HEARTS AFLAME! (25-27 July)

HEARTS AFLAME! (25-27 July)

Day 1 (Friday)
Rush to ACJC from my last day of the IAD proj 3 block that we all have been working intensely for the last 2 mths!
To be honest, although on the surface i was quite excited for this event..but deep down inside i wasn't like actually totally looking forward at first...bcoz after going to so many such evangelism conferences over the years from crusade, i was thinking.. oh well its going to be the same again... BUT wow i was WRONG RIGHT ON THE FIRST NIGHT! Firstly The specially invited international speakers in the first 2 plenary sessions were really really good! And i was really encouraged and bless from their message!

First was Dr Richard Mouw from America and the second Rebecca Pippet also from america who became my 2nd fav speakers of the conference! I was really in awe of her preaching style and her approach to evangelism! She really has a powerful gift in this area! She shared her personal testimony of reaching out to this particular very worldly women and how later this women's son got to know Christ when he was 5 yrs old and when the son grew to up at 27 yrs old, he became a minister of Christ and that brought her to tears in her sharing! And wow i cld really sense her joy in seeing thru this whole process of God working thru her and different ppl! there was more to it actually! But u got to be there to hear everything! after friday i was INSPIRED for the whole conference! And indeed my heart was set AFLAME! =)

DAY 2 (Saturday)
830am...join the prayer team to pray for the whole conference at the start of the day...

9.30am! Wesley ym leading worship!!!!

(the Wesley ym band!!!)
Youth Plenary- Sy Rogers...

(Sy Rogers in the HOTSEAT!!!!)

His my favourite speaker of the WHOLE CONFERENCE! First of... i have heard many speakers over the years from all over the world...But yesterday i heard the MOST AUTHENTIC and HONEST sharing from anyoneeeeeeee in my life! you cld really tell this man who had a very complex dark past has been totally redeemed and cleanse by our mighty Lord Jesus! And he is one perfect example of a man redeemed for Christ and Born again!!! Not only was he Real and honest with us... he had a very funny sense of humour and very engagingg style when he preach! Anyone a short intro abt this man is! He is regarded as a gifted international communicator, award-winning talk show host, recording artist and pastor and served for over two decades in ministry as a pastoral care specialist regarding sexuality and related concerns.

Anyways i'm really impressed by how he approached the many questions thrown at him espescially the example of Science Vs God...and how he explain it in so comprehensive details that will blow your mind! To summaries on that point Science actually underscores and amplifies God! And he went on to give a veryyyyyyyyyyyyy interesting science lesson on various issues! That shows the bible talking abt science! Well since our Lord is the creator of everything he will surely know the facts of life too right! And well its all proven in the bible itself!

this was one of his quote...
"If you fall off track, wash off and get back on."

Anyway at the end of his sharing and teaching session i realised more than 2 hrs just past! That was how enjoyable the whole session was!

http://www.syrogers.com

After that our small grp headed for 2 adult workshops together, part 3 and part 4 of Sharing our Faith Naturally & Effectively by none other than Becky Pippet! It was a very practical styles of evangelism! And indeed learnt a lot from her... one thing of evangelism...we really have to be honest and be ourself when we reach out... we sld learnt to develop a style of evangelism with our personality! And i like the way how sld had this practical steps of leading a conversation into Christ...
FIRST ... Ask questions related to areas of Interest
SECOND...Ask immediate questions
THIRD...ABSTRACT Questions
FORTH..CHRISTIAN Explanation of it
FIFTH... APPLYING THEOLOGICAL TRUTHS

Well it can be summarize as
1.General Interest Question,
2. issue or belief Question
3 The God question

After a looooong day of workshops... dinnner time!...

The scenes of the many faces....THE MOONIEEEEEE!



(Our small grp had really one very amusing dinner as we just observed moonie many different emotions thru out that evening! And we even did an experiment on her without her knowing!..she was soooooooo LOUD that even the Photographer came to our table and took a pic of her and us!)

Final night! (6.30-9pm)

3the Plenary Speaker... Rev Dr Dan Chun..shares about the RADICAL EVANGELISM OF HUMILTY

And final speaker of the night Rev Dr Lon Alison!
For the FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE of hearing different ways of sharing the gospel! I have never heard a message talking abt the gospel from REVELATIONS itself!

