Relating to the FTJ

I think Maxine and gang forgot the other fishes... I heard this from my classmate... Here you go.

I believe u guys know about the first fish so here is the rest.

When the second fish died, the water level decreased. Why?
Cos the rest of the fish were happily celebrating and they drank too much pond water (think of it as wine)

When the third fish died, the water level stayed the same. Why?
When the second fish died, a total of 2 fishes died in the same water, so when the rest of the fishes drank the water to celebrate, they drank contaminated water and they all died at the same time.

Speaking of corny jokes, I got a few...

What is white and goes up?
A stupid snowflake


What appears once in a millenium, twice in a decade, once a year, twice a week and never in a day?
The letter "E"

There is this old couple who are very intimate. They shared EVERYTHING (don't think sick). One day they went to MacDonalds to eat. The man ordered a cheeseburger, a large portion of fries and an apple pie... But, the old lady did not eat while the man was eating. Why?
Cos the man was using the dentures.

Mail some corny jokes in lor... I mean, the New Year is coming and let's end this one with a laugh... literally.

God bless,
Yong Quan

In A Valley By The Sea

The Youth Thanksgiving songs are up so do give them a listen so that we can focus on worshipping God together =). (Only song missing is "I Will Praise You" which Joel posted about not too long ago)

Hence I'm taking down the "In A Valley By The Sea" songs. Hope we get to sing some of these songs soon =).

JOKE SHOWDOWN!

hello young people of the youth. As you can tell. i am a terrible joker. So. i've decided to do something about it! Its time for me. to become FUNNY AGAIN!
whooo! so i have gotten 2 funny videos from which i can learn more jokes from! COOL HUH!
so these are the 2 videos! and we shall decide which one is the funniest!
THE BEN HOOI CORNY JOKE SHOW


VS

THE FISH TANK JOKE!


wow.
as we can clearly tell. i think the fish tank joke. is the funniest! because even though they say that the joke wasn't funny, i bet they are all UM CHIOING!
(um- chio-ing) which means laughing inside! HAHAHAHAHA
wow im actually starting to sound funny!
HA.HA.HA.HA.HA!

A Little Early, But It's Okay :D

From everyone in the YM,

Merry Christmas!

Remember the true meaning of Christmas.
That our King was born.

Christmas Service:
25 December 2007
11:15am
PPHBC Level 3 Hall

Movie Outing:
29 December 2007
10:30am
Vivocity, Golden Village Ticket Box
Look for Yong Quan
Bring the money (if not pig heads will be hung on your front door on New Year's Day.)

Youth Thanksgiving:
29 December 2007
4pm to 6pm
PPHBC Level 3 Hall

See you people there! :D
*I'm kidding about the pig heads.

whooo, its colourful! :D

URGENT...!!!

watch this NOW...! before youth today...!

Alvin and the Chipmunks... again

Alright the 23 of you who are going for the movie... GOOD NEWS!!! We got the tickets!!!!! (William Tell Overture intro)... ... ...

Details: (The full ones now)

Meet at Vivo BY 10.30AM at the Ticket Counter. (There will CONFIRM be confusion over the claiming of tickets...)
Movie starts at 11.20AM
Directions at the Ticket Counter.
1. Look for me
2. Get the tickets from me WHILE you pay up. If you don't pay I will hunt you. xD
3. Pay up S$9.50! (no exceptions) (Give exact amounts. No change will be given... hehe)

After the movie... we head on down for lunch... own time own target BUT everyone must meet at the bus stop opposite Seah Im Food Centre around 2.45PM (estimated that movie ends around 1.20PM)... Then we head on down to church for the Thanksgiving Service!!!!

Please correct me about the bus stop part... I'm not too sure about that... Thanks!

I really look forward to seeing all of you there.

God bless,
Yong Quan

Note: Please pay ASAP so I can make a note... There will be less confusion later during that day itself.

Thanksgiving Multimedia Presentation

Hello!

I've been tasked to come up with a multimedia presentation for the Youth Ministry that will be show-cased during the "main" thanksgiving service (a.k.a where the rest of church shares their various thanksgiving). I humbly appeal to your generous assistance in the areas mentioned below:

1) Anyone want to help produce the main bulk of the video? (So far Alan has graciously offered his Flash Video expertise)

2) Anyone has useful / appropriate / nice videos or pictures that you think should be included in the presentation please make some noise and I will arrange to retrieve the data from you.

