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REVIVAL

2007-07-06T23:17:00.000+08:00

CENTRAL !
Let's revive the blog, update it & restructure it as well ! :)

jc prayermeet

2007-05-05T22:13:00.000+08:00

A big hello from the JC ministry! We had our unit prayermeet in America Room after service on Saturday.

The unit playing some games before prayermeet actually began. (: You see, JC people know how to have fun!

The testimony by Jiexun and Kenneth. It was really heartwarming to hear their story and how God is truly in the centre of their friendship!

Some of the audience during the testimony. (It was really funny to listen to them, actually.)

Then the worship and praying began.

Maybe we all took a long time to warm up and focus on God at first, but it didn't matter. That's because the moment our hearts became still and we listened, God moved.

What a turnaround.

God's word for the evening was definitely about faith and having peace in Him. We gave all our burdens in exchange for rest in His arms.

It's been a while since you've heard from CE on this blog. (: So allow the CE blogger to enlighten you on what's been happening in our unit.

There's been some restructuring lately, and the changes will take place with effect from next week. So pray for us and with us that God will grow us in both quality and quantity. And that we will remain united in vision as well.

And I heard Central D had their prayermeet too? (:

CentralA CG on Good Friday! :D

2007-04-15T23:37:00.000+08:00

HELLO! :)
this is supposed to be up one week ago but i had some delays, so am really sorry about that!!
and there are quite a lot of missing photos which i was unable to get, so i will edit this when i finally received them.
the reason why i decided to post this first cause it is really overdued.
look at the title: Good Friday.
REALLY SORRY !! :(

anyway, now update you about our happening group! :D
unfortunately we didn't take any photos during Central Steamboat Gathering.
but we only had 5 people present cause Central A is a a group of very busy as well as very obedient people.
busy- long hours of CCA, SYF practise(or is it practice? HAHAH)...
obedient- parents don't allow to go cause too late..

however, although we had only 5 people, we had loads of funn eating don't we? :D
and Central A loves eating, especially fruits!
we went crazy, chionging to get watermelon when we saw some other random people eating watermelon, HAHA.
and when we reach the fruit place, no more watermelons left..
WAH, BIG DISAPPOINTMENT PLEASE.
BUT we got a second helping of (honeydew?) melons. :D

anyway, back to my focus on blogging today and that is,
our FUN-FILLED combined care group on Good Friday! :D

we met at Harbourfront MRT at 11am, but some of us are rather late..
so we only started games at around 12+, HAHAH.

it was an "Amazing Race" type of race, but much more relaxed cause the time limit was very long, haha.
we were split into 2 groups.
the first group consisting of Nicole, Szemin and Hannah,
and the second being Angelina, Jing Er, Sharlene and myself.

we had several stations, first station being where we were supposed to eat our lunch/brunch.
we were given clues to find out where we are supposed to eat.
let's see if you can guess them, HAHA. :P

first group's clue: Democratic Eating Place
second group's clue: Meet Zhang Ziyi and Daniel Wu at...?

guess! :D
i will not tell you the answers till the end of the post. AHAHA.
and there were other several stations where we were given clues to the place where we had to complete a certain task.

sorry for being really biased, but since i was from the second group, i shall go by the order of the stations which we went to(the stations are in different order for the two groups), as well as how the game went by in our group.

second station: the chinese characters of "ai sheng shi di".
we were rather stumped. haha.
so we chiong-ed to the directory to look, and hey, it wasn't that bad, we figured it out!
let's see if you can get it right. ;D
our task was to take a picture of something bearing the date of "7th April".

-supposedly the photo of the something which i was not able to get-

and ON to our third station!
it was an anagram of "ovvi tram".
and we figured it out after a few minutes, and rushed over the the place and did our task of buying some cereals, and for the other group, milk. :)
continue guessing the clues!

over to fourth station.
WAH, this is the killer station which we were really really stumped.
"Richest Place On Earth"
even after rushing over to the directory once again, we didn't get the clue right till some time later.
and we went over to the "Richest Place On Earth" and did our task of..

-supposed to be photos of whatever we had taken-

then we received the next clue, which is "Peaceful Water Is Land".
and our dear Sharlene was really smart to join "Is" and "Land" together to form the word Island! :) that's a really Big clue, you should know where was the place is, haha.
and so we rushed over, and ohmygoodness, saw group one coming out. afraid that we were lagging behind, we quickly fulfilled our task:

-supposed to be a group two's photo of whatever we were supposed to do-

and,

-supposed to be group one's photo of whatever we had to do-

our next clue was "Two Yen", yen being the Japanese currency. we managed to figure it out after a few minutes of panick, haha!
we completed our task of:

-yes, another supposed to be photo of us doing the task-

our final clue was, very easy, i think you'll know it once you hear it just like us, HAHAH. :P
the chinese characters, "Wo Men Shi Wan Ju".
by now, we were so afraid that we're lagging behind that we ran to the final station,
only to see the other group walking out of the place.
our faces because like this: O_O
and we rushed to complete our task of picking out something symbolising us and take a photo with it.
at that time, angelina had left our group already, to help the CG planners with something.
so here are the photos:

-which again, i did not manage to get :(-

after completing the final task, we sprinted, and yes, i really mean sprint, towards the ending point of the game:
Harbourfront Mrt Station's UOB ATM machine, haha.

AND WE WON!
HURRAY, GROUP TWO WON! :D
(haha, sorry i am really biased..)
our prize was a few Kinder Bueno. :)

then we waited for the game masters and the other group to come back.
then together we went up to the roof top where we had something like a picnic! :D
cereals + milk (which explains why we had to buy cereals and the other group, milk) and whatever snacks we had brought from home. :)

and the view was so beautiful!

After our "picnic", we decided to go with our plans of going to Sentosa despite the limited time left.

Off we went!
and when we reach there, we took the Sentosa buses to our destination of Tanjong Beach as it is usually the one with least people cause it's too far in, HAHA.
Hey, it's true!
Central Outing was held there last year as well!

On the bus!

and another photo!

after reaching the stop, we walked and walked and walked and we reached our destination!
and here comes our slogan since CG Madness-
HURRAY FOR CENTRAL A; GEEKY HEROES(in this photo, it's Ultraman) FOR JESUS!

okay,a proper Central A photo. :)

then we had a good time of worship by the sea. :)
it was good, going into a spirit of worship on a peaceful place like a beach.
and looked what szemin drew on the sand!

and on the sandy beach, we can't help it, we all miss Sandy,

as well as Claire and of course, Kelly.
But we all know that God have a better plan for them in their new group! :)
besides, we're are still serving the same God and all of us are in the same family of God! :)

after worship, we were split into pairs, where we were given the challenge of going into a new level of spirituality, to prophesize for each other, as well as pray for each other and just going into deeper sharing of our lives to each other. :)

that's Central A's Good Friday for you!
nothing better than spending quality FUN&GOD-FILLED day with your people on Good Friday! :)

Easter may be over but let us continue to do our best for God's Kingdom!
don't stop to invite friends and share the Gospel just because there is no special service,
we should have evangelising in our lifestyle! :)

& PRAISE GOD!
Central A sees not one, not two, but THREE new sisters who crossed the line of faith and into God's Kingdom! :D

OH, and here are the answers. :P
but actually since you know of the tasks in each station, it should be really easy for you to guess the place right.

first station:
first group- Food Republic
second group- Banquet (the movie starred Daniel Wu & Zhang Ziyi)

second station: Action City
third station: Vivo Mart
fourth station: Golden Village
fifth station: River Island
sixth station: Daiso (HAHA! you get it?)
seventh station: Toys R' Us

okay, remember ah,
don't stop inviting friends as well as sharing the Gospel! :D

-mila :)
P.S. Whatever happened to the tagboard??

