Message on 18 Jan 07
Hello dearest brothers and sisters of 1723!!!
I've a piece of good news to share with you all on my part!!! A friend of mine has just accepted Christ recently!!! I've even brought him to our fellowship before during the April evangelistic outreach our fellowship had last year! His name is Kairong, currently also studying with me in medical school year 3. He's been my classmate since J1, and I've witnessed to him since J1 all the way till last year. In fact, I would have thought that he was earnestly seeking the Truth, just that he was unwilling to take the step of faith. Chatting over msn with him late on Monday night, I had a pleasant surprise when he told me that he had the joy of knowing the Lord! He was already reading the Bible on his own and praying too!!! My heart was full of praise to the Lord for His wonderful leading of my friend to know Him in such a personal way too!!! Hallelujah!! (I've invited him to our fellowship this Saturday... he's very willing to come to what he calls as 'the House of hs Lord', but he's gotta check his schedule) Wow!!!
And I'm certainly glad to hear that many of our fellowship members did pay a visit to Louise in NUH!!! Apparently, there was a 'scout party' on Sunday afternoon involving some of us, while the 'rear guard' went on Monday afternoon! Hahaha!!! I was part of the latter, and I'm very very glad to hear that both groups of 1723 members did manage to pray for Louise and her family! Indeed, I think that marks a certain degree of fulfilment of John 13:34~35! Here's the love that Christ wants us to display to the world!!! The love for brothers and sisters in God's family shines distinctly in our faith! Well done, prayer warriors!!! Keep up the work!!!
Right... so how are you all this week? Since our first Bible Study of the year on Saturday, have your appetite for fellowship been whetted? Hahaha!!!! Anyways, I've received feedback that our fellowship is still quite a far cry from the shao nian sheng jing fang. I guess we all still appear unfamiliar to each other and there's a whole lot of inertia for us to break the ice. Hm.... despite the many games that we had in the past weeks, most of us actually know little about our newest members, save for their JC, their subject combinations and their CCAs. This would thus, lead me to my next point regarding this Saturday's event...
Haoyih and Haoning's family has very generously offered our fellowship an opportunity to come over to their house this saturday! Their family is also treating us to dinner too!! (Very nice of them right??) Thanks Haoyih, Haoning and your family!!! After quite a bit of deliberation between the group leaders and myself, we decided that we could have the xiao zu activity at their place too!! We would still meet up in church at 4pm SHARP, for worship and for me to conclude our 2-month long theme of 'Fellowship' before we carry out our usual but essential prayer network activity. Only after that would we adjourn to Haoyih and Haoning's place.
HOWEVER, as I've mentioned before, the xiao zu activity's primary objective is to allow the group members to know each other more, with special attention on the newer members. I hate being a killjoy, but I certainly do hope that this critical objective is not omitted among the camaraderie! There would be alot of games and fun, but do make sure, my dearest group leaders, that we do not neglect this opportunity to get your groups together to have a deeper sharing? (I would personally suggest dinner time... when all of us would be sitting and mouthing food anyway. It's a good time for group leaders to have their little pep-talk!!^^)
After which, of course, we can have basketball game, watch movie or play some really interesting (but mentally-challenging games thought out by our hostesses). Basically, we'll have fun too!!!
Hm... some housekeeping matters to address here. With regards to our tuanqi T-shirt, we have yet to issue everyone with a set. This is chiefly due to a lack of T-shirts in our hands. Hence, we would be passing out a list again for fellowship members especially our newer members, to indicate the T-shirt colour preference and size this Saturday so Preacher Ruifu can make the orders early!!! We really hope to see uniformity in diversity when we go for da tang xian shi next!!! (Hahaha!!!)
Rebekah, our publicity IC for 1723 has been tasked as project manager for the booth that our fellowship would be setting up pretty soon! Pastor Hwang has mentioned before that each fellowship would be setting up booths to attract mere church-goers to be zealous fellowshippers! Of course, Rebekah would need a hand in this project, and she would be requesting a team of creative, artistic, resourceful, and most of all, COMMITTED volunteers from our fellowship to help her! Afterall, this is a fellowship mission, so why not? Volunteers anyone??? ^^
Okie dokie.... that's enough yakking for me today... hope I haven't bored you all to death!! ;-( Let me leave you all with a verse for this week:
One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house fo the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek Him in His temple.--Psalm 27:4
This is taken from one of the Psalms written by King David as he remarked how important the Lord's presence was to him. This verse really inspires me as I reflect on my own life. How often do I actually thirst after the Lord? Do I really enjoy the Lord's presence and yearn for His company everyday? While King David doesn't imply that we do nothing else but to loaf around in church, (mind you, he is the King and has a country to run!!!), he is actually indicating the desire of his heart to be one in Spirit with the Lord, to be ever more close to the Lord, to hear the Lord's tender whisper from time to time...
May we also learn to be like King David (also known as the Man after God's heart), to seek after the Lord's presence, to desire His company in our lives...Till we meet again, brothers and sisters of 1723, let the Lord be our constant companion, through good times and bad. May He be the REASON for living and for our fellowship to be bonded as one. God Bless!!!
