Mia here.happy birthday daniel!
God heard our pleas for good weather. It started out awfully rainy in the afternoon, but the sun came out after that.CE playing complicated catching! (:
I forced the people who died early in the game to take embarrassing photos. Funny how Robot looks very natural here.
I can't say the same about my shepherd though... Haha.
Someone looks so ahpek here while playing the game..
Haha. Tug of war - which failed thanks to the lousy rope we used!
Photowhoring by the sea. (: The sky is a gorgeous shade of blue! Perfect for a backdrop.That's the guys trying to cart Leonzy off into the sea. Tsk tsk.
Poor thing. I'll never forget how he was tossed into the water, and he stood up triumphantly cause he wasn't really that wet. Seconds later, he was pushed deeper in and of course, got drenched.
Yay after all the games! (:
Fungmin and I with the very fortunate chicken wings who had the privilege of being massaged by us.
Our UL exercising his firelighting skills back from his scouting days... (He really did revive the fire quite a bit.)
The BBQ bit was fun. People contributing in their various ways - maintaining the fire, last minute buying of certain things, preparing the food, cooking and of course, eating! I am pleased to announce that we finished up all our food! There was no wastage. (:
Oh, and here are some ghostly pictures that Xiang produced! Ehhh, not that spooky but a good attempt la. Xiang, you seriously need longer hair to be creepier.
Presenting to you the four event organizers! (: We had a fun time working together, discussing stuff and doing the food shopping. Pat on the back and well done for slogging so hard.As you can already tell, Leonzy was incredibly reluctant to pose for the photo. -__-'' We had to FORCE him to stand there with the monkey. Haha. But aren't the words on the monkeys quite apt?
the centralite at 10:14 PM
This is Mia here. Trust me, I am not as picky a photographer as Daniel makes me out to be. -__-'' I am largely limited by my laupok camera (captured images are blurred under dim lighting) and my shaky hands.caregroup!Nice banner, Central C!
Haha. The fake snow. Check out everyone covering their nose/mouth in this picture.
The ULs. It was all so sweeeeeeet.
The sushi cake.
That saliva song is seriously stuck in my head even till now.
Praying for the birthday boy.
For the many things that you've done for us (big and small), thank you for being a leader that we all love and deeply respect.
Since I'm from Central E, I might as well highlight the people behind the decorations in America Room. (: Don't you think CE did a great job?
For more photos, check out our Flickr account in the reminisce section.
the centralite at 6:20 PM
Leadership Conference - Bangkok from 6th to 8th Nov 2006
hello! as promised its the post on what happens during central B's unit cg! we are currently having unit cg till the dec camp cos we want to build relationship between the people in the unit as well as to cultivate a momentum of evangelism..glad to say that we have succeeded in doing so!! heh..we usually have our cg at the basement of esplanade, u know where all the skaters are..so sometimes those skaters are REALLY irritating but when we pray for them to go away, they really do!! i tink god has been really good in keeping that place relatively empty when we are having our cg..i mean, haf u been there on busy days? its MADNESS! u cant haf cg at all there..
this shows the guys playing soccer, actually i shld say practising soccer tricks before cg starts..it usually happens u know..give the guys a ball and u can keep them entertain for HOURS..the gurls usually have roles, or they sit down and chat before cg starts..u wouldnt want to join in with the guys and their rough playing..we also had a fairfield new believer down for cg and her name was RENTING! she came with this cresent girl called cleo..we had fun having them in cg!our worship leader and guitarist for the day! yk and june respectively shown here as they practice for worship later on.
this shows jarvin doing forfeit cos he won the game..how sad..LOL we played poison ball and gosh we had to run..
we also celebrated grace's bday that day and we tot of a way to surprise her..so it goes like this, there are two teams for this game..each team has to choose one to be blindfolded..the rest of the teammates had to direct the one blindfolded to a place and write JESUS ROCKS on a piece of paper..BUT of course it was juz a facade..we juz wanted grace to walk there and there would be a cake! and we can sing the happy birthday song and she would get surprised..haha i was afraid that she would know cos there were some suspicious looking things that went on..
so heres the bday gurl with her cake! haha im glad things work out fine and we wana wish grace a very happy birthday and continue growing a lot a lot in god! and central b would be praying for fairfield to break 20!
had worship, blessings and holy communion and finally we had teaching! by jem and jarvin so this is one of our 2 teachers who taught the whole grp the last 3 letters of GOD'S AIM..which was Abstianence, Intercessory and Ministerying in worship..
intently coping down notes..haha..
after cg the DTY had our usual evaluation of how cg went..and im glad to say that the quality and fun-factor of our cg has been steadily improving!! thanks for all the hard work guys!
