A deft-handed member in our Growth Group has been making delicately intricate origami earrings for the purpose of raising funds for the upcoming camp,
and these unique hand-made ornaments have been the adoration of the ladies since their debut.
For those who want to order or see the catalog, drop a line in the comments box!
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Origami Earrings
Thursday, April 24, 2008
GLOP Ep 5: Passion for People Pt 2 :Oikos
Occasion: Lunch and Church Camp Meeting after GG
Atmosphere: CHAOS.
Our meeting intensifies, with ideas, arguments, reasoning, clarification, confusion thrown over nasi lemak and noodles of all sorts. I guess that’s what inspired Unc Hoi Meng to pen this poem for Episode 6 of our GLOP announcement. Being one of the quieter of the lot, he must have thought: “What is this hoo-ha over a camp?”
Year in year out, why Family Camp?
So much need to do and so much need to plan,
I remembered Helen says can ah…and I said.……can can,
Now I wonder whether I am in a frying pan!
To have meeting……..good-lah over makan,
Yum, yum, talk, talk…….can still work and plan,
Young and old, never mind we are all part of the band,
For all in the GG ever ready to give a helping hand.
God’s Love, Our passion……this is the theme,
To evangelize, we need internally Christ driven steam,
Furthermore, to evangelize, we also need to work as a team,
For
His people, His creation…..Our LORD seek out with full compassion,
For you, me & the whole world, He last prayed before his crucifixion,
In His grace……we are all now saved from eternal damnation,
COME to CAMP & find out His passionate love for His Creation!
…..AND DARE TO DREAM FOR GOD TO CLAIM THIS NATION!!
SO WE NEED TO PROCLAIM & BE FAITHFUL FOR IT IS NOT AN OPTION……
THEN, BRING LAH OIKOS FOR THEY TOO NEED GOD’S SALVATION!
Honest poetry writing indeed.
Let’s ask God to give us specific oikos to bring to the camp, and act by faith. If you are feeling obliged to come yourself, maybe you are your own oikos! Challenge yourself to rediscover God’s love – the original lover, the only truth, the one creator.
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And let me end by Hoi Meng’s compilation of chewable quotes from Mother T.
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I do know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life?, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did?”
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.”
“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.”
“There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation than for bread.”
“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”
“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.”
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
“Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”
“Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.”
“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.”
“At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made or how many great things we have done. We will be judged by ‘I was hungry and you gave me to eat. I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless and you took me in.’”
GLOP Ep 4: Passion for People Pt.1
Two weeks ago (6th Apr) Charmaine gave us a lil brain workout during congregation Sunday. Asking us to draw a few strange objects (like almonds and whatnots), she made us write the pictographic message – Eye Heart U (turn). Basically “I Love You”.
God wanted to share His love. He demonstrated His love to us humans through the man Jesus Christ. His existence, His ministry, His death – was all to say – “I’ll do anything for you”. Jesus Christ was how we could understand the insaneness of God’s love. Without the demonstration on the cross, God’s love might seem like a fairy tale or legend to us.
Just as Charmaine has shown us how seemingly nonsensical icons can spell out a meaningful statement, we must bring the gospel – irrelevant at first to some, but meant for all, to everyone we meet.
Faith is an outcome of our love for God.
Works is an outcome of our love for His people.
What do we do to demonstrate our love for others, as God as loved us?
Simply put, we must be evangelists, bringing the good news and demonstrating it by caring and praying for them.
A few of us: Lai Leng, Jia Hua, Yung Ling, Jia Tee & Jia Yein attended Release Conference – an evangelism conference by Tony Anthony on the 21st March. Their testimonies ring in unison – it was a revelation; a liberation of our occupation as evangelists. Evangelism is as simple as leaving a tract for a stranger, or spending a few minutes explaining the gospel to our friends. Recently I had a chance of sharing my faith, and to my surprise, people are more curious and eager to know than I imagined. After a long time not sharing the gospel, I was taken aback by my own words – as if I was hearing the gospel for the first time again.
Let not our insecurities and fears take over our love. Imagine if you have not heard the gospel! Wouldn’t you want to hear it? Pastor Cally related to us how a friend wept when he heard the Gospel for the first time, realizing that he was waiting for that good news all his life.
Let’s ask God, to give us an open door to share, not out of duty, but out of love. If you have forgotten the message of the Gospel, ask God to tell you the good news again, and spread the word!
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