More Pics Of JUMP

Here are more pics through Simon Chan's lens :) Thanks Simon...

JUMP

It was a night of praise & worship under the star-studded sky for the star of the day, Jesus!

I was told that there were close to 2500 people at the event. At around 6 pm, we were praying for the rain to stop and the sky to clear up. As the worship team worshipped, the sky started to clear.

After we started on the first set of praise and progressed into worship, the atmosphere was lifted up. The presence of God was very tangible. We lifted up our hands and our lives to the one whose name we bore!

I was overwhelmed!

Below are some pictures captured through Merv’s camera lens. A picture does indeed paint a thousand words. Beautiful pics for a marvellous God!

Adults Care Leaders' Celebration

There are so many things that have happened over the past week. Let me blog the Adults CL celebration first.

As a whole region, we gathered all the adults CLs, ULs & DLs to remember and thank God for the wonderful things that he had done in the Adults group over the past 4 ½ months.

We started the whole adults charge of growing from the month of April till August. We were hovering around 700 people in our service attendance in April. We prayed and trusted God that every one of our care groups will grow.

Since then, more than 60% of the care groups have grown. Our service attendance is now averaging above 750 people. When we set our goals and trust God in prayer and hard work, God showed up big time!

I have heard of groups that have not seen any new friend crossing the ling of faith for the past 3 years experiencing conversion in their group! Incredible stories of faith were heard everywhere.

Not only has the adults group grown, our family and Hope Kids ministries advanced the Kingdom at their ends as well. The family connected more than 20 people in our services while the Hope Kids grown by over 20 kids too.

We did our adults celebration at the Chiang Mai Palace at Far East Square. There were around 100 of us there. Thank you people for taking God’s dream for our church one step closer to reality!

9.69 & 19.30

I must simply blog this as a tribute to perhaps the greatest sprinter till date, Usain Bolt. He broke both the 100m and 200m sprints!

In the past, my heart was broken by Ben Johnson who broke the world record then but was founded to have taken banned substance.

But for this round, Bolt broke the 100m world record and with room to spare. He began to celebrate at the 80m mark after knowing that he has won. God only knows what the record would be if he had sprinted all the way to the tape.

I have just watched the 200m finals. This time, he sprinted all the way and broke Michael Johnson’s previous world record of 19.32 seconds. As I understand from the commentator, Johnson had commented that his world record will not be broken!

Well done Bolt… let’s do the Jamaican reggae over some rum man!

Time With Pastor Simon & Hai Eng

It was a wonderful start to the week for many of our staff team. Pastor Simon and Hai Eng visited us in Singapore.

Pastor Simon, our international elder, came to visit us after his meeting in Johor Bahru. Hai Eng, who is overseeing all the department works at the Movement level, came along as well.

Doing what Singapore does best, we took them out for a food trail. We had a wonderful lunch at a Japanese restaurant. It was filled with food and laughter. Mike was the obvious horse face and he really cracked all of us up big time!

I ordered some noodles and when it came, I was really embarrassed. I had no idea that Japanese served noodles in basin! I expected bowls but it was not to be : (

After lunch, we went for some Durian. We went all out for the very best ones who were going at S$20/kg. It was money well spent! The final verdict is that Mountain Cat still top D24 anytime!

We were too engrossed with the Mountain Cat that no one volunteered to take any snapshots...

In between meals, we discussed much about church and were challenged to advance the Kingdom greatly too. It was a very enriching time for all of us.

JUMP 2008

JUMP (Jesus U Must Praise) 2008

Imagine yourself in Nexus, jumping and grooving along to the praise and worship. Now, take away the green and blue chairs, the carpet flooring, and oh, the roof of Nexus Auditorium, and replace them with grass, trees and fluffy clouds instead!

Come August 22nd, from 7.30pm to 9.30pm, join us at Fort Canning Green for our first-ever evangelistic worship concert under the stars!

Don't miss this chance to invite pre-believing friends, and don't forget to grab the limited edition JUMP fun pack and badges!

There will be only 500 Jump packs up for grabs!!!

The Jump Pack is only going for $20 each, ONLY IF you order before 16th August @ the JUMP BOOTH.

For more details, proceed to the Jump Booth outside after your worship service on the weekend.

Hope Kids Video

This is a video that Hong Teck did for Hope Kids. He was asking me to share about the importance of Kids Ministry in our church and Movement.



Below is the advert for the next 3 weeks for Hope Kids Live! Let's do our part to build the future of our church!

Are you lost? Sam’s new dog Rebel is. Curl up and listen to our story of sin, separation, and redemption in two settings—a boy and his dog, and our loving God and his beloved mankind.

This 3 part series doesn’t just tell the stories in the Bible—it’s the story of the Bible. As we share in the adventures of Sam, Rebel, and the villainous Miss Chievous and her sidekick Ace, we’ll begin to uncover a parallel story that we all star in—God’s amazing plan to rescue each of us from being lost.

“Lost” Part 1-3 will be shown in HopeKids LIVE! on the 10th, 17th and 24th of August.

Bring your friends aged 7-12 to these outreach services.

Hong Teck, Hiew

18.029km

18.029km…that was the reading on my pedometer after my 3 preaching on Saturday!

I attended all the 3 services and preached in the 3 services as well. I was pleasantly surprised that I covered so much ground. I have heard research stating that one preaching is equivalent to 9 hours of work in the office in terms of the mental and emotional energy required. But I have never seen or read any statistics in terms of the distance covered during preaching.

My guess is that it depends on the preacher too. For me, I do walk around quite a fair bit and that explains for the distance covered. No wonder I always look forward to a foot massage after a whole weekend of preaching.

So the conclusion is that when you preach, you do more than just exercise your spiritual gifts. You exercise your body as well!

No wonder the bible says in Romans 10:15…

How beautiful are the feet (and legs) of those who bring good news!

Henderson Wave

Recently, during one of our day off, Claudia and I went for a little walk at the Henderson Wave. We have seen it being featured on the television and it looked really nice. So, we decided to take a little walk for some relaxation and exercise.

Wow! The view was really quite magnificent. The architecture and design are really world class. I am so envious of the residents that live near there. Their property price and their quality life should really improve with this new development.

It is windy, has unblocked view and has scenery that promises to soothe the most savage of beast.

If you have the time, do take the time to just walk around this place. It’s really beautiful.

By the way, for all you courting couples, you may want to pop the question in this place too : )

Check it out!