W elcome and thank you for worshipping with us! We pray that what you hear and experience

here today will speak directly to your heart and that you will feel at home.

Welcome to our visitors and guests! We feel blessed that you have chosen to join us. We would love to

get to know you. Please take a moment to fill out a welcome card and place it in either the collection bag

or the office mailbox. If you are a guest, please do not feel obligated to give during the offering; today

you are our guests. We hope to see you worshipping with us again! Hearing impaired? See one of our

ushers to receive a hearing assistance device during the worship service.

Church Pamphlet is available in front of the sanctuary.

Joining the Church... After attending our services on a regular basis, we hope you are led to a deeper

relationship with this community—one that involves sharing in our covenant with God. Are you willing to

make that commitment? A decision to join any community of faith requires prayer, experience, and

discernment. We welcome everyone who is thinking about joining the church to meet with one of our

pastors in order to pray about and to explore this desire.

Sunday, December 4, 2011 SEcond Sunday of Advent

MORNING SERVICE ~ 10:00 am

Today’s Sermon: “From a Mound of Rubble to a Mountain of Magnificence”

Preacher: Pastor Andrew Beunk

Worship Leader: Dr. Michael Goheen

EVENING SERVICE ~ 7:00 pm (in the Sanctuary)

Music in the Pews and Honduras Team sharing

“A TANGIBLE DISPLAY OF GOD’S RENEWING POWER” Website: www.nwcrc.ca

Office Hours: Tuesday to Friday, 9 AM to 3 PM

Deadline for Bulletin Submissions: Thursday @ 10 AM

8255 13th

Avenue, Burnaby, BC V3N 2G6

Phone: 604.521.0111

Email: office@nwcrc.ca (general mailbox)

Calendar of Events at New West Church from December 5 to December 11

MONDAY, Dec 5

7:30 pm Gloria Dei Chorale practice

TUESDAY, Dec 6

11:00 am Memorial Service for Rick Spier at Haney Pres. Church, Maple Ridge

11:30 am Seniors Lunch at the Waffle House, New Westminster

7:00 pm Memorial Service for Alice Laarman at NWCRC

7:30 pm Student Dynamics‟ Leaders Meeting at the Groen‟s

WEDNESDAY, Dec 7

8:45 am CONNECT Meeting at the church

7:30 pm Council Meeting at the church

7:30 pm Prayer Meeting at Room #204 and at Chris de Groot‟s

THURSDAY, Dec 8

10:00 am Deadline for Bulletin Submissions

7:30 pm Discipleship Small Group at the Beunk‟s

7:30 pm Worship Practice

SATURDAY, Dec 10

6:00 am Korean-English Morning Prayer

5:00 pm IEC‟s Christmas Celebration: “The Christmas Hope” at the Church

SUNDAY, Dec 11

MORNING SERVICE ~ 10:00 am

Third Sunday of Advent

Preacher: Pastor Andrew Beunk

Worship Leader: Youth Pastor Dave Groen

EVENING SERVICE ~ 7:00 pm

Lord’s Supper Service

Indonesian Evangelical Church (IEC): is inviting New West Church to their Christmas

celebration, “The Christmas Hope”, on Saturday Dec 10 at 5 PM in the Sanctuary of New West

Church.

*If able, please stand

Welcome and Announcements

Call to Worship

Prayer of Invocation

*Sing: Hymn#329:1-4 Come Thou Long Expected

Jesus

*God‟s Greeting followed by Mutual Greeting

*Sing: Binder#94 Let All the Earth

Hymn#195 Our God Reigns

Prayer and Silent Prayer of Confession

Sing: Hymn#328 O Come, O Come Immanuel

Assurance of Pardon

Lighting of Advent Candles: Overhead

-Elly Hageman, Samuel and Jacob Hageman

*Sing: Hymn#268 Lord, I Pray

Children Message/Prayer

Children Leave for Sunday School

Thank you for worshipping with us today!

Everyone is welcome to join us in the Meeting Hall (or outside if weather permits)

following the morning service for coffee and fellowship!

Childcare is provided for children ages 0 - 3 years during the morning service in the upstairs nursery.

Children aged 3 through Grade 3 will be invited partway through the service to join in a time of Children‟s

Worship. Children aged 3 through grade 3 will first gather in the Meeting Hall for a time of singing, and then

go upstairs to the classrooms, from which parents may pick them up following the service.

Grades 4 through 6 from the Indonesian Evangelical Church Sunday School meet in the Beehive.