BELATED EASTER WEEK!

2007-04-11T21:13:00.000+08:00

if you were thinking what did our caregroup do during easter week? here it is. we painted eggs at my place. with crayons and paint. the watermelon egg which bridget loved. =D look at the chio bu egg! *whee wheet!*completed everything! combine matthew party which consist of cc2,3,4. they were seperated to play board games. this is the tabboo team(consisting of a number of greedy pigs! =x) the janga team! cluedo team.

game of life group one. and i thought i was the millionaire. grr. game of life group 2. with inez teaching all of them! =)

chips for every group! good service provided and FOC (proudly sponsored by angela's team.)

at a point where i wish i was jesus and allow everyone's stomachs to be full. now you know how 20 over girls can eat.

we had other games which were not taken photos of. like "im the boss" and "risk" but yeh, we love them all! i hope everyone had fun!

to end off..

haha! have a blessed week everyone. =D

angela.

central gathering!

2007-04-08T01:09:00.000+08:00

I have to admit my photos are grossly biased towards my own caregroup. But here they are all the same.

I'm sure you guys took a lot of photos from the steamboat-ing. (: Do post them up!

- mia

2007-03-21T23:46:00.000+08:00

commanded by queen qixin, this is the continuation of CC bbq. in fact, this is the before stage of the bbq itself.

the location of the happenings.

the dreaded bbq pit that was used by the previous users.

the hardworking people at work. cant see my face there? im at the back la. honest! i think. =x

hannah: oh, we bought sushi for bbq?
qixin: err, no. this is fire starters.
we still love you hannah cheang! <3

keep all the posts coming y'all! especially my bloggers and beloved fellow leaders. lets keep this blog alive and dont forget there's a CL retreat this saturday, 24/3/07. we're meeting at 6.15pm sharp behind le Meridien Hotel for the buses to bring us to our PROMISED LAND.

sounds attractive? be a CL soon and join us! guranteed to have sheep bites and discouragements but plenty of rewards in heaven and some on earth.

last but not the least...

jo lee and me says byebye!
-angela. =)

Central C!!

2007-03-21T20:37:00.000+08:00

Central C had an outing on the 16th of March at East Coast Park!
Our lovely game masters! (Clara and Hazel!)

Ordered to fill up water bombs

And that's only a tenth (tithe) of the bombs we got

Then ACTION!

Fengy being exploded by water bomb (Sorry Fengy, but you don't really look that bad!)

Panic! At the beach!

Yeah, Central C may be made up of all girls, but that's not what you see here

Both teams ended up in a tie! And both had to do forfeits!
Singing with weird mixture in their mouths. (I believe it was chrysantemum(sp?!) mixed with orange squash, and some food? But interesting that some said it tasted ok!)

Doing jumping jacks in the sea, worse than training (They look like they're worshipping Jesus)

Then it was time to eat. (I believe Central C is made up of pigs too! Esp Huiwei :X)
Evidence (Look at her happy face at the sight of hotdog with cheese!)

Fengy and Clarice the BBQ experts

We cook well, just look at the chicken

Daniel, our saviour, appeared when the fire failed to ignite!

Then we had a night out at sea!

We love JC! (NOT Junior College!)
-Celeste

Central A Steamboat @ Marina

2007-03-15T14:58:00.000+08:00

Hello, Im here again! :P

I think Central A can win the most-attention-grabbing-unit-for-central-blog award. You literally see us every few weeks posting about our happening happenings! But anyhow, our unit went for steamboat at Marina yesterday and as usual, we had truckloads of fun.

They can make fun of everything including baptising the prawns and giving them baptism names(?!!?!!) before they were dumped into the hot, searing water so that they can go to heaven. They also did a rhyme/joke on my name and quarrelled over the origin of century eggs. If you want the video of what they did, just holler to me on MSN!

And thou, resident photographer of Central A, has decided to take a break and let you have a glimpse of what happened by clicking HERE.

-Claire (:

Happy Birthday Derrick!

2007-03-15T13:54:00.000+08:00

In the recent Sunday, Derrick held his birthday party at his place. Hoho, the birthday boy turns 20 this year and so it means that, Derrick.. the first number of your age no longer starts with 1!

Derrick, the big birthday boy.

The guys gave no mercy and dumped him into the pool, TWICE! Well, boys either get dumped into the pool or tau pok-ed. Tsk tsk tsk..

The party goers, which included not only people from Hope but Derrick's campmates as well. It was a Birthday party cum MCG of sorts; clever thinking Derrick!

Derrick with his campmates.

With the Hope NS guys and Daniel.

Not forgetting the few but very pretty girls a.k.a "Social Escorts" who spiced up the party. :D

I told you boys will ALWAYS be boys; they wanted to dump another guy into the pool!

DIY chocolate fondue which Shijie & I painstakingly made. Was super shiok by the way.

Birthdays must involve cakes and cake-cutting!

OH and I forgot to mention it was also a BBQ in which the food was quite good!

Shepherd and Sheep - Derrick & Shijie!

You have slogged hard for the Kingdom, Derrick! Keep on going and we'll make sure you get that job which pays half a million as a bonus so that you can benefit the church!

-Claire

water baptism!

2007-03-11T17:44:00.000+08:00

Watching so many Centralites get water baptised today made me get all nostalgic, especially since the 1st entry on the Central blog was about me, Kisha and Desiree's water baptism. (See archives.)

I have to apologise for the severe lack of photos because I arrived late, but I was early enough to eternalize the moments of these few in the water.

With all seriousness aside...

Hurhur. Yup, congrats to all who got water baptised. (: Mia.

central b2- thank God for caregroup!

2007-03-04T18:17:00.000+08:00

hello! we had caregroup last wednesday. :D
it was such a pity that sy and zach was not with us.
now that sy's back, we felt relieved!
and zach was not with us, because he said he wanna put us to a test to make cg a success. cg was a success. :D

the games were fun!

this is what we pieced out after the game. :D

quiet time!

everyone is busy reading their bibles.

and still reading. :D

although attendance was not really satisfying, yet we learnt many things from one another.overall, caregroup was funnnn!
thank God for daniel who came for cg!
-grace:D

CA1 - Making of CG Madness Photo

2007-02-28T01:52:00.000+08:00

WARNING: IMAGE HEAVY

KONICHIWA from the happening St Margs Caregroup, CA1. We're here to feast your eyes on photos that we took for caregroup yesterday.

But first, I will give you a brief introduction of my lovable, Hana Kimi-obsessed caregroup members.

Sandy a.k.a Nezha (with ref to the photo).
Sandy is our main atmosphere maker. Her laughter is perpetually infectious and sometimes she's the reason why spurts of laughter evolve during caregroup. Plus, she makes fun of ANYTHING. Also the most giving, she's the one lending us money most of the time. Nonetheless, the one who makes things a lot more interesting.

Mila a.k.a Aspiring Missionary Doctor/Cute Geek.
Mila is a great support to the group, often seen flashing her megawatt smile which cheers everyone up instantly. She's also compassionate and has a huge burden for people. She's very sociable and humble, making her very important since my group's quite egoistic (KIDDING!).

Puiwah a.k.a Zi-High Careleader
Our dear CL is one whom I feel is extremely persevering and enthusiastic. She speaks at the rate of a bullet train that sometimes we can't really catch what she says. She's Kingdom-oriented and does not fear to share about her struggles. She's one who has slogged long and hard but her efforts have paid off!

