SFX 28th Parish Assembly - 8.11.08

The SFX Church’s 28th Parish Assembly (PA) was held on Saturday, 8 November 2008 from 2pm to about 9pm. It was attended by 177 Chief Coordinators and core team members from the BECs and Parish Groups.

Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur His Grace Tan Sri Dato’ Murphy Pakiam officiated the assembly. Preceding His Grace’s address was a welcome address by Parish Pastoral Council chairman Lawrence Loh followed by an address by parish priest Fr. Simon Yong SJ.

The participants were broken up into 12 groups. After the ice-breaking session, each group planned out activities for the month they were assigned to, to further realise the aims of the Peninsular Malaysia Pastoral Convention III.

The activities planned involved joint participation and implementation by BECs and parish groups for the benefit of all parishioners and other groups, with special emphasis on the youths, the elderly, differently-abled and migrant communities.

The financial report was the last item to be presented, and the accounts and budget were tabled by Vincent Yang, the Chairperson of the Parish Finance Community (PFC). The PA was also informed about the retirement of Vincent Yang from the PFC and Fr Simon expressed his profound gratitude and appreciation for Vincent’s dedication for the past fourteen years in producing SFX’s accounts in a thorough, accurate and transparent manner.

The Q & A session was also brief and Father Simon commented that the fewer questions from the floor hopefully reflected the approval of the parishioners with regards to the programmes and activities carried out over the past years.

The PA ended with Vespers, followed with Mass and a fellowship dinner.

The smooth running of the PA was the result of diligent preparation by the organising committee. We congratulate them as well as all the leaders and parishioners who attended, and pray that they will continue to help manifest God’s love to the larger community of our SFX Church, and that our church continues to be the ‘talking church’ for Jesus Christ.

Car Parking In SFX Church

Parking arrangements in SFX Church has been improved with recent works to realign and re paint the parking bays. Also added were new clear signage and directional arrows to help in the managing of the traffic in the church.

We therefore seek the cooperation of all parishioners to ensure smooth traffic flow in the Church by:-
a) parking only in the assigned parking bays,
b) not to have any empty bays in between parked cars,
c) not blocking the entrance and exit of closed parking lots,
d) not parking in reserved bays, drop off and pick up zones, and parking bays reserved especially for the wheel chaired bound who drive themselves to church.

Please also note that an additional drive through lane has been created in the basement car park for drivers to get out of the parking bays there with ease. Drivers are therefore asked not to park in that lane during weekdays as it will block the access into and exit from the allotted parking bays there.

However that 'drive through' lane is open for parking on all weekend Masses with the request to the drivers to quickly remove the cars or to re park them after each weekend Mass is over. A mobile phone contact left in the dashboard of the car will assist in easy contact in case of emergency.

Traffic Wardens when available, will be on duty during feast days and week end Masses. Hence more volunteer traffic wardens are needed to help out. If you wish to volunteer as a traffic warden kindly contact Mr Soosay Muthu @ 03-79560097 or Francis Lai @ 016-682 9330.