Order of Worship

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Prayer of Illumination

Scripture Reading: Micah 3:9—4:13 (pg. 901-902)

Sermon: “From a Mound of Rubble to a Mountain of

Magnificence” -Pastor Andrew Beunk

*Sing: Hymn#200 O My People, Turn to Me

(to the tune of Hymn#121)

Prayers of the People John VanderWoude

Offering: (please mark clearly)

New West Church and its various ministries

Diaconal Benevolence Fund

More information on page 7

*Sing: Binder#44 Great and Mighty is He

*Benediction

*Sing: Overhead Great is the Darkness

Volunteers Today Next Week (Dec 11)

Greeters 10:00 Dick & Clara Kastelein

Willy Van Delft

10:00 Hank & Renie Van Ryk

Henk Verwoerd

Ushers 10:00 Mark Noort, Fred Noort 10:00 Frank Vink, Bill TeBokkel

Nursery Andrea Andi, Lori-Anne Hill,

Rebecca Visser, Kaitlin VanderMey

Steffany Pel, Shelley deGroot, Joanne

Boessenkool, Kelsey Heinen

Sunday School:

Pre School

Kindergarten—Gr. 1

Gr. 2—3

Philene, Jose

Margaret, Joshua K

Annette Lotz, Lorensia

Philene, Debbie

Margaret, Nathan

Monique, Nicholas

Refreshment Andre VanRyk Daniel Kim

Sound Tech. Pete Baelde, Michael Hofman Mike Radersma, Derek Breedveld

Powerpoint 10:00 Annette Faber 10:00 Aaron Pel

Library Gaileen Cox Betty Adema

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Offerings

Offerings during the worship service are for New West Church and local ministries as well as denomina-

tional ministries. There may be a designated special cause identified below. Please place your offerings

into the bag, using your current envelopes if you have them. There are also envelopes in the pew if you

are a guest or forgot yours at home. Cheques should be made out to the New Westminster CRC and

should indicate the ministry you are donating to. All donation dollars and loose change will be applied to

the following second collection:

Today’s Offering is for Diaconal Benevolence Fund. Your gifts help the deacons to provide assis-

tance to people within our own church family as well as the local community whenever the need

arises.

Next week’s offering will be for Back to God Hour Ministries International. For over 70 years,

Back to God Ministries International has claimed media, from radio to internet, broadcasts and devo-

tional booklets, to fulfill Christ‟s Great Commission to preach the Gospel and disciple believers. As the

media ministry of the Christian Reformed Church of North America, Back to God Ministries International

partners with other churches in North America and around the world to announce God‟s good news in

10 major world languages.

Thank you for supporting New West Church and these various ministries.

Our Church Family

Effective Dec 6, Jeroen Vooys is moving

to: #214—9045 160th Street

Surrey, V4N 2X7 (same phone #)

After a lengthy battle with cancer, early Wednesday

morning our sister Alice Laarman was called home

by the Father. She was 60 years old. A memorial

service will be held in our church on Tues. Dec. 6 at

7:00 P.M. We extend our prayers and condolences to

her family, and also to her close friends who were

family for Alice. We think particularly of Irene Kraay,

a dear friend of Alice, who so lovingly cared for Alice

these last months. Condolences for the family may

be sent to Alice‟s mother, Hermanna Laarman at #22

- 110 Caverly Road, Aylmer, ON, N5H 2P4.

Rick Spier, father of Coralee and Michael Lewis-

Spier, went to be with the Lord Wednesday

afternoon surrounded by his children and

grandchildren. Funeral will be held on Tuesday Dec 6

at 11 AM at Haney Presbyterian Church, 11858 -

216th street, Maple Ridge. In lieu of flowers,

donations may be made to the Bibles for Missions

Thrift Store at Maple Ridge. Please keep his wife Lois

and family in your prayers.

We pray for Frijke Lucas as she continues to make a

slow recovery from her recent bypass surgery.

We extend our condolences to Valarie and Clarence

Vandervelden as Valarie‟s sister passed away this

past Sunday. May the Lord surround you with

comfort and peace.

Pray for Rev. Henry and Aileen Numan. Aileen has

grown very weak as her body succumbs to cancer.

Pray that she will not suffer too much longer. Pray

for God‟s grace to enfold the Numan‟s and their

family.

Please remember Johanna Beunk, Ken DeJager, Jake

Koole, Johanna Meyer, Chris Eyzenga, Gerrit Kasteel,

Valerie Vandervelden, Margaret and Len Van Dop,

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PRAYER CHAIN

If you would like people to pray for you,

please call Grace Mellema at 604-524-2483.

All prayer requests will be held in confidence.

Joop (John) Vanderniet and others in our church

family who experience illness and daily hardships.

