Zion Youth Discipleship 2006

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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

HELLO !

its Joey, Alicia and Charles speaking! :D here are our thoughts on the yf retreat!

JOEY:
one thing that stood out most for me was what we learnt on the last day in Chapter 6 of Ephesians.. "Honour your father and your mother". those who went for retreat would have known that my parents didnt allow me to stay over, and so.. to be honest, i found it really hard to honour them at that point of time. but after BS on thursday, i came to realise how important it is to obey our parents, even though sometimes they may make unreasonable demands. (haha. im not saying that my parents were unreasonable) it gets hard, definitely, but we can be comforted in knowing that this commandment comes with a promise - that we will live a long life on earth if we honour them :) so lets all try to be good testimonies for Him at home and honour our parents okay? :D this is what the Bible instructs us to do so lets try out very best to do it with joy!
another thing my group discussed was about service. we were being rather random and it had nothing to do with Ephesians but i felt that it was a really good discussion. we talked about our spiritual blessings.. how would we really know which area God would like us to serve in? and i think very often, many of us wish to serve in a particular area just because it seems so "cool" .. but is that what God wants? will He be pleased with that attitude? when it comes to service, i think we should all pray very hard and ask for God to guide us, instead of just plunging into things straight away. and most importantly, we MUST MUST have the right motive .. which is to serve God and to glorify Him!
overall, i really enjoyed this retreat.. getting to know more people and the great fellowship we had together! even study time was good. (but i didnt study much LOL!) it was an extremely refreshing time for me! :) and i really thank God for giving me this opportunity to get to know Him more..

ALICIA:
altho i didnt go for much of retreat, i have to say that retreat was very fun, even for the short duration i've been in there. however, retreat was not only fun, but refreshing and enjoyable. especially on the short section of Revelations, it explained many things, and also kindled an interest on it. Seriously, Revelations is very interesting and rather spooky. :/ but yes, it is VERY nice and i encourage all of you to read it ! and also, games ! games were fun, esp wet games. oh, and i would like to thank my groupmates who splash water on me, it wasnt cold, not at all lastly, i would like to encourage others to go for other retreats ! it would be something you would not regret.

CHARLES:
retreat was a wonderful time for spiritual refreshment, time to come closer to God, without the worldy troubles of work and what not. worship sessions were held a few times a day, and this was really great, being able to sign of God's greatness and love for us, being constantly reminded about it.
the bible study sessions were great, with the help of wonderful facilitators of the 87' girls. Joyce, Mabel, Sarah and *who?*. the book of ephesians was covered, mainly how the gospel was then 'available' to the Jews, as well as the Gentiles. how we were originally dead in sin and were not spiritually reborn with God's grace. we were able to draw much application from the text with the bible study techniques we were taught, be it honoring our parents, not gossiping etc.
during a time of self discovery during retreat, i am sure each and everyone of us who attended retreat took home a lesson or two. for me, i learnt the importance of faith. Christianity is a religion based on faith, based on the belief of an immaterial God, a God so close to us yet out of reach. I am a person who tends to rationalise. In the course of trying to learn more about God, many questions arise, and i try to rationalise them. this would be considered as a downfall, and i am sure that some fellow Christians too struggle with this problem. During a time set aside for prayer, and with aid from a spiritually more mature Chrisitan, i discovered that there is no need to think so much, as imperfect beings, we will never be able to comprehend many things in the spiritual realm. we should just take a leap of faith, believing that our Lord God is sitting on His throne, looking over us. we will never be able to comprehend God's plan, and there is good reason why. the Bible speaks of His work, His grace, His love, what more do we need?

on to yf yesterday! we had praise and worship followed by message on Philippians. Where Paul was captured and held in chains [ put in jail ]. Hence comes the question, if Paul is such a good preacher and a servant of Christ, why would God let him be put in jail ? But that is just such a small part of the picture, as Paul says in Philippians 4:12-13 "But I want you to know, brethren, that the things which happened to me have actually turned out for the furtherance of the gospel, so that it has become evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my chains are in Christ." Even though Paul was put in chains, he was still living a Godly life and being a living testimony for the Lord. And he inspired many to be bold about the gospel of Christ and to speak without fear. And that would answer the question :D Paul was put in jail to inspire people to and for Christ.