After cg, central b did wat we did the best - strategic inaction!! which meant that we hang out with one another talk and sing songs..haha cg ended at 4 but we hung ard till 730..we rock! ended up at the esplanade at playing bridge..
actually there were more pictures but dunno wats wrong with blogger and im lazy to upload more pics for the like fifth time so im juz gonna end here..CENTRAL B LOVES GOD! and god loves us too :D
the centralite at 2:41 AM
kooooool
Hello Everyone!!
I'm Jie Hui!! Haa.. Suppose to have blogged this a long time ago but was waiting for someone to send me the photos 1st.. yupx.. Finally received it today.
We reached there one day early to shop. Hate shopping. Its more tiring then the actual conference.
The Conference was on A Dominion Church which basically talks about how we influence people from on top and bring God closer to the world. If anyone is interested about this topic, dun look for me but stay in church long enough for them to go through this series one day k? hahaz... jst kidding...
LC is really more about the teachings. I mean it is great. But the really great idea about LC is to be able to live, eat, learn, share with all the Leaders and pastors from all around the world. Me, dk, Dewen and bk had the privilege of playing soccer with Pastor PN and pastors from all over the world. These pastors who lead thousands and thousands of people do not float, windwalk or blink when they play soccer!! They run!! Haa... just shows that they are really very simple people doing extraordinary things for God. It was a great experience to play soccer with them.
I had the opportunity to eat breakfast with pastor yong yud, a 29 year old pastor from bangkok. He is quite good looking with a very pretty wife. Ha.. God blesses and favors those who serve him! Also had meals with pastor golf, Pastor Joshua who shared with me how God opened doors for him to go to India to plant a church there next year. I'm deeply humbled and encouraged by all their stories. Talking about India, there was this brother Earnest who shared a testimony during LC about how he leads 1000 churches, 5000 orphans in his orphanages, owns TV stations and radio stations for God in India. A lot of the orphans actually become pastors and servants of God when they grow up. The scale or multitude of this brother's work bears testimony that the church is indeed growing from glory to glory.
A little about the Hope Church planting movement now. Next year, we're planting our first seed church in the Middle East. It'll be the key to winning the continent for Jesus. Hope church Singapore is currently active in South America, North America and South Africa. We have three seed churches in South America namely Peru, Chile and Ecuador!! Do pray for them!! Our mother chruch is doing great things in thailand as well. Recently one of our hope bangkok pastors passed away and because he was quite influential and impacted the community, alot of high level officials including the princess of thailand, the advisors to the king, and many army generals attended the funeral service in which Pastor PN preached to all these people about God. In another event, a special speaker Rev Jacobs prophersized that we are going to have our own Hope Bank!! and people from all over the world is going to study its model!!
The idea of leaders from all over the world coming together to worship God, learn from the Word of God, live and eat together and relax together is simply amazing. I've learned so much, seen so much and felt so much... Simply amazing! See it for youselves ya?!?