Nicole a.k.a The One with the Indian Accent.
Anyway, Nicole just joined us recently for caregroup and duh, she's an added joy. She loves to speak in some pseudo indian accent which sets everyone off laughing. Usually the one with all the weird ideas, she brings about fresh change and is also a good partner to Sandy's antics!

Hannah Tang a.k.a The Big-Eyed Youtube-r.
Over the years, I've seen this girl's eyes grow bigger and bigger. o.0 Hannah is our silent supporter. She doesn't really make much noise but willingly becomes the laughing stock of our group thanks to Sandy. She's the blur and shy queen however, she's very serving(in sound) and obedient!

Jinger a.k.a Chang-Er
Jinger is our 1-month old believer and she has been faithfully attending caregroup ever since! She has been very responsive, laughs a lot with us and is very active in the participation of the group's jokes. She often raves about Edison Chen.. which some of us do too. Heh.. still, Welcome to the family, Jinger!

Mel a.k.a Cool-as-a-Cucumber
Mel left for Sound shortly after we took our pictures so we had to use this. Mel is someone whom is very calm and collected. She's also very persevering, even after been stood up by visitors countless of times. A reflective person, she's a strong pillar of support to CA1. And she also the local song-sharer in the group..

Claire a.k.a Loudspeaker (written by Sandy)
With her in the group, the group never fails to be quiet, but always VERY LOUDDDD! However, the loudness has contributed much to the group! Without her, the group wouldn't be as rah-rah as it is! She should however decide to stop irritating sandy! ohwells. Central A (which includes sandy) still love her like MADD!

And some photos of us fooling around..

Well, if you haven't known, my caregroup has been very sporting to participate in CG Madness, which is the reason why we're clad as such. Our theme this year was Geeky and so I made everyone tie 1 or 2 really high ponytails, wear their specs and hold their heavy textbooks.

I hope you had a hearty laugh at our sample photos. We're not revealing our submitted one so look out for us during service! We're bent on gunning a win this time round!

And lastly, our caregroup celebrated the spiritual birthdays of Jinger (1 month) and Hannah Tang (3 years). Happy Birthday, Children of God! You have come this far in the race so continue on with more fervour! No matter how old you are, you've been dear to us and God!

Do remember to send in your photo for CG Madness to cg.madness@gmail.com by tonight, 10 pm!

UPDATE!
This was our winning photo if anyone wanted a closer look. Just click on the thumbnail! HIP HIP HURRAY to CB2 for winning too! (:

-Claire

a post from hc

2007-02-17T11:08:00.001+08:00

Greetings from the HC caregroup! (: It's Mia here again.

We had yusheng during caregroup on Thursday, 15 Feb. Only it wasn't made up of the usual ingredients.

A week ago, instead of having our caregroup in school, we met at the playground opposite our school. And we relived our childhood days.

What else has been happening? We've been busy celebrating birthdays every week. Somehow a lot of people in our caregroup are born in Jan and Feb. More to come, even! I have failed my duty as a photographer during many of these occasions because I forgot to bring my camera to immortalize the birthday celebrations. =S

But the trusty camera was with me at service yesterday. (: CE2 at Nexus. We filled up 2 rows in the middle section.

Happy CNY!

fearless central a=)

2007-02-11T23:07:00.000+08:00

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.-2 chronicles 7:14

if anyone comes and tell you that central a is meant to be unfruitful, dont believe in him.

because central a is called by God, challenged to walk on water, and on its way to breakthroughs.

even when everything that was happening seemed to say that we are called to be small,

even though many times we tried, many times we failed,
even though to humans, we always dont meet the quota,

God didnt give up on central a.

daniel met up with all of us last week,

it was a meeting that started out with no clues where the problem was..

the spirit stirred, and we poured out many many things that we kept to ourselves..

and God revealed the answer..

all of us were fearful.

fearful of rejections, fearful of doing what God has called us to, fearful of failure.

so fearful that it became normal not to grow, so hardened that we believed in stupif lies of the satan.

so we made a pact, the coming one month will be a month of fearlessness.

fearless asking, fearless trying.

and last week, after decades of stagnancy,we finally saw 5 visitors..

(oh was i suppse to put exclamation mark instead?)=)

okay..i meant 5 visitors!!!!!

if you started thinking, chey, 5 is like the norm for my group..

haha then God really favours us that He made this number special to central a.

yet, i know that this breakthrough didnt come without steppng out, and getting our feet wet.

beneath the things that everyone see on the surface,

everyone had different emotions, different heartbreaks, different discouragements.

much prayers, much asking, much vulnerability.

but now at least its clear to us that, God's hand is still upon us

He is still watching over us, He still has great things for central a.

i guess God thinks real highly of central a, that he believed in us that we would hang on despite the fruitlessness for the past decade..

and indeed, the people didnt give up.

and we're stilll on our way to the challenge.

i guess one thing we've got to learn is to take good care of our own spiritual lives.

not that we are doing that to redeem fruits from God,

but only when we're ready, then God can entrust more of His beloved into our hands.

hey central a, i know that walking on water is not that easy after all.

and thank God! we're still clinging on,and not giving up.
you've given much of your time, much of your courage and lots of your tears,

all these God will honour.

i know that when God looks at you, He smiles.

because it doesnt matter how many times we fall, but how many times we pick ourselves up.

thank you for joining me in doing greater things for God,

and i'm proud to be serving with all of you.

more prblems on the way, more growth on the way.=)
stay tuned.=)

liping encouraged me with this verse!

Psalm 126:5-6
5 Those who sow in tears

will reap with songs of joy.

6 He who goes out weeping,

carrying seed to sow,

will return with songs of joy,

carrying sheaves with him.

thanks liping!=)

-winnie.

a little about CAB2 evaxing! (:

2007-01-16T17:31:00.000+08:00

hello! this is Grace from central AB2. :D
is my first time blogging! :D and is not a really long post.
haha. thousand apologies! :l
a couple of fairfield girls went evaxing in school.
there were michelle, phoebe, tiffany, and me. :D
it was tiring. but many of us perservered on.
and i'm really inspired by michelle who went all out for anyone, and everyone!
she see any sec one girl, and she just whack!
i was also inspired by tiffany who went all out as well. she went to anyone
to evax on! (:
i'm inspired by phoebe as well! haha. though shes a new believer, but she
is so crazy to evax. (:

and we have alot alot of contacts! :D

and i'm actually here to tell you that you will reap what you sow.
and don't ever ever give up! the harvest is here!
lets win our schools for God!

ps. sorry, theres no pictures. HAHA.

2007-01-10T20:22:00.000+08:00

Hi everyone, this is Hannah from CC. Not here to blog about CC happenings (but I must repent cos I haven't been doing so) though.

Remember Anagram, our band that performed for Bring It On in Encounter camp? Well I know we had a few screw-ups here and there, but we'll be performing again for the ESS on 27 Jan. And this time we'll be, of course, brushing up on our music, singing, image, and stage presence. And we shall force ourselves not to be shy! Cos this isn't just about a competition anymore, it's about winning souls for the Kingdom.

So.. as we give our very best to put up a good performance, do give your very best in bringing the lost for service on that day too. And together as Central, we'll give God the highest honour :)

DEAL AH! Remember, 200 retained lives for Jesus.
There's no turning back.

& more of CA! :D

2007-01-07T03:00:00.000+08:00

HELLO AGAIN! :)
i'm back to blog my promised post about CA's very happening cg at mind's cafe on the second.
ahaha, as usual we met at ps for lunch, before actually going to mind's cafe.

then after we eat, we went to mind's cafe and realised that, it's not opened yet!
it opens at 2pm and they stationed a "security guard" at the door.
and because we couldn't wait to enter, we we suggested to the "security guard"
to count down with us when its 1.59pm 50seconds, HAHAHA!

then when it's finally opened, we chiong-ed in and we got a sofa seat. :D
hurray!
then we started on our first game:

BOHNANZA; to bean or not to bean.

