Monday, October 23, 2006

23-10-06 How our youth has been blessed.

While talking with Isaac's mom last night(Mrs. Chua), she happened to mention our youth group being rather well-established and popular, even having parents from other churches sending their youth here. It suddenly dawned on me this morning. It IS quite true...

Rewinding back to Pri. 5, I was already part of this youth. It was JMYF back then. It was so long ago I can't even put any pictures here. No digital cameras yet... Anyway... We were still a grwoing bunch then. I was that lil' kid who always tagged along with Kee Yie & Phebe. I still got my friends though.

Fast forwarding to my 5th year at the then christened 'MJYF', Things were slowly taking a turn... Billy, Esther and some other seniors had left us. We were on our own now. Leonard, the president then, together with Aaron & myself formed a strong bond held together by our praise and worship for God. They both were the ones to go and talk to the new people, made them feel welcome.

THE workshop! It hink this was Form 3...?

Youth Convention '04. Interesting what youths come up with, eh?

A year later... God has really been doing a lot in Miri. We had these many youth rallies. Many came to know the Lord. Our youth grew in number AND in maturity. We brought in the contemporary style fo worship into our youth and now we're jived up! We've seen many lives changing, some radically, some over time. Weikinsten, Abel, Chung Hui, Ezra, Aaron Yung... The list goes on...

In SIB Skyline, KK preceding the Planetshakers Conference '05 in KK.

A great time together was during the retreat marking the end of 2005...

Weikin: Don't worry abt me, I'm jsut sitting here stopping the current while you all pass by and return for lunch... I'm not hungry, yea. even if... *mumble**mumble*

Don't worry, Abel... No one's looking...

Moses: That's right.. You see that thing in your nail there? I think your pee hardened there...

King kong kang kong... Darn... NO ONE's paying attention...

This year, I think its the climax so far. Our youth are more serious abt God now. They don't come forced by their parents(most of them, anyway...) AND God has blessed us with the gift of uh... 'making-ppl-feel-welcome'ness? Anyway... The point is... God has blessed US so much that He MAKES us bless OTHERS. It's like... in an exam. He gives us 110 marks... But because the maximum is only 100, we just HAVE TO give that 10 extra to others. I jsut hope the youth do not slack off as seniors leave each year. Ppl leave, but God will ALWAYS be present there with them. What great joy to know this, eh?

ALL glory to God who deserves it!

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." ~ Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III)

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

eheh. finally switch to blogspot? nice pics btw. bwahah.

jtkl89 said...

heheh... thx.. hu're ya crazee? kristine?

Anonymous said...

hmm. why would u say im her? heh.

jtkl89 said...

cos u wont tell me hu u r...

Anonymous said...

so it means tat if i dont tell u who i am then u'll assume im her? haha!!

jtkl89 said...

nope
cos i dunno y i jz like 2 call u kristine, kristine... heheh...

Anonymous said...

haha. darn. cannot even fool u meh? lol. how'd u noe it's me? lol.

jtkl89 said...

i dunno y... i haf that feminine sixth sense i guess. I haf been told i haf some feminine traits before. ONLY the good ones tho.. heheh...
anyway... it just sounded like u, krissie...