THE STORY of the INVISIBLE CHRISTMAS STORY...

"They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death. Revelation 12:11" Dr Allison highlighted again that we are at war with the forces of darkness and evil. The devil will stop at nothing to devour us. BUT by the blood of the Lamb we are saved!

What an awesome conference of back to back speakers and spiritual food! Now im really fed! HAHHA! no regrets at all coming here! And manage to pick some new insights in evangelism!

Day 3(Sunday Wesley YM evangelistic sunday)

Gunther Mueller from america born with german blood came down to our youth service in todays Ym evangelistic sunday!
And indeed God use him mightily as the gospel message spoke to many youths! I really cld see so many youths touch by God and really cleanse by the blood of Jesus during the ministry time, as i was praying for the youths i really cld see God working in their life and settling issues in them... there was this boy pouring his heart out to me and was crying as i prayed for him. And so many more! I cld see committing their Life to our Lord again and some for the first time!

Afternoon had our FIRST cross trainer curriculum session led by shashi! It was a very good session on "planning" and even i manage to take some new insights from him! one thing that i will rmb from his sharing is.... we all need "THE SPIRIT OF EXCELLENCE"...especially in this sub-ministry... as we need to give our Lord the BEST in everything from planning to execution!

Anyway it was one packed weekend..and now.... i can finally rest for the first time in this 2 mths! NO SCHOOL TMR!!!! OH YEAAAAAAAAAAAA! =) REST DAY!

IAD PROJECT 3 FINAL INTERIM PRESENTATION!!! ...and DARK KNIGHT!!!

IAD PROJECT 3 FINAL INTERIM PRESENTATION!!! ...and DARK KNIGHT!!!
YAY!
After 2 mths on working on this proj i have finally finished presenting my proj! More or less survived the critique session and well the results will be left to God! =)
Enjoy the pics!

(the IAD yr 3s!)

(dee dee)

(jin he! Wow he seem pretty enthusiastic)

(hannannnnnnnnnnn!)

(the lecturers! matthias,derek and KK!)

Andddd.............

(meee! all this were just poses! Bcoz before it came my turn there was a break! So i guess had some time to practice abit!)

(My presentation!!!!!!!!!)

(the material board i did)

DARK KNIGHT!!!
After that watch this looooooong awaited movie with gifford,russell,nazri,jem and nick! I serious loveeeeeeeeeeeeee the showw man! And it definitely live up to its hype! 5/5 stars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the plot and twists were just pure awesomeeeeeeeee! the first 5 star show i rate so far! Besidess ATONEMENT which i will give 4.5/5stars which i watched over the weekend..Anywaysss the characters in Dark Knight were woahhh! So sad there cant be a part 3 with the same actor acting as The Joker!

HEARTS AFLAME tmr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

amazing Amazing AMAZING !!!! Last few days! So much THANKS GIVING!!!!

amazing Amazing AMAZING!!!! Last few days! So much THANKS GIVING!!!!(MUST READ!!!)

Monday!
farewell TRP crusade gathering for klement before he further his studies in aussie!
I almost cldnt go for this bcoz rushing thru my proj... but somehow God provided time for me to drop by and meet up with them at this nice area at SMU where RP and Tp crusaders OLD and NEW came together to worship in the open and share our appreciation for Klement who has given so much to crusade and over the years!

(Worship!)

(klement played a song for us...2nd pic-we prayed for him)


(the guys!)

(the girls!..opss..i didnt know my head was behind)

(everyoneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! first TRP gathering in ages!)

Wednesday!
FINAL SUBMISSION of IAD PROJECT 3!!!!
Well GOD was the inspiration of IT ALL! thats what i can say!!!!





(took quite a while to pin up alll this!)

(the pins ups!)

TP CRUSADE LM!!!! AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(MUST READ!!!)

I was sooooooooooooooooo x 10000000000000 encourage today! First of all! 4 of my classmates camee today, even wanted to invite one of our lecturers!!!! And not only that even RONDA came alllll the way from NYP! and one of the most encouraging one was ASRIEL who disappear for a long time..and how he shared GOD LITERALLY led him to come today! And it all started from a song he was listening on his ipod on the way home.."May your presence go with us" by don moen... the lyrics was so powerful!



