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What a day!

Was kinda surprise when I reached home before 10pm tonight- a Saturday's night.

My day started off with much anxiety, expectation, anticipation and excitement this morning towards the turn-up for I.F. and the conversion. So stirred up within me that I woke up pretty early to head for Nexus to pray.

Thank you Jesus! Shirley preached with her heart and lots received Jesus today! The sermon was definitely not easy for Shirls given what she gotta go through since yesterday. Couldn't contain my tears (out of admiration and respect) when I went to her to affirm her labour...

NE Sports Day went great too! The different units had a great time of trashing out each other in the different sports i.e. soccer, basketball and captain's ball. After that was time great dinner among the people and prize presentation!

Winners are:
Soccer: NEB
Basketball: NEA
Captain's Ball: NED (The girls dominated this game since all guys knew they won't stand a chance: "hand-off" policy ouch!)

Though NEC didn't win in the end (they were just so close in winning for basketball), I gotta truly applaud them for their teamwork and determination! All in all, everyone is a winner! Ok this sounds kinda chessy but well...

Oh I took time to pamper myself upon reaching home... (Talk about self-care!)

Introducing:

St. Ives Apricot Scrub!

Description: Over the centuries, the Swiss have developed and perfected their secrets for naturally beautiful skin. Gently exfoliates for a deep clean, removing dull skin cells to instantly reveal noticeably smooth, radiant skin.

Ahhh....

(Can anyone send me photos on NE Sports Day? I'll be truly grateful! :D)

How to be an encourager!

This was a impromptu short sharing that I shared with the NE CLs last Saturday through a leading by the Holy Spirit I guess... Thought it can be useful for some of us so here it goes!

Introduction:

Serving in the Kingdom is one of the most exciting and rewarding experience you can have in life, however sometimes challenges may come on its way and attempt to bring down the morale and determination of the Kingdom workers. As leaders, shepherds and Christians, we ought to learn in how to become effective encourager. God can use us to shine light upon others' life when they are walking through their darkest valley.

1) Start with yourself (especially if you are a co-partner affected by the challenges faced)

- Many people whine and grumble at the face of challenging situations but not many people will choose to attempt in understanding God's intention in the persisting circumstance- take time to think and try to understand why would God allow such situations in your life. How?

- Bible says that we can give thanks to God in all circumstance: Ask yourself- What can I give thanks to God for in this situation? If you are able to answer this, perhaps you can see clearly God's intention for your life. (E.g. for really bad situations- at least I learnt something new today which I can apply the next time when such similar situations arise again)

- Claim God's promises. My full conviction is that God's Word will stand true and fulfills itself and all God's promises are 'Yes' and 'Amen'. The disappointing results you see right now do not justify God's Word and all that is to come.

- Have a vision of preferred future- what you think God can do in your life, in others' lives and in your surrounding situations- Have that hope and belief that will lift your spirit up!

- Lastly, make the DECISION to trust and believe for greater things ahead in God

2) Spread it to others

- Now that you are encouraged yourself, you are already to spread this hope for the future in others' lives too!

- Never start off by preaching- take time to listen and understand what they are or have been going through- their feelings, thoughts and desires; their disappointment, concerns and struggles. Empathize. Reflect their inner happenings.

- Discouraged people are normally pessimistic and have the "Chicken Little" syndrome- The World is Falling!!! As a by-stander you can see things in a more objective manner- point out to them what you see differently- magnify the hopes in the current situations and affirm the strengths you see in this individual that you are trying to encourage

- This can be a great asset and bonus of your attempt to encourage others: indicate that you understand them, that you went through something similar to their current experience and how you resolve and overcome the earlier challenges or simply the lessons which you learned from what you went through

- If you don't have such similar experience, you can honestly share about it and admit that you may not understand exactly what they are going through but certainly you are here to understand what's going on and that you are really to give any form of support for this person to the best of your ability and according to the needs (not wants) of this person

- Show them the possibility and hopes behind the situations and affirm their strengths

- Help them to claim promises from the Word- an anchor verse or something. Offer an prayer on the spot for them. Pray for them constantly in your personal time too.

- Action plan! Come up with an initial contract with this person. Some decisions they have to make such as deciding to trust God, to believe in seeing the ideal results in His appointed timing and to continue in obedience towards God. Make such action plans as concrete as possible.

- Lastly, follow-up with this person. Assure them that we are all in this together in the change/growth/moulding process. Meet/ call them up few days later to find out how they are doing and see if there's any improvements. What works? Continue that. What didn't work? How can things be done differently to see desired changes.

Conclusion:

We must impart godly faith and belief to those around or under us.
3 seconds rule- be discourage for 3 seconds and MOVE ON!
Discouragement is one of the greatest weapon the devil use to distract us- do be foolish and fall into his trap- Be wise and follow God in TRUST and OBEDIENCE!

Listening: Dennis nagging at me to pass his laptop back to him!

Eelee's NE Mighty Men

Stumbled across this pic through someone's blog...

Oh man those were the days when we were the coreteam under Eelee!


Where are they now?

Eelee- Church planting in Chile, South America

Jessie- Serving in Tertiary ministry

Wynnie- Serving in Adults ministry

Junhuang- Serving in Adults ministry

Daniel Leow- Leading YWAM

Debbie- Leading NE JC group

Peter- CL in Army group

Freedy- UL in Youth Northeast (part-time), Chairperson of BGT Movement aka Bully Gideon's Time (full-time)

Me- Leading Northeast currently but moving over soon to SPCA due to cruelty received for the past few years...