Pray that God will encourage them. Also, pray for

their caregivers and thank the Lord for His

faithfulness and pray for His strength to fill them.

What’s happening

TODAY

Music in the Pews/Christmas Carols: will be held today, Dec 4 at 7 PM in the Sanctuary.

The Honduran team will also share their experience

in the service.

Sanctuary Décor: The prophet Micah likes to

employ the mountain metaphor in his short book.

Because of Israel‟s idolatry, Jerusalem, situated on

the mountain of the Lord, will become a mound of

rubble. But planted throughout Micah‟s

announcement of pending judgment are seeds of

hope. Through the judgment will come deliverance

and new beginning for God‟s people. New life will

break through the rubble. Moreover, the mountain

of the Lord will one day be established. What Micah

could only see in part, we see more clearly. As

Christ came unto the world the mountain of the

Lord was established, but not yet fully. The smaller

mountain depicts Christ‟s first coming. In Matt.

28:16, it was on a mountain that Jesus said all

authority on heaven and earth was His. But when

Christ returns (depicted by the larger mountain)

then all people, from all nations will know Christ as

King and Judge. Advent deepens our longing for

the mountain of the Lord to be fully and completely

established in our world.

What’s happening

next SUNDAY

Lord’s Supper: We look forward to celebrating

the Lord‟s Supper next Sunday in the evening

service at 7 PM.

Dec 7 Robert Kastelein

Jamie VanderMey

Dec 8 Julia Lind

Lisa Watson

Dec 10 Edna Hogeterp

Louis Busch

Dec 11 Mia Van Tol

If we have missed your

birthday this week, or you do

not wish to have your birthday

shown in the future, please

contact Fera at the office so

we can update your

information in our database.

The Persecuted Church:

Vietnam: Vietnam is known as a

communist country. Officially, freedom of religion

exists, however, churches must be registered with

the government. Recently, a gang burst into the

home of Pastor Ngunyen‟s during a prayer

gathering. All present were threatened with death if

they did not stop the prayer meetings. The pastor

and those present would not agree to stop their

prayer meetings and as a result were severely

beaten.

Nigeria: Many people are still in shock over the

mass killing in early November. The situation is

very dangerous for Christians.

Eritrea: 3 Christians died in a military camp. They

were put in a dungeon cell and tortured physically

for 2 years without medical care. They refused to

recant their faith.

India: Local police detained and beat new converts

from Islam after the video of their baptism was

posted on YouTube.

Egypt: The election results haven‟t come out yet.

There are rumours that the voting process was

corrupted by many who „guided‟ those who didn‟t

understand the procedure to vote.

China: There is training going on for pastors of

underground churches. This is wonderful news as

many have not received proper training .The need

for well-trained pastors is great.

New Guinea: Someone from a tribe in New Guinea

found a Bible in their native language and read it.

He became a Christian and passed the Bible around

for others to read. Soon the whole tribe converted

to Christianity. There were filled by the Spirit and

baptized, without missionaries or pastors. Praise

God. Have a blessed week. -Willy Van Delft

Education

“SCIENCE and WORLDVIEW”, Geneva

Society Public Lecture by Arnold

Sikkema: will be held on Dec 6 at 7:30 PM at

Trinity Western University, Langley in Northwest

Auditorium. The Lecture will cover: Early modern

science, beginning with the physics and astronomy

of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, led quickly to

the Newtonian mechanical worldview and

contributed to cultural shifts from superstition and/

or Christian theism through deism to the bald

“scientific atheism” of our day. No one is immune

from the concomitant effects on our understanding

of our place in the universe, and of God‟s

relationship with us and with the cosmos. What

difference did the advances in science — from its

early modern origins up to the present — make to

the general perception of the world; and taking this

into account, what habits of mind can allow the

scientific endeavour to properly contribute to

forming our Christian worldview?

RAYE POINTS

P R

He will lead you through unfamiliar territory. He will turn the darkness into light before you and make the rough places smooth.

These things I will do, says the Lord; I will not forsake you.

Once again, I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is best for you,

who directs you in the way you should go. You are not alone,

you are engraved in the palm of My hand!

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New west Church

SENIORS LUNCH THIS

TUESDAY at 11:30 AM: at the

Waffle House, New Westminster. All

seniors are welcome! –Florence Vegt

CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE: The Hospitality Committee requests

eats and treats for refreshments

after the Christmas Eve Service on

Saturday Dec 24 at 4:00 PM. Sunday School

children will be blessing us with their Christmas

Program. Following the service, we will be hosting

a light supper of finger foods. Christmas baking,

vegetable platters, fruit platters, cheese and

crackers, bite sized sandwiches or wraps are all

welcome. Please contact Wendy Brouwer at 604-

588-0583 or garwendy@yahoo.com.