In His Service,Zhaomin
I've a piece of good news to share with you all on my part!!! A friend of mine has just accepted Christ recently!!! I've even brought him to our fellowship before during the April evangelistic outreach our fellowship had last year! His name is Kairong, currently also studying with me in medical school year 3. He's been my classmate since J1, and I've witnessed to him since J1 all the way till last year. In fact, I would have thought that he was earnestly seeking the Truth, just that he was unwilling to take the step of faith. Chatting over msn with him late on Monday night, I had a pleasant surprise when he told me that he had the joy of knowing the Lord! He was already reading the Bible on his own and praying too!!! My heart was full of praise to the Lord for His wonderful leading of my friend to know Him in such a personal way too!!! Hallelujah!! (I've invited him to our fellowship this Saturday... he's very willing to come to what he calls as 'the House of hs Lord', but he's gotta check his schedule) Wow!!!
And I'm certainly glad to hear that many of our fellowship members did pay a visit to Louise in NUH!!! Apparently, there was a 'scout party' on Sunday afternoon involving some of us, while the 'rear guard' went on Monday afternoon! Hahaha!!! I was part of the latter, and I'm very very glad to hear that both groups of 1723 members did manage to pray for Louise and her family! Indeed, I think that marks a certain degree of fulfilment of John 13:34~35! Here's the love that Christ wants us to display to the world!!! The love for brothers and sisters in God's family shines distinctly in our faith! Well done, prayer warriors!!! Keep up the work!!!
Right... so how are you all this week? Since our first Bible Study of the year on Saturday, have your appetite for fellowship been whetted? Hahaha!!!! Anyways, I've received feedback that our fellowship is still quite a far cry from the shao nian sheng jing fang. I guess we all still appear unfamiliar to each other and there's a whole lot of inertia for us to break the ice. Hm.... despite the many games that we had in the past weeks, most of us actually know little about our newest members, save for their JC, their subject combinations and their CCAs. This would thus, lead me to my next point regarding this Saturday's event...
Haoyih and Haoning's family has very generously offered our fellowship an opportunity to come over to their house this saturday! Their family is also treating us to dinner too!! (Very nice of them right??) Thanks Haoyih, Haoning and your family!!! After quite a bit of deliberation between the group leaders and myself, we decided that we could have the xiao zu activity at their place too!! We would still meet up in church at 4pm SHARP, for worship and for me to conclude our 2-month long theme of 'Fellowship' before we carry out our usual but essential prayer network activity. Only after that would we adjourn to Haoyih and Haoning's place.
HOWEVER, as I've mentioned before, the xiao zu activity's primary objective is to allow the group members to know each other more, with special attention on the newer members. I hate being a killjoy, but I certainly do hope that this critical objective is not omitted among the camaraderie! There would be alot of games and fun, but do make sure, my dearest group leaders, that we do not neglect this opportunity to get your groups together to have a deeper sharing? (I would personally suggest dinner time... when all of us would be sitting and mouthing food anyway. It's a good time for group leaders to have their little pep-talk!!^^)
After which, of course, we can have basketball game, watch movie or play some really interesting (but mentally-challenging games thought out by our hostesses). Basically, we'll have fun too!!!
Hm... some housekeeping matters to address here. With regards to our tuanqi T-shirt, we have yet to issue everyone with a set. This is chiefly due to a lack of T-shirts in our hands. Hence, we would be passing out a list again for fellowship members especially our newer members, to indicate the T-shirt colour preference and size this Saturday so Preacher Ruifu can make the orders early!!! We really hope to see uniformity in diversity when we go for da tang xian shi next!!! (Hahaha!!!)
Rebekah, our publicity IC for 1723 has been tasked as project manager for the booth that our fellowship would be setting up pretty soon! Pastor Hwang has mentioned before that each fellowship would be setting up booths to attract mere church-goers to be zealous fellowshippers! Of course, Rebekah would need a hand in this project, and she would be requesting a team of creative, artistic, resourceful, and most of all, COMMITTED volunteers from our fellowship to help her! Afterall, this is a fellowship mission, so why not? Volunteers anyone??? ^^
Okie dokie.... that's enough yakking for me today... hope I haven't bored you all to death!! ;-( Let me leave you all with a verse for this week:
One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house fo the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek Him in His temple.--Psalm 27:4
This is taken from one of the Psalms written by King David as he remarked how important the Lord's presence was to him. This verse really inspires me as I reflect on my own life. How often do I actually thirst after the Lord? Do I really enjoy the Lord's presence and yearn for His company everyday? While King David doesn't imply that we do nothing else but to loaf around in church, (mind you, he is the King and has a country to run!!!), he is actually indicating the desire of his heart to be one in Spirit with the Lord, to be ever more close to the Lord, to hear the Lord's tender whisper from time to time...
May we also learn to be like King David (also known as the Man after God's heart), to seek after the Lord's presence, to desire His company in our lives...Till we meet again, brothers and sisters of 1723, let the Lord be our constant companion, through good times and bad. May He be the REASON for living and for our fellowship to be bonded as one. God Bless!!!
In His Service,Zhaomin
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