Sunday, October 12, 2008

This shall be a long post from me. With a lot of random ramblings as I'm thinking a lot.

First, thanks for the all nice and belated lunches, dinners from all my friends! Thanks for understanding that I'm so busy and can't celebrate my birthday earlier with all of you. Wo bu shi diao qi lai mai!! harhar..

Next, I really fed up with some of my projects this semester. I'm not sure if it's just me, or is it them? Something is not quite right. I simply can't stand inefficiency as it takes away my precious time, but somehow, that seems to be the case. I'm not saying that they are not good, just that we have really different working styles. Maybe tat's why i still like to bid for modules with my long-suffering buddy in SMU. harhar.

As of Oct, I started serving in Sat Expo. I realised that it's pretty different from Sun Expo. Styles are different, people are different, and of course, the children are different. And this week, my 2nd week, was the most challenging week. so many of our core teachers are not around, and in e end, Pst and Shumei came by to help me out. So grateful! It opened my eyes to alot of things, set me thinking alot too. What is your purpose as a children's church teacher? What do I want to impart to the children who are 4 to 6 years old? What can I do and what is the best way that I can do it? It's not easy to be in charge of a service, so many things to look into. That's why I'm amazed at how Anna does it every week! I need to learn and enlarge my capacity.

Each child spends 3 years in my age group of 4-6. I have seen them grow, from being timid to being mischievous. Misbehaved to being very obedient to the teachers. It's a learning process. If there's one thing that I want to tell them, it has to be this: "Each one of them is SPECIAL, both in our eyes and God's, and GOD is the one who made them special". I believe that every child deserves to know and understand that, have confidence in themselves and know that God is the one who made them unique!

This week's cg and service was awesome and I believe that I had the honor to be a part of the MOST LEGENDARY offering msg given in a cg. Was really blessed by the message by BingHwa!! He shared with us from Gen 26. Of how Isaac went to Gerar during the famine. And then later, he sowed and he reaped. So how did Isaac had seeds to sow? It was most likely because the king gave it to him. Therefore, BingHwa gave us each a seed. It was 50 bucks, given to us in an envelope. (There's alot of us at the cg meeting!!) We can choose to keep it, or sow it, topping up with our personal giving. We were all so awed n blown away by the message. We had the chance to sow this seed, n be ready to reap the harvest together as a cg! I'm simply amazed!

Finally, I wanna talk about F5 or F4+1 as what Gene says. Let me share with you how all these started and came about. F4 was this awesome group of 4 friends, bob, gene, hui n joyce. It's a long term friendship where everyone is committed to one another, to watch each other's back. Then came along the 5th member of the group. He was someone going through a 'mini crisis' back then when Joyce suggested reaching out to him (as said by gene). And since they are around the same age, he was soon mixing well into their click and he really appreciated the effort and time spent with them! All the lame stories, the legendary TOUFU joke, all these are precious memories! So as time passes, F5 evolved into F4 + 1. But actually, it should be F4 +3, am i right gene? Still, I believe that this friendship will never change. That's because it's a friendship with God right in our midst! I really thank God for all of you, as you changed an anti-social person, who likes to go home straight after serving or service, into someone as lame as all of you!! muuaaahhhhaaa... Really appreciate all of you!

Finally, I'm really glad that A&B is coming. It's not going to be easy, but i know that we are going to go from glory to glory. There are so many things that I do not understand, but I can sense that God is doing a great and mighty move in our midst. I'm excited! Please help me by finding me more part-time jobs! To earn more money! hahaha.
L1v1nG 4 JeSuS at Sunday, October 12, 2008