Membership Class – 27 MaY 2007 May 28, 2007

Hidup brothers….!!!!!!!
5 cowo keren kita (Andri, Erwin, Hans, Nelson, Yoan) make a decision 2 commit their life 2 local church.
Welcome 2 Hope family….!!!!!!!

Banyak orang takut dengan “commitment”. Coz it takes time and energy. Why should we fear with commitment if it is beneficial for us? No reason buat menghidari ama yang nama nya commitment. Kunci nya simple, “Do u want n willing?”

If the answer yes, it means kita udah ready 2 see many great thing tat will b opened to us. Di mana kita bakal di molded, refined, transformed, and equipped ke next level. Breakthrough to breakthrough akan terjadi dalam hidup kita .

That is great………!!!!!!!! ^-^

By committing our life 2 local church, it shows we love God and we want 2 give back what He has given to us

Yoan – Gw di group Indo ini udah sekitar 10 bulanan. Gw bisa kenal dengan group ini dari cici gw.
Selama ini gw udah belajar banyak lewat group ini. Gw jadi lebih ngerti akan penting nya study God’s word and fellowship. Dulu gw anggap itu ngebosanin banget.
Gw juga berubah dari yang dulu nya gak percaya bahasa roh. Sekarang gw bahkan uda dibaptis roh kudus, dan satu langkah baru yg gw ambil dalam gereja ini adalah menjadi member di gereja ini.
Dulu gw menganggap kalo jadi member ato kagak itu sama aja. Yg penting gw tetap ke gereja, memuji Tuhan, dan melihat Tuhan sebagai pedoman hidup gw.
Gw uda diingetin beberapa kali sama beberapa orang untuk commit di local church. Tapi gw tetap nolak biarpun mereka ngomong ampe berbusa.
Akhirnya, pas 19 May 2007, tepatnya pas kebaktian, ada 1 lagu yg membuat gw sadar. Padahal sebelum nya gw gak pernah mikirin tentang commitment. Tapi gak tahu kenapa pas gw dengar lagu itu, gw jadi punya keinginan buat commit my life to local church.
Lagu itu judulnya “How can you refuse me now”. Di lagu itu dibilang kalo Yesus itu uda sengsara dan mati buat kita. Tapi kenapa kita masih menolaknya.
Gw jadi mikir satu contoh misal nya org minjemin sesuatu yang paling berharga buat kita. Terus kita gak balikin ke orang nya. Gimana perasaan dia?
Sama aja dengan Bapa di surga. Bapa bukan hanya meminjamkan, tapi memberikan anakNya yang tunggal buat kita. Tapi kita tetap gak mau commit padaNya.
So, sekarang gw mau dipake Tuhan lebih dasyat lagi di group ini dengan join membership.

Hans – I want to be a member of Hope Church Singapore because I believe by committing to God, I will be able to grow spiritually through relationship. Me, being in this specific church itself wasn’t an accident, I believe God have a plan for me. Rededicating to God is just the starting point for me; I see this membership as an opportunity to serve God even more. I believe God will be doing greater things in my life as long as I continue to grow, and put my faith and hope in Jesus.

Erwin – Why do I want to join this membership?
Actually, there is no special reason why I want to join. It is only because I wanted to experience something new in my life and exercise my obedience in committed my life to God.
I’d like to find out the background and the visions of this church so that I could take part in the race together with all the brothers and sisters that already member in this church.
I hope that I may experience God and I want to grow closer to God throughout this commitment. Amen.

Water Baptism ++ (20 MaY 2007) May 21, 2007

Water baptism ++….!!!!!!
Kok plus plus si?
Boleh dicatet di calendar kalian kalo 20 may 2007 merupakan big big event. heuheue……
Ada apa aja sich? ^_^
We have 3 sisters who being water baptized, then kita ngerayain our brothers n sister’ bday, n one of our sister being Holy Spirit baptized 2. Wow great rite?

Siapakah mereka?
Mari kita kilas satu persatu satu.

