BMBC, No. 2209, Jalan Kulim. 14000 BUKIT MERTAJAM, PULAU PINANG, MALAYSIA. TEL/FAX NO. 604-539 1854, PENANG, Malaysia
Church Purpose Statement
Our Purpose is to help people to know Jesus Christ and to grow as disciples of Jesus Christ (Matthew 28:18-20) to the glory of God.
Church Mission Statement
Our Mission is to equip people as disciples of Jesus Christ, that they may be transformed into the likeness of Christ in their Relationships, Character and Vocation.
Church Vision Statement
Our Vision is to be an authentic and visible community of Christ-like Relationships, Character, and Vocation, impacting the community of Bukit Mertajam and beyond.
Sunday Bible Class : 09.00am
Sunday Worship Service(English):10.00am
Sunday Worship Service(Bahasa Malaysia): 02.00pm
On Soi Orou Krismas. This is Merry Christmas Greeting to you in Murut language. The second session of the Peninsular Murut Christian Fellowship was held at 2.00pm at Bukit Mertajam Baptist Church on Sunday 27 November, 2011. We welcome all our Murut brothers and sisters and their families and friends to this joyous occasion. We hope they have a wonderful time united with their fellow Murut brothers and sisters who are presently living on the Peninsular Malaysia.
We pray to God to bless them with good stewards and leaderships to continue with their Great Commission and Missions of sharing the joy of God's promises and bonding love with their Murut folks in their home bases in Sabah, Sarawak and Borneo while they form a very special ministry to look after their fellow families and community here, and those who are coming over to this part of our nation to seek new job opportunities and a new chapter in their lives as they assimilate with our unique multi-ethnic tribes and diverse cultures of One Nation of Malaysians, especially here in Peninsular, and in particular,the Pearl of Orient, Penang.
We are pleased to share with you the praise and worship service and the message from Pastor Mitias Balang on the second session here. You can share this with your friends who had missed the opportunity to be here to celebrate the Pre-Christmas gathering then.
It was a very exciting atmosphere and great time at BMBC with the gathering and presence of the various Christian Churches and members from the Murut tribe in Peninsular Malaysia, their friends and families from other tribes.Our BMBC Bahasa Congregation and Penang Murut Christian Fellowship played host for the current annual event. Next year event will be hosted by Kuala Lumpur Murut Christian Fellowship and held in Kuala Lumpur. Here are the video clips recorded of the first session held on Saturday 26 November, 2011 in six parts for sharing with you.
The second session was held at 2.00pm on Sunday 27 November, 2011. Stay with us as we shall upload the recordings soon. Meanwhile, please do come to join our weekly Bahasa Congregation Sunday Worship Service held at BMBC sanctuary at 2.00pm and have fellowship with us especially if you can communicate in Bahasa Malaysia.(Note: This invitation is strictly for Non-Muslims ONLY).
Greetings and Welcome to all our Murut tribe brothers and sisters in Christ to Bukit Mertajam Baptist Church for their Peninsular Malaysia Murut Christians Fellowship Pre-Christmas Celebration Service from November 26 & 27, 2011 held here in Bukit Mertajam, Penang, Malaysia.
This event is jointly organized by the Murut Christian Churches in Peninsular Malaysia who traveled from as far as Johor Baru and Kuala Lumpur all the way here to be closely united and to share the joy of the Lord and His gospel with their fellow brothers and sisters especially who are working here and away from their families in Sabah, Sarawak and Borneo.
Thank you to our BMBC Bahasa Congregation Pastor Jack Peru Singa and Visiting Pastor Matias Balang and the Joint Organizing Committee for making the Pre-Christmas Celebration Fellowship a wonderful happening at BMBC (bANYAK mAKAN bANYAK cAKAP). God bless the delegates and the members for their safe travel here and their safe journey home to their respective base in Peninsular Malaysia. Praise God for His Glory and Blessings upon the Murut tribe here in Malaysia. Hallelujah.
Today is 20-11-2011 and is 20112011 and generally, many young couples are getting married on this date after another auspicious date 11.11.11. BMBC have been the venue for its members' wedding who registered and have their marriage solemnized as they walked down the aisle to take their marriage vows. We have pastor Ooi Kheng Boon to conduct and Bro David to assist in the Wedding and exchange of vows ceremonies. If you are planning your wedding, you may want to contact BMBC and Pastor Ooi for counselling.
Pastor Ooi is preaching the sermon on the theme Advent: Worship and Thanksgiving continuing from where he has shared on the week of November 06, 2011.
