Decidedly Pictureless

Dedicated to all you linguists who appreciate the art of English, and therefore have no need for photos, colours, and all things wacky.

Just plain awesome words.

After all, it would be so utterly redundant to post up photos, considering the fact that you've been there and seen all that there is to be seen.
Unless, of course, you weren't there.
So, lesson one: Go for youth service.

Pre-service prayer was as normal (not that normal is bad, normal can be good): groups of 3-5.
Ended with 10 minutes to spare. Wow.

Icebreaker. Involved pairing up and trying to step on the other person's toe. After the first round, almost everyone decided to masquerade as the few people who put up their hands when asked "Who didn't step on each other's toes?" for the sake of going back and sitting down, ignoring the fact that they did have fun.
Which left the host in an awkward position, thinking, 'I don't understand your ignorance.'
Thankfully, there were a few good sports who voluntarily came up again and entertained the bunch of [adjective goes here] people.

Next up, worship.
Worship was awesome.
Really awesome.
God rocks.

Announcements.
Ong Eu-jeen is officially in the fireBRANDS worship team.
For all you kid-lovers who are excellent at working with kids and communicating with kids, do sign up to help Yan and Ming-Y at the House of Hope Christmas Programme (by Aunty Cheng See).

Sharon then got up and introduced all the JYR-related people (organizers, helpers, participants), applauding them.
Unfortunately for some weird reason, the certificates were... not there.
Next week?

Marilyn Kee, young preacher for the night, shared on the positive and negative aspects of fireBRANDS, from her point of view (behind those spectacles of hers).
Positive: We get along and 'gel' easily; we are warm to newcomers; we come to youth service with the right focus (God)
Negative: We look for events and happening stuff, we don't pay attention to what we label as 'boring'; we have cliques; we don't take the initiative to talk to other people beyond our clique; something about identity crisis?

And when it was just the right time to go back home and rest...


... up came Eulene Ooi and Sarah Wong with some odd (not that odd is bad, oddity can be good, in some cases) game.
Five groups. Five pieces of paper. Five odd words. Make a sentence/paragraph. Pass on last sentence to the next group. Another five odd words. Continue the odd story.
Finally, five odd masterpieces are produced.
Real odd.

However time was not very merciful, and she decided to bug a few parents, who in turn decided to bug James who bugged Pastor who got bugged and asked (I wanted to put 'begged', but it sounded inappropriate) for more time.

Though finally it did end, and the fireBRANDS (to say in Elisha-style) dispersed.

fireBRANDS would like to officially welcome JYR recruits Cherie, Carmen, Karin, Carin and a 15-year-old, Sally.