NWCRC ANNUAL

CHRISTMAS SKATE: We‟re doing it again! On Friday

December 23rd

, from 7:00-8:00

PM, we‟ve booked a rink at 8 Rinks

in Burnaby. Bring your family, bring your friends,

and enjoy a good night of skating together. Skates

can be rented at the rink.

THANK YOU from JOHN KNOX! We would like to extend a

huge thanks to our extended

community at New West CRC for your

overwhelming support at Winterfest. We were so

blessed to see so many alumni, grandparents, and

friends of John Knox enjoying the festivities! Thank

you for all your help as well: making soup or

oliebollen, donating handmade craft items or

other baked goods, helping out in the kitchen...

your support is incredible and we are grateful to

you. Though the main purpose of the event has

changed from being a fundraiser to a community

building event, we are pleased to report that we raised

approximately $7,000 for the school! Part of this

money will be used to equip our kitchen, which we

hope will also be a benefit to the church. Thanks for

attending Winterfest—see you next time!

COUNTING DOWN—4 HOST

FAMILIES NEEDED for WATOTO

Children’s Choir from Africa: to accommodate

2-3 children with 1 adult leader for a 1 night stay for

their upcoming concert in our church on Feb 1, 2012.

Fera has the guidelines for the hosting families and list

of names and age of the children. Please contact Fera

at the church‟s office for more details and any

questions that you may have.

FROM BUDGET

SECRETARY

During the next few weeks, the budget envelopes for

2012 will be prepared. If you do not have any and

would like regular envelopes, please talk to Janet

Laninga or phone her at 604-585-3518 as soon as

possible. Thank you very much.

Community

ADOPT a FAMILY for CHRISTMAS: Crisis

Pregnancy Centre (CPC) is inviting members of New

West Church to adopt a family or individuals this

Christmas by giving them a Christmas gift bag with a

present for each one in the family. Most of the clients

are low-income and can‟t afford to get new clothes or

a special toy for their little one. Please contact CPC

o f f i c e a t 6 0 4 - 5 2 5 - 0 9 9 9 o r e m a i l

josephine@optionscentre.ca to register. Please see the

complete list of items needed and how to participate

on the “Community” Bulletin Board in the hallway to

the Meeting Hall. Crisis Pregnancy Centre is located in

Burnaby who provides help for women and teen girls

experiencing an unplanned pregnancy.

CHRISTMAS at SEA: Our church still open for

donations that you can drop anytime during the

church’s office hour and Sundays in the donation box

beside the church’s mail slots. Some suggested

donations are Canada souvenirs (Seafarers love

souvenirs which they take home to their families),

gloves/mittens, toques, shampoo, chocolate bars,

hand/face cream, nail scissors. For more information

on the seafarer‟s ministry, check out the new website:

www.ministrytoseafarers.com.

UNION GOSPEL MISSION’s CHRISTMAS

DINNER: will be held on Saturday Dec 10. They

need donations, like canned ham, turkey, veggies,

sugar, etc. They especially need coffee. Please

consider a donation. Place donations in the “Union

Gospel” box beside the mail slots. For more info,

contact Fera Gunawan at the church‟s office (604-521

-0111 or office@nwcrc.ca)

Award winning lecture

series comes to Burnaby

The award winning January Series of Calvin College

is coming to Burnaby, British Columbia. From Janu-

ary 4 through January 24, 2012, New Westmin-

ster CRC will be one of 34 remote webcast loca-

tions worldwide to broadcast one of the nation‟s

leading lecture and cultural arts series.

In its silver anniversary year, the January Series will

feature a lineup of nationally-acclaimed speakers

including a former advisor to four presidents, a

Broadway actress, one of the world‟s foremost New

Testament scholars and one of National Geo-

graphic‟s 10 Adventurers of the Year, to name a

few.

The experts will cover a wide range of today‟s most

relevant topics, offering bipartisan insights into the

Obama administration, the divided Congress and

the 2012 election. They‟ll also discuss the future of

the Middle East and the future of Christianity in

America, share thoughts on small farms and local

food systems, and much more. For a full list of

speakers and topics visit www.calvin.edu/january.

The January Series lectures will be video

streamed live at New Westminster CRC from

9:30 to 10:30 AM-PST Monday through Friday.

The lectures are free and open to the public.

For more information/details, feel free to contact

Andrew Beunk at 604-521-0111 or go to the

church‟s website under Calendar/Upcoming Events.

To download a hi-res photo of any speaker, visit

www.calvin.edu/january/2012 and click on the

name of the speaker.