SYDNEY WAS FUN
The girls hanging off the cliff.
Our breakfast yummy Pancakes on the Rocks
Team A fall in.
The best self pic ever. Background just came in unintentionally =P
Joces and me with the rest of the group walking far infront.
Someone's missing... She went on a date =D
A once in a lifetime shot elated =)
Emoing but what a nice shot.
The Sydney Swans RULES BOO MAGPIES!!!
A pic at the conference. Simply magnificent.
Most of the pics were taken on the first 2 days. Kinda gave up after a while cause there were so many cameras goin around.
The conference was just wonderful. If I were to just type out all that happened it would have taken forever. So I will just do the 3 things that really impacted me.
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The weight of the stage
The opportunity of the moment
The potential of the room
-Joel Houston-
This 3 sentences just changed my whole life around. His heart-felt sermon was just magnificent. My favourite "sermon". This made me realise that the dreams that God has put in me are what is said in this 3 sentences.
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The 3 people that changed my life.
I never had a sense of belonging to the church cause I never had a friend that I could talk too. Was in a few different churches after I left children's ministry. Came back at the age of 15 to VFC and was cause my mother forced me to go. I sat with my mother at the back row for about 3-4 months. It was Ferri that said " Come to the front, the youths sitting there its really fun." The genuine and warm approach compelled me to say yes and I was in the youth ministry.
The Jurong East cell group was fun, but I never had friends ( real ones that I can talk to when I had trouble) There was a gap between the older youths and the younger ones. It felt like they were just there cause they were kinda "leaders". The rest of the guys around my age was just too close to ever made me feel included. Around that point Matthew Wee came from Region C and we became really good friends cause of the things that we do together are so similar like playing online games and soccer. Not long after there was Declan and the rest of the guys from CCK area that made a sense of belonging in the church. If not for them I would have gone to another church.
Finally. I never had a teacher/mentor that can be a pointer for me. A sentence made from someone I respected made my world crashing down. I was at the pits at that point. It was Elvin that came to me in my point of need. He changed my life showing me that he is a leader that is not perfect, yet doing his best to not moralise(moralise is someone that displays a perfect person and all he/she does is tell you that cannot do this and that) and also being a pointer to God. He became my mentor (unofficially). He was more of a big bro then anything else. Someone taking care of me, looking out for me.
I wanna be like Ferri Matt and Elvin. The 3 that exhibited characteristics that can impact lives of many people. I admit that I am still far away from what I really wanna be (Im still learning and doing my best). So if I make any mistakes smack me in the head and tell.
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On Wednesday 10/07/2008 Dot and me was booking sits for the rest and realise that we did not book enough so I went 1 sit above with Douglas. There was this guy sitting there and something spoke to me to tell me to sit beside. Im like WHY. The reply was " He is gonna give his life to Jesus and I need you to do something for him. (here comes the threat =D) If you dun do it he will return to back to his normal life. If you do it he will become a great man of God." Im like WHAT you kidding me always asking me to do stupid things. But He never fails no matter how silly it may sound to man, there is a purpose in everything He says. During worship, I can assure you that I have never seen such a person that was folding hands and not showing and interest. During sermons smsing away. But when the point came to accept Jesus he raised his hand to the shoulder. I was amazed. Then came the part where they were handing out cds and cards for consolidation. Then it was the nudge that I had to give which is to help the guy to response. I never did much work at all but the thing that I did radically changed another man's life.
The quote of the whole conference was " Do you wanna let them see a glimpse of Heaven or just preach them Heaven?" by Mike Pivalachi
A glimpse of heaven to me is in the genuine worship as it allows them to see Heaven. To me it is that. Im sure that the guy beside me was touch not by the preaching but by the worship that there was something special/different in it. To make my point. So my suggestion is: STOP ASKING VISITORS TO GO TO CONSOLIDATION ROOM DURING PRAISE AND WORSHIP!
It may be kinda weird and might destroy the flow especially just when the visitors are just about to enter that special moment with God through worship
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All I can say is that a whole new season has just started. Also that there are things that needs to be sacrificed so as to ensure that the gap between God and me can be closer or even removed.
