HAI SEMUA ORANG! Guess what happened last Saturday? YOUTH SERVICE.
Anyways, prayer kicked off youth service as usual, 7.15pm sharp.

Our one and only Ooi Tsu Phin led prayer. (:

After prayer was our usual 5 minute toilet break for those who couldn't hold it no more.
Icebreaker followed soon after. We played some game which was really fun where your partner in the inner circle had to turn anti-clockwise while the people on the outer circle had to go the other way round and when miss Tania Loke told us to connect our body parts we had to. Well, it was fun until the part where she said nose to armpits. LOL. kidding! Wait, she did say that.

LOKE SUAT MEI. (;

After icebreaker was worship lead by Tsu Phin again. :P

Pastor Victor wasn't around last Saturday so we had a new pastor in Sanctuary 2. Pastor Leow. Not Pastor Chong Leang but Sharon Leow to be exact.

Sharon telling us about Daniel Tan's upcoming mission trip to Cambodia.

Anyone who feels a burden to give to the people in Cambodia, Daniel and/or the team there can bring the money to church next week. He needs RM 1000.00 for the airfare, so let's all chip in. (:

THENNNN, we had the amazing Lim Sze Yuen to come speak to us about her journey in DTS.
In case y'all don't know, DTS stands for Discipleship Training School.

First she went through a 12-week lecture phase where they had like 12 different lecturers for each week to teach them really cool stuff like how to hear from God etc. In between there was a midterm thingy where they went to DTS in KL. After that she went to Thailand and then to Nepal (the team split into Team Nepal and Team China).

All the DTS people.

Videoing her sermon.

They were in Thailand during the Songkran festival.

The lecturers.

Well, one thing she learnt from the entire 5 months of DTS was simple. (: Relationships.
Relationship with God and relationship with people.

If you guys are interested in going for DTS, I'm pretty sure Joyce would gladly support (as in moral support) you. And that concludes our Saturday night! See you next Saturday. Same time, same channel.

What happened

If you came in at around 7:30p.m. you probably would've walked into this:

Icebreaker was something we haven't done in a long time: Alien Invasion!:D

After stumbling about in the dark, it's time to continue on to worship:

This week's was kinda different as we sang not one, but two Malay songs.

Okay time for an important announcement!

This Saturday, we'll be having a small fundraiser for Daniel Tan who's gonna go on a mission trip to Cambodia. So, do bring money in advance and he'll be sharing more about it:)

And yep time to move on to:

Young preachers' night! First up, Lester Wan, our resident announcer.

Lester shared on spiritual warfare.

"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places." - Ephesians 6:12 (NKJV)

Satan has chosen a battleground: people's minds.

It's spiritual war we're in: cannot be fought with physical weapons.

BUT,

¹³ You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. ¹⁴ He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. ¹⁵ In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross - Colossians 2:13-15 (NLT)

Satan has already lost.

His primary weapon against us: guilt. Our's against that: grace.

Put on your spiritual armour! (Eph. 6:10-17)

Don't give up the battle midway, and stay united - like how the Greeks had their phalanxes.

Weapons of attack that we have: prayer (supermissile!) and preaching ("Does not my word burn like fire?" - Jere 23:29a), among others.

When we speak Gd's words, it won't return empty.

Giving a testimony is speaking from your own experience that relates to the word of God.

Next up, the extremely seasoned preacher, old and experienced:

Pope Ben Yeoh!

So first we watched a video on the story of Blondin:

And thanks to modern technology, you can watch it now too!

It all boils down to trust.

⁵ Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
⁶ in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight. - Proverbs 3:5-6

God wants to direct our paths; we just have to trust. It's our responsibillity to put our faith in him.

'Trust in the LORD' was mentioned 180 times in the old Testament. To trust is to place our confidence in or put our weight on something/somebody. We need to listen to God in everything we do and be ready to receive from Him.

'Lean not on your own understanding.' Don't keh gao gao! As Prov 3:7 says, don't be wise in your own eyes. Or in Romans 12:16 - don't be conceited (have an excessive favourable opinion of one's own ability'. We need to admit that we don't know everything; sometimes we're just plain wrong.

'In all your ways submit to God,' don't divide your life into 'sacred' and 'secular'. God doesn't only care about what we do in church. God doesn't only care about Bible reading and not TV-watching, or where we give our money and not where we get our money from. God wants to break the sacred-secular wall and be in all our life.

'He will make your paths straight' - it's a promise! The results are always good when we trust in Him. God's idea of a path is not always what we want and sometimes there'll be challenges and we'll begin to doubt, but all this just teaches us to trust in God with all our hearts.

In conclusion, get into the:

Mission Phang Nga

A thousand apologies for the late update.

But here are a little sneak peak of the things that we did at Thailand for 13 days.

The team members :)

Carmen

Nicole

Eulene

Sharon

*points at the picture below*

Our leader for this trip

Aunt Rama

Pastor Victor

And following are the people we work with everyday

Natalie

Yui

Peter

Theres one more staff named Matt , but we didn't really work with him. ( sorry no picture)

Landscaping work at the base. Its not as easy as it looks :P

Teach the burmese kids english

Played with them.

Group picture with them!

Another English lesson @ Local Thai School.

Group pictureeeee.

Spent time with PCC youth.

Pastor Victor sharing about missions.

Carmen and Nicole sharing their testimonies.

Spent time with the youth again, this time with the kids as well (:

Group pictureeee.

( yes, we really are vain )

Sharon sharing her testimony at the Adults Service.

Pastor Victor sharing.

That's Matt, our awesome translator (: (oh theres a picture of him , my bad :P )

Drama performance by the youth.

Thumbs up!

Group picture with youth AGAIN. :P

Visited the kids at the orphanage. Played with them as well.

Washed the van we travel in everyday! Peter was really satisfied! we all had a good time splashing water at each other.

Place where the burmese kids stay.

group picture with the burmese kids before we left.

Group picture with PCC team.

Yup that's about it.

So the next time, fireBRANDS is gonna have another mission trip.

GO :)

Because it truly, is an opportunity not to be missed!