Easter Sunday awaits.

Youths!
In case you have got no idea or have forgotten what's on this Sunday, it's EASTER.

Good Friday Service!
Where? Church sanctuary.
When? Tomorrow (Friday) at 8.30 pm
*There will be special presentation by our beloved youths, Ryan, Charmaine and Joel.

Sunrise Easter Service!
Where? The car park opposite of St. Barnabas.
When? Sunday morning, 6.30 - 8.30 am.
*Hip hop body worship by our Dance Ministry.
(Back to church for breakfast and then our Easter Service)

Easter Service!
When? 9.00 am
*The Bridge presentation by actors, Uncle Nick, Aunty Jane and Khai Meng.

So people, don't be lazy to get up on Sunday and be sure join the combine Sunrise Easter Service! :D

SOS Youth Camp 2011 (Part 2)

Hello again!
As promised the journey of our SOS Youth Camp 2011 will continue. If we're not mistaken, the first morning's plenary session by Ps Chris was about a stomach virus called "Obed-edom". Haha! Just kidding. But that was what he told us! "Obed-edom" sounds like a stomach virus. Check out this 2nd review:

Zer0 to HERO!

1 Chronicles 13:5-14

The passage above tells the story of the process where King David was bringing the Ark or Covenant from Judah into Jerusalem. You see, the Ark was placed on the cart and the men from the family Abinadab were the ones that drove the cart. Along the way, the cart was moving through rocky grounds in a place called Chidon and the Ark was about to fall. So a man named Uzzah wanted to save it from falling to the ground. As soon as his hands touched the Ark, God’s anger was kindled and He struck Uzzah DEAD!

            Now, if you were the other men there, how would you feel? Beyond terrified if you ask me. Well, you are not alone. Even King David was terrified. And he in the end decided to discontinue the journey. Instead, he asked Obed-edom to keep it. And that brave man kept the Ark for 3 months. The LORD blessed the whole family of Obed-edom and everything the man owned.

           

            How does this story apply to our daily lives? Pastor Chris intro-ed with a joke of Obed-edom’s name. What kind of person who has that weird name which sounds like a stomach virus or something. This guy was a nobody, bravely volunteered to keep the Ark of Covenant safe for God despite witnessing God striking someone dead just because that man touched it to save it.

            When Obed-edom decided to serve God, he became a Hero. He became a somebody. Vs 14 tells us that Obed-edom kept the Ark for 3 motnhs and that he was richly blessed by God.

            Like us, are we brave enough to serve God despite the circumstances surrounding us? Even it means taking a high risk like how Obed-edom did? Pastor Chris also pointed out to us to compare the life of King David and Obed-edom. You see, because Obed-edom took the risk and serve God to keep the Ark, his family was richly blessed. But if you look at the family background of David, he had many rebellious sons. A son who raped his half sister, a son who wants to take over his throne while he was still alive and a son that had 700 wives and 300 concubines. Isn’t that just sad?

•       So do not lose out the opportunity when it comes to you, to serve God to your max because if you miss it, the blessings that come with it will never return to you in another way.

•       God can and will use you even though you are like an “Obed-edom” and you will be blessed to be a Hero and not a zer0. 

Review done by Joanna TM
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So, remember more now? It was the 2nd day of the camp. We were supposed to have team building. They seriously had great facilities! 

Game master on swinging "bridge"

Game master on NOT swinging "bridge"

Game master ready to swing like a monkey =P

BUT IT WAS RAINING!

So what did we do? We do what every youth group does and is never missed in any camps.

 

CAPTAIN BALL!! 

Tevin passed the ball! Oh.. and it's still in the air! 

Heng Ying, people just want the ball... -.-

HY: What's your problem? I'm the one having the ball now.
MJ: What's the problem here?
Walter: Would you pass the ball to somebody already?
Jozanto: Ai yai yai!
KM: Would you hurry? My arms are getting tired. 

Ern Yi: I got it! I got it!
All other guys: Whoa... O.o

All looking HOT at the end.

That is all for now, kids! I mean folks! I mean... ugh... never mind. Part 3 coming up next!

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SOS Youth Camp 2011

I know, I know. You guys must be thinking this:

1. Why now only post?
2. That was like ages ago, man!
3. There was a camp?

Well I hope the last question won't pop up in any of your mind because there WAS a camp! First of all, we wanna apologize for the 1 month + delay of this post. We youths are quite busy people too. But on the brighter side, this post is a reminder of what we have learned in the camp, that we should be CHAMPS, it's OK to be an "Obed-Edom", our faith should be like the lady who bled for 12 years. Here's the 1st review. 

Plenary sessions with Ps Chris Long:

The Making of A Champion!

              As shared by Pastor Christopher Long, Esau despised this firstborn inheritance by exchanging it for a bowl of food. Jacob was a real trickster (deceiver). The scriptures showed us how Jacob deceived Esau twice to take his birthright from him. Because of this, Esau purposed to kill his younger brother, Jacob. Thus Jacob escaped Esau and flew to stay with his uncle, Laban for twenty years.

             20 years later, Jacob returned to the land of his grandfather, as told by God. And as Jacob & his family were on their way back to Canaan, God appeared to Jacob in a very special away and changed Jacob's name.
             In Genesis 32: It states that Jacob wrestled with a man till daybreak. And when the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. The man said: Let me go, for it is daybreak. But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go until you bless me". The man asked him,
“What is your name?"
"Jacob," he answered.
Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome."

           This story left a deep impression to me. Why did God wrestled with Jacob? Because God wanted Jacob to recognize his weakness before Him.God wanted Jacob to know that all his strength & wisdom comes from God alone! God had wonderful plans for Jacob, but God's best blessings can only come to those who knows that they cannot please God is their own strength.

WHY DID GOD CHOSE A DECEIVER LIKE JACOB AND MAKE HIM THE FATHER OF THE NATION WHICH WOULD BRING THE REDEEMER INTO THE WORLD?

1 Corinthians 1: 27-29   God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things, and the things that are not, to nullify (invalidate) the things that are, so that no one may boast before Him.

HOW ABOUT US?

Have we recognized our inability to please God?

1 Peter 5: 5-6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that He may life you in due time.

Review done by Charis Tan

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That is the review of the 1st plenary session with Ps Chris. Hope your memories are refreshed. And if that still doesn't ring a bell. I hope these pictures do!

Campers' nametags

In the bus ON the way to the campsite

Our beloved photographer

'The Girls"...

Yeap... These are only a few. More reviews will be up soon. We promise! And guys, remember our BGR session? Girls separate, guys separate. You wanna know what we girls talked about? Hehe... 

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