What a great trip I had with an amazing bunch of people. Its so different from youth camps. But the God that I serve is the same no matter where I am at.
CHEERS
The conference was just wonderful. If I were to just type out all that happened it would have taken forever. So I will just do the 3 things that really impacted me.
-----------------------------------------------
The weight of the stage
The opportunity of the moment
The potential of the room
-Joel Houston-
This 3 sentences just changed my whole life around. His heart-felt sermon was just magnificent. My favourite "sermon". This made me realise that the dreams that God has put in me are what is said in this 3 sentences.
-----------------------------------------------
The 3 people that changed my life.
I never had a sense of belonging to the church cause I never had a friend that I could talk too. Was in a few different churches after I left children's ministry. Came back at the age of 15 to VFC and was cause my mother forced me to go. I sat with my mother at the back row for about 3-4 months. It was Ferri that said " Come to the front, the youths sitting there its really fun." The genuine and warm approach compelled me to say yes and I was in the youth ministry.
The Jurong East cell group was fun, but I never had friends ( real ones that I can talk to when I had trouble) There was a gap between the older youths and the younger ones. It felt like they were just there cause they were kinda "leaders". The rest of the guys around my age was just too close to ever made me feel included. Around that point Matthew Wee came from Region C and we became really good friends cause of the things that we do together are so similar like playing online games and soccer. Not long after there was Declan and the rest of the guys from CCK area that made a sense of belonging in the church. If not for them I would have gone to another church.
Finally. I never had a teacher/mentor that can be a pointer for me. A sentence made from someone I respected made my world crashing down. I was at the pits at that point. It was Elvin that came to me in my point of need. He changed my life showing me that he is a leader that is not perfect, yet doing his best to not moralise(moralise is someone that displays a perfect person and all he/she does is tell you that cannot do this and that) and also being a pointer to God. He became my mentor (unofficially). He was more of a big bro then anything else. Someone taking care of me, looking out for me.
I wanna be like Ferri Matt and Elvin. The 3 that exhibited characteristics that can impact lives of many people. I admit that I am still far away from what I really wanna be (Im still learning and doing my best). So if I make any mistakes smack me in the head and tell.
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On Wednesday 10/07/2008 Dot and me was booking sits for the rest and realise that we did not book enough so I went 1 sit above with Douglas. There was this guy sitting there and something spoke to me to tell me to sit beside. Im like WHY. The reply was " He is gonna give his life to Jesus and I need you to do something for him. (here comes the threat =D) If you dun do it he will return to back to his normal life. If you do it he will become a great man of God." Im like WHAT you kidding me always asking me to do stupid things. But He never fails no matter how silly it may sound to man, there is a purpose in everything He says. During worship, I can assure you that I have never seen such a person that was folding hands and not showing and interest. During sermons smsing away. But when the point came to accept Jesus he raised his hand to the shoulder. I was amazed. Then came the part where they were handing out cds and cards for consolidation. Then it was the nudge that I had to give which is to help the guy to response. I never did much work at all but the thing that I did radically changed another man's life.
The quote of the whole conference was " Do you wanna let them see a glimpse of Heaven or just preach them Heaven?" by Mike Pivalachi
A glimpse of heaven to me is in the genuine worship as it allows them to see Heaven. To me it is that. Im sure that the guy beside me was touch not by the preaching but by the worship that there was something special/different in it. To make my point. So my suggestion is: STOP ASKING VISITORS TO GO TO CONSOLIDATION ROOM DURING PRAISE AND WORSHIP!
It may be kinda weird and might destroy the flow especially just when the visitors are just about to enter that special moment with God through worship
-----------------------------------------------
All I can say is that a whole new season has just started. Also that there are things that needs to be sacrificed so as to ensure that the gap between God and me can be closer or even removed.
What a great trip I had with an amazing bunch of people. Its so different from youth camps. But the God that I serve is the same no matter where I am at.
CHEERS