May Your Spirit lead the way
Lord to You we call
Let Your glory fall
And may Your presence go with us

If we have found favor in Your sight
Show us Your ways O Lord
Cause we want to know You
And live in Your light
For all of our days
Show us Your ways

Anyways today was one of the biggest gathering in TP crusade for quite a loooong time...nearly 30 ppl came!!! All this encouragements just fired me up even more to share to them a message veryyyy close to my heart....
At first i was pondering what to share... either something God been revealing to me? Something close to my heart? or what i felt is needed to be heard? And after praying and praying somehow during my preparations everything just came together! Thanks gladwin and wanteng for the advice before my sharing!
And wowww! Everything was AMAZING... from a very good time of icebreakers and great emceeing from naomi! to a power worship led by dyna and nick!!! And I really want to THANK GOD for the help of THE HOLY SPIRIT who empowered me so much in todays sharing. I guess this is one of the most heartfelt sharing i ever gave in my life... and somehow everything just came soo nicely... its like a short outline was enough and GOD DID THE REST! And furthermore hearing so many heartfelt sharing after from others made me even more encourageee!!! And wowwww ... looking back at alllll the past LMs... this one where i really really felt ministered even though i was sharing the message... praying and worship corporately and in the small grps was like WOAHHHH! God just filled the place with his presence! And i took a glance at the sight of the many small grps praying together in unity was like a glimpse of REVIVAL in TP! I can go on and on at God's AWESOMEEEE work!!!! But at the end of the day... i wasss so glad that many of was impacted greatly from the LORD!

belows a quick outline of my sharing...

1) IMPORTANCE OF A COMMUNITY

"Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. 25Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.Hebrews 10:23-25"

-Power of encouragement
-E.g. Sharing of devotion- What God revealed to me... (take reading the scripture as like LITERALLY GOD speaking to you!)
The difference about crusade from small grp (its a para-church where u get equipped and a place where a movement can star in ur campus,to singapore and then THE WORLD!!!)

2) PLATFORM FOR A MOVEMENT

Revival in TP (After 3 yrs here... started to see more and more grps of christians taking initiative to form prayer grps here and there! And its been even more true recently!)

The verse crusade mission and vision is based on!

The Great Commission

8Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in^[a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. Matthew 28:18-20"

Share about 3 types of ppl… consumer, club members and CHANGE MAKERS..

Preparations for revival to happen… ppl need to Step up for Christ, prayer, evangelism etc will start happening too…

At the end of the day..before all this can happened! It goes back with our individual walk with the Lord! If our walk with HIM is good! EVERYTHING will come into place so nicely... our hearts will be able to meet with God desires! =)

Challenge! DO YOU WANT TO BE THAT CHANGE-MAKER for CHRIST!

Anyway thanks everyone for all those encouragement today!!!! =)

Enjoy the pics!

(what a HAPPY MOMENT!... playing "BANG"!)

(the laughters at the amphitheatre during icebreakers...)

(jem taking a shot at klement in the final faceoff!)

(the thumb wrestling battle between glenn and jem..and THATS RONDA FACE RIGHT IN THE CENTRE! LOL!)

Gods Clay Retreat 2008!

Gods Clay Retreat 2008 (19 & 20 July)!
It was back to PRAISEHAVEN AGAIN! We made 2 history! First this forth small grp retreat for the first time was held in the middle of the year before some of them will be going overseas to study, secondly it was the first time it was held back to back in the same place! And well after 4 retreats and ever since God's clay was formed in 2002, 6 years ago! We have definitely goneeee veryyyyyyyy far! Infact i'm really proud to be in this small grp! With all the many different ministries i'm in and different Christian grps here and there... God's clay stand out the most as well its the loooooooongest grp i have been in, its the grp that we have seen each other grone thru the years from O'levels,A'levels some in poly, army and now most going on to University! We have gone thru together 3 major stages in our lives! They are the grp that saw thru the major change in my own life! And well they are one of the most talented bunch of ppl ever which has soooooo much potential to become leaders in their various roles! Ok i can go on and on! But well MOST OF ALL! This grp is my base small grp of all where i will be in for the rest of my life i hope!!! =P
Looking on in the future! We might see our kidsssss running around us too! HAHAHHA! wonder who will get married first thats what vyan said! hahah X)

Day 1 (saturday)
A bunch of us met up at Beauty world for lunch.... and where all the girls WHEN FOR A MANICURE!!!!!!!!! Madeeeee jon(benlei) and me so uncomfortable! HAHAH!

