God's little harvesters!

2008-06-04T22:43:00.003+08:00

Little bit of 'publishing' here:P
This is my new cartoon!
tell me what you think of it!

hey hey!
this is Minxian here!(:
since this blog is dead, i should update it!(:
well, i really think that our cell has grown closer through this year,
through events like Groundzero.
i really hope that we should continue to grow closer!(:
it has really been nice knowing all of you people!
especially knowing that we have not been in the same cell in Junior Church.
I pray that God would guide and bless us in everything we do!
I also pray that we will walk closer to Him!(:
I love you guys!(:
To: Yvonne, Amanda, Sarah, Gladys, Camilla, Letitia, Cassandra, Isabel, Corina, Nicole, Sarahlene, Stephanie, Cleo, Evangeline, Michelle, Jenny and last but not least, Esther!
PS: If I've missed anyone out, please please inform me ok? and and, please don't get angry ok? The most Lovely,
Minxian(:

dead

2008-05-05T18:27:00.003+08:00

this blog is like DEAD.
can someone update it?

2008-02-17T19:28:00.002+08:00

Something i found on a blog (created to share the word with the rest of CGS) set up by a few christians in my school. http://crescent-Revived.blogspot.com/

The Bible says that God is holy, and heaven is holy. Holy means perfect. If I had a glass of pure water and I put a drop of ink in it, the water would look pure, but not be pure, true? It's the same with heaven. God cannot let anything imperfect into heaven.

The Bible also says that all of us have a body and a soul. At death, your body is buried and decomposes. But your soul, the invisible life force within you, the unique and real you, this lives on forever, either in heaven or hell, there is no third place.

Unfortunately, we have a problem. The Bible says that if we have broken just one of God's laws - lied once, hated once, cheated once, just once, then our souls, like the water, have become polluted. Now let me ask you a question. Do you know of anyone who has never broken any of God's laws? No, neither do I. We are all the same, we are all guilty of breaking God's laws.

So here's our problem. All people have broken God's laws. Therefore, all people have imperfect souls. Now think of the logic of this. If there are only two places for our souls to go to at death, either heaven or hell, and to get to heaven we must have a perfect record, and no one has one, then unfortunately, the sad thing is, all of us are headed for hell. Hell is a place of punishment for breaking God's laws. This is the bad news.

But here is the good news. This is why Jesus is the most significant person who has ever lived. He's huge. This is why He split the time line, BC and AD. But most people don't know why. It's because of the difference between Jesus' soul and our souls. We are polluted because we have broken God's laws, but Jesus is perfect. Imagine this: Before Jesus came to earth, He saw you, and He said to His Father, "Father, I really love ________, I don't want him/her to go to hell.Is there any way that ________ can come to heaven?" And His Father said, "Yes, there is one way. Jesus, if you go earth, become a human being, keep your perfect record, then die a cruel death on the cross to take the punishment which ________ justly deserves for breaking my commands, I'll make it possible, but not automatic, for ________ to exchange his/her imperfect record, which will keep him/her out of heaven, for your perfect record which will get him/her into heaven. And Jesus said, "I'll do it." And He did it.

But there is something you must do to make this exchange happen for you personally. According to the Bible, there are supposed to be three major events in a person's life. There's birth and death. Ultimately, we have no control over these two.The third major event is supposed to be the day when we ask God to exchange our imperfect record for Jesus' perfect record. We call this "becoming a Christian". Now, we do not become a Christian by being baptized or confirmed, going to church, praying, believing in God, nor, according to the bible, can a person get to heaven by doing good deeds, and giving money to charities and so on. These are all good things, but none of these thigns give us a clean record. Like I said, we become a Christian when we ask God to exchange our imperfect record for Jesus' perfect record.

Say you had this third major event sometime in your life, this is what it would be like for you at death. You would come before God at judgement, everyone will. He would look at you and say, "Welcome to heaven, my beautiful child, I love you!" And you will say, "But i broke your laws, shouldn't I be punished?" Smiling, Jesus will say, "I took the punishment for you. You have my perfect record, welcome to heaven!" Now that's awesome. In other words, Jesus has done something for us that we can never do for ourselves. This is why He's a real hero.

