan, and so I will always cherish him and look forward to the Day we’ll meet again.

Psalm 90:12 goes on to say: 

So teach us to number our days
that we may get a heart of wisdom.

What is this heart of wisdom? Perhaps the last few verses of the Psalm tell us:

Let your work be shown to your servants,
and your glorious power to their children.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,
and establish the work of our hands upon us.^[2]

This is a heart of wisdom: getting on board with God’s work to point others, including the next generation, to God’s power to save sinners^[3] through the Gospel of Jesus. Like Edmund Kwok did – for myself and for so many others.

If today was our last day on this earth, would this be said of our lives? That our days were spent doing God’s work and encouraging others to do the same? May it be so, and so may we be able to rejoice and be glad all our days.^[4]

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^[1] Psalm 90:12a
^[2] Psalm 90:16 & 17
^[3] Psalm 90:7-9
^[4] Psalm 90:14

Youth’s Parents – Cyberwellness 

4 Oct (Sun) 1-2.30pm

A workshop on Cyberwellness, for parents of teenagers, will be held on 4 Oct, Sunday, 1-2.30pm at the MPH. Come join us to think through how to better manage media and mobile phone usage for our young ones, as we glean insights and practical tips from our speaker Poh Yeang Cherng from Kingmaker Consultancy. 

Register by 27 Sep at bit.ly/4xPM1QB

Contact Jacqueline ( 93227629 ) for more info.

Men’s Ministry (MM)

All men of Zion Bishan, please register and join us for a time to Reflect, Recharge and Rise in Christ at this year’s 17^th MM Retreat.

Rooted in Godliness, Rising in Resilience
Speaker: Ps Alby Yip
8 – 10 Nov (Sun – Tues)
Forest City Golf Hotel, Johor
$295 (Twin-sharing) / $285 (Early bird discount, payment by 30 Sep)

Registration: tinyurl.com/MMRETREAT2026

Zion Bishan 32^nd Anniversary Thanksgiving Service

31 Oct (Sat) 4.30pm @ Sanctuary
followed by dinner

Let us come together as one Zion Bishan family, as we look to our LORD to remember 32 years of God’s goodness and faithfulness to us, and also trust Him to lead us in the way forward.

Dinner registration will open on 11 Oct. 

Save the Date!

Antioch Summit 2026

This missions conference by ANTIOCH21 is happening next week on 1 – 3 Oct. Over 40 Zion Bishan members have registered to attend so far.

Find out more and register at https://antioch21.sg/

Calling for Volunteers to serve in Children’s Discipleship

By God’s grace and blessing, the number of children at various congregations continues to grow, and the Children’s Ministry team needs more partners to join them in teaching God’s word and being godly models to the children.

New teachers and parent volunteers are needed for 2027. If you are interested to find out more about this ministry, please contact Cassandra or Debbie (PM) and Hira (AM) by 31 Oct.

Senior Office Manager & Administrator

We praise God for blessings and enlarging Zion Bishan’s work for His kingdom. With the growing workload, the Church is seeking a Senior Office Manager and Administrator who is well versed in personnel management & HR operation (Comp & Ben, Training & Devm’t), with basic knowledge in building maintenance, IT systems, accounting, corporate governance and statutory compliance.

Church members and friends of Zion Bishan are welcome to enquire or provide referrals to the position. Please contact Elder Howe Run at howerun41@outlook.com for details.

Women of Zion (WOZ)

City Walk – Postponed  

For everyone’s health and safety, the walk originally planned for 3 October will be postponed because of the haze.

📢 A new date will be announced once conditions improve.

🙏 Thank you for your understanding and stay safe!