Sunday, September 20, 2009

Words and Photos for Another Indescribable Night

Di sebalik tabir, sebelum bermulanya hampir setiap kebaktian belia...

...okay I give up. What's 'worship team' in BM??

As I was saying, there's worship practice!


Worship leader Nehemiah with the backing of worship director Sharon, both individuals who're well aware of the true meaning of worship and know God's will for the worship team, ran through the songs to be sung that night with the team.

Including two electric guitarists!

Come 6p.m., time for Bible class, and this photographer was consumed with eagerness to hear the Word of God that the camera was left in the bag.

Means I forgot to take photos.

Eulene led Bible class (the youngest Bible class teacher ever! don't ever judge this lady by her age..) and shared about Walking in God's Ways. Back to Psalm 1!

That we should study the Word of God, and find delight in it. Not making it a duty but rather something we look forward to doing.

Next, dinner!

Skipping that, preservice prayer!


Sarah Khoo decided on something different rather than the usual get-into-groups-and-pray and so she shared a bit about PRAYER. What, and why.

Amazing turnout for preservice prayer these months.

We then prayed for the person seated on our right, then the worship leader and the preacher and the icebreaker-ess.

Sharon praying for Andrew, the preacher.

Okay, next, the 5-minute-toilet-break-before-service-starts.

Whoots. Exciting, isn't it?

And introducing, one of the newcomers for the night:

Zhuan Foo!
(i'm sorry if i got the name spelt wrong, Chinese names are so hard to get first time round)


And how some people act before service starts:

The preacher! He was posing, mind you.

The icebreaker-ess.

The electric guitarist and his floorball-avid friend back there.


Right then, everyone emptied their urinary bladders d, and it's time to break frozen water!




For that night, Eulene split everyone into three groups for a good ol' crowd favourite.

The human knot!

Group 2.

Group 1.

Group 3.


Group 2 trying to unravel themselves - Joyce did a lovely job in messing them up.

Another testament to Joyce's wonderful work of tangled art: Now what's Asher doing down there?

Right then, now that we've got a bunch of happy, smiling, youth with that I-had-fun-that-was-nice look on their faces..

..it's time to give it all back to God.



'Today, today I live for one thing:
To give You praise in everything I do
Yeah all the praise goes back to You.'


After which, announcements.

Ming Yen again! We'll never get bored of her.

Leroy praying for Pastor Victor and Alex, as well as Pastor Heok Cheow and Joshua Yeoh who'll all be going to Malacca for The Plan '09 Conference.

And we also have Sarah, introducing..

...the september babies! Shiau Xian, Eulene, Alex, Daniel and Isaac.
Each got a mini Mars bar (Alex looks pleasantly surprised. Daniel and Isaac look really happy.).
They were then all prayed for.


And finally, to the bulk of the night.. (bulk as in the most part, not bulk as in sizeable)

Mr Andrew Chan! Speaking on...

...yup. WAKE UP!!!!
Bangunlah! Sedarlah! Bangkitlah!

Antara isi penting dalam mesejnya itu termasuklah:

That sinners sleep in spiritual darkness, and even if they wake up it's still darkness. But Christians have light everytime.

"If you don't believe in God, how can you see God? Will you go on a three-legged race with God?"

God is light (no darkness). If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and make Him out to be a liar.

And, a clever play of metaphors:

Satan's
Internet
Network

our heart = modem
our brain = hardware
our faith = software

And, as God said to Cain, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.


So, how to overcome sin and wake up?
  1. Discipline - Hebrews 12
  2. Trust and faith - Proverbs 3:5-6
  3. Submit to authority - Romans 11:1-7
  4. Repentance - Mark 1:1-8
  5. Prayer - James 5:13-16
  6. Train yourself! - 1 Tim 4
"Jesus rose from the dead
Come on and get out of bed."
- from a song Andrew played
His message ended with a prayer, an altar call and a closing prayer for everyone.

And, a notable footnote: His message was partly spoken on by Eulene for Bible class, 'stolen' by Sarah during preservice prayer, the songs Nehemiah chose encapsulated the theme, and had to do with what Pastor Victor voiced out during worship.
And they didn't know what he was going to speak on.
Coincidences? Hardly!

