There's really so much to blog about this conference!
Well I hope to summarized the 3 days at this Spiritual-refreshing conference where God impressed on my heart 2 things to take back which i will share at the end of this post! SO READ ON! =)
Day 1 (Friday) 8am!
The bus journey from Newton to Pulai Springs Resort in JB...
(the bus journey seem pretty fast! Like only abt an 1 hr plus from singapore!)
Reached at 1030 am SHARP...
(The tent place was where our meetings were all held! It really seem like the old testament times where Moses and the people gathered at the TENT OF THE MEETING and where the FIRE from GOD CAME!!! What a sacred place this area was! haha)
The nice 5 star resort...
(The wonderful resort with the niceee view from our SUITE! )
(THE SUITE! WE EVEN HAD KITCHEN, LIVING ROOM and 3 BEDROOMs! Really had a cool bunch of people rooming with... gladwin,adriel,isaac,glenn and kheng!)
First plenary session-
TRAC President- Rev Wee Boon Hup on Relentless Leadership-Disciple 1
Powerful message from the WORD of GOD...
Taking back points...
We should CONTINUE(Abide) in the WORD of GOD!..continue- as in not only studying it, but continue doing it!
Many people wld say they have heard the same message many times, but its not abt just hearing and knowing...its abt DOING and OBEYING IT!
"But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves." James 1:22(NKJV)
TEAM BUILDING GAMES!
(my lovely Group 8!... from back...me,Scott,Natalie,Esther(Assistant Mentor),Halim(mentor),Ben Lim, Yipeng..front row... Daena,Ivee,Sarah and Annabel..
i'm so going to miss this people! Somehow despite very little times meeting up as a grp besides lunch and grp times... there really was some chemistry going on with us! We manage to make that portable table u see infront!)
(Pastor Kay huat testing our table! AND IS SOLID!!!!... we won 4th place out of the 22 grps there!)
Evening Session- Senior Pastor Yang Tuck Yoong (Cornerstone Church)
Renewing the WESLEYAN flame...
Heard about this this pastor even before he spoke today, he really has a anointed gift in preaching! Immediately when he went on to speak... one can really SEE THE FIRE in him!
He went out preaching with GREAT PASSION and FIRE for our LORD... telling us about Renewing the WESLEYAN FLAME... He went on to share about how blessed we are as methodist to have this strong heritage of John Wesley story of how he had the flame ignited in him too!
Sermon base on this verses...
"15 Now as the people were in expectation, and all reasoned in their hearts about John, whether he was the Christ or not, 16 John answered, saying to all, “I indeed baptize you with water; but One mightier than I is coming, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire." John 3:15-16
And certainly we should KEEP that fire in us! It needs to be FED! =)
During the altar call, that fire came to all the leaders in different ways! I certainly was fired up when the Holy Spirit just came upon me! An experience had to explain! And i was so encourage hearing all those testimonies of how God spoke to each of us...
At night back in our room... the 6 of us guys had a very nice time sharing our experience with GOD that day! What a nice time to end the night =)...
"side note...his FIRE!!! message became a favorite catch phrase for all the leaders at this conference after that very night! HAHHA... remind me of the Rev james singh "FIRE" message too!!! FIRE! =)"
DAY 2 (saturday)
Morning prayer at 6.30am!!!!
It was amazing to see all the leaders coming down so early in the morning as we start the day "AT THE TENT OF MEETING"... GOD's presence was certainly with us! What a way to start the second day!
Second plenary session-
TRAC President- Rev Wee Boon Hup on Relentless Leadership-Disciple 2
Another powerful message from the WORD...
LOVE our neighbour! That sums up the whole thing!
A point that strike me a lot.. " The Best place to serve is Where God wants you to be"
That was where i was praying and still seeing where God wants me to be.... in the market place or in full time....... still waiting on the Lord for this answer....
Break time!
(andrew,caleb and david...all so tired and sleepy!)
After break...
Message on going Full time by Pastor Bernard Chao... A really good message!
"we are all Full time ministers"... God's purpose for us is to GLORIFY HIM(its not for God to make us important)
Workshops timeee...
Workshop 1...
LIVING A LIFE OF CEASELESS PRAYER by Mrs Lai-Kheng Pousson(special assistant from LOVE Singapore)
I really enjoyed her session, she shared many technical terms of prayer.. but what really strike me the most was her powerful testimonies.....She shared how she had cultivate this habit of like "online time with GOD everyday"..e.g. GOD can speak to her at any time of the day and how He God can use her mightily in many ways from her daily prayers (conversations) with Him. I guess this is the kind of sensitiveness to the Spirit that she had with God. Its like your on MSN online everyday with God!
Workshop 2...(gym workshop)
heee.... the guys in my room... had other plans =P.... gladwin (dream and visions time aka sleeping)... adriel,isaac,kheng and me decided to sneak out(literally sneak) to the gym! hahha! Well we are keeping fit for GOD too! Anyway had a good time of fellowship and refreshment!)
After dinnner....
(The nice golf course... Kheng and Isaac DANCING! hahha!)
(some of the ym leaders! waiting before the final night)
(the trackers video.... kheng is in this pic before the final session!)
Pastor Rupert Lim also from cornerstone church...shared the last message for the night...interesting style of preaching...
And end of with a long time of ministering at the end of today... many were touch by the Holy spirit!
Wesley YM camhoring!
(Some of the Crosstrainer leaders at YMLC!)
(The Wesley YM leaders!)
(The Wesley YM leaders!)
(All The Wesley Methodist Church leaders!)
Wesley Ym party in our room! hahah!
Some of the other leaders from ym came to our room where we had a nice time playing POLAR BEAR! hahah! it was veryyyyyyyy fun! Its hard playing with adriel who is an ex-judge and lawyer...he can tell whether a person is lying lor! hahha...and something amusing the next day, he taught his "Old ymlc grp" on the polar bear game! So funny seeing the oldest leaders there playing it during lunch time!
(the amazing polar bear game)
(I manage to get kheng to reveal to me the other polarbear!...ironically he was the other polar bear too...so i tried to save him.. but failed too..bcoz he was sooo nervous! )
(abt 9 of us ate this SUPER DUPER nice NASI GORENG KAMPUNG..after waiting more than 2 hrs from room service to come!)
We all slept very late... only had like 3 hrs plus of sleep...
Day 3(sunday)
Second plenary session-
TRAC President- Rev Wee Boon Hup on Relentless Leadership-Disciple 3
Sumary of 3 days sermon on
Marks of a disciple..
1. Follows Jesus
2. Continues in the Word
3.Has forsaken all and put Christ above all
4. Loves one another
5. Bears much fruit
6. Makes disciples
7. Operates in the power of the Holy Spirit
After that had Lay-leaders message by Mrs patricia khoo from pentecost methodist...
FINAL Lunch and grp discussion with my lovely grp!
Only during the sharing time was where GOD impress on my heart on what to share to the others abt the entire conference and what next..... He clearly told me that... with the nicely laid out sermons..of STRONG FOCUS on the WORD in the morning sessions...and than Powerful SPIRIT led and FIRE sermons at night, what a great combination!
So that laid to my final taking home points... God revealed this to me..... "is to CONTINUE in the WORD of GOD (be rooted in it well) and be on FIRE for the LORD!"
Final communion service...
AND home sweet home!
What a refresh conference! =)
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