Now the next bit is abit more serious. We're nearly finished. Say you forget all that I've told you, and you never make this decision sometime in your life. This is what it will be like for you at death. You will come before God at judgement and He will look at you and begin to cry. He will say, "I'm sorry ________. I really loved you, but I can't let you into heaven. You don't have a perfect record. I'll have to send you to hell. I tried six ways to get through to you. Firstly, I died on the cross for you. Secondly, I sent people to tell you why I died on the cross for you and how you could be forgiven. Thirdly, I gave you a conscience so that you would know right from wrong. Fourthly, there were churches all around the town where you lived. Some were good, some I was ashamed of, but you could have found the good ones. Fifthly, I created a world so beautiful that it was impossible not to acknowledge that I exsisted. And finally, I rose from the dead to prove that I am God and that everything I said and did in the Bible was true. Yet, you just did nothing. I'm sorry I can't let you into heaven - I have to send you to hell."

The Bible sums it up this way: John 3:16. That really sums it up. God wants you to go to heaven, and through Jesus, He has made it possible. The choice is in your hands. I guess the question for you is whether you have believed in Jesus with your life, because the Bible says that your eternal destiny depends on this decision.

If everything I told you today is true, if you died tonight, where would you go?

hello

2007-10-06T20:22:00.000+08:00

i found out the username n password! Finally!

Camilla:D

Happy day at Dempsey

2007-09-01T16:47:00.000+08:00

Hello girls! I enjoyed my day at Dempsey so much with each of U! I'm so glad so many of you came!! Hhahaha it was really very funny to see some of you whining about mosquito bites, the sun and the rain. I was like that once too :P so it just brought back some memories of me. I'm so glad you all persevered in the muddy and wet grass and sweaty games and enjoyed the whole trip at the end of the day. Here's a photo of us and a reluctant Minxian whom I had to threaten to take the picture with us!

U r my joy and my crown :)!!

Faithfulness

2007-07-15T16:27:00.001+08:00

Yvonne came back from Japan and Korea finally! :)
We went for a short cell lunch today since cell started late today!
Just some pictures of our cluster time and lunch!

can u see the funny thing in this picture? Go figure! :)

I think we might just look as if we have a new cell member... Miss Burger King with a burger king face! :p

Today in cell we learnt about God's faithfulness and our need to be faithful towards God. In 2Sam 11:1-5 we see that God is not blind to the sins of even the thought righteous King David. King David chose to turn his faithfulness away from God by sinning against Him - sleeping with a married woman - breaking His laws in His word. According to Lev 20:10 (in the earlier ancient days) God promised that " If a man commits adultery with another man's wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death." Upon judgment, God sent Nathan to rebuke King David's sins - 2Sam12:7-14 and placed judgment to Him that the son born to him will die. King David was remorseful and finally asked God for forgiveness.

However, there was GRACE upon King David.

But David sinned again with the part about the census...
It was only when King David acknowledges his sins and asked for sincere forgiveness and offered sacrificed offerings (in the olden times before Christ was sent, only burnt offerings to the Lord signifies sincere confession and acknowledging of sins. every one sin = one offering) 2Sam24:17-25

We also learnt about God's judgment even on His beloved children (2Kings) where He will also send others to place judgment on them when they sin against Him. But there will still be grace and love for the promises He made to his children (example: the covenant He gave King David to remain His descendants)
God reminds us not to be unfaithful to Him and to remain in Him (John 15) and to remain in His word (John15:7).

But how do we remain in Him? (John 15:4 "Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.")

By remaining in His word for He was with God and The word was God John1:1-2.

Application!
1. To read His word and to do Quiet Time regularly - approximately 5-15mins a day
(morning before we start our day, mid or evening before our homework session or before we sleep, end our day)
2. To read John 15

Question to think about before the next cell time:
"What do you hope to achieve or learn or gain, at the end of this year from this heartbeat cell?" "What is considered a successful heartbeat cell?"

See ya next cell time! :)
welcome Jenny!! :)

Serious faces :|

2007-06-17T20:28:00.000+08:00

Sarah here! Yay I'm so happy with our cell blog! :) Thank you girls for contributing to it.
We had cell word on the Filling of the Holy Spirit. I made the girls play bible game after learning the cell word. Hahaha here they look so serious in the competition to fix the bible phrases into 3 bible verses. The right group won! Haha :) Haha they look serious but they're fun loving girls.

Yvonne, we miss u!

I love these girls so much! Thank you for adding soooo much joy into my life through your bubbly-ness :) So nicehttp://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=7506608854974385488
Create to see so many of you writing sermon notes and contributing during cell time and games. Yay! *hug hug!!!! :)

Love, Sarah.

Serman Notes 17 June07!

