Exciting prayer meeting

Cell was exciting, as usual. Haha. There were 2 new visitors - Steph's friend as well as Jin's friend! Unlike other cell meetings, this one was more like a prayer meeting, where we prayed for the Muslims in our nation and in the world. It is through prayer that miracles happen. While nothing in the physical realm may have changed, but our prayers that night definitely shook up the spiritual realm.

Our former cell leader, May Vern, and cell member Christina visited our cell. There will be no cell this week as it is Hari Raya. Have a blessed holiday everyone.

Love,
Boo

Sept birthday celebrations

The birthday celebration we had for John-Aidan and Abigail on Friday was really exciting and unpredictable. Heheh...thanks to the devil in me. ;-) With the help of Stephanie who bought the cake and Jin who made the ingenious suggestion of dumping them in a nearby park, we had the birthday girl and boy blindfolded and stuffed into a car. Hahahaha. You can see the pictures on Facebook. On that night, we had two new visitors too! Hallelujah! Praise the Lord for bringing new people into cell. Not to mention, we have an additional two new cell members - Sha and Shun! So, there are now 12 regular cell members. Perfect. I have 12 disciples. Lol.

Back to earth...today, Jin, Abigail and Noel helped Stephanie to move her stuff from home to her university in Semenyih. John and I were just in time for the pool party. Haha. Sorry we couldn't help you move, Steph, but I'm sure those three were more than able. ;-) We had a ton of fun playing frisbee in the pool along with Steph's uni mates...well, Noel and I were more like frisbee collectors as we just stood outside the pool and flung the frisbee back into the pool whenever they flew outside the pool. I was feeling a little ill - had a fever yesterday, hence my decision not to go swimming. After that, we went out for dinner. For the first time in my life, I drove myself back home after dropping John without getting lost! Yay!

Keep praying for God to move the cell and its members to greater heights.

college retreat 2008

Hey all!

We had a WONDERFUL time at the college retreat! It was held from 12-14 September at Le Paris, Port Dickson. For the first time ever, the college retreat was held at a hotel. Usually, it's always been held at dorms. Stephanie, Abigail and I were in the same room, while John-Aidan, Jin, and Jensen were in another room. Noel roomed with Jon Koo.

This college retreat was a really diverse retreat, with half of the campers comprising Africans. They took over the worship spontaneously on the first night, and subsequently worship-led for the rest of the sessions. Their worship released a breath of fresh air into the camp. They helped move the campers into a higher level of free, uninhibited worship with their joyous dances and shouts of praise. It was as if they were like David, who stripped off his kingly robes and danced in the streets naked praising God, totally free of inhibitions. Now THAT is worship! :D It'll take some time before most of us Malaysians can release our inhibitions to praise God. As Pastor Julie said, most of us are still conscious when we worship God. So, we restrict our movements. Instead, she exhorted us to worship freely, just like how fans automatically give their loudest shouts and wave their hands in the air when their favorite football team wins. Indeed, we should all learn a thing or two from our fellow Africans. Worship like no one is watching!

On the last night, Steph, Abby and I tried to pull some pranks on Jin and Jensen. Haha. Didn't work out though...we had fun trying anyway. ;-) As Abby's birthday was on Sept 13, we celebrated her birthday by presenting her a cube of cake and singing Happy Birthday, Abby! right after the night session in the ballroom.

Besides all the fun and jokes, we felt the presence of God in this camp. It is my wish that all of us cellies who were there at camp will take the lessons learned and relevations received at camp back home, to apply at our colleges, workplaces, and daily life. Then only will the camp be meaningful.

See you all at cell this Friday night! Bring your friends! There will be testimony-sharing and birthday celebrations. Don't miss it!

Love,
Boo

Cell Outing, One Utama - 050908

We had an awesome time during cell outing last week. Surprisingly, we had a great turnout than expected. The boys that came comprised of John-Aidan, Jin, Samuel, John Chong, Noel, Ivan and Gideon. However, the only girls that came were Boo and I as Stephanie was away in Hanoi for a holiday.

We ate at Wong Kok Char Chan Teng for dinner and chatted, trying to catch up with everyone’s lives. Before we left for bowling, the boys joked saying that Boo should pay for all their meals. Haha.. Poor Boo.. getting poke fun from the boys every now and then. This is what happened when we are lack of estrogens!

We headed to U Bowl after dinner and coincidently most of us have not been bowling there before. We are used to Mid Valley’s glow in the dark look with disco music blaring loudly. But this is something different that we ought to try.

We group ourselves in two groups that was lead by Boo and I. Boo’s team consists of John-Aidan, Samuel and Gideon, while my team consists of Jin, John Chong, Noel and Ivan. Before we began we bet that the losing team will belanja yum cha.

Most of the boys claimed that they suck at bowling, but to my amazement they were really good at it, especially Gideon who injured his right hand finger and used his left hand to bowl instead. I am not sure whether they are trying to be humble, lucky or they are just trying to impress the girls. *winks*

Soon after our first game was over, Jon Koo aka Tai Ko came and joined us. But unfortunately, Gideon and Ivan had to leave. We embarked on our second game hoping that we will get better but some of us did not perform as good as the first game. But nevertheless, my team won for the consecutive two games! Boo, your team still owes my team yum cha! Haha!

It was almost close to midnight but we stayed on and played arcade games instead. Boo and I felt like we are in the boys club and went along with all their plans. We acted like a bunch of school children playing all sorts of games especially Daytona USA my personal favourite.

We left One Utama at past twelve and most of us are dead tired. But we had an awesome night together and it is been a while since we had fun! Coming up next is College Retreat!!

Healing Encounter Friday Night and Saturday Service

On Friday night, Rev. Dr Bernard Blessing conducted a healing service. I came, expecting to hear a great message. But throughout the whole night, he just encouraged us all to worship God through song and to continuously pray, while he delivered healing to members of the congregation.

In the Saturday service, he preached an amazing message from Psalms 37:1-7

1 Do not fret because of evil men
or be envious of those who do wrong;

2 for like the grass they will soon wither,
like green plants they will soon die away.

3 Trust in the LORD and do good;
dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.

4 Delight yourself in the LORD
and he will give you the desires of your heart.

5 Commit your way to the LORD;
trust in him and he will do this:

6 He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn,
the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.

7 Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;
do not fret when men succeed in their ways,
when they carry out their wicked schemes.

He gave us 7 pointers on how to live our lives:

1. Do not fear
2. No envy
3. Trust in the Lord
4. Do good
5. Enjoy the Lord
6. Commit all your ways to God
7. Rest in the Lord

Rev Dr Bernard Blessing shared a funny story where he was queuing up to buy bread, and he heard God telling him to give up his space and go to the back of the queue. When he turned behind him, the man's sour face made him not want to give up his space. The man behind that man made Dr Blessing even more reluctant at moving behind. But, in the end, he obeyed God and moved to the end of the queue. Someone announced later that the bread had sold out! And he was still at the queue. After that, a van showed up behind Dr Blessing, carrying supplies of bread, and the seller announced that as there were so many people at the queue, they would sell the bread to the people at the back of the queue first. Hallelujah!

And that is how we should always trust in the Lord. Haha.