Notice how the words : 'I broke a nail' sounds so bimbotic. but in this case, alicia seriously broke it.. in half. :/ it happened like this : it was a nice bright and sunny day, after worship. the yfers went to use the carpark lots to play captains ball and alicia invited her dearest sprinter friend to church for the first time she liked yf ( so all you people PLEASE come ) but she said she didnt fit in, altho everyone was like trying to pass her the ball so she could play. she didnt want to catch it, so the evil defenders asked alicia to get off the chair to play with her friend, which alicia unwillingly did. so alicia ran to catch a ball, and being her, she slipped in a puddle and kicked the no-parking sign resulting to a broken toe nail which wouldnt stop bleeding, and that is alicia's very sad story (x

and joey came with shoulder length hair to church, which made a really cute pony tail ! :)while charles and danny didnt notice .. maybe its because they're guys(x .. cough cough but nevermind, many people says she looks like her sister but some says she looks the same. alicia thinks joey has cute hair now, which joey glady said that she was always cute to begin with. oh joey joey.HOWEVER, despite charles not noticing joey's hair, and being a guy. he isnt :D welcome to the sisterhood charlseypoopoo ! (x .. okay, since the sisterhood is exclusive .. join the female-hood :D

so yes, after charles accepts the fact that he is not a normal guy .. if he is one :D all of us are proud to say that charles has learnt a new song ! taught by our dearest Joey ! the one and only piano prodigy. :D which made charles super happy, cos now he has a song to aplay ! its entitled "a common love"

For those who have never attended youth worship for whatever reason, please do! as the name suggests, youth worship is a time for youths to gather and worship God. youth worship is on the 2nd and 4th week of every month. so yah, come!

charles missed the first part of youth worship today cause he was late :S having coffee you see. anyway, he slipped in after the doxology and proceeded to sing a medley of songs. followed by scripture reading and message.

today's speaker was Mr Thia Lee Yong. he spoke on "the power of the tongue - your words matter". the scripture by which the message was based on was James 3:1-12. the message touched on a few issues, mainly the power [of our tongue] to influence and direct, the power [of our tongue] to destroy, and the pontential for good. in a nutshell, the message spoke of us [Christians] having to bridle and watch our tongue as the tongue has no boundaries. the same tongue that we [chrisitans] use to sing praise and glorify God is the same tongue that we use to gossip, slander and curse. instead of using our tongue for such unrighteous purposes, we should use the very same tongue to fulfill the great commission, to spread the gospel and evangalise, bringing others to know Christ.

we then proceeded to a time of singing, prayer, offering and announcements before youth worship was officially over. we were privileged to have one new comer today, named Ting if i am not wrong. a big HELLO to you! Ting was brought by Rachel if i am not wrong. fellow youth fellowship-ers should try to invite their friends too! dont be discouraged if your friends do not comply. just try and help the body of christ grow!

haha. so i guess you all can tell how much the three of us have gained from yf.. not only the fun but also the fellowship and so much more about God! :D so we sincerely hope that you guys will all make an effort to come for yf! every saturday, 4pm, at room 209!

In-God's-Love,
Joey, Alicia and Charles! :D

Tuesday, June 13, 2006;

WALK IN FAITH.

Chong Mian, Zhiwen, Abel, Abraham, Linus, Nathaniel, Timothy, Zachary

Weiling, Yi Wern, Abigail, Jasmine, Junipher, Lynette, Megan, Melinda, Natalie, Sarah

Cindy, Debbie, Adeline, Aileen, Alicia, Athalie, Cassandra, Elyssa, Joey, Joy, Josette, Shermaine

Uncle Bobby, Patrick, Charles, Cheng Wei, Danny, Dickson, Edmund, John, Kenneth, Mark, Matthaeus, Peter, Ryan, Timothy

HAVE HOPE.

Those who don't know or don't go for YF, all are encouraged to go. Saturdays, 4pm! Ask anyone of us for details! =) To know Christ and to make Him known.

WITH LOVE.

Alicia
Danny
Joey&Charles&Alicia
Joy
Shermaine

faith.hope.love

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