HAHA, it was a super funn game! :)
and also very confusing in the beginning.
but once you get the hang, wooooh!
let's let the photos do the talking. :D

half of the HAPPENING people!

however, as kelly had said, we were being too kind to each other.
well, what to do?
God's people loves one another. ;D

then because of uhm, financial difficulties, we can only stay for two hours as they charged public holiday rates that day.
and so, in order to maximise the two hours we had, we want to play as much games as possible which means we had to change our very fun game to another one. :
so we played this game, we opened different cards of different christmas ornaments.
& when we see 5 of the same christmas ornaments on the cards, we've to ring the bell, then you can collect all the cards opened.
am i making sense?
HAHA, anyway those with the most cards wins.
it was a rather violent game..
and our dear sandy was the winner!

look at the thickness of all that cards!

violent people.. :P

then we played an even more violent game!
UGLYDOLLS GAME, HAHA.
and i seriously don't understand why they call them ugly dolls,
they're super CUTE! :D

well, look at this!

anyway, the game goes that we're supposed to spread all the cards facedown on the table.
then each player takes a turn to open a card.
and if you see 3 cards of dolls of the same kind, we're supposed to grab it.
and if somebody's grabbing a card, you can snatch for it, yell: "UGLY UGLY UGLY!"
then the person will have to let go and you can have it!

HAHAHAHA, it was super funn but super violent.

after "UGLY UGLY UGLY!", we played-
JENGA!

and because the 'tower' collapsed shortly after we started, we changed to Balderdash.
which is seriously ?!?!?! cause it's all about American stuff and so we decided to stop.
there wasn't anymore time anyway, haha.

OH and because sherlyn was the one who collapse the Jenga tower, she has to do a forfeit.
and that is to -HAHA- walk around the room like a chicken.
HAHAH! :P

ohman, it was seriously a great time of bonding, and i'm sure every one had truckloads of funn, laughter and violence(HAHA). :D
i love spending time with these people.
and who doesn't?
God's people are the most funn to be with.
and it's funn with a double n. :)

back to school and CA will do our best to bring more people in. :)
we're never giving up, cause God didn't gave up on us.
and i believe we can & will double and triple, cause God believes that we can.

God bless and remember to s.o.w. on your friends/contacts!
-mila :D

a little update of CA(:

2007-01-04T21:02:00.000+08:00

HELLO! :)
mila is back to update you about our happening little group!
hahha, and i'm really sorry that i haven't blogged for so long..
the past three days have been held up by the calendar(nice or not? if ugly please do tell and i'll improve on the next month..) and hw.
i'm really sorry!!
i'll learn to manage my time better next time, and faithfully blog for Central. :)

anyway, on the 31st of December 2006, we had a little countdown party of four which consist of sandy, puiwah, hannah and me.
a little small, i know but it's still an event right? :D
winnie and mell was unable to come and claire wasn't able to come in the end..
we first met at PS to have our last dinner of the year.
and we saw CE's xuanz and her cg at the far hidden corner of the food court, HAHA.

after our dinner, we headed to Carrefour to get some snacks for our party. :)

and apparently, our some snacks turned out to be:

2 big bag of potato chips
1 packet of 10 party-pack twisties
1 big box of frosty's cereal
1 packet of peanuts
1 sara lee butter pound cake
1 litre of milk
9 cup noodles
1 bottle of pokka green tea
and somehow, hannah had to buy one whole tin of khong guan biscuits, HAHAHA.

believe it or not, when we left hannah's house the next day, only 4 of the cup noodles and the khong guan biscuits are left.
okay, and so CA st.marg's girls really enjoy food. :P

after our snackshopping, we went to cheong dao huay(however you spell it) before travelling to hannah's house. :)

:D

the HAPPENING people!

travelling to hannah's

we watched the countdown together with hannah's mum on channel 5,
zi-highing as though we're in a 20 people party(HAHA), and..

we wish you a happy new year,
we wish you a happy new year,
we wish you a happy new year and a..............
should all acquantance be forgot,
and never brought to minddddd~

sounds familiar? ;D
then you're few of the lucky people whom we called after midnight to present them our new year song, HAHA.
okay okay, we know we were horribly zhaoxia-ed but it's the thought that counts right? :)
and the rest of the night were spent eating and playing monopoly and more eating and playing taboo till sandy finally K.O-ed on the sofa, followed by hannah.

monopoly!

then at 6am, everyone went to hannah's room to finally get some new year's day rest.
we may only be 4 people, but it was a memorable and fun new year's eve/day, and i'm sure all of us enjoyed ourselves yea? :D

oh and please stay tuned for my another post updating you on CA's super happening cg at Mind's Cafe on the 2nd Jan! :)
i'll post it by sunday!

AND one more thing!
CA may be small, but we won't stay small.
st.marg's may be small, but we won't stay small either. :)

God bless and work hard for your studies!
-mila :D

daniel's mighty team

2007-01-02T20:46:00.000+08:00

HELLO!im here on behalf of daniel's dmm to blog!this is where im gonna give u a little snippet of wat happens during ulm and the retarded things that ur leaders do..this includes a photo of ur beloved UL and the name that daniel has given to all of us..we have a lot of fun during our meetings and it has come to a point that we all felt really, hmmm weird, when there wsnt a meeting for a week..god gave us this marvelous team so as to help us be accountable and to watch out for one another's life didnt he, fellow cg mates..i love hanging out with u all..ok jinqi's time starts now!

DANIEL - CENTRAL

this is our cg leader daniel..he says he doesnt know how to smile but i tink he looks ok here..daniel is a very real leader..he encourages us to 'argue' during cg so that we can spar our thoughts and learn from one another..at first, the guys kept arguing by themselves and the gurls did their own stuff..but the whole cg has grown since then that now the gurls are also sparring their thoughts and the guys are more sensitive to include the gurls..this is all thanks to our very patient cl! he is also very open with his weaknesses and that has drawn the whole grp to be even closer..plus, he stands firm on his values and beliefs and always lead us thru logic and the word of god..but daniel is like a broken recorder..whenever he hears a song, he will juz rmb the tune and add his own lyrics to the song, most of the time spoiling the song lol..thanks daniel!! u haf been a great leader for all of us..THE CG WILL FOLLOW YOU :D

WINNIE - CENTRAL AB

this really preety gurl here is winnie aka pillar of obedience! winnie takes care of all the gurls in st margs and nanyang and scgs and a few others..she is a fantastic example of being obedient to the leader..anything that winnie was asked to do she ALWAYS says sure..and she will definately do it without fail..many of us haf learnt from that character, seldom hear wo bu yao now in the cg..and she is also very chun zhen and was quite shocked at some of our thoughts and opinions in the very beginning..but she has kinda gotten used to it and is now a very vital part of the grp indeed!..she didnt really know all of us at first but she decided to be open with her life and shares with us her dreams, weaknesses etc..and winnie is the one who always writes encouragement cards for us..we love winnie!

ZACHARY - CENTRAL AB

this here is zach aka pillar of desire..he likes to give that retarded smile..and he currently takes care of the fairfield grp..zach is the most hiong guy u will probably ever meet in ur entire life..he has a VERY strong passion to win the world for Jesus and gives his 100% in anything that he finds is worth his while..he has many dreams and never gives up at all costs, hanging on till he sees his dreams fulfilled by god..zach played a vital role in bonding the cg in the beginning cos he is the one who always finds activities for us to do and den tirelessly calling each of us out..thanks zach!..he also buys a lot of books and willingly shares them to all of us so we can all grow together..zach loves irritating ppl when we are walking, and he scares winnie sometimes..and when he is bored, he would do retarded things while we ignore him..but still, we love zach!