3) I may be going around to "interview" some people to add some sound bites to the video so please be sporting. I would be asking questions like "What do you like about the Youth", "How has God used this ministry to impact your life" etc. But better still, if you could record your own voice and send over the file I would be ever so grateful =).

Thanks!

NAMASTE! :D
(it's "hello" in Nepalese!)

anyway, I've got 1 good news and 1 cool news to tell everyone reading this! :D

Good News 1
we've youth this Saturday from 1pm to 3pm! :D
we've a super great time worshiping God and fellowshipping with each other!
man, I'm super excited!
it's gonna be cool beans y'all! :D

Cool News 1
this Sat, we'll be going to Teban Gardens (TG) for our Christmas Block Party and it'll be cool if we wore our TRANSFORMERS camp shirt! :D the catch is that you can only wear it if you don't have the PPH CSC shirt. yuppers.

Alvin and the Chipmunks

Hi all!!!

If you are moping at home cos of the holidays and you are feeling bored... and you are free on the 29th of December, then why not get yourself down to Vivocity? A movie screening is planned on the 29th and we want YOU to join us!

Details:

Movie: Alvin and the Chipmunks

Time: (not too sure yet... will reconfirm by the 23th)

Date: 29th of December, 2007

Tentative Agenda:

Meet in Vivo in the morning

Watch the movie (yay)

Grab lunch

Head down to church, in time for the Thanksgiving service!

If you want to watch the movie, please, please... (x 999) inform me BY THE 21th of December!!! (a.k.a this Friday) No more bookings will be taken after that.

You can get to me through a couple of means... like sending me an email (arbiter_1993@hotmail.com) or sms-ing me [pls clarify your name] (90111812) or you can use the good-ol RAFT tag-box... Someone seriously call the boat builders man... xD

I seriously hope everyone from the YM can make it!

Not to forget... BRING YOUR FRIENDS!!!

God bless,

Yong Quan =D

Pictures are UP

Pictures of those who have been



Some of the pictures you can find inside!

Youth Service on 22/12 and Teban Gardens Block Party

Ok people.

Due to popular demand and because we are on fire, there will be a youth service next Saturday, 22nd of December from 1300h to 1500h.

After the service we will all head down to for the Teban Gardens Block Party (which starts at 1600h) together.

So it doesn't matter if you don't know how to get to Commonwealth Secondary School. However, if for some reason you have to go there directly here is a map and some directions.



Address: 698 West Coast Road, S(608784)
Nearest MRT Station: Jurong East Station (personally I don't think its very near. But if you live in Tampines...:P)
Bus Services: 30, 51, 78, 79, 143, 176
By car/taxi: Take the AYE and turn off at Jurong Town Hall Road, heading towards West Coast Road. Turn left onto West Coast Road and the school is immediately on your left. This is the former River Valley High School site.

Your Brother in Christ,
Janahan

Haha I shall take up Josh's offer and post!

I was doing some random blogsurfing(following links) and stumbled on a blog that was playing this song and the last few words of the chorus really jumped out at me...

I will exalt the One


What can I say
What can I do
What can I bring to offer You
There is no gold
No precious pearl
Nothing on earth
That compares to You

Lord here I stand
With empty hands

Chorus:
I will exalt the One who lifted me
Out of the miry clay to heights of eagles' wings
Words cannot express, all I know is this
You changed me, You changed me
I can remember how I used to be
I was so bound but now I'm free
I will exalt the One who lifted me

I've never known
A Father like You
A love that is strong
So gentle and true
You draw me close
Just like a child
Safe in Your arms
There is no doubt

Hope this song ministers to you as well...

photos, photos, photos....!

hey guys... here are the camp photos from my camera... just click the link below....

http://s155.photobucket.com/albums/s320/j0e1709/Transformers%20Youth%20Camp%20Dec%2007/


i've also got some vids that i'll try to post on youtube these few days... no promises though...


btw... i've posted my own long long long camp sharing on my blog... but i'm sure most of you will not want to plow through the entire long-winded thing... haha.. and anyway i'm more certain of my grp members coming here... so something i want to say to my team...

grp 1:

woe is me...! for i am a lousy TL... wasn't around most of the time... leave jodie to do all the work... then lose the consolation prize somemore... then totally didn't write a single encouragement card... i promise to make it up somehow ok... sorrysorrysorrysorry...