Siapa aja yg diceburin? heuehuhee………
Congrat to Penny, Belinda, and Melya
Yeah…………
Mereka take another step to proclaim their faith in public

During kebaktian singkat buat water baptism ini, Melya shared her testimony why she wants to get baptized.
Baca di bawa ini ye testimony nya

Hi I’m Melya. I am from Indo group. My background was from Buddhism family and I received Christ 7 weeks ago.
I am very happy that I have an opportunity to invite God into my life.
Actually, before I came to Singapore I attend church regularly in Indonesia, around two years. From this moment I start to know who is God and start to read bible, but I don’t know what I should do next.
Praise God, after six years stayed far away from my family, God brought me to Singapore and I believe this is God’s plan.
As I mentioned before, when I was in Indonesia I went to church every Sunday. So, I feel something missing or not complete on Sunday if I don’t go to church. So I start to look for church to attend.
I believe to a power of prayer. I pray to God, please give me a group of people who can I rely on, accept me as who I am, understand me, support me, and a group of people who can bear with me. But my prayer not ends till this point only. I ask more specific point. I want Indo group.
After that, I went to Indo church. But no ones approach me. So every week I just come, sit down, listen and go home. Finally, my brother Erwin told me that Hope Indo group gonna start. When he invited me, I just came and during second service I invited Jesus into my life.
But when I was challenged to be baptized, I was so shock and directly I said no. I feel I am not ready yet and I don’t want to commit. At night, when I went home my brother ask me again about water baptism. This question still in my mind and I start to ponder. I think back how God bless me with my study, my work and this group. He did so many incredible things in my life. I believe in him, I pray to Him. He answers my prayer by giving this Indo group. But why I don’t want to declare or acknowledge this relationship. At that night with full confidence I changed my mind, I ready to be baptized. I want to declare my relationship with Jesus in public.
This is not a coincidence I am here today. I stand here to testify the goodness of God. Let do not compromise with our will. And we know that in all things God works for the good to those who love Him.

Eh….. eh…eh…eh..….., Penny juga ga mau ketinggalan. heuhuee…..
Dia mau share her testimony juga di sini  ^-^

Penny – I walked into Public Book Store one day and discovered a book named, “The Purpose Driven Life”. After read that book, HIS words carried conviction to me through the author and strengthen me to become a faithful Christian. It is the first time I was utterly absorbed in English book, read word by word carefully. At that time, I said to myself, I want to do something that can please GOD. Express His LOVE to the people that surround me.
Sometimes, I am stuck in circumstance of insecure, fears and frustrated.  These negative emotions keep in my mind from time to time. It has impact to my daily life.
Before having close relationship with God, I used to spend money unwisely in unnecessary stuffs, like clothes, entertainment and travel around. Spending extravagantly is a sign of my insecure and lack of confidence.
While I am staying alone, I thought about my life should not content only with these. I am looking for the JOY that can stay in my heart for long time instead of just a moment.
When I sing the song during service and CG’s worship, His words, the lyrics inspire me a lot and slower me to ponder every aspect of my life deeply instead of surface. 
I am controlling well the temptation of unnecessary shopping now. My work and daily routine task can manage orderly as well. Impatient, bad temper towards to my close friend is in the progress to improve now. 
The path of growing is predicated on the contributions of countless others. By joining Indo Group, it brings me warmth and belonging. Thank for everyone in Indo Group takes very good care for me since the beginning until now. That’s why I decided to have Water Baptism.