Wednesday, September 16, 2009


Where You Go, I Go

Where you go I go
What you say I say
What you pray I pray


Where You go I go
What You say I say
What You pray I pray

Jesus only did, What he saw You do
He would only say, What he heard You speak
He would only move, When he felt You lead
Following Your heart, Following Your spirit

How could I expect to walk without You
When every move that Jesus made was in surrender
I would not begin to live without You
For You alone are worthy You are always good

You are always good
You are always good
Always good
Always good

Though the world seems to forget
We will not forget
Who You are and what You've done for us

You are my God
You are my God
You are my God
You are my God
You are my God
You are my God

It's that time of year again..

...Out come the books, the long nights, the eyebags.

Well that's unless you don't really care.

Either way, God cares =)

So, fireBRANDS, do pray for these people who're taking a major (how 'major' it really is I'll leave you to decide) examination this year.


PMR

Cherie Wong'
Cheryl Tan
Jesher Lim
Indy Toh
Nathania Chuah
Ruth Tham
Tan Wei-Lynn
Tan Yi Wen
Zephaniah Chong


SPM

Benjamin Tham
Chan Ming Yen
Chen Shiau Xian
Chew Yan-Y
Daniel Tan
Elisha Low
Gary Lee
Gerald Soon
Ivy Joy Toh
Lip Sen
Loh Vern Sern
Louis Teoh
Samuel Thum
Tan Khai Shin
Tham Khai Hern
Timothy Yeoh
Tricia Yeoh


*add the name in the tagboard if anyone's missing from the lists, thanks

Saturday, September 12, 2009

twelveseptembertwozerozeronine.



Report and pictures ; yoo lene


Hey everyone!


Alright, here's the update I know all of you want :)

Firstly, we had our preservice prayer led by Sharon Leow. Firstly we prayed for ;-

  • PMR, SPM candidates and for those taking exams.
  • Recess Revo!
  • fireBRANDS floorball team.
  • youth service - Shiau Xian, worship leader and Pastor Victor, preacher.

Ken Jeen in action!
From your left : Indy and Zephaniah!
P.S// best friends :)
*crowd goes awww!
worship.



Preacher for the night - Pastor Victor :)


what did he preach? you asked?


$$$$ MONEY AND WEALTH! $$$$$

"real life is about fulfilling your purposes in life and knowing God not by how much you own in your life!" - Pastor Victor Lim.

that's all for now. Signing off :)


Friday, September 4, 2009

Nerd Party: Picturebook

Because a picture says a thousand words, and i'd rather upload a photo than write a thousand words :)

Photo credits to Joyce, Kutu, Pei Yen and Eulene.


1. WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU WEARING?!










2. Short & Tall, Guy & Gal - the groups

Short girls.

Short guys.

Tall girls.

Tall guys.


3. More dressing-up: Mascots!

How to make a nerd.

How to make two nerds.

Tall girls presenting someone-who-looks-like-Sailormoon =D

Short guys with their very neat nerd with giant bowtie.

Dee Dee ([s]he can sing!) and Dexter (sexayyyyy!) by short girls.

Not-very-tall tall guys' mascot, complete with protective helmet.

All together now!


4. Who Wants To Be A NERDY Millionaire?

With 35 questions ranging from whale sharks to Star Wars, from Star Trek to Pastor Victor's age, and from Marvel Comics to Kobe Bryant.


He got it wrong.

He got it wrong.

She... also got it wrong.

In the end, the tall guys got the most correct. Luck, or intelligence?


5. Supper!

Even I don't know what's inside. Looks like wasabi green peas, oatmeal, nuts, crackers..

The two G's. Garlic and Groundnuts. Takes Guts to eat the first one.

LOL.

Ouch.

Let's go for the groundnuts first =)


Teamwork!

And the short guys' celebratory pose =D


6. The not-so-graceful coup de grace - the last game

Chopsticking a lime - among the other many, many elements in the game.

Test paper.

'Gaya'-nya.

I'll let you figure out what's going on.


7. And like the cliche says: Everyone's a nerd... i mean winner.

BEST DRESSED: Pastor Victor & Sharon
1st place: Short Guys
2nd place: Tall Guys
3rd place: Tall Girls
4th place: Short Girls


(This post contains 35 pictures. Which equals to a 35,000-word essay =D)