ALL SAINTS Celebration on 31st OCT!

Hi all!

All ready for this Saturday's ALL SAINTS CELEBRATIONS?

Be ready for a wacked out party and dress up! Of course, you can bring your costume "separately" and don't have to wear it the whole night.

Preparations begin at 3 - 6pm (come join us to set up, decorate place or improve on your costume - maybe with materials from the CAGE)

6:00pm is our normal monthly prayer meet but this round, we will read, hear and watch some inputs which include Mother Teresa and the Prayer of St. Francis. Come for some spiritual enlightenment!

7:00pm will be the Potluck dinner followed by our SAINTS Dress up display (your patron saint or favourite saint) and the best dressed will WIN A PRIZE!

Bring your own boardgame too if you have something nice to play later into the nite! Party ends at 11pm!

For those coming, do RSVP your food item on the Event Wall so that everyone can see who's bringing what? It might help prevent clashing items..!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156228473373

Seeya!

Walking through the Valleys

I quote an excerpt from Os Hillman's daily devotionals (TGIF - Today God is First)

"When the Lord takes us through deep valleys, there will be fruit from the deep valley that we cannot see. You must press into Him with all you have during this time.

God uses the deep valley to frame our lives to create a change in our nature, not just a change in habits. The depth and width of our valley is often an indicator of the level of calling and influence we will have on others in the future. Our adversity is not just for us, but others who will be in our future path of influence. This is not very comforting when you are in the middle of the valley, but know this is a truth in the Kingdom.

It is often years later when we discover the wisdom of God and why He intentionally led us through the dark valley. Life is often lived forward, but understood backward. It is not until we are down the road and we stand on the mountain looking back at through valley that we can appreciate the terrain God has allowed us to scale and the spiritual deposits He has made in our life while we were there. "He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into the light" (Job 12:22).

When you begin to realize this, you sit back and breathe a sigh of relief because you know that God was in control all along. It didn't seem like it at the time, but He was."


Amazing isn't it? Our adversities are not only for ourselves, but for others who will be in our future path of influence.

Cheers,
Sam

Cool Photography!

Thought of a tagline for this photo that I came across, by chema madoz. His works are creative and cool, using B/W imagery. Really astounding.



my tagline: "Life is a gift, don't let it melt away... "

hmm..... so it means we have got to taste it... the coolness of LIFE. hahaha!

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Let's try another one:



my tagline:
"Sometimes we need a little flame to break through our wooden minds.."

Ok this is not so sharp. Bit long... bleah.

Anyway.... tagline writing is fun. Do you have any?

What are your challenges in ministry?

How about these challenges… read on:

1. To encourage others, or to spend time to listen to others, when you yourself do not feel particularly great that day…

2. To love people who are “lesser” than you and be gentle and nice to them, even though you think they are not as smart, not as good looking, or not as confident as yourself...

3. To continue to serve God and spend time on the activities in church, despite thinking that life is better outside and you have many better things to do out there…

4. To continue to have faith and love and to worship God despite feeling doubtful or angry with God because you don’t see any tangible effect of your prayers or service in church and there are STILL problems everywhere at home and school or work…


I wonder which of the above (or others) you might be facing at this point of time?

>> Discuss more in Facebook now!

God Bless!

Canteen Duty -- September 2009

View some pictures of our youth ministries in action. You may find RG, Mentors around, and people from other youth ministries also helping out! ;)