What it means to be on fire for God :)

Hello darlings

Deputy mother goose here. Rumor has it this blog is comatose? Aiyohh CHOY AH. Sorry for the lack of updates. Recounts of our 3rd quarter events will come soon, so watch this space!

It’s the weekend, finally. 🙂 it’s been a truly eventful week! Praise God for VBS 2011, for the lives touched, the friendships forged and 5 little souls that accepted Jesus into their hearts. Despite their age, they astounded me with many questions. “What is hell like?” “my mom says the people that go to hell will be born again on earth. Is it true?” “how do I listen to God?” Woahh.

Lesson learnt – never underestimate the mind of a 5 year old.

As these children grow up, they will start asking deeper questions pertaining to spirituality. Let’s keep them in prayer, that the seeds planted now will flourish someday, and that their faith will continue to grow. And that their families will allow them to come to church and join us for more activities. Most of these kids come from non-Christian families.

How does this post’s title have anything to do with its content anyway? Okay! This morning, I came across a nice reading that was worth sharing. By God’s grace, our youth ministry has grown so much this year. We’re starting to see new faces leading worship, planning events, and teaching. I really thank God for our family of like-minded individuals, who have surrendered to our Father’s calling to serve.

Here it is:

Psalms 100:2 says, “Serve the Lord with gladness“. However there are many who serve without joy.
They did not start this way. They may well have started serving with joy but subsequently, they got hurt and resentful. They began to feel taken for granted, neglected and unappreciated (…)

The heart of this problem is people. Serving God is the easy part; the harder part is serving people. This is especially true whe serving unreasonable or unappreciative people. And sometimes just one person is enough to rob us of our joy!

But is this the real reason for service without joy? I doubt it. I suspect the real reason stems from our inner life. Lack of joy simply stems from the lack of composure in our inner life. We allow our compulsions to take over. Our ego gets in the way. we need to see things from God’s perspective.

All of you are an inspiration to me. I pray that if any of us are tempted to give up, that we will keep looking to God for direction the discipline to submit to Him. As we serve, we might encounter people who are difficult to love, or situations that make us feel that our efforts are expended in vain. Don’t give up! 🙂

(Philippians 2:13) For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

May our ministry continue to stay committed to doing all that we do for God’s glory.

Have a blessed weekend, rest well and see you guys this Sunday!

Love

 

Quote references:
Chan, E. (2011). Cultivating Your Inner Life. Singapore

Mugging

"mmhh, i will absorb"

Because it’s tiring
to reach for the stars alone.

 

Every 2nd and 4th Sunday*
2-6pm
Youth Room

Study together 🙂

*(2 Oct too!) 

Bowling Sunday: Move it move it any way you like.

The 3rd Sunday’s back!! Time to head over to WCRC for another afternoon of de-stressing. 🙂

Aunty Sally scouted a new face painter for your forfeits, and i’m super looking forward to the job. Muaha.. Maybe that’s why Private’s so desperate to knock over this pin:

Join us for lunch after Youth Service, or meet us at West Coast Recreational Centre at 3pm!
See you there (:

The Next Big Thing: 10 September

The Massive Food Hunt is back! Keep your calendars free, this event is something you really really really don’t want to miss. 🙂

We’re gonna travel all around the country and savour all the makan favourites in Singapore, and entertain you with awesome games, and at what cost??
$10 per person, and $5 each if you bring a friend along.  

A great way to invest your time and money, especially considering that the fellowship alone will be priceless. hmm?

Don’t get too excited by this announcement that you forget to sign up ! :p The list is up on the 1st Flr Notice Board – pen your names down quickly so that the planners have an easier time with logistics.

Have a blessed week!

Be the bowler, or be the ball.

Hello everyone!

This Sunday (July 24), we will be heading over to West Coast Recreation Centre for our monthly Bowling escapade 🙂

It’ll also be our church’s 41st anniversary! Yay happy anniversary to us.
Bring your friends and loved ones to share our joy, as we give thanks to our Lord for sustaining us thus far 🙂

We’ll stay for the lunch reception, and then head over the WRCC at 3pm for our game.

Ok!

HAVE A BLESSED WEEK EVERYONE (:

It’s that time of the month..

Activity this Sunday (10 July):

Join us for an afternoon of music making and fellowship! And feel free to bring your friends along. 🙂

As usual, there’ll be two classes – one on Jazz chords, and another for Beginners.

Please contact Geoffrey (chalob@gmail.com) for more information.

Have a blessed week!

Be the next Uncle Cesar.

Ever wanted to progress beyond singing acapella in the shower, and actually add some depth to your music?
Ever wanted to play for Junior Chapel, but never knew where to start? 🙂

Woe betide you no more, my friends, because this Sunday, Guitar Lesson’s on! Part 2 of the series.

see you there!

What’s on the menu..
Jazz class: (continuation) 13th, 9th & sus chords
Beginners: Basic chord families and strumming patterns

Please contact Geoffrey (chalob@gmail.com) for more information.

 

And here’s a little eye candy to keep you inspired till this Sunday. 🙂

Sleepover (3rd June)!

Thank God, we'll have more space than this at the Youth Room.

This is a Bible study and bonding event for the older ones! Here’s the invitation shoutout by our resident loudhailer.

Helloooo darlings

Sleepover next weekend!! 😀

We’re coming together to revive our spirits and to spend an evening closer to God, and closer to each other. woah!

There’ll be a night-walk, dinner at this place near Jushinjung (behind church), Bible Study, and a movie screening,

And games of coursee – Underground Church included!

For breakfast, i’m gonna make awesome homemade fluffy maple syrup pancakes. specially for you♥ and dripped all over with tlc. (yums) You can join the kitchen crew if you want, and we can all make fluffy pancakes together! 😀 ….but disinfect ur hands first.

It’s going to be a pretty relaxed kind of thing, so if you’re coming after work or after some other hiiongster event, don’t worry you won’t be too tired by this!
But if you really REALLY need to concuss, we prepared little handmade pillows as souvenirs for everyone, so you can concuss in comfort.

I hope we’ll also get to produce a little Father’s Day video project during this get together (placard message style), to present to our dads on the 3rd Sunday of June. but more details about that during the evening itself!

Really really really hope you’ll be able to join us!! 🙂 
RSVP pls, thanks!
♥

kitties not included. 😦 otherwise ruth will run away.

Gardening Sunday

Bring along your outdoor clothes, and cap this sunday!! We’re going on a mission to prune all unruly weeds around the green plots in church.

If you’re not that good with plants or have some kind of weird phobia of soil, still do join us at the youth room to fellowship/play games/study/practice guitar skills with each otherrr okkk. (you’ll get to supervise the gardeners from the comfort of our youth room’s sofa, hahaha)

See you this Sunday! ♥

Youth Day@Sentosa

Hello how’s everybody! Exam season’s nearly over, goodbye eyebags!
..but see you next semester. gaaarrrgh.
Roda had 3 papers yesterday, and she came for friday’s prayer meeting looking like this 😯

Anyway because all of us are in dire need of a well-deserved retreat, to purge away our the stresses from the semester, here’s a little event organized specially for us!

The Beach Beckonss

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We’ve received feedback that some people might not be able to make it on June 6, so we’ll be calling everyone up to check your availability on an alternative date – June 9. Keep close to your phones 🙂

p/s – Please see the Calendar Tab for the full list of activities we have in store for the month of May-June.