EPIC Surprise for Giffologie

The Story of the EPIC Surprise...


13 Feb 2012
630pm- Advance Party meet up at Holland V, Starbucks. 


700pm- Final rehearsals & plans of first meet up.


720pm- Update of Andrew Lai spotting Gifford on bus at Ion on the way to Holland V.


730pm- Advance Party set up surprise at Crystal Jade 2nd Level.


740pm- Ben meet's Gifford outside Mrt...
Talk abit like where you wanna eat...


742pm- Gifford saw Tao Han & Jolyn talking. Approach them in "surprise"... 


(Skit) *I was trying to control my smile when we bump into the...


Ben/Gifford: Hey what you all doing here? 


Tao Han/Jolyn: Was discussing the mission trip with Jolyn, how about you all what you all doing here.


Ben/Gifford: Wanted to just catch up for dinner. 


Ben: Where you all eating?


*Taohan acts like how his always disturbing Jolyn... *Akwardness* for awhile
(I was trying to control, as it seems so "fake" the whole skit)


Tao Han: We are going the crystal jade xiao long pao buffet.


Jolyn: Oh yea Gifford you havent eat xiao long pao before right???


Gifford: Err Yea...


Ben: Rmb last time our small grp wanted to go here but was full! Lets join them for dinner then! :)


We walk in to crystal jade, walk up to the 2nd floor...


*Gifford eyes grew bigger... As he saw a bunch of colourful words in the table at the far end...


*EVERYONE- SURPRISEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!


MISSSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!!!


*Phew that was so close! Cldn't believe gifford didnt see thru our lousy acting! hahah!




13 Feb- The EPIC Surprise

SUPRISEEEE!

The Decoy's!

See Jolyn & Mavis hand merge into one???

14 Feb- Farewell at the Aiport!

IAD Coursemates!

God's Clay

ALPHA Dinners

Had a good exposure of the ALPHA Course for the first time this week! In fact had 2 Alpha dinners in 3 days!


First was on 7 Feb, when I invited my primary school friend Nicholas, to the Alpha Introduction Dinner at YMCA, rooftop. Where a couple of my colleagues, Alicia & Wanlin invited a friend each too. 


7 Feb- Wesley Alpha Introduction Dinner

Nicky Gumble Sharing!

9 Feb- Alpha Partner's Dinner

Dinner at Fullerton Hotel

Some of the life testimonies about Alpha that day!

The main course!

Love the metallic plate display of the chocolates.

The young attendees of the Alpha Partner's dinner :)

A Dream becoming a Reality

3 Feb, Friday, woke up in the morning remembering one of the most vivid dreams ever. And not only that it involved people whom I knew. It was a scene of someone approaching me in this "theatre" like place with a lot of chairs. He came to me and we started talking abt a deep issue that he was going through. Another scene in the same dream occurred with me talking to him again...And it was very clear that I needed to talk to this person about a particular issue.


5 Feb, couple days later, it actually happened in real life. And looking back, it was an assurance that God do reveal to us His purposes through dreams. This person did approach me. And we talk in a row of chairs, "like in a theatre" setting. And as I talk to this person, God just revealed verses to me to share with him and everything that needed to be said had been said.  

The Coffee Daily!

Found this amazing new Cafe at The Coffee Daily, Brighton Crescent in Serangoon Gardens! Just a short 5mins drive down from my place!

Spend my lovely Sabbath with the Lord at this table! =) 

A nice Roasted Almond Latte & a good book to start the afternoon! :)

Spend 2 hours doing the next topic on Covenant. Took 3mths to do a similar topic in precept! And now doing this in 1 week! Spend an amazing time reading Abraham & Sarah's story from Ch 12-23. =)

Ended the afternoon meeting up with a couple of TMC youth workers here, as we shared ministry tips & just catching up with one another. :) 

Ended the night meeting some old st.gabriel's mate at the Lenas Restaurant at NEX. 

Salmon Pasta at Lenas Restaurant at NEX!

Watch out for spiritual idleness

Came back from the third session of Disciple 1 on the Topic of Sin. And it left me in deep thought about the condition of what SIN can do to us. 

SIN, is not an act, but a condition where we are "inherently sinful".

Romans 3:10-11

New International Version (NIV)

¹⁰ As it is written:   “There is no one righteous, not even one;
 ¹¹ there is no one who understands;
   there is no one who seeks God.

This part extracted from Mag's blog,
"Spiritual idleness. When we think we have reached a spiritual high. When we think we are there; walking right with God. Then we let our guard down. At the least expected moment, we give in to our sinful nature. Fall from glory. 


King David, the man after God’s own heart. He won battles a-many; all seemed well between him and God. Then he let his guard down by sleeping in one day; it let to one sin which eventually leading him to laid with Uriah’s wife Bathsheba. He tried to cover up. And he fell from glory. 


And it all started from just one small mis-step of spiritual idleness."


This really resonated in my heart, as I do know that i'm currently enjoying where I am, at a state of being comfortable at what i'm doing. And it scares me, that I may get too overly complacent and one day make one mis-step of being spiritually idle and fall like how David fell. 