2007-06-17T20:25:00.000+08:00

HEY, today's sermon was by HUAN YANG(:

Sermon Notes:
SPIRIT OF UNSELFISHNESS
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Background of Galations:
-Paul writing against "Judaizers"

-Judaism = Justification by lawkeeping

-Paul's message: FREEDOM

Message of freedom:
- Christians are called to freedom

-Should not use freedom for the flesh a.k.a the fallen nature of man

freedom of the flesh is like a raging bull in a cage, give it freedom and it will cause destruction

that "bull" will "give birth" to...
ANTINOMIANISM: Lawless
NARCISSISM: LOVE OF SELF

- Use freedom to others, fullfilling the law of God[LOVE]

Walking by the Spirit:
- WALK
is a positive action towards the fruit of the Spirit[Galations 5:22-23] and not to practice works of the flesh[v19-21]

-GRATIFY

------summary------
*Freedom in Christ is not the LAW'S LEGAL DEMANDS

*We can easily misuse this freedom and become Antinomians or Narcissists

*Only walking by the Spirit can we be changed to be more other centered

"You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love. The entire law is summed up in a single command: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other."

- Gal 5: 13-15

HAD LOTSA FUN TODAY!

Luv you all- MICHELLE

What she wrote

2007-06-11T09:16:00.000+08:00

Hello,

I have drawn down the stuff Jenny wrote on "Paint". Hope its legible(:

I tried to write it as neat as possible...hmm, needs some improvement!

Found out something else!
Jenny dances jazz, plays the violin AND plays some Korean instrument, I think its called a "Tanso".

-Michelle-

New Comer!!

2007-06-10T23:29:00.000+08:00

YES. We have a new comer for our sec1 group today[10 June'07]! yay
NAME: Jenny Wang a.k.a Wang Ye-Si
D.O.B:29 July
How she came: Susan's cousin invited her. They were both from SIS[Singapore International School]
Hp: 91326841
BONDING:First, she met Nicole. Susan did the introducing. Then Michelle[AUTHOR 4 this post]. After that Nicole and Michelle did the rest of the introducing. It was so cool having her around! We got to hear her talk in Hangul a.k.a Korean. She also wrote some Korean words that Michelle managed to copy down. She actually wrote down "I am very happy because my church sisters are kind to me". After service, Sarah brought us[the Sec Ones, including Jenny] to JUMBO for drinks. There we found out that Jenny LOVES snails. She was carrying 2 little snails about 1cm in diameter in 2 small containers. FASCINATING! Speaking about that "fascination", we found out [well, some of us knew before this event] that Esther [Jenny first pronounced the name as EXter, FUNNY] LoVeS Mentos a lot! She practically finished one packet of it, Grape Flavour. She attended Cluster together with us! The drawings she made were very nice. Sadly, she couldn't make it for Cell.

in conclusion.....
MISSION GET TO KNOW JENNY/YE-SI COMPLETE

flight details

2007-05-23T22:29:00.000+08:00

I'm flying in tomorrow!

If you would like to send me off here is my flight details:)
Departure from Singapore: 24 May Thursday, Changi Airport Terminal 1, 2040hrs, TG 410
Transiting at Bangkok!
Arrive Bangkok at 2200hrs and taking 2310 Hrs flight to Narita Airport! (Pray that we wont miss the flight!)
Will Arrive in Japan on 25May Friday 0730hrs Narita Airport

Arrival (after trip) back to Singapore: 17 June Sunday, Changi Airport Terminal 1, 1935hrs, TG 409

Yvonne’s Japan mission trip personal prayer requests

2007-05-23T09:45:00.001+08:00

Hey dear cell and Sarah!

Here are my personal praye requests for the whole trip... do pray for me k! :)

Yvonne’s personal prayer requests:

Personal health – I have asthmatic problems, pray that I would be able to adjust to the weather in Japan
Wisdom and guidance of the Holy Spirit as I lead the team as the main full-time Singapore staff in-charge of the Tokyo team (13 people + me)
Protection of my heart and mind and soul as I am in Japan
Pray that I will continue to persevere in my prayer life and regular daily quiet times with the Lord when I am there, so that I can be fed and to able to be spirit-filled to lead the team and to honor God
Family back home – mom, dad and sisters to have peace in their hearts about my safety and understanding about my work
Relationship with Johnson – to be strengthened even as we are away
To be joyful each day and excited about the ministry in Japan
Against fears and discomfort ness about witnessing to the Japanese students
Strength, endurance and confidence to lead!
Ability to minister even to the team members

Yvonne has graduated!!

