"Believe it Or Not"

This week again, we have a fruitful week with our weekly caregroup with its theme "Believe it or not~" We kicked off our caregroup with a nice, delicious and full full Spaghetti from Salak South. Thanks to Father & James!! Let rolls for some photo as below!!! ~ Enjoy!

So we are having our dinner here~ Italian food for tonight!!! Fellowship time and Cold drinks are served!!

The Sisters, Yim Ling, Carmen & Eleen having their dinner as well!!

For the first time, Wee Leong leading Worship songs in the caregroup~ Breakthrough, Amen!!

Another view taken from the back, Wee Leong seems to be concentrating there~

After P n W Section, we have game section~ so what we going to do? The gamemaster, Yim Ling write some alphabetical words on the first person palm while others look behind, then, the alphabetical words are written on the palm have to be delivered to the front person, bringing the message to the next person. The last person have to review the answer to the gamemaster. That how it works.~

Another shot from it with Carmen posing!!~ heheh

What they are doing? haha. Game Section yeah!~

After game section, we have a time of Sharing. (Sharing the word of God)

Some of the best shot photos during the sharing section By Raymond & Benjamin~

At every end of the our caregroup, this is what we did.. GROUP PHOTO!! *CHEEZE*

Here some of the Essential Sharing Point for the Night

Believe it or Not?

a) The Calling (Gen 12:1-8)

From the scripture, we can learn something from the WOG here. The Lord called Abram to leave the country and God promised Abram that He will make him into a great nation and He will bless Abram. Without hesitation, Abram believe it and did as God told him. So actually here, we can learn that “If you believe it, you will be blessed”. Then, following with the calling, abundance will come into your life. It might not happen immediately. Abraham waiting for 40 more years for the promises to come.

b) The Promise (Gen 17)

What mentioned here the impossible is promised by God. When God say He will grant, then He will grant. With such age of 99 of Abraham, God promise Abraham that His wife, Sarah will be blessed and God will be given a son to them.

c) The Test (Gen 22:1-13)

There are Issacs in our life, always came out in our lives that would test us of our faithfulness to God.

d) The Completion (Gen 22:15-19)

Because Abraham demonstrated complete trust in God the Lord restated his promise to Abraham. “I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore… And through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed because you have obeyed me.” So, every promise will be completed by the final approval from God. We have passed the test that God had for us, even greater blessings will come into our lives. The key is to keep our heart pure toward God, no matter the promise had been fulfilled or yet to be fulfilled.

(Thanks to Sis. Yim Ling)

Question: How many times you use logical mind to limit What God could promise you??

Awaken Camp 2009 (Port Dickson)

Wow.. Such a drought session for Unitencg for didn't upload any post for this.. How bout i show u some photo of our previous Awaken Camp 2009 - Port Dickson Unleashed with its theme "You Will Never Walk Alone" that emphasize on family Spirit. Ok..~ Some photos are reviewed below~ A Picture Speak a thousand Words ~

Gathering at Church before departing to the place, it seems in this picture Jeremy like giving a speech...

Here is it, we finally reached to the destination. They were discussing with their group slogan.. and knowing each other in the same time.

Ice breaking games for the day as we arrived after the group delegations. "Do u Love Your Neighbor?, No~ Then, Whose Neighbor do u Love? I love All Guys Neighbor"

Here was the scene when everyone was running!! Everyone get Excited!!

Not to forget also, we come before Him to give our God praises with Phoebe as Guitarist and Serene as d Vocalist!! "Yesus Pokok~"

Another view and the participant of the camp~

what we have here ?? Station games #2 by Kui Woon: Waste Hair to collect burbles. ~ semua rambut tanggal. Thomas with his familiar pangsai post "Si Suak Suak"!!

We have a time of together at the Port Dickson Beach!! Banana boat wuzzz there!!

This was the Station Game that each group have to win!! They have collect all the pieces at each game station before they can find the secret & hidden letter!!

photos for the overall committees for this camp!! We are presenting the song to them!! Women of Worship - You Will Never Walk Alone

What we have on that night? BBQ!! "Siu Kai Yik, Ngo Jui Zhong Yi Sek~" The brothers are preparing the fire setup for the BBQ Section.

On the other side, most of the groups are discussing the presentation that they going to bring out related to the theme of the camp "You Never Walk Alone"~ Something very serious with 3 judges going to judge on them~

Winner's happy smiling face in this photo!!

Group photo of all of us!! I guess some are not in..

Another photo when we started to go back~ Lunch Time

We all going back after we have our great lunch fellowship togerher. In a nutshell, it was a great experience for all of us for this wonderful trip~ Thank to God for such a wonder time~ Let Rejoice ahead!!

Alex n Helen - Covenant (20 June 2009)

Pictures and videos talk louder than words... So sit tight & watch...

Flashback of Morning Session:

Upten Presentation

Dinner "Yam Seng" Session...

Kui Woon, welcome back to Malaysia

This picture reminded me of our olden days in uniten. It was taken in 2003 July - Freshies tour @ Putrajaya. Our dear bro kui woon was just a 3-month old christian...very very young and cute. Today I realized that we have serve God together for 6 years and he is now a mighty man for God.