JINQI - CENTRAL AB

this is jinqi aka pillar of faith (see zach is doing retarded things behind her back again)..i find it really weird to write abt me so i shall ask daniel to do it! equally as important is the pillar of faith otherwise known as very pretty jinqi(self declared many times of course).. a person who is always faith filled and anytime ready to do wat is needed to extend the kingdom of god to its maximum..she is currently taking care of a bunch of guys from sji (SJI SJI SJI yeah!!!) and acs barker.. she is like a mother to those who know her and of course her sheep knows her as a very wise person.. hehe.. she is also a very interesting addition to the team... makes an extra step to travel all the way dwn frm Chua Chu kang for dmm and many times will start off by telling us how sacrificial she is in travelling.. all in all a mother of all nations..and she loves pink..we love jinqi!

ELISE - CENTRAL C

moving on, elise aka pillar of the word-of-god stands looking proud of her I Love JC shirt..elise takes care of all the gurls in crescent and stc as well as some other schools plus one guy from gan eng seng haha..she is very firm in the word of god and always uses the bible as the standard in all situations..she is a very direct leader yet she is also very relational, building strong relationships with her gurls..to elise, the word of god is ultimate and no one can deny it..elise is always willing to go out with us, no matter her schedule, she tries to make time to hang out with the dmm going all the way to jurong point at times..one thing abt her is that when she sets her mind to doing something, for example changing a character of hers, she confirm chop stamp gurantee will do it..that is a really admirable trait for me haha..so, we love elise too!

ANGELA - CENTRAL C

this lovely lady is angela aka pillar of support..seriously, i dun tink the cg can function as well as it is now without her..she really is the base of support for the whole grp..but first, angela takes care of the pioneering grp in central c..all the adminstrative stuff is taken care of by her..this includes noting down minutes in cg, compiling the whole of central's information, emailing the rest of us abt things we haf to do, being in charge of the central blog commitee etc etc..and she does so tirelessly u know! maybe she got that from her shepherd shuzhen haha..angela is also the blurest in the grp..hence, she usually gets bullied the most..but she is very open and real while relating to us..she stands firm on certain beliefs she has and will never compromise on them..she loves hippo bus, and we love angela!

JIEHUI - CENTRAL D

this happy looking guy is jiehui aka pillar of diligence..he is the lamest in the grp, never failing to chill all of us with his so-called jokes..jiehui is leading the NS guys and doing so in a really good way..he is really diligent in things such as making presents..gosh, this guy is super creative can..recently he made this magnet with the whole grp's picture on it for all of us as a christmas present..and he always rake his brains to come up with a unique idea for a bday present..really appreciate his efforts! and he plans a lot abt his grp..out of all of us, this is the guy that i see drawing out his structure most of the time..jiehui is also the grp's chauffer, he willingly sends us to places to hang out..thank god for him man! tho jiehui seems lame most of the time, this guy has a deeper side to him and he really loves his ppl a lot..and jiehui, we love you too!

HARRY - CENTRAL D

next, we haf harry! aka pillar of stability..harry also takes care of the guys in the NS grp..dun be fooled by his outer appearace where he looks rather innocent..this guy leaves a rather big impression in the grp..tho most of the time he is rather silent, but it is his silence that brings abt the true character of harry..sometimes when he is unable to join us for dmm cos of work, we really miss him a lot! it is when the guys are deep in their discussions that harry pops in with a super wise random comment that stops everyone in their tracks and makes the whole grp tink..we always know that we can count on harry in any situation, he will be the one who gives a sound and neutral comment that helps everyone..and also, this guy has food wherever he goes! open his bag and u will definately find some sort of food haha..the whole team would be so different without him..we love you harry!!

RAPHAEL - CENTRAL E

and this guy who's acting shuai is raphael aka pillar of balance..he takes care of all the people in the JC grp..he puts in loads of effort to balancing stuff such as ministry, dmm time, family, work, friends etc..he strives to excel in all areas so as to glorify god in every aspect..furthermore, he is the busy ant in the grp (but he always claim its cos he's lazy thruout the week)..always see him scrabbling some notes in one of his many postcards abt things that he has to do later..most of it abt the grp, can see how much he loves them..and, he absolutely loves dancing..its like when the team is walking and suddenly in the middle of the road, he will do this dance move and ask us how does it look like..and he is very giving..prob cos he earns a lot of money so he will bless the team and his ppl a lot..plus, he has a rather interesting nickname, courtesy of me of course :D..but, we still love raphael!!

a video showing wat we do during ulm haha.

and here is a picture of the happy family during camp..it is amazing how god has put all of us with totally different personalities in the same grp..the whole team would be different without any single one of those ppl there..serving god in hope, this is prob one of the best gifts that our lovely father has ever given to us..whenever one is down, the rest encourages him/her..when one is happy, the rest is there to share in with the joy..we go thru ups and downs together, and we love sundays, cos sundays means we get to meet one another..usually at 2 round tables at ps macs :) will always remember the silly moments we had together, and the many things we share..all of us are bound by a common dream - and that is to see central grow extremmmmeeeelllllyyyy BIG! glory to glory, amen.

jinqi

Gathering for the new year, Central D plus 'extras'

2007-01-01T21:16:00.000+08:00

Hey all, Nicholas here again. On the 31 Dec 3006 about 10 NS guys went to Shijie's house to celebrate crossing over to the new year together. The 'extras', led by Angela, comprising Esther, Joanne Ang, Huiwei, Chloe & Issac came and join us as they had no place to go :p. Just joking, they are welcomed warmly by us. :) We played Mucnhkins, PS2, mahjong & monopoly.

PRATA!!!

Smile!

Taken from the staircase.

Some playing Monopoly.

Evidence that Jeremy is a Bully!

Our own L!

Good Morning!

Some are still sleeping though...

Like them:

Issac & Chloe

Guofeng a.k.a. Mr Potato

Jiehui with his army fbts :p

Happy New Year Central! 2007 will be a year of even greater Breakthroughs! :D

Central D NS group Thanksgiving lunch

2007-01-01T20:46:00.000+08:00

Hi all! This is Nicholas here. Some people say that central D never contribute to the Central blog so here I am blogging. :)
The NS group had a Year end Thanksgiving lunch at the North East HQ on the 31 Dec 2006. We had it to thank God for bringing the NS minitry thus far and Central too. The NS ministry has went through much and the 1st complete cycle of NS life signified by the 1st generation a.k.a. Yeo Jiehui having reached his Operational Ready Date. (Mine is coming soon, April 2007!) Here are some of the pics:

Daniel, we stole the Y-Hope olympics cup for you! hahaz

Group photo with NE's olympic throphy! We shall have the 2007 olympics cup for real! Amen Central? :D

And the master mind behind it is... Central's Lion of Judah, Junyao!

Matthew attracting too much attention and getting Tau Pok as usual! LOL

Jiehui as gamemaster made us play a slapping game and after that an even more violent wrestling one... (That's why after the 1st generation NS cg at Istana Park, we never let him lead games again. "p)

Thank You God, for all You've done!

Matthew 11:12 "From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it."

central chalet

2006-12-27T17:49:00.000+08:00

Mia the photo woman here again! Anyway, most of the photos that you see here are taken by other people, namely Joanne and Angela. A pity my camera too died early, or else I could have taken more photos!

So many slippers!

I think this is adorable. I mean, Quankai, not Daniel.

Mel and Mila! (: So sweet.

Guys will be guys, really.