Youth Camp Photos! A taste of things to come

Group 1

Group2

Group 3


Group 4

Group 5

Group 6

Group 7




Ooops







Group 8


Camp committee


I'll upload a video tonight.
[ON HOLD until i figure this html nonsense out first]
Anyone who wants me to do more editing (yes, those of you who 'forgot' to brush your teeth), feel free to let me know, i will do my best and send the photos over.

I accept payment in forms of kopi, chicken rice and nasi lemak.

experience or God's revealed truth?

hello everyone! was led to share my passage for QT tonight, because i think most of us are probably going through some sort of camp withdrawal syndrome haha. the feeling of having to descend from the lofty spiritual heights that we were during camp, and having to deal once more with the mundane.

but here it is! taken from Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers, Dec 21.

"We have received ... the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God." (1 Corinthians 2:12)

My experience is not what makes redemption real - redemption is reality. Redemption has no real meaning for me until it is worked out through my conscious life. When I am born again, the Spirit of God takes me beyond myself and my experiences, and identifies me with Jesus Christ. If I am left only with my personal experiences, I am left with something not produced by redemption. But experiences produce by redemption prove themselves by leading me beyond myself, to the point of no longer paying any attention to experiences as the basis of reality. Instead, I see that only the reality itself produced the experiences. My experiences are not worth anything unless they keep me at the Source of truth - Jesus Christ.

If you try to hold back the Holy Spirit within you, with the desire of producing more inner spiritual experiences, you will find that He will break the hold and take you again to the historic Christ. Never support an experience which does not have God as its Source and faith in God as its result. If you do, your experience is anti-Christian, no matter what visions or insights you may have had. Is Jesus Christ Lord of your experiences, or do you place your experiences above Him? Is any experience dearer to you than your Lord? You must allow Him to be Lord over you, and pay no attention to any experience over which He is not Lord. Then there will come a time when God will make you impatient with your own experience, and you can truthfully say, "I do not care what I experience - I am sure of Him!"

Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God's revealed truth is the only faith there is.

Gone For Youth Camp

The whole YM has gone for Youth Camp to be transformed from 10-13 December 2007

Worship Night Part 1

As the camp approaches, there's going to be a special worship session this Saturday (8 Nov 2007) after Youth. This time is open to anyone who wants to come down and just worship our King. The Worship Night band will be using some of the songs that we may be singing during Worship Night; so be there if you want to kick start Youth Camp early for yourself.

Activity: Worship

Venue: Level 3 Hall

Date: 8 Dec 2007 (Sat)

Time: 7.00p.m - 8.00p.m

(Feel free to come or leave anytime... we may end late...)

Get To Youth Camp

Youth Camp is soon approaching on 10 Dec 2007. However, the evil Megatron will stop at nothing to prevent youths from getting their lives transformed. Exterminate the foe to get to Youth Camp!

1 Dec 2007 Youth Service

Wow, God was really awesome yet again during Youth Service yet again! I'm sure you peeps can testify to that. Was really ministered to during the worship and Pastor Adrian's message; "Commandos For Christ" .

Thought it was rather cool that Ben chose the song "Fall In This Place". When Yong Quan first posted it on the Music Min blog, I really felt the words of the song were very meaningful and apt especially since the Youth Camp is going to be about Renewing Our Spiritual Passion.

Last week, as Adelyn and I reached a sort of "mental block" after deliberating long and hard over which songs to use for Youth Camp Worship Night, she suddenly suggested this song too. Though the whole while we were trying not to choose songs which haven't been led in Youth before and she did not know YQ had posted this song, we both agreed on this song immediately.

However, we were a bit worried that no one would know the song and I was initially planning to coerce Ben into leading it so as to familiarise the Youth with it. I even told Adelyn to make a request to Ben and when I saw the song list I assumed he had chosen it upon our request. Then after the service as I was talking to Ben, I mentioned,"So you led "Fall In This Place" cause Adelyn and I requested right?". He gave a rather puzzled look and replied,"No", he had chosen it himself. When I heard that, I just felt that God, through these "divine coincidences" was affirming in my heart that our ministry is really hungry "for more and more" of the Holy Spirit. I'm sure He is pleased with that and as we continue to "cry(ing) out", He will meet us where we are and impact our lives for His purposes =).

The songs:

7 more days....

Where Will You Be…?