Courses, Talks & Workshops
Family Life Ministry
The Art of Marriage
🗓️ 13-15 March 2025
📍St Giles Southkey, Johor Bahru
💲Cost: $290 per couple ($240 for leaders)
What is God’s design for marriage? Join us in this 3-day 2-night marriage retreat brought to you by the PLMC Family Life Ministry. At this retreat, we will learn through a 6-part video titled ‘The Art of Marriage’, put together by pastors and experts renowned on marriage and family in a tranquil and cosy environment. This program is created by Cru FamilyLife which has for more than thirty years helped couples understand God’s plan for relationships.
Apart from the video sessions, couples of the organising committee will be sharing their experience in their marriage, where you can catch glimpses of God’s grace and mercy in the different seasons of their lives.
A successful marriage is like a divinely inspired art form. Let’s fulfill the plan that God has for us in our marriage and family in the Art of Marriage (AOM) retreat.
As a gesture of blessing and gratitude to the leaders of PLMC, FLM is offering a special rate of $240 for leaders and their spouses as we commit to strengthening marriages and building strong relationships.
Testimony from Nelson:
“Our marriage was going through some rough patches when the retreat was advertised. Coming in, I really didn’t know what will happen. Going out, we reaffirmed our marriage and will work hard for it together.”
Date: 13-15 March 2025
Venue: St Giles Southkey, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Registration fee*: $290 per couple (includes 2 nights stay, breakfast, lunch & tea-break), a special rate of $240 for leaders and spouse
Please contact Joshua at familylife@plmc.org should you have any queries regarding AOM.
Discipleship & Nurture
DISCIPLE Course 2025 - Disciple 1, Disciple 3
🗓️ Disciple 1 (Thu) & Disciple 3 (Tue) from March 2025
⏰ 7.45pm to 10pm
📍Disciple 1 – Jerusalem Room, Disciple 3 – Jordan Hall
💲Cost: $30 (for student manual)
DISCIPLE 1: BECOMING DISCIPLES THROUGH BIBLE STUDY is the Foundational Overview. This first DISCIPLE Bible study serves as the basis for all other studies in the DISCIPLE family that follow. Over the course of 34 weeks, DISCIPLE covers the entire Bible (Old and New Testaments), following the biblical story from Creation to New Jerusalem.
Dates: 6, 13, 20, 27 Mar, 3, 10, 17, 24 Apr, 8, 15, 22, 29 May, 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 Jul, 7, 14, 21, 28 Aug, 4, 11, 18, 25 Sep, 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Oct, 6, 13, 20 and 27 Nov (Thu)
Cost: $30 (for student manual)
Time: 7.45pm to 10pm
Venue: Jerusalem Room
DISCIPLE 3: REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE is a 32-week study which examines the connection between memory and identity as the people of God In the Old Testament Prophets and the Letters of Paul. Participants will find common themes, including calls to remember, calls to repent, calls for renewal, and calls for community.
(Prerequisite: Graduated from DISCIPLE 1 Course)
Dates: 4, 11, 18, 25 Mar, 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Apr, 6, 13, 20, 27 May, 3, 24 Jun, 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Jul, 5, 12, 19, 26 Aug, 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Sep, 7, 14 and 21 Oct (Tue)
Cost: $30 (for student manual)
Time: 7.45pm to 10pm
Venue: Jordan Hall
Register here by 31 Dec 2024.
For enquiries, email to Kwang Meng or Bradley at nurture@plmc.org
Discipleship & Nurture
Visualising and Verbalising: Creating Meaningful Learning Experience for Children
🗓️ 11 Jan 2025 (Saturday)
⏰ 9.30am – 12pm
📍Jordan Hall
🗣️ Trainer: Dawn Tan, Consultant Educational Therapist
Every child, including those with unique learning needs, can engage meaningfully with Bible lessons. This workshop aims to equip parents, caregivers for children, Silver Boxes leaders, and Sonshine Kids coaches with the skills to help individuals with learning challenges visualise, understand and remember key biblical concepts, and to enhance their comprehension, reading, memory, oral vocabulary, critical thinking, and writing.
Date: 11 Jan 2025 (Saturday)
Time: 9.30am to 12pm
Venue: Jordan Hall
Trainer: Dawn Tan, Consultant Educational Therapist
Register here before 31 December 2024 .
spiritual formation
Companions in Christ 2025
🗓️ Monday evenings: 3 February – 1 September 2025 ; 7.45pm-10pm or Tuesday mornings: 4 February – 2 September 2025; 9.30am -11.45am, Preparatory Session: Saturday, 25 January 2025, 9am-11.30am & Closing Retreat: 12-13 September 2025
💲$20 per person (cost of the participant’s book)
Companions in Christ (CIC) is a small-group spiritual formation experience in opening yourself to God’s presence and guidance over 28 weeks.
It will take you on a journey to:
- EXPLORE classic ways of meditating on Scripture, learn to listen to God through it and allow your life to be shaped by the Word;
- EXPERIENCE new dimensions of prayer, try fresh ways of opening to God and learn what it means to practise the presence of God;
- REFLECT on God’s call in your life and discover anew the gifts that God is giving you for living out your personal ministry;
- GROW TOGETHER as a Christian community and learn how small groups in the church are to be settings for spiritual guidance.
CIC begins with a preparatory session and ends with a closing retreat. The 2025 run is scheduled for the following dates and times:
Option 1 – Monday evenings: 3 February – 1 September 2025 ; 7.45pm-10pm
Option 2 – Tuesday mornings: 4 February – 2 September 2025; 9.30am -11.45am
Preparatory Session: Saturday, 25 January, 9am-11.30am
Closing Retreat: 12-13 September
Cost: $20 per person (cost of the participant’s book)
Registration is now open till Sunday, 1 December 2024, or when places are taken up.
For further information, please email Soo Hoong at soohoong@plmc.org