Cookies, anyone? At least these guys BAKE.

I am convinced that Quankai is a photowhore.

Check out the fire god at work...

That pot of sauce is HUGE.

Li Jin and the stingray, which was delicious for the few who got to taste it!

More pics of food prep...

Room photos!

The hardworking people at the BBQ pit! I'm biased cause I was there.

CC girls waiting for the bus...

I have no idea what you're doing, Joanne.

2 Joannes.

Another mirror shot with Sinyee and the little photo whore.

I told you this guy loves being photographed!

Central E had a logcake, many thanks to Ryan and Robert!

CE guys.

Central E group photo.
I don't know about you, but I'm glad to be part of the Central family. (: This is a district that I'm proud to say I'm from.

For another interesting account of the Central Chalet, check out SANDY's blog. (: You can find out who's CHICKY and CHICKLY. (The runts of the roost, really.)

2006-12-14T22:08:00.000+08:00

hello! angela here. in agreement with mia, please update this blog with YOUR very own unit happenings during camp. =) oh and to all the units who sang a birthday song to me on my birthday in camp, THANK YOU! im very shocked and touched.

anyway, just a short sharing. i've been in central ever since i stepped into hope. which was long time ago. dont ask. haha. have seen how central's different from other districts and yes im proud to grow up in central! =D central has developed many wonderful leaders such as ethan, ruth, shuzhen, tamar, shuyi, dewen, etc. the group that is exploding with talented people. central must lead the way!

my new team, the pioneers(CC2) and exteam(fairsians) celebrated my birthday at 3am on 12 dec 2006. though it was a simple celebration, im deeply moved. im not THAT great a leader and shepherd. its just greater to have you girls in my team. to my ex-team, the laughter and tears that we had, uncountable. haha. i enjoyed my every moment with you people and yeh! you all better double fairfield or else! a strong girls and guys team from the highschool side in central. hasnt been done yet in the high school side so, YOU set the standard!

finally, the only picture i have for that day itself. heh. =x

breakthrough

2006-12-14T20:35:00.000+08:00

Mia here with photos!

The cheerleading heros of Central practising hard.

Please don't kill me, Raphael. My UL looks so er, adorable here.

The guys had to man-handle Robot in order for me to capture this shot.

Daniel dropping by the frisbee area during Yhope Olympics.

The Central frisbee team! We were GOOD.

The banner's gorgeous!

Yay three cheers for Junyao!

We're really proud of all of you. (:

Some of the CE guys snoozing during a break.

CE girls all dressed up for Mismatch.

Hah, inter-unit photo. Me, Sandy and Joanne!

Daniel looks cool. (: And my shepherd is cute.

Hwachong J1 girls + Raphael.

Abigail and Huying!

A Hwachong OAC photo. (:

Central E group photo!

Central AB. (:

Guys from CE. Poor Leon.

The Hwachong group! (:

Xiangyu and her sheep.

BRIDGE DIAGRAM PHOTO 1 - In the beginning, God and Man were the best of friends.

BRIDGE DIAGRAM PHOTO 2 - Because of Man's disobedience, sin came into the picture and separated Man from God.

BRIDGE DIAGRAM PHOTO 3 - God loved Man so much that He sent Jesus to die on the cross so that Man could be with God through Jesus.

Thanks for being my photo actors, Huiying and Liping!

Sheep and shepherd.

Central E CLs! (:
Please do upload your photos to this blog! Most of my pics are from a CE point of view.

I'm sure that all of us have been blessed and inspired by the camp. Now that the 3 days of hype are over, let's put what we've been so convicted about in action.

The harvest is definitely here.

Central A is too cool for you!

2006-12-07T01:58:00.000+08:00

Hello, it's Claire here blogging in place of Mila temporarily as our dear Central A correspondent is far far away in Indonesia. And anyway, it has been a while since you've heard something from our very HAPPENING unit so I shall share a few things that happened lately.

On Tuesday, 7 of us namely me, Sandy, Mellissa, Pui Wah, Liping, Calean and Yuxin went to do street evax around National Library. Calean and I were actually quite scared because it was our first time doing street evangelism and that takes quite a lot of courage. But thankfully, our bravo heroines - Sandy, Puiwah and Liping were rather gung-ho about doing it. The situation was quite dismal because most of the people there looked rather old. So being rather desperate for younger contacts, we headed down to Woodlands instead to evax since Liping was having her games leaders' meeting there. We shocked many people who were going for the meeting because I think they weren't expecting Centralites to evax at Woodlands.

Anyway it was a success as we got SEVEN contacts within about less than 2 hours, of which some were rather responsive. I know it isn't fantastic results but the effort and desperation of my unit mates really encouraged me. It really takes a lot of courage and guts to approach complete strangers and I affirm them for having such a willing spirit! Help intercede for us as we work on these contacts because we're really really desperate to bring people for Christmas!

Moving on, yesterday we had caregroup! And caregroup was multitudes of fun, laughter and more fun! The pictures speaks for itself really.

We met up in the late morning for lunch at Coronation before heading to Guthrie House at 6th Avenue to buy ingredients to make our sandwiches.

Then we had to trot our way through extremely narrow pathways and bends before reaching our caregroup venue - Shiyou's house!

That's us hiding behind some random vehicle, trying to surprise her but we were unsuccessful because our dear Puiwah stomped too loudly and apparently, Shiyou could hear it from her room!

We began with charades and it was quite entertaining as people drew really weird things due to the undecipherable phrases and objects. But it was a good icebreaker!

Puiwah and Shiyou.

Puiwah's idea of how a Buddha looks like. It was further improvised by Yuxin; it had no hair initially. Nearly all of us were rolling on the floor laughing.

Then we went to her front yard and began our waterbomb games! I think games involving water are usually interesting because most of us just want to get one another wet! Our water games involved a lot of water (DUH!), a lot of screaming, a lot of sabotage and quite an amount of violence! Tsk tsk tsk..

Sherlyn versus Liping! Don't you think they resemble David versus Goliath?

All hell breaks loose after our games as everyone started throwing waterbombs at one another, or rather, pour buckets of water at each other to make sure everyone is drenched.

Busy bees filling water bombs.

Everyone drenched = Violent People! :/

Yay, drenched Sandy! Muahahaha, evil Claire.

Oh no, poor Sandy! Sandy, don't cry! (Sandy's gonna kill me for posting this!)

You actually see the ugly side of girls when it comes to water fights; they get quite violent! But we were happy girls and oops, sorry that we wasted A LOT of water. (:

Then some of us went to bathe/change/sun-tan at the front porch, lazing around a Wednesday afternoon before we started on the CA jumpers.

Yingci, Puiwah & Yuxin suntanning on the front porch.

Sherlyn, Sandy and I decided to make ham and cheese sandwiches in the meantime to fill our tummies. We made about 12 sandwiches (for 8 people) and I hope they enjoyed it.

Labourers at work! We bought 500 g of ham, 24 slices of cheese and 2 loaves of bread! Of course we couldn't finish them all..

Sandy, my co-labourer!

Our panda ham and cheese! Shiyou's toaster was so cute! It basically leaves an imprint of a panda after toasting. Toasters are innovative huh?

And after micro-waving it, it's time to eat! :D

Tsk tsk tsk. Sandy, sherlyn and I were busy eating while the others were doing the jumpers. Heh..

We then did the fabric paints for the jumpers and I think everyone is rather excited about the them because it's a very novel idea. I love them a lot and I don't think any district/unit/caregroup has done jumpers before so we're the first! Yay, trendsetters! :D

These are at the back of our jumpers, written in fabric paint.

