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Call to Worship

Doxology

Worship in Songs
AM: Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise; Never Once; No Other Name
PM: ⁠My Soul Will Wait (Psalm 62); His Glory and My Good; Oh The Deep, Deep Love

Scripture Reading: 
AM: 2 Samuel 2:1-11 & 3:1 (ESV)
PM: 2 Samuel 2:1-23 & 3:1 (ESV)

Message: Kingdom Divided

Response Song: The Servant King

Missions Focus; Corporate Life & Prayer                       

Offering

Benediction

Announcements  

Speakers:
Ps Ng Zhiwen — 8.30am & 10.30am                             
Ps Vernon Quek — 4.30pm 

8.30am
Service Coordinator: Sharon Quek
Worship Leader: Dn John Chua
Vocalist & Musicians: AM Music Team 4

10.30am
Service Coordinator: Timothy Ong
Worship Leader: Eld Michael Gan 
Vocalist & Musicians: AM Music Team 4

4.30pm
Service Coordinator: Dn Peter Wang
Worship Leader: Dn Kemp Aw
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

32nd Anniversary – Do pray for the upcoming anniversary this Saturday – for those who will be sharing testimonies and for the various music teams as they prepare. May it be a meaningful (and hopefully haze-free) event that allows us to celebrate God’s faithfulness and favour towards ZB!

Our People

Sister SL – We thank God for placing the people of Central Asia on her heart, and showing her how God himself has been working to make right the brokenness of the world through His Son, Jesus. Pray for her time in apprenticeship, that she will continually grow in her convictions of the Gospel and how people need Jesus, and that it will also train and equip her for field work in the future.

Our World

Nepal, Track C (Special Needs Outreach) – For brother W and Sister A, we thank God that they and their check in luggage have been reunited last Monday. Thank God for good learning from the training workshops for 16 educators of our partner’s school for learning to teach special needs students. Though they did not have some of their training materials they were able to make do and all was good.  It has been a fruitful and meaningful time.

Nepal, Track A (Disciple-Making Efforts) – This past Thursday, another 2-person team departed for a month to continue exploring partnering with those pioneering disciple-making efforts in remote places and communities with few Christians in Nepal. Pray that their luggage will not be lost, like for the first group, and that they will have good health, safe journeys wherever they go. May the Lord, give them wisdom and discernment of the Holy Spirit’s leading as they meet different people and go to different places.

1. Congratulations to Bennett & Dns Larissa on the birth of their firstborn son, Tobias Tan Rui Heng on 20 Oct 2026!
2. Bro Tze-Ming is preaching this weekend at Mt. Carmel BP Church’s Reformation Day services.
3. Ps Alby is preaching at Baptist Fellowship Church this morning.

Fri, 30 Oct
Prayer Meeting: 8.00pm
Register at zionbishan.org.sg/fpm

Sat, 31 Oct
Church Anniversary: 4.30pm, Sanctuary
No Youth Fellowship

Sun, 1 Nov
Worship Services:
8.30am, 10.30am & 4.30pm

1-2 Samuel

8 Nov
House David vs. House Saul
Dr Quek Tze-Ming — 8.30 & 10.30am
Ps Danny Chua — 4.30pm

15 Nov
King David & The Ark
Ps Vernon Quek — 8.30 & 10.30am
Ps Dev Menon — 4.30pm

22 Nov
After a Year in Samuel…
Ps Danny Chua

                    

                                                                                                  

                  

By Ps Danny Chua

What is your favorite Psalm? Why do you love it so much?

For three thousand years, God’s people have prayed and sung the Psalms. As many church fathers put it, the Psalms are “the church’s prayer book.” 

In these 150 prayer songs, we find every season of the Christian’s soul expressed honestly in raw form: joy and grief, trust and confusion, praise and lament. I believe the Psalms are God’s grace to us – they are not just the Word of God teaching us about God. No, the Psalms give us a prayer language for the mountains and valleys of our lived realities in this broken world to go to God.