"Dear Lord, I pray that I can live a daily life of TRUE BROKENNESS, where i'm in a daily surrender submitting my will under the Authority of God. Being obedient to Him and truly dying to myself daily! Amen."
Please pray alongside with me on this!

Extreme COLD & HOT yet lovely sunday!

Just spend one of the best fellowship sundays with my sec 4 youths today! After 4 years of trying out various places and things to do! Today we actually had a super great time just spending 2 hrs in a -10 degrees place at SNOW CITY!!! It was like my childhood dream which my youths helped me fulfilled it today! :)

Love this GEL's! :)

After that headed to the HOT SUNNY Fort canning park for Wesley Tchoukball Training! As we geared up the intensity of our training as we prepare for Crossroad Tchoukball league 2012! =)

Wonderful day spend with an old friend!

Spend a frutiful off day with my very old primary school good friend Nicholas aka my "twin brother"... not sure if he will read this post, but I truly believe it's a divine appointment for us to meet up yesterday, as the week before when he randomly sms me if we wld like to meet up, I was already planning to meet up with him soon! 

We have known each other for 12-13 years already, and he knows i'm a devout christian & always we meet up I will end up sharing my Faith to him. Yet again I truly believe this meet up is still yet another divine appointment for it. This time prepared abit more before meeting him, decided to pass him some christian materials to give to him! Had a good chat with him over prata at serangoon gardens before we had an awesome game of tennis at  Burghley Drive at Serangoon Gardens. After that continue our chat about the existence of God at a cafe nearby. And wells, really believe God  is not yet done with him! Nick if your reading this, really hope you can at least make it for the Alpha course intro dinner on 7 feb! I'm sure that can answers most of the questions you threw at me yesterday! =)

After meeting nicholas, spend a really awesome time alone at the park below my house, doing Disciple and reading an awesome book "Jesus Driven Ministry".. sat there till 7pm and did my last 2.4km run round my estate! And phew did it in 9.40mins! now all ready for my IPPT this saturday at 730am! Pray for me! =)

COURAGEOUS! Most Inspiring movie of the year!

Honor Begins at Home

Four men, one calling: To serve and protect. As law enforcement officers, Adam Mitchell, Nathan Hayes, David Thomson, and Shane Fuller are confident and focused. Yet at the end of the day, they face a challenge that none of them are truly prepared to tackle: fatherhood.

While they consistently give their best on the job, good enough seems to be all they can muster as dads. But they're quickly discovering that their standard is missing the mark.

When tragedy hits home, these men are left wrestling with their hopes, their fears, their faith, and their fathering. Can a newfound urgency help these dads draw closer to God ... and to their children?

Filled with action-packed police drama, COURAGEOUS is the fourth film from Sherwood Pictures, the moviemaking ministry of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia. Viewers will once again find themselves laughing, crying, and cheering as they are challenged and inspired by everyday heroes who long to be the kinds of dads that make a lifelong impact on their children.

Protecting the streets is second nature to these men. Raising their children in a God-honoring way? That's courageous.

Just watched this movie with a bunch of fellow ymers and friends and feel so INSPIRED! Ready to be that Man after God's heart impacting many after watching this movie! =)

International Sports Leadership Training Camp (ISLT) Level 1

Spend a memorable 4 days 3 nights with this awesome group of people from different churches & denominations who have this common interest of a great Love for God & Sports! And that was what united us all as we went spend those days interacting with one another! Reading God's word, playing all kind of games, sports , amazing sessions, discussions on leadership, sports & the bible!

One of my biggest take away is just interacting and having spiritual conversations with this bunch of awesome people! Just hearing out the various issues in their life & praying with some of them has certainly assured my purpose being here and coming our fresh from this camp really renewed my vision in sports ministry that there's this larger global network WORLD WIDE of like-minded people who want to impact the world for Christ through sports!

Day 1

ISLT Schedule from 11- 14 Jan 2012!

Some cool ice breaker game!

 Sports ministry map!

Day 2

7am- Fall in for a 20mins morning prayer run!

Love the beautiful rainbow here in our morning prayer run!

Gospel sharing with a Jacob's tin cover

Frisbeee 101!

(Ngiap Tai shared a very nostalgic story of his time coaching st.gabs sec sch! Those were the good old days! The pictures showed our south zone winnings!)

Day 3

7am- Morning Devotion by Sara 

Mad rush back to Emmanuel house, and had a intense session of the 2 way to live booklet they using now!

The 2 ways to live gospel presentation which we had to memorize 100% before we can pass! Spent an entire 6hrs plus just trying to memorize so much verses!)

The 2 ways to live gospel presentation which we had to memorize 100% before we can pass! Spent an entire 6hrs plus just trying to memorize so much verses!

The last supper!

Day 4

Will kinda miss this place & the people! ISLT 2012 (Jan)

Collecting the cert from Ngiap Tai the Convener for SCS

Follow up of ISLT with Wesley YM Tchoukball comm team!

Wesley YM Tchoukball team session on sunday!

Wesley Tchoukball at Fort Canning!

More Photo album of ISLT Camp 2012 -Level 1(jan)

International Sports Leaders Training(ISLT) Lvl 1 Camp-2012 (Jan)