I came back refreshed and with a new mandate from God about the NS Ministry. Let's go all out for 1000!!!Inside the conference hallPastor Pakrit and Me (He leads the Europe Continent)
the centralite at 12:36 AM
HELLO! its central B's turn to blog this week..we started off the week with our usual DTY meeting today! the DTY meeting consists of the pillars of central b and we usually have it at kap..im very proud of my DTY members cos they put in a lot of effort to build up the whole unit..feel super blessed that god has put all of us in the same team where we can laugh at one another and do life together..now for those who want to knw wat DTY stands for..ask any of these ppl:
jinqi
jarvin
sinyee
yk
grace
june
dan
jeremiah
daniel
so we had our meeting today at kap where we planned cg and shared testimonies on how god has blessed us..we learnt from the teaching titled, characteristics of people who will be greatly anointed..which was taught by me (jinqi)..anyone can be anointed by god if they are willing to be used by god..lets be persistant in praying for god to use us and let us all work diligently to win the world for jesus! cos our most wonderful god is SO AMAZING that u cant help but wan ppl to come and share his love rite?! haha..work as tho everything depended on you and trust god to work his miracles :D
after the meeting we went to cold storage and bought a whole honey glazed chicken and bacon sticks and ate while sitting along the steps leading down from Macdonalds..that was where we decided to spend the day with one another playing mahjong at jarvin's house..off we went with happy faces knowing that today would another day of fun and laughter with one another..
us outside cold storage and jarvin wanted to act koooool haha..im telling you central b LOVES food cos we are always eating..NOT ONLY ME OK..
yes this part of the DTY group..june and grace had to go off to town, daniel had to study and dan is in BMT :( but oh well..we still love them very very much..took this foto in jarvin's mom's closet cos we wanted to take a grp foto..we all squeezed into that closet and u can see from our happy and smiley faces that we are super happy..haha..well theres a story behind it, but i will go into that later..
at the bus stop waiting for 74 to go to jarvin's place..yk is shy to take foto..he will be hiding for most of the fotos below so see if u can spot him k!
Blk 18 at dover road!! we haf reached our destination!!
A picture of the happy host in the lift..OH YES! lemme tell u abt the scary lift! i tink its gonna spoil soon..we went in and pressed the 30th floor button..den out of nowhere the lift decided to stop at the 10th floor..we were wondering y the lift suddenly stopped when we realise that the lift didnt exactly reached the floor level, which meant to say that abt 1/8 of the door was like, covered with a wall..we thought that the lift was going to drop! after it closed its door, the lift went crept up the 30th floor and it was a sigh of relief when we were onto solid ground..
jarvin has a lot of fishes in his house..and yes fishes is the correct word cos its fishes if u haf different species of fish but juz fish if u haf a lot of the same species of fish..
the happy host's room and no they arent sleeping but hiding..
hahah see i told u yk was good at hiding..i bet u cant spot him so ive decided to point out exactly where he is..yes thats a sofa in jarvin's room..haha i wan one too!
yeah and we finally settled down to do wat we were suppsoed to do in the first place, which is to play mahjong..
jeremiah didnt know how to play so he and i were on the same team and i taught him the basics of mahjong..they all look super intense..and i was the ultimate loser :( and jarvin didnt feed mi a lot..so i lost! hmpf..
finally jem decided that mahjong was a retarded game for him and went off to play dota instead..he looks much happier there! haha and he played 2 games and owned in both games, after that telling us how sian he was cos he owned..
ok now here comes the story part..it was abt 8pm and suddenly someone, whom i forgot who, suggested that we went jogging..i was like are u all mad?! how late already..and my parents are coming to fetch me..but they were mad! and they wanted to run from his place, which was at dover road nxt to SP all the way to clementi to eat dinner..all in the name of FELLOWSHIP..sighs, so i agreed but i haven ran in like 3 years? was super scared that i would die along the way but oh well..juz try la! but i had a condition..which was that we had to take a nice pic of us without anyone hiding and that was when we proceeded to the mirror to take our pic..
an unsuccessful attempt where we all look ok but jem was cut out!
i didnt take pics of us running cos i didnt wan to bring my fone along..so mah fan! and u know wat?! sinyee and i managed to jog all the way without resting at all!!!!! feel super accomplished!! thanks to the guys for running behind us and pacing us and being super duper good company as we jog..the feeling of jogging with ppl whom u love is really oh so fantastic..but prob u wun mind doing anything if its doing it together with close frens..ate dinner at clementi and walked back to the house, joking and talking as we walked back..
DTY meeting rocked! wait till u see caregroup on thurs..HAHA to be continued.......
signing off - jinqi :D
the centralite at 11:42 PM