Feb 2 breakfast meeting announcement and website update

[hisgarden]

To the SVAC Men Ministry team only: Here's my attempt to create
mailing list for our group, the group name is
sva...@googlegroups.com. You are all manager for the mailing list for
now, which you could manage and respond to the message. If everything
work well, i will update with the remaining email gathered in the last
retreat.

Lawrence Chow <tcm...@yahoo.com>,
Jin Wen <hisg...@gmail.com>
Eric Chan <erics...@yahoo.com>,
Lapyun <yaul...@yahoo.com>,
John Wong <js...@sbcglobal.net>,
Stephen Yim <steph...@hotmail.com>,
Henry Li <henry...@yahoo.com>,
Ted Lau <ted...@pobox.com>

The following is my first test message with the modified mailing list
address. Let me know if you have questions.

Jin

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Dear brothers,

Greetings on behalf of the Men's ministry.

You're cordially invited to join us for a hearty breakfast and
warm sharing with other men this coming Saturday,

Feb 2, from 8:00-9:30 AM, room D3 at SVAC

Details of this meeting later in this email.


For those of you who have attended retreat 2007, hope you enjoyed
every
moment of it and hope you have a closer walk with our Lord.

We are grateful and to announce that Pastor Wally Yew will once again
be in
our midst as the guest speaker at this year's retreat.

Come 2008, we also introduce new meeting formats which includes

- monthly breakfast group meeting
- quarterly meetings
- annual summit retreat

Please visit our website
http://www.svac-cma.org/men/ to review our mission statement and
ministry
plan for this new year.


We would like to use this email alias sva...@googlegroups.com as a
communication channel for the
Men's ministry. If you do not wish to receive Men ministry
information
in the future, please feel free to unsubscribe from the alias. If you
know others who
would like to join this alias, please let us know.

May we also ask your help to spread the message around to other
brothers
in your fellowship who might be interested?

We are always looking for brothers to join us in the Mens ministry
team,
If you are interested, please join us to serve the Lord in this
ministry.


As promise earlier, here's details on this Sat's breakfast meeting
topics:

Friends - Risks and Rewards
(From Man in the Mirror Chapter 10)

"Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their
work:
If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who
falls
and has no one to help him up!" (Ecclesiastes 4:9-10)


Do you have a friend you can express any honest thought to without
fear
of appearing foolish?

Will your friend risk your disapproval to suggest you may be getting
off
track in your priorities?

Do you have a friend who will take the risk to tell you that you are
sinning? Or using poor judgement?

Is there a friend with whom you fell you are facing life together?
A friend to talk over the struggles of life which are unique to men?

Do you meet with a friend regularly for fellowship, prayer, and
possibly
accountability?

What is the price to pay, the risks to take and the rewards for
finding
a true friend?

Jonathan said to David, "Whatever you want me to do, I'll do for you"
(1 Samuel 20:4)

Hope to see you this Sat!

Jesus said to them, "Come and have breakfast." (John 21:12)

God bless,
Men's ministry