Once again, Sibu annual Christmas procession was held on 19 December 2009. We thanks God for giving BB a chance to participate in this event where we can proclaim the birth of Jesus Christ publicly.  As usual we had 1st Sibu Company’s band followed by contigents which comprises of other companies.  This year we have also witness the power of prayer and how God show His miracle on us. Just before we start the procession, a rain has poured down on us. But the rain would not discourage the spirit of BB. All officers, NCOs & band members had gather together and pray to God, asking God to stop this rain which hinder the procession immediately. Indeed, our God is a hearing God. He has heard our prayer on that evening and just after we finished our prayer, the rain begin to ease and eventually the rain stop.

With the rain stop, we were able to proceed with the procession. This year we’ve performed some songs like Soldiers of Christ, Arise, Joy to the world, A joyous holiday, Jingle bell rock & etc. We would like to thanks all the officers, band members & BB members for putting all your efforts in making this procession a successful one. May the love of our Heavenly Father continue to guide and lead 1st Sibu Company to shine forth for Him.

Matthew 19:26 “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible”

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On 3rd October 2009, BBM has approved Sgt. Fam Jye Cherng & Cpl Lee Ik Ing President badge award. Yesterday, our Captain gave out their President badge certificate first as the badge should be presented formally at a special ceremony like Enrolment day or Founders’ Day. They are now 1st Sibu Company 21st & 22nd President Boy.

Again, congratulation to both of them for achieving the second highest awards in senior section. Continue to serve faithfully and show loyalty & responsibility to 1st Sibu Company.

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We all know very well with the history of The Boys Brigade in Malaysia. But how much do we know about BB in China. The only fact we know is that BB work began in South China in Swatow in the early 1900s and 1st Swatow Company is the first BB company in Asia.

Below is a copy of The Story of The Boys’ Brigade in China called A Record of Heroism. We encouraged each reader to spend time reading it and hopefully it will inspire each of you about the BB work around the world. We pray that one day God will open the door to China so that BB work can be extend there.

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BB Asia July-Aug 2009 Newsletter is now available to be view.

Do download a softcopy of the newsletter and take your time to read what is curently happening to BB in Asia

Do continue to uphold BB asia ministry and their needs in your prayer.

Sept-Oct 2009 Issue

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This year from June to December, REACHOUT – Youth For Charity will mobilize BB members from Sarawak in a concerted effort to raise fund for the National Kidney Foundation, Kuching Branch to aid their objective of helping poor Malaysian suffering from kidney failure and ailments. A portion of the collection will be channeled back to BB for youth development.

What is “REACHOUT – Youth For CHarity”
REACHOUT – Youth For Charity is an initiative by The Boys’ Brigade of Malaysia to encourage young people and youth organization to be involved in social and charitable work. Through this initiative, The Boys’ Brigade of Malaysia seeks to expose young people to the hardship of people less fortunate than them, that they may learn to appreciate life and be grateful for what they have. We want to nurture young people to be more caring and sensitive to the needs of others; to REACHOUT – to help and do more in our quest to foster a caring Malaysian society.

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Congratulation to our Sgt. Fam Jye Cherng & L/Cpl Lee Ik Ing that your President’s badge application have been approved by BBM on 3rd October 2009.  They will be our company 21st & 22nd President boy.  In total, there are six levels to achieving a Brigade Award (Gold, President, Founder, Robert Davies, Officers’ Service and any other award introduced by the national level).

BBM National Awards Result (3 October 2009)

To find out more about applying BBM award, please do visit BBM website.

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Please be reminded that there will be NO meeting on coming Saturday (24 October 2009)  due to SMK Methodist’s school examination.
However, meeting will resume on next Saturday (31 October 2009) at SMK Methodist School.

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On 3rd October 2009,  all 10 BB companies in Sibu met together at SIB Hosanna church in conjunction with the Founders’ day celebration. This year, the Founders’ day were hosted by 7th Sibu Company & 9th Sibu Company. In total, there were about 800 BB members attended the celebration.

At 2:00pm, the event start with the marching of the color party. Then we had a singspiration followed by a choir presentation by 7th Sibu Company. Then Pastor Timothy’ shared the words of God with us.  In his sermon, he had shared 3 points.

• We need to see the needs of people. Often, we know the problem that exists among youth but we do not came up with a solution to overcome the problem.
• BB is a body of organisation that consists of officers, boys & girls. We should act as one body like the body of Christ.
• We need to train BB boys & girls to glorify and serve our God continuously.

After the sharing we had a “Poco-poco” dance performance by 4 girls from 9th Sibu Company. Then we had a prize giving for Central region basketball competition. We also had the priviledge to hear a sharing on the development of BB in Sarawak by Lt. Hu wei Ung. We praise God that currently we had a Sarawak state full time officer and our own depot located at MY centre.  In 2011, BB in Sarawak will also be celebrating 50th anniversary. Also we had a vision to purchase one shop for BB Sarawak.

This year, we included games into the programme.  However, leading a game for 800++ members is not an easy job. We would like to thank one of our brother-in-Christ for leading the game throughout the whole afternoon.  We believe that every members did enjoy their afternoon.

About 5pm, the games ended and we closed our Founders’ day celebration with a closing prayer by Pastor Timothy followed by Color Party marching off. We give thanks to God for allowing our Founder, Sir William Alexander Smith seeing the needs of boys and formation of The Boys’ Brigade back in 1883. Till today, we have BB in nearly all around the world and expansion is still ongoing. We pray that God will continue to bless The Boys’ Brigade and use this organisation to advance the Kingdom of God and spreading the Good news.

Lord, Bless The Boys’ Brigade.

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