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

Another nice shots ...

Bible Conference 7-9 March

A Hollistic Church

Happy Birthday to March birthday boys - Thomas, Jabez, Allan, Raymond and Femi...

Congrats to Terry & Renny ( 14/3)

Moment @ Saloon

Photographer/Editor - Helen

It is another back dated posting today. Wanting to put put these pic to the blog quite sometime ago but keep delaying...Must do now as it is coming to end of april..haha...Kui woon is coming back soon. Really sorry to kui wen, I promised to describe to him bout some of our moments in words and pic through uniten blog, and it finally happened after his 2 months in india :p... (good try good try)

Water Baptism - 9/3/2009

This is a back dated posting. Hope Serdang conducted Water Baptism Ceremony on 9/3/2009 ( selangor puclic holiday) . Togather with kajang unit, Bro Wei Liang (uniten) and Sis Ai Lim (upm) from upten were being baptised in water on this day also.

We arrived around 10am @ Sri Pinang baby pool. All of us were very excited for this celebrative moment. Pastor shared a passage about water baptism and faith, then made public confirmation with all the bro and sis about their conviction in salvation and decision to be baptised , then the water baptism began... Praise God for giving us a chance to live a new life!!

1Peter 3: 21 - and this water symbolizes baptism which now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

I Corinthians 10:1-4
And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, And were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

God brought Israel:
out of Egypt (the land of slavery--i.e. sin)
through the sea (water -i.e. baptism)
and into the promised land (Israel--i.e. salvation, redemption)

Baptism is nothing new in God’s plan. It is something He has always used to illustrate the separating of sin from mankind. God has always saved people through water. It was foreshadowed long ago in the Old Testament scriptures.