2007-05-22T11:47:00.000+08:00

Ive graduated today!! thanks for coming girls! for those who didnt come its ok!! i still miss u and love u!! :) im sooo happy they took the effort to come!! :) thanks lovely girls!! i love u!

p.s. visit my blog at www.godlittleangelvonz.blogspot.com for my flight details k!! :)

Being a Christian Student... :)

2007-03-22T00:28:00.000+08:00

I shared a sermon about how a christian student should be like... :) thought i will blog it up for all to be blessed! :)

The world needs...
Free hugs is a real life controversial story of Juan Mann, A man who’s sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives.

How it all started (briefly share):
“I'd been living in London when my world turned upside down and I'd had to come home. By the time my plane landed back in Sydney, all I had left was a carry on bag full of clothes and a world of troubles. No one to welcome me back, no place to call home. I was a tourist in my hometown.

Standing there in the arrivals terminal, watching other passengers meeting their waiting friends and family, with open arms and smiling faces, hugging and laughing together, I wanted someone out there to be waiting for me. To be happy to see me. To smile at me. To hug me.

So I got some cardboard and a marker and made a sign. I found the busiest pedestrian intersection in the city and held that sign aloft, with the words "Free Hugs" on both sides.

And for 15 minutes, people just stared right through me. The first person who stopped, tapped me on the shoulder and told me how her dog had just died that morning. How that morning had been the one year anniversary of her only daughter dying in a car accident. How what she needed now, when she felt most alone in the world, was a hug. I got down on one knee, we put our arms around each other and when we parted, she was smiling.

Everyone has problems and for sure mine haven't compared. But to see someone who was once frowning, smile even for a moment, is worth it every time.”

Juan Mann felt that in this world, there is social disconnectivity and lack of human contact, as such the effects of the Free Hugs campaign became phenomenal. From a normal activity like this, it became a world-wide phenomenon.

From newspapers to websites and blogs, we see many needs arising in this world. But what is the most pressing need? Juan Mann felt it was the need for hugs. There are many needs like physical needs such as shelter, food, clean water and money to emotional needs such as assurance and friends.
If you pick 100 people and ask them what is their most pressing need? We’ll probably get different answers. All of these needs would be short sighted except one: that is “The world needs Jesus.”

We see in Acts 4:12 “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."

In Luke 10 Jesus sends out the seventy-two:
1After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. 2He told them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

Point #1: The harvest is great but the workers are few.
According to the Religiontolerance.org is an organization that tracks religions and religion beliefs all around the world, and they came up with a really disturbing statistics:

* Weigel states: "...Christians were 34.5 percent of world population in 1900, and will be 33.1 percent in 2002." 6
* We receive many Emails from Muslims and Hindus who honestly believe that their religion is the largest in the world. The available data seems to indicate that they are wrong. However, at current rates, Islam will overtake Christianity as the world's dominant religion later in the 21st century.

They track on the top 20 beliefs system in the world and see how they are doing. They said that there are only 2 belief systems out of the 20 that are on the decline, all the rest are either on the plateau or growing. And what are the two? Christianity and those that has no religions at all. You get the implication?

More people are believing in something, but they are just not believing in Jesus. The harvest is great but the workers are few.

Point #2: Do the actual business!
Paul says in 2timothy 4:5, “But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.” In Greek, an evangelist means “somebody who brings good news”

Here Paul is exhorting Timothy to be strong, to endure hardships and to do the work of an evangelist. This is the work or business that Timothy is to do – to preach the gospel to all. It was going to be tough: that’s why Paul urged Timothy to endure, even though others may be turning away.

Paul also says in 2timothy 2:2, “And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others.” Here he urged Timothy to pass down the things he has learnt from Paul to other people who would be able to pass them and teach them to get other people.

In the same way, God desire for us to do the actual business of sharing the good news and building up Christians – to teach them the truths of God’s word so that they could in turn teach others. This is commonly called Spiritual Multiplication. The person who does this is a Spiritual Multiplier.

I received Christ when I was 14 years old, but back then there were no one to teach me the word of God. Thank God for the small group of brave Christians in my secondary school who willingly shared Christ with me. However after that, I was not followed up and I even choose not to get into a discipleship group. As a result, I had no influence or community to build me up and I back-slided. It was only when I entered the University that I met my first Spiritual Leader – Shirley, who then built into the life of my 2nd Spiritual leader – Candy, who in turn built into our lives including mine and I in turn built into the lives of my discipleship group students.
Some say, “I am not an evangelist! I’m just a student!” So?
Then let me ask you this: are you a Christian who happened to be a student or a Student who happened to be a Christian?