A horde of jumpers! Too add on, all the fonts and designs are by hand alright! Spot us in Breakthrough Camp with these jumpers, bound to sweep you off your feet! :D

We then proceeded on with caregroup teaching on covenantal names led by Calean and Puiwah!

Calean and Puiwah! They both did a great job in the interactive activity!

Liping, Yingci and Yuxin busy with discussion.

I think the greeting of raindrops couldn't have ended caregroup more appropriately as God sending His rain upon His people. Although the rain did develop into a heavy downpour and most of us were drenched, AGAIN. But I enjoyed caregroup a lot, and I'm sure the others too!

Thanks Shiyou for being so hospitable and allowing us to have caregroup at your place! It was really so much more fun than going to a void deck or istana! Thanks Calean and Puiwah for putting in so much effort into holding this caregroup - teachings, games, holy comm et cetera. And thanks CA for making caregroup a whole lot more interesting; glad to have you guys in this race with me! (:

Once again, Central A is HAPPENING BEYOND HAPPENING!

Wow, long long post. Hmm.. I guess Mila would be back soon to relinquish her status as CA correspondent! And as for the happening Central A, we'll see you in camp for more happening things to come by! :D

Central C!

2006-12-02T23:18:00.000+08:00

WARNING: IMAGE HEAVY.

we had our grads' stayover on thurs night. wanted to catch a movie initially before going to steph's aunt's vacant house, but she had alr watched both casino royale and happy feet, and step up wasn't being screened anymore, so we decided not to waste our money on seemingly uninteresting movies. we squandered it all on food though (elise's anointing).

so anyway, we spent our time at ps. qixin couldn't join us cos she was sick. so first we ate tako pachi, had dinner at long john's, then we took neoprints.. which i think we (except steph) are idiots to. lol

not bad la we managed to squeeze everyone in. and actually there were other really cute ones, but we could only select four to be printed :(

so anyway, after that we had dao huey for supper..

feeling full and satisfied :) tecksin and peiyi had left alr. fenghui had to go home after this.

so with the remaining six of us, we made our way to our destination. found a rotten apple in the fridge that engulfed the entire kitchen with its overbearing stench. brave brave joanne disposed of it and rescued us from suffocation. then we took turns to bathe, and soon after began on our 500piece jigsaw puzzle. it was a bittersweet experience i guess. bitter cos we had to stay up the entire night/morning to complete it (if you think that's lousy, you should see the jigsaw for yourself. you'll understand why). and sweet cos we had a great time sharing life while doing it together. tong2 gan1 gong4 ku3!

they say a picture paints a thousand words, so here goes..
(caution: sturdy faith required, we don't wanna stumble you)

bums. the jigsaw, and the border we started off with. joanne and i were in charge of the sky. the rest, the rest.

we were discouraged alr.

and depressed, just looking at all the pieces.

cos we could hardly tell them apart.

i doubt you can either, so don't laugh.

steph did the heads :) before she went off to dreamland, abandoning the rest of us in our misery.

see, proof.

and the process of fixing the jigsaw..

behind the smiles were loose screws and extreme tiredness. not to forget awful back and neckaches.

in case you're wondering, esther was the one who took pictures of all these bottoms. she was obsessed with, fascinated and awed by them =p hahaha.

told you it drove us mad.

she was trying to tell the different shades of blue apart. which was impossible really.

by this time it was about 6am alr.

the perseverant five. we refused to give up cos we didn't want all our efforts to go to naught.

distressed. destressing.

plain tired.

resting for a minute. and looking like some ah ma, especially with a cardigan on. haha.

back at work with only two of us left. weiting and lijin went off to dreamland too, after completing the bottom of the jigsaw. and esther secretly took this picture.

finally, the completed jigsaw puzzle! three pieces were missing. and this was at about 7am.

we deserved a rest. and don't be stumbled again.. haha.

totally shagged people, with victory signs.

and finally..

breakfast which esther and joanne prepared. it gave me a really bad stomachache and diarrhoea.

so that was our stayover. we were so tired and frustrated we really went mad, ending up talking to ourselves or even to the puzzle pieces. but all in all, we enjoyed one another's company :)

and today we celebrated our dear leader elise's birthday. everyone wore brown cos its her favourite colour. a pity we didn't take pictures of the celebration, it was really cute..

but anyway, blessed birthday elise! thanks for being really patient and loving, we appreciate you very much :)

and as for the happenings in cc, i'll update tomorrow or something maybe. too tired now. goodnight!

central e's matthew cg at ECP

2006-11-29T22:14:00.000+08:00

Mia here.

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?

happy birthday daniel!

2006-11-26T18:20:00.000+08:00

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.

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.

caregroup!

2006-11-26T02:41:00.000+08:00

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

Leadership Conference - Bangkok from 6th to 8th Nov 2006

2006-11-24T00:36:00.000+08:00

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 hall

Pastor Pakrit and Me (He leads the Europe Continent)

Our Five Star Holiday Resort where we had our Conference :)

God Bless You!!

kooooool

2006-11-20T23:42:00.000+08:00

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

& even more HAPPENING! (;

2006-11-19T19:45:00.000+08:00

HELLO EVERYONE! :D
and i'm back to update you about central a which is really getting more and more happening, hahaha.
okay, i know i said i'd blog the next day after my previous post, but HEH, i didn't get the photos till yesterday night and so, yeah.
SORRY!

so anyway, we had cg after wfl on tuesday and it was good! :D
we really had lots of funn, although the there was a group of people blasting pop music and dancing away in the same venue where we held our cg.
HAHA.
we started with games and our dear sandy was SUPER enthusiastic, always cathing the balloon(we were supposed to catch the balloon which is worth a certain amount of food, example, 5 tubs of ben&jerry's ice cream, and the one who has most food wins, HAHA)and so, she was the ultimate winner. :)

then we had a time which we pasted a piece of paper on our backs and we go around writing about and/or affirming each other.
it was rather exciting and very heartwarming, reading what we think of each other. :)

then we had praise, we were singing like nobody's business,
like the people there didn't exist, hahaha.
it was really funn, we sang 'we wanna see Jesus lifted high' as though we were still little children, with the actions that was taught to us in chapel
(for those who were from smps).
we may look really childish, but who cares?
so long as we get to praise our dear Jesus. :)
OHH and we sang 'He's able', also with actions.
HAHAHA, it'll be our theme song for Breakthrough camp. ;)
if you did notice, we had our own CA theme song during Encounter which is Christina Aguilera's come on over, lol.
and so He's able will be our theme song for Breakthrough.
HAHAHA.

WEDNESDAY!
haha, wednesday was a full-packed day and this coming wednesday is full-packed too! ;)
anyway, we met up for lunch at vivo and then the plan was to visit Doulos!
but it was raining and so we stopped by toys'r us which turn out to be really really funn! :D

CA loves spongebob! :D

and we were very amazed by the robot claw toy, HAHA.
and so you see us with a robot claw each, hahaha.

and guess what, we saw spiderman doing one of us He's able action! HAHA.

YES! He's able!

OHH and the amphitheatre at the top of vivo is a good place to have cg, hahaha.
we had our lunch there.
and when the rain finally stopped, we went up to Doulos. :)
i really admire this ship!
all the volunteers working in this ship are Christians and they travel around the world, serving the nations to express their faith in God!
and a fun fact for you: Doulos = servant in greek! :D

winnie, yuxin and szemin climbing up to Doulos. :)

CA on board Doulos! :D

they had a book fair on board, selling Christian books, CDs and even cassetes!
HAHA, cassetes are cool okay!
we saw a chinese bible as well and so, we looked up John 3:16 and started reading it in front of everyone, haha. ;)

神爱世人，甚至将他的独生子赐给他们，叫一切信他的，不至灭亡，反得永生。
约翰福音 3:16

and NO, our day didn't end here, after that, we went to pasir ris to:

CYCLE!!!

and i told you were getting very happening!
endless funn with people of same passion. :)
but we're not going to continue having funn as we're,
we're not going to stay stegnant.
we're going to grow, and not because we're concerned about the numbers,
but because we love people just as God love people.
and we want people to accept this divine gift of Salvation,
to experience the love and joy He gave. :D

besides, the harvest is already here and it's plentyful,
we just need to start harvesting!
HAHA, God bless and remember to harvest!
-mila :D

Central D Brothers' Night!

