Hi!<div><br></div><div>Hope you are all having a great time with friends and family back at home and not completely taken over by work!</div><div><br></div><div>Apologies for the delay in sending out this email! The secretary of Mali CU has sent us an email to let us know they had a series of seminars from 27th to 31st December with the theme "Christ, God incarnate Prince of Peace". They aimed to equip 100 Bible study group leaders so they would be able to go out to be instruments of peace in various institutions. I have created a folder in Dropbox with the original email and the document with details of the seminars that they've sent. Let's keep these Bible study group leaders in our prayers and praise God that they are able to put on something like this in Mali! What a privilege it is to be able to pray for our brothers and sister in another part of the world and to know that God is at work everywhere!</div>
<div><br></div><div>They have given us their account number in the email, I guess we are short on money ourselves, but perhaps we can do a world mission focus/Mali CU introduction and update session at hub at some point and have a sort of collection for them like how it was done at Forum?</div>
<div><br></div><div>That's all for now! Have a very happy New Year filled with peace and joy and countless blessings from our Heavenly Father!!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Warm Wishes from Hong Kong,</div>
<div>Phoebe :)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><font size="1"><span class="text Eph-1-3" style="font-family:'Charis SIL',charis,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. </span><span id="en-NIVUK-29211" class="text Eph-1-4" style="font-family:'Charis SIL',charis,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love</span><span id="en-NIVUK-29212" class="text Eph-1-5" style="font-family:'Charis SIL',charis,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top"> </sup>he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will –</span><span id="en-NIVUK-29213" class="text Eph-1-6" style="font-family:'Charis SIL',charis,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. </span><span id="en-NIVUK-29214" class="text Eph-1-7" style="font-family:'Charis SIL',charis,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace </span><span id="en-NIVUK-29215" class="text Eph-1-8" style="font-family:'Charis SIL',charis,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">that he lavished on us. (Bible, Ephesians 1v3-8)</span></font>