Kum Yan Methodist Church launches Alpha 5 with an Alpha Sunday Service today. The purpose of the Alpha Sunday is to rally the congregation to start praying for guests for Alpha 5 Intro dinner.We had two events for the Alpha Sunday: (1) a special Sunday service and (2) an Alpha booth at the carpark after the service where church members can sign up and submit their prayer cards with 3 invitees per card in exchange for a stick of icecream. At the service, I interviewed our brother John and three of his invitees who were present at the service today. Most of his invitees have remained in Kum Yan after the Alpha courses. After that, I preached a short sermon based on Matthew 9:35-38 entitled "The Harvest is Plentiful," emphasizing that it is only when we see people as Jesus saw them ("harassed and helpless, like sheep without shepherd") that we can see the plentiful harvest. After my sermon, our Alpha 5 coordinator Patrick urged congregation to sign up as helpers and put down three guests they would like to invite on each prayer card. He promised that a stick of ice cream will be given to everyone who submitted a prayer card. I thought it was a fun and creative way to encourage prayer and participation for Alpha 5.
At the carpark, the Alpha team set up the Alpha booth with tables for church members to submit their prayer cards with invitee lists. For every prayer card submitted, the church member received a stick of free ice-cream potong. The prayer cards were then hung on the prayer tree set up at the carpark. This will continue every Sunday until the Intro Dinner in August. Today's response for the prayer cards was very good for the first Sunday of the Alpha publicity launch.
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