Greetings to you. We have come to a new theme, Advent: Worship and Thanksgiving for the month of November and December. There was no recording of the Sunday Worship Service on November 6, 2011. Here is the recorded Sunday Worship Service on November 13, 2011 with sermon delivered by Pastor Vincent Liew. We have a sharing from a visitor, pastor Riyas from Pakistan with the reading of the Bible verses from Matthew 25:42-45. He comes from the church where members are mainly from families of brick layers. Praise God for His love and ministry for the brothers and sisters in Pakistan.
Greetings to you. We are pleased to have guest speaker Pastor Wan from Renewal Church, Bukit Mertajam, who is a Student Pastor and would be graduating soon from Baptist Theology Seminary. He shared with us on the Book of Revelation Chapter 1 verses 9-18. He urged us not be fearful of death as the Holy Bible tell us of God's promise of eternal live.
You can listen to his sermon here.
May God bless you.
Credit goes to Biblegateway.com for the online bible reference and link.
We are pleased to have Pastor Clement Chong from the Penang Baptist Theological Seminary (BTS) to be with us again to bring us the faith building sermon on the theme of Being Families In Christ. He reminded that BMBC with the mission on Being Internally Strong and Externally Focus Church have a great passion to be a Church impacting the local community and our society through the Voice of God and His Words through this imperfect preaching.
He shared with us on the Holy Bible verses from 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 and gave us the backdrop on Apostle Paul called by the Lord to serve as he journeyed and inspired by God to write the scriptures on his challenging life with a thorn in the flesh. He hope that the BMBC will learn from the context in the family and apply it in our challenges and difficulties and move on in our lives. We do have our own "thorns in the flesh" in our own home, our marriage, our family and challenges and difficulties in our life. It is the same principles that apply to our church family, workplace family, own family, students family and so on. We are to endear ourselves to the Word of God and to connect people and family with love. We have hurts, been betrayed and have our baggage and fears to love again. We dare not love again and the church become hypocrite. When God allowed thorn in our flesh, He has great plan for us. He wants us to experience Him and the presence of God.
Pastor Clement gave us an awesome yet wonderful and powerful power-point presentation on "simple mathematical equations" which he explained in depth and an insight into the thorn in the flesh which we can learn and apply it in our daily living experience and to be involved in our community.
The equation 1 + 1 = 1 is may be like a situation of a thorn to a maths teacher for we all know the mathematical answer is incorrect.or is like a husband and wife relation where the husband is no longer that romantic. God want us to change ourselves. We always point to others instead of ourselves. With the equation change to 1 x 1 = 1, we multiply and magnify the grace and power of God given to us.
11 - 1 = 1 as in the Roman letters, we have to learn to look beyond our cultures, language, experience and values at looking at things minus our prides. He wants us to have faith in prayers to change ourselves as He will pray and walk with us. We decreased in pride and He increased and magnified. People do not appreciate us and we gave up but God wants us to magnify his grace and power.
1- 1 =/= 1 is a correct equation but the end part is a wrong answer(mathematically 1 minus 1 is zero). We should look at the whole and big picture. God's plan is perfect and nothing wrong. We may pray and hope for a "yes"and our prayer is answered with a "No". God has His timing and plan. We learned to accept the thorn. Step back and learn to accept and thank God for when I am weak, I am strong. He shared with us his personal thorn in the flesh and he has understood God's equation and has accepted God's blessings and His Grace is sufficient for him. We want the presence of God but we are not enjoying His presence. Inside the church, we need You, but outside the church, my study room, my computer, my business... is not for you.
It is not nice for you to be here.
1=1=1. We are not looking at Christ. We are looking at what we want Christ to do! We are expecting Him to work the way we want. We are not looking at God Himself who He is. The problem or thorn is still there but God is here presence with us. Read 2 Corinthians 12:9.
= - - = -. Do you understand the equation? We have to look at it in the Chinese written equation of two minus one equal one. Do you know why sometimes we do not understand God at work? We do not understand God's heart language to us. Marriages,husband and wife, family, parents and children have problems because we do not understand them from their perspectives. The principle never time but the form is time by change. We have to think anew with a new mindset, a new language, a new culture and all the sleeping strokes/sticks of the numbers lying down ,then we can understand. In the hand of God, even in the weaknesses, we can boast of God because in the presence of God, God's power is make perfect in our weaknesses.
1 + 1 = 1 in God's blueprint for marriage, one man and one woman united in marriage, God said the two shall become one. So the formula is correct from God's perspective. Wow...a perfect plan from God ya.
Like us, you can be encouraged by Pastor Clement Chong through his sermon here and posted on You Tube.
The thorn/s in us is/are not removed but learn from this simple mathematics formulas to help us re-focus. We learn to look at situation from God's perspective and accept the differences.