2006-11-19T12:16:00.000+08:00

Did anyone realise that the entire NS ministry was MIA after service? Not that we are unspiritual... In fact, as part of our commitment to build the most pastoral group in the church, we held a Brothers' Night at Hanyang's house(His parents went to Taiwan for a week so they have no idea what hit their house :P) We of cos had Pastor Shirley to pray for the house to stay intact as it will soon be hit by a force stronger than Hurricane Katrina, also known as the men from Singapore Armed Forces(aka SAF).

As usual, Daniel our DL made his grand appearance by coming late. We then took a super duper long bus ride to Thomson where Hanyang stays.

After arriving, we started preparing for our short skit which we were suppose to prepare over the week. The skit had to be based on army life so the 3 cgs came up with 3 different stories.

Skit 1. Life in Tekong BMT(also known as the island of Azkaban where Dementors live).
CD2 Action!

They brought us back to those bad memories... How we suffered in the hands of the Sergeants... How the physical training instructor made us do push ups and jumping jets like there is no tomorrow... I am so getting nightmares tonight...

Skit 2. How to lead a godly life in camp.
CD 3 Action!

They showed us how to live a godly life in our army camps, a godly life based on repentance from throwing away inedible SAF combat ration and pushing the blame to others when being caught for doing something wrong. To gain extra points, Michael even showed us how to do proper push ups! Junyao tried to do the one hand push up too but ended up falling on the ground. No surprise there...

Skit 3(the winning skit! MY CG!). What will happen if CD1 goes to war.
Unfortunately i have no photos for the skit because i forgot to ask someone to help me take photos while i act as the lazy general who refused to use his rifle to shoot because he didnt want to clean the gunpowder after using it. I however have pictures of my CL Nicholas receiving our prize from Daniel and a victory taupok of Junyao.

After a fun time of laughing and taupoking, we went into a time of teaching. Jiehui, our UL, who just came back from the Leadership Conference in Thailand taught us on "Why we are in Hope". It may sound simple but it really hit many of us as Jiehui explained the vision of the Hope movement and the actions that have been taken to fulfill the Great Commission all over the world. Nicholas and Matthew also shared their testimonies about their recent short term mission trip to Thailand.

We joined hands and sang "peng you(friends)"(i hope my hanyupingying didnt fail me) to unite our hearts as one.

To end off the day, we prayed. We prayed like never before for growth in our ministry. We declared our desperation for God to work in our lives, our cgs and our camps. Like Jabez, we boldly ask God to enlarge our group during the coming Christmas season. We raised our hands and entrust our entire ministry into His hands.

"Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, "Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain." And God granted his request. "
-1 Chronicles 4:10

-Derrick

2006-11-19T00:55:00.000+08:00

girl of age 16 found dead outside kallang theatre.
it was a hit and run.
anyone who witness the scene may call 62353535.
HAHA. guess who that is. ;)

anyway, anyone who missed coporate prayermeet shouldnt miss it the next time. a time to pray together as a whole church and intercede for hope churches in other countries. for those who missed it, here's some pictures.

thats clara floating around the stairway. =)

we're going to come here again for christmas! YAYNESS. but dont forget to bring a friend along for christmas service! christmas is all about sharing the love of Jesus christ. =D

- angela. <3

HAPPENING central a! :D

2006-11-15T00:00:00.000+08:00

HELLO EVERYONE!
this is the first time i'm blogging here.
and i'm here to tell you how's central a doing. :)

we've been very HAPPENING lately, hahaha.
i shall start off with monday!
when we celebrated our new (st.marg's) care leader's birthday, PUIWAH!! :D

it was our first time succesful for surprising someone! :)
we met early and went to winnie's house.
and we cooked pancakes to surprise her.
it was rather hard, cause it kept going chao tah, HAHAHA!
and winnie had to keep stalling for time by bringing puiwah to ntuc when she went to fetch her,
because there were so many failure pancakes!
but we managed to cook a few slices of decent pancakes, even though they're not perfect. :)
HEY, it's the heart that counts okay!

then we went to hide in winnie's room when the pancakes are finally done.
it was very exciting! :D
cause we have to wait for the doraemon music to start, then go out and surprise her.
(the plan is puiwah is to come to winnie's house to watch doraemon cause puiwah LOVES doraemon! HAHA)
we had a box of presents for her too,
which is full of things which she wanted! ;D
like the letter pads and stickers she wanted so much from daiso as well as her favourite dark chocolate.
it also included a bible, which is what she always wanted as her current one was big & bulky & not NIV.
the surprise was very succesful, to the extent that she cried! :D
and and she didn't even suspect anything.
not even when she smelt pancakes! HAHA!

HAHA! doraemon pose! ;D

our pancake cooking!

PANCAKES! :D

puiwah's presents! :D

the birthday banner!

isn't liping 100% talented?
she drew such a pretty birthday banner within a very short notice!

and puiwah was a happy girl on her birthday. :)

puiwah!
thank you for being part of central a! :)
you really brought a lot of joy and laughter to the group.
and it really encourages everyone of us when we see your commitment and all that you gave to the group!
like initiating things like evangelising so that we can grow,
and also always taking the effort to really plan a GOOD care group like today's.
i'm sure that st.marg's will definitely go through a breakthrough in numbers soon!
as the vision, God gave you,
we're like a dormant volcano.
but when the right time comes, we'll erupt violently and drown st.marg's with lava (God's love)! ;)
God loves you for who you are and so do central a!

and i'm not lying,
central a is very happening these days.
we had cg today,
and i'll blog about them tomorrow. :)
(i need to get the photos first)
also, it cause, we have another event tomorrow!
which will be blogged tomorrow, HAHA.

God bless and remember to pray for breaking 170!
-mila :D

2006-11-13T00:40:00.000+08:00

hi everyone!

welcome to central blog! hehe. a reply to a few tags out there.
[chloe] hi dear. we only link to the leaders of central because if we were to link to everyone in central, it would be quite a long line down aint it? heh. yep! =)

[ham] haha, because we want to show loads of stuff on the calendar and if its too small, some people might have some problems looking at it. but yeh, we're still trying to make it smaller and more high tech. upgrading is still in process!! ;)

keep the tags coming in people! and we hope to see support from all of you by tagging and passing us pictures/comments/reviews/etc. you can email us!

angela- anqi_07@hotmail.com
grace- glgracelim@hotmail.com
celeste- lest_tsel@hotmail.com
derrick- derricksee@hotmail.com
mila- milliefhee@hotmail.com
tracy- theracie@hotmail.com

- angela =)

water baptism!

2006-10-30T22:39:00.000+08:00

Jiamin to Desiree.
Xuanting to Kisha.
Tracee to Mia.

The 3 of us (all from Central E!) were baptised yesterday at YMCA. (:

Us before getting baptised. I know you can't tell from this photo, but we were feeling quite nervous at that point of time!

After washing up, we are all happy girls! Daniel being the happy boy, of course.
Mia(:

the test post

2006-10-17T20:22:00.000+08:00

TESTING