It's such a good thing to know all everyone of us are still loving Jesus and serving Him faithfully, being able to see how we serve from young till older and oldest...

Wanna have such experience too? Here's your best chance!

How?
Step 1: Invite your friends and schoolmates to I.F. part 2!
Step 2: Pray and share Jesus with them
Step 3: They receive Jesus!
Step 4: They commit to the church and start to grow
Step 5: They begin to serve God fervently together with you!
Step 6: Enjoy the moment and start counting down till down of you meet Jesus face to face! ;)

Freaky!

Matthias just sent me this photo that freaked me out! God knows how this pic fell into his hands... I wonder how many more people actually have some of my ugliest past photos in their hands?!?!?!

Ya ppl... that's me when I was in Secondary 4... :X
The guy in white next to me is Leow Guo An aka Daniel Leow (Daniel don't kill me!)
The next one is Tay Yu Xiang aka Jon Tay and besides him is Jeremy Choo (church's keyboardist)!

See what age does to you, especially when you don't excerise regularly... :(

Ok anyway I'm trying to run nowadays lah so ppl stop bugging me!

Listening: My heart pumping with anxiety and excitement for I.F. confirmation...
(Let us be spiritual desperado! Let there be lots and lots of spiritual Jacobs in NE!)

A Moment Like This

Guess what people, I'm wearing my sporting attire. Wearing my sports shoe later.

In just about 5 minutes time I will be out of my house jogging!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dennis just sent me an email on someone who slimmed down completely... Man you should see the difference...

So here I go people... A moment like this!

Listening: My heart telling me "no" and my mind telling me "yes"

Invite your friends- 21st and 28th July!

A Y-Hope's Production- I.F.
http://www.yhope-if.blogspot.com/

Coming to an end of my placement!

For those of you who don't know, I have been spending my summer holiday doing my attachment as a social work intern since May. My placement will officially ends this coming Saturday 14th July though I'll still be going back to my agency to finish the required 10 pages essay and to complete the program that I was involved in. :X

Ok for those of you who are curious, here's some background for my attachment:

Where did I worked at?

Care Corner Family Service Centre (Queenstown)

What are some of the things I did there?

1) Helping those in financial needs

2) Counselling

3) Working with youth offenders through Guidance Program

What do I like about this my attachment?

1) Food! (Love the Yong Tau Foo at the hawker centre here)

2) The staffs (They're real nice people)

3) My supervisor (She's a serving Christian too- taught and invested in me lots both as a Christian and as a social worker)

4) Expansion of my worldview (Grown so much even as I was exposed to working with different people coming from the various strata of society)

5) Clearer vision and stronger conviction of what God wants to do through me

6) Personal growth as a person through exploring my strengths and weaknesses

Photos time!

My fellow social work intern- Amanda (grey) and Cheryl (green)- Thanks for the friendship and all the support during our few months working together! =)

Oh btw the graph behind us are basically what our supervisors drew for us in terms of our growth during these few months. See the graph behind me! I've grown haha...

Photo with our supervisors- Each supervisor sat infront of their intern

Photo with all the staffs!

Great way to outreach to our friends.

Making free bookmarks for them and invite them for the upcoming ESS!

Can do it for your beloved sheeps or shepherds too! ;)

Here's how:

WHAT DO I GET?

One 300dpi 50x120mm (2"x4.7") personalised FRIENDMARK design with unique PROJECT FRIENDMARK number that you can print or send for printing.
One downsized version for use on personal website or email.
Your FRIENDMARK will be featured on this website as part of the growing collection.


WHAT CAN I DO WITH THE FRIENDMARK DESIGN?

Print it out on your preferred type of paper yourself, write a note on the back, cut it out and have it laminated before passing to your friend.
Send it to a printer / photolab to have it processed for better quality.
In fact, you are encouraged to use it in as many creative ways as you can - print it on a shirt, etc!

HOW DO I ORDER?

You are required to have a working email address in order for the order to be processed (for the FRIENDMARK to be sent to you). Send an email to order@projectfriendmarked.com with the following details:

- The name that is to appear in the "From" portion
- The name of your friend that is to appear on the FriendMark
- A note written to your friend that will appear on the FriendMark (approximately 50 words)
- An attachment of a high resolution photo of your friend (usually those taken with digital cameras will do) - this is important so that the finished product will appear sharp and not pixelated... if the photo consists of more than one face - do identify which is/are the friend/s you're making the FriendMark for!
- You will receive a confirmation email within 2 days of your email submission.

Click here:

Holy Discontent

Preparing my lesson for tomorrow's NE DCTM right now.

Gonna talk about Holy Discontent.

So many things in my mind now... So many convictions and yearnings!

All Christians will come to an end of our life one day no matter how
(unless Jesus comes back in which we still have to account for our life)

Only 2 kind of Christians remain at the end of the day:
1) Christians who wasted their entire life walking in spiritual circle-
uncommitted, lack of vision, emotional roller coaster, unstable, unwise, insensible

2) Christians who lived a purposeful living for in Him:
committed, visionary, stable, convicted, obedient, Holy Discontented

Who do you want to be? For me, I've chose to be the 2nd kind of Christian.
Only 1 life it soon will pass, only what's done for Christ will last.