In the book "Spiritual Leadership" by J.Oswald Sanders, he says that God confers a leadership role, and the Spirit of God goes to work through him.
Jesus speaks to his disciples clearly "whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all." Mark 10:43-44
He also says "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you" (John 15:16)

Are you willing to be used by God? If God called you to serve, will you reject Him?

A.W.Tozer wrote: A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to leade, but is forced into a position by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of [circumstances]...There was hardly a great leader from Paul to the present day but was drafted by the Holy Spirit for the task, and commissioned by the Lord to fill a position he has little heart for...
Point #3: Expect trouble and persecution
Luke 10:3 it says, “Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.”
Here Jesus is telling his disciples that he is sending them as lambs among wolves à that’s “encouraging”

What are wolves like?

- bloody and cruel, ready to pull you to pieces
- howling wolves threaten and scares to terrify you
- ravening wolves persecute to tear you

Wolves can be in the form of our goliaths in our world today who causes us to fall victim to:

- materialism

- lack of concern for God and eternity
o (Luke12:13-21, about The Parable of the Rich Fool who stores up things for himself but is not rich towards God)

- its pursuit of pleasure and status above all else
o (1John 2:15-17, The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.)

But Jesus tell us that we must be as lambs, peaceable and patient, though made an easy prey of. It would have been very hard thus to be sent forth as sheep among wolves, if the Lord had not endued us with His spirit and courage.

Go to persecutions.org
People are killed for their faith right now.

A guy from a Muslim country and was walking down the street, he met this Christian who shared the gospel with him. And in a few mins he gave his life to Jesus.

The man exclaimed, “wow, this is it! How can I miss out on such a truth for so many years!” and he headed home quickly to share this good news to the others in the village. Upon hearing the gospel, the people in the village beat him up and threw him outside of the village. The man then exclaimed, “how can this be? How can they not agree or understand the truth that speaks so clearly to me? I must have left something out about the truth.” And he head back to the lady to find the missing pieces. The 2nd time he headed home to share the news again, he was astounded to find them beating him up and throwing curses and swearing at him. This is happening every moment while we have the pleasures of sitting amidst under a shelter.

The gospel is hard to share, but we must still pass on the urgent message of salvation! What is the most pressing need or business of this world?

Conclusion
In Luke 10:9 Jesus say “Heal the sick who are there and tell them, 'The kingdom of God is near you.”

Have we been doing our “original” business as Christ followers? To tell them that the kingdom of God is near them? Have we fall to victims to the “wolves” around us? Have we been so occupied with getting fame, status and degrees that we forgot the purpose of us as Christians in our school?

In Luke 10:23-24 Jesus said, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. 24For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it."”

Are you committed to own this mission of God as Christ followers together? To see the church in your school expand and grow as sacrificial followers?

I have to imagine that these 72 followers expanded to 120 that first started a church in Acts, then this church grew from 120 people to 3000 in one day and these disciples just kept expanding until they reach Jerusalem, then they scattered to Judea and Samaria and eventually to the ends of the earth, and here we are.

If it’s not for the multiplication that God had planned, and Paul has exhorted to Timothy in 2Timothy2:2, we wouldn’t be here today growing and knowing the Lord.

There are indeed many people with various needs around us, people who are in need to have salvation. We are like the 72, with an urgent message to share to the people around us. We need to open the door of salvation to the rest and to build into the lives to share with other reliable men who will in turn share with others.

The harvest is great but the workers are few. Will you own this business of God’s?
Before I end, I would like to share about a life with you.

Rachel Joy Scott, died at the age of 17, was like the original 72. She served faithfully for the Lord during her whole school life in Columbine High. She persists in sharing the good news and to continue to persevere to build truth into the lives of her friends around her, even until her final breath before the bullet was shot through her mid forehead. (Racheljoyscott.com )

Will you give your life to the Lord to be used by Him?
Will you be like Racheljoyscott?
Will you take up the role of a Spiritual Multiplier in your secondary schools and share about Jesus? :)

I am not calling us to die, like Rachel Joy Scott, but just to be used by God.

Will you take up the call from God?

us (:

2007-03-18T16:19:00.000+08:00

Here are pictures of us to show how lovely and happy we are! :)