Personally, I’ve also been struck by the idea that Jesus Himself would have also grown up reading, singing and praying through this prayer book! As some have said, the Psalms “were the prayer book of Jesus”.^[1]

This makes total sense, especially given what we have been hearing through King David’s life and words in our Samuel series. As David says out of his own experiences in various Psalms: “Those who look to Him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.” (34:5), and “On God rests my salvation and my glory; my mighty rock, my refuge is God.” (62:5)

Ultimately, what David experiences, falters in, and rejoices in – they are all fully realised in King Jesus. What an encouragement and joy the Psalms must have been to Jesus as He journeyed through them on His path of affliction to the Cross. 

It is no wonder the Holy Spirit often uses the Psalms to assure us that our God understands our sorrows, is present with us as our refuge, and will bring a sure rescue one day – that was how He worked through King Jesus. I love how Dietrich Bonhoeffer states it, “Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.”^[2]

Next year, as our church family rediscovers our vision to #GetDeep in God’s Word, I have one prayer for us at Church Camp 2027: that God’s Word would not only shape our hearts and minds, but draw us into the very life of Jesus and the Spirit. Indeed, that it may draw us nearer to our God as we learn to pray with our King – the very words that He learnt and lived out in the valleys of sorrow and pain. 

Would you join us on this journey together? Please prayerfully consider setting aside a few days in June 2027 with us at camp! (See announcements/bulletins for details). 

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^[1] Hans-Joachim Kraus, Theology of the Psalms, trans. Keith Crim (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1986), 188. 
^[2] Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Prayerbook of the Bible, in Life Together; Prayerbook of the Bible, ed. Geffrey B. Kelly, trans. Daniel W. Bloesch and James H. Burtness, vol. 5 of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005), 162.^[2]

SENIORS360 Dim Sum Hour

Enhancing Social Wellbeing
14 Nov (Sat) 10.15am, Fellowship Hall

Come join us at this upcoming SENIORS360 event with Mrs Sim Nga Hoon. She will help us understand the importance of social engagement for seniors to combat the negative effects of social isolation and loneliness, and suggest ways to enhance social wellbeing in senior adults.

Do invite your non-Christian friends along!

Sign up by 7 Nov:  https://rebrand.ly/s360nov26

Zion Bishan 32^nd Anniversary Thanksgiving Service

31 Oct (Sat) 4.30pm @ Sanctuary

Buffet Dinner after the service until 8pm, Fellowship Hall

“Strengthening the Congregations”
— Acts 14:21-23

For 32 years, God has been faithful to Zion Bishan. Come and give thanks with us as one church, across all our congregations and languages. We will hear testimonies from each congregation, worship together in song, and pray for one another, so that we may be “strengthened in the faith”.

Parking in Church on Saturdays

Please be reminded that the church carpark is closed every Saturday from 6pm to facilitate the setting up of the safe driving lanes on Sundays. Thank you for your kind understanding and support.

Church Camp 2027: Praying with Our King

Grief and Hope. Despair or Joy. King David’s Psalms give us honest songs to sing along before our God. Let us draw near to Him in truth – whether in the desert or by fresh streams – through the “prayer book of the Church”.

Dates: 11-14 June 2027
Venue: Four Points by Sheraton Desaru
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Ben Thompson (ETCAsia)

Early bird registration begins next Sun (1 Nov).

Adult Discipleship Class

UNBroken: A Reflective Kintsugi Workshop
Led by Phoon Ling Zi

Come on a journey of healing, reflection, and restoration through storytelling, scripture verses, journaling, and the art of Kintsugi. Explore how God meets us in our brokenness and transforms our wounds into testimonies of His redeeming grace. Participants will leave with a completed Kintsugi piece as a tangible reminder that our brokenness does not define us; instead, through Christ, we are restored, renewed, and deeply loved.

14 Nov (Sat) 9-11.30 am
Auditorium 1 and 2 (L4)
$20 per pax (includes workshop materials)

Sign-up at bit.ly/4Be5T2i

Questions? Contact tzeming@zionbishan.org.sg