I thanks God for all the memories He added into my life, different ppl and different incidents.
Just like what Paul mentioned in bible , I thank God every time I remember you. I must not forget all the memorial stone God marked in my life, I shall continue grow from there.
Hope it will be an encouragement to those who see my life too.

Last but not least, welcome back to Malaysia, kiew cute our dear UL.

Someone's birthday...

On 7/5, we have our JDMM at Noah's Ark. Then we celebrated a sis birthday...can guess who is this? pay attention to the cake and you will know. This special person shared 3 prayer points and we prayed together.



We had a crazy toast too...see..
In this moment as everyone opened their mouth big big....let us commit ourselves to this friendship that our Lord Jesus Christ blesses us. Love you :)

CL retreat @ Dusun Paradise , Malacca 1/5

On the same day (1/5) , while the unit members gone down to Melacca to have fun, UPTEN oldiest were with Pastor and other church fellow leaders . We went to melacca too :) . We departed from our house after prayer at 7.05am, stopped by our first destination - R&R hentian seremban to fill up our stomach. Then we continued our journey to Dusun paradise which is located somewhere near alor gajah for ' times of refreshing '... We arrived at our second destination around 9am. The admission free is not cheap, RM35 per person and there were 20++ of us... our pastor really spent to appreaciate the leadership team in Hope church. Below are the pictures taken during the tour at the dusun P.

We got the chance to sit in 'tutu' car. Though we were not the one who drive, but everyone was excited when seeing the cars. And taking pictures like never before...hehe

The one in the middle of the photo is our pastor bong, having a cool ride.

The one in the middle of the photo is our pastor bong and his wife, sis shara.

One thing we always remember to do is taking group photo - UPTEN AUL & CLs

UL in india...kui woon, you just watch us first lo.. next time bring you there.

Here , we saw different type of plants and fruit trees, there are some animals too ..

In our visiting to dusun P, we learn a new word call "Park touring" , we sat in the tutu cars and started to tour the park. Is the hokkien word "paktor" which means dating originated from english ??

We got to know a plant called Pokok Cinta ( Love treet), which the seed has a heart shape on it. According to the guide, some people use the seeds to confess their love to....don't know how true it is but i guess it would work.. There are other interesting plants like - Monkey cup-the pitcher plant, Mosquito repellent plant , Pokok duit ( let's plant one in the church and it grows money to contribute to our church building fund ) .

Thousands of banana

We are allowed to pluck and eat the jambu air along the way , we collected a lot and fed the deer. The ostriches were very hungry, they ran to our direction for papaya leaves. Sis lih qing was screaming all the way coz the big birds were very aggresive...hihi

These are picture taken at the hall while we were waiting for cultural dance performances...the native from sarawak presented to us with 3 to 4 dances. One of it was very dangerous, they demo on their culture hunting 'equipment' - blowpipe. The presenter managed to shoot all the balloons though he missed 2 times. It was fantastic. Tetapi I wonder why don't dusun Paradise get someone from melacca to present something related to melacca like baba nyonya dances instead sarawak cultural dance lo :p . Anyhow, the performances added joy to our retreat.

At the end of the last dance, large crowd were invited to the stage to join them ...really funny when they shouted together. wowowowo....

At the mini cultural village, our mighty leaders were practising how to use the blowpipe. Samuel was teaching Ah Qing how to use it though he only has 3-legged-cat kang hu...haha...

After the dusun tour, fruit party awaited us...

We were treated with great Nyonya food @ Suan Restaraunt, Melacca after the 'main-main' at dusun Paradise ... We enjoy the CL retreat very much. Thank you Pastor Bong for preparing the trip for us. We love you love you lo.

brb

Retreat to Malacca - Outing Caregroup

Melaka's best Chicken Rice Ball

Road Side's Cocoonut Shake with Vanilla Ice cream Topping



Cooling Cendol


Famous Satay Celup

Eye Of Malaysia at Melaka



A' Famosa at Melaka



Menara Taming Sari (new !!)



Pantai Puteri (30 mins from Malacca City)

Where we go? We all went to Melaka to have a rest ~ This is the group photo!

Let's Take a Break (Kit Kat =P)

• Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while - Mark 6:31

Luke 9:1-10

• According to tradition, when the apostle John was overseer in Ephesus, his hobby was raising pigeons. It is said that one one occasion another elder passed his house as he returned from hunting and saw John playing with one of his birds. The man gently chided him for spending his time so frivolously.

• John looked at the hunter's bow and remarked that the string was loose. "Yes," said the elder, "i always loosen the string of my bow when it's not in use. If it stayed tight, it would lose its resilence and fail me in the hunt."

• John responded, "And i am now relaxing the bow of my mind so that i may be better able to shoot the arrows of divine truth."

• We cannot do our best work with nerves taut or frayed from constant pressure. When Jesus' disciples returned from a strenuous preaching mission, their Master recognized their need for rest and invited them to come with Him to a quiet place where they could be refreshed (Mark 6:31).

• Hobbies, vacations, and wholesome recreation are vital to a well-balanced, godly life. We lose our effectivenss by keeping our lives so tightly strung that we are always tense. If it seems we cant relax, Jesus may be inviting us to take a break - to come aside. . . and rest a while." - Dennis De Haan

If our body, soul, and spirit

Are to function at their best,

Time is needed for renewal,

Time for leisure, time for Rest. - D. De Haan