If we hold on together...

Happy New Year! THis is our song dedication to all of you visiting this blog!

May we hold on to our dreams as we go forth into the new year of 2010!!!

Isaiah 43:18 - 19
"Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the desert
and streams in the wasteland.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Wishing everyone a blessed Christmas and a great New Year.

We have great dreams for the Youth Ministry in 2010... so continue to support us and pray for us! Thanks to everyone!

Man Asks God!!?!?

Something Light-hearted.. ;)

Man: God?
God: Yes?

Man: Can I ask you something?
God: Of course!

Man: What is for you a million of years?
God: A second.

Man: And a million of dollars?
God: A penny.

Man: God, Can you give me a penny?
God: Wait a second.

Christ in Me - by Max Lucado

Like Mary, you and I are indwelt by Christ.

Find that hard to believe? How much more did Mary? No one was more surprised by this miracle than she was. And no one more passive than she was. God did everything. Mary didn't volunteer to help. What did she have to offer? She offered no assistance.

And she offered no resistance. Instead she said, "Behold, the bond- slave of the Lord; may it be done to me according to your word" (Luke 1:38).

Unlike Mary, we tend to assist God, assuming our part is as important as his. Or we resist, thinking we are too bad or too busy. Yet when we assist or resist, we miss God's great grace. We miss out on the reason we were placed on earth-to be so pregnant with heaven's child that he lives through us. To be so full of him that we could say with Paul, "It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me." (Gal. 2:20)

What would that be like? To have a child within is a miracle, but to have Christ within?

To have my voice, but him speaking.
My steps, but Christ leading.
My heart, but his love beating
in me, through me, with me.
What's it like to have Christ on the inside?

To tap his strength when mine expires
or feel the force of heaven's fires
raging, purging wrong desires.
Could Christ become my self entire?

So much him, so little me
That in my eyes it's him they see.
What's it like to a Mary be?
No longer I, but Christ in me.

From Next Door Savior

Copyright (Thomas Nelson, 2003) Max Lucado

The Prodigal Son Story: So close to home actually.

This morning, I have a new reflection! Ever thought of ministry life in terms of the Prodigal Son?

Well it is simple really! For those of us who have joined / or are already in a youth ministry, we are like the Older son. For those who are not in ministry and also not interested, perhaps, more like (not all cases) the younger son.

Why? It's simply because we "work in our Father's Home" (aka... our church) and we labour for our Father (aka, do our work for our God)... and so forth. Whereas on the other hand, the youths who aren't "yet" in ministry are probably out there, spending their time away... doing their own things!

SEE The uncanny parallel?

And this brings us to reflection: Whether we actually like the Older Brother situation in this story at all, because for us in OLPS Youth, aka Youth Ministry, all of us are already in some ways like the Older Brother.

As the Older Brother, we must then ask ourselves:

1) What are we "toiling" in the fields for? Out of Love for God? or Love for the work (nah, who would) or Love for Self (i must work to gain my inheritance, my blessings from God)?

2) Are we concerned over our younger brother who is supposedly "lost" out there, or jealous that he has all the free time in the world to have fun, without having to "WORK"?

3) Are we enjoying our 'WORK' (aka all the stuff we do in church for others)? which will 'feed the Father's Family'? or complaining about it and the fellow workers in the field for all their errors / i don't like this fella / or so forth?

4) As the direct "family" of the Father, do we feel grateful to have food everyday (aka our daily MASS) given to us, or do we forget that we are so WELL FED?

5) Do we realise that we are actually "Found" not "Lost"?

6) Do we really know and love the Father? Work is not just about Work. Ministry is not just about doing. Do we have a relationship with the Father?


Meanwhile, do have good weekend and hope that next week we'll be able to collect lots of Dried/canned food for the needy at Marine Parade Family Services Centre!

To forgive is divine: to be forgiven is even better.....

To forgive is divine: to be forgiven is even better.....

"Apologizing does not mean that you are wrong and the other one is right...
It simply means that you value the relationship much more than your ego ..."

Wonderful Poem

It is a poem that Mother Teresa hung on a wall of the orphanage she founded in Calcutta. Its source is unknown.


People are often unreasonable, Illogical and self-centred;

Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind,

People may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;

Be kind anyway.

If you are successful,

You will win some false friends and some true enemies;

Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank,

People may cheat you;

Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building,

Someone could destroy overnight;

Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness,

They may be jealous;

Be happy anyway

The good you do today,

People will often forget tomorrow;

Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have,

And it may never be enough;

Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis,

It is between you and God;

It is never between you and them anyway.