While they treated their nails and toes!..... steph,moonie,jon and me headed to praisehaven first...

Enjoy the pics.... CATCH THE LAST PHOTO ESPECIALLY!)

(steph,moonie,jon and me on our way to the seemingly "HOLY" area where all kind of christian organisation and churches there, from TTC,to like 4 kinds of methodist church and school to the SALVATION ARMY where we stayed!)

Some of the nice rooms!


(we had 4 rooms!!! About 3-4 beds per room... one of the room includes the living room with the double decker bed!)

Some "ghostly" sightings....

(The headlesss MOOster!.........OH NO! The FLOATING HEAD of the MOOster!)

(The MOOster attacking us!!!!)


(steph reliving her child hood days playing her TAMAGUCHI! OH MY!)

SNACKS!!!
Headed to rail mall got some foooooooood in fact ALOTT of foood and rented 2 DVDs at Video-EZ and ANTONEMENT and BLADES OF GLORY!


(Vyan brought DURIANS From HOME! DELICIOUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!)

(our feasttttttttttttttttttttttt in the afternoon)

Later in evening till night!

(Half stayed behind to watch the AWESOME MOVIE ANTONEMENT... and called pizzas in!)

After dinner and wash up!

30 mins of silent retreat...

And like 15 of us squeeze inside a room for Worship!...

(mel leading us all in a time of worship!)

Night....
some veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyy honest sharing with one another abt what God has been revealing to them either during the 30 mins of silent or other things they felt the need to share... finsihg everything by 1am...

Some watch BLADES of glory!.. i slept after a while..was too tired!

DAY 2 (sunday)
MORNING!!!!!!!!

(GOD showed us this amazing RAINBOW in the MIDDLE of our final sharing and goal setting for our future!... It was like a PROMISE FROM GOD for our small grp! And how he had so many PROMISE for all of us and all we need is to claim that promise for us! ... my hp was flat that time..so cldnt take more pics of it... bcoz u know what... more into the sharing... that same RAINBOW... GREWWWWW veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy largeeee! It stretched across the room! It was a an amazing sight!!!! The peace of God just instilled in me as i saw that!)

IAD project 3 FINAL STRETCH!!!!

IAD project 3 FINAL STRETCH!!!!

Working on my Perspectives drawing! Finally manage to use the 3D viz to get those curve forms for my interiors..it wasnt easy but i did it! I'm really proud of the progress i have made if you looked at all my past blog entries on my IAD proj 3! From a totally different model ever since the first one i did to now! And been developing this proj over and over again this past couple mths! If i looked back at the last 3 yrs..THIS IS THE TOUGHEST and HARDEST i ever work for a module...well maybe bcoz its THE BIGGEST PROJECT in my whole life in TP so far besides FYP!... anyway I really owe it all to the LORD! He has beeen my strength! =)

Tuesday

(Went for a 6.4km run at macritchie with ronda and sam!.. AND it RAIN LIKE MAD halfway...Ronda using a LEAF to cover herself from the rain! OH MY!!!!! a "blonde" moment! hahah!)

After that rush for YM Sunday Service grp meeting...

Wednesday

(Crusade LM! What a good refresh time! Was really ministered during the worship!)

Thursday
Rush to town in late morning to meet up with moonie,mel and ellen to plan for small grp retreat this weekend... and then back again to my work!

This is what i produced after 4 days of working on 3D Viz and Photoshop!

(The main area at level 1)

(The main Gallery area at level 2)

(View from the cafeteria at level 2)

(view towards the triple volume of level 1-3)

(The curve form seat)

(View from 3rd level)

(The overall view of the main centre area)


Alrighty! Back to work again!!!!
Looking forward to a good break on saturday where i have my Small grp retreat back at PraiseHaven again!!!! =)