 Amen….. Amen……. God works for the good to those who love Him.
So do love God ya
He is a great God……….. ^-^

Next…. about bday celebration
Heuheue….we have Hans and Penny yang merayakan ultah tahun mereka di hari yang sama.
Hepi bday 2 both of u……!!!!!!!!! ^-^
Asik juga ya ada temen
Jadi kalo dikerjain ga sendiri. hahahha………

Last info, beside of dibaptis air….. one of our sister being baptized in Holy Spirit too.
Wah…… awesome….
Capa tu?
Heuheuhe…….. congrat once again to cici kita, ci Melya

3 angels – Melya, Penny, Belinda

touching moment. hiks…. hiks…….

aduh…… nerveous ni. ntar lagi mau diceburin ama 3 org berbaju hitam :p

new life…..!!!!!!! yeah……. ^-^

angels wit their witnesses…… hauhuaha…..

pengembala dengan mbek ya

Hans, kok lilin nya 5 doank? nyerayain ultah yg ke 5 ye? heuehue…. big baby :p

Nelson & Penny bday

 

 

 

 

 

 

Indo Hope AVIVA 2007 May 14, 2007

Minggu, 13 May 2007, Sport……sport and sport…..!!!!!!!!!
It is a sport day

Huray……….. kita ngadain badminton jam 11 am ^-^

Cowo cowo begitu semangat nya. Jam 9 pagi udah pada bangun n ngumpul semua untuk melakukan pemanasan terlebih dahulu.
Pada tau pemanasan nya gimana?
Cie…….. pokok e beda dari yang biasa nya
Pemanasan nya maen bola. heuheuuee……….. keren……….!!!!!!

Setelah pemanasan selesai sekitar jam 10.30 am, dilanjutkan ke real games : pukul pukul bulu ayam alias badminton ^-*
Semua nya in total ada 4 courts n yg dateng 28 orang.
Rame d.
Then jago jago smua.
Ayam jago aja kalah jago nya
Huahuaua………. kagak nyambung ya?
Ups……. Sorry

Pada tertarik buat ikutan? ^-^
Plz call Vonny (82333045)

Ayo kita hidup sehat dengan berolahraga yang teratur

 after playing – Jeff, salah satu atlet berbakat kita lagi bergaya di depan clementi sport hall ^-*

WhY Am I HeRe? – 12 MaY 07 May 14, 2007

 

Buah nangka, buah kedondong
Sabar dulu donk

Wakakaka….. itu lah pantun yang dibawakan oleh Jorry; sang pengerusi (chair person) kita pada acara indo me special part II

Wuish…. Kita bisa liat juga para actors and actresses kita melakoni peran mereka. Begitu memukau nya sampai membuat semua penonton terpesona

Semua nya itu cerita nyata dari kehidupan mereka masing masing. Bagaimana hidup mereka sebelum mereka tahu “WHY ARE THEY IN SINGAPORE?”
Itu bukan karena kebetulan, tapi karena rencana Allah ^-^

Apakah kalian sudah menemukan jawaban kenapa kalian ada di sini?
We need to recognize God’s call, obey God in faith, and keep eternity in view

Berikut kesaksian dari Delwin :
Pertama kali gw ke luar negeri waktu umur 15 tahun. Gw pergi ke Australia buat lanjutin sekolah dan gw tinggal di sana kurang lebih selama 6 tahun.
Setelah selesai sekolah, gw balik Indo, rencana nya seh mau bantu bisnis keluarga. Tapi waktu itu nyokap kasih gw kebebasan, apakah gw mau langsung bantu dia ato mau kerja dulu buat cari pengalaman. Karena gw liat nyokap masih bisa jalanin bisnis sendiri (walaupun agak susah and penuh tantangan), gw mutusin untuk kerja dulu karena sayang juga ilmu sekolah gw kalo ga dipake. Jadi nya waktu itu gw putusin untuk balik ke Aussie aja dan kerja disono. So, gw apply PR di sana. Selagi menunggu proses nya, temen gw ngajak ke Singapore, dimana gw gak pernah kepikiran sebelumnya. Kata nya iseng iseng aja datang ke Singapore, cari kerja sekalian nunggu PR Aussie gw. Gw pikir kenapa ga dicoba aja. Anggap aja kalo ga dapat kerja, gw pergi liburan ke Singapore selama beberapa bulan.
Akhir nya gw dapat kerja di Singapore dan gw putusin untuk tinggal di sini aja. Beberapa tahun pertama gw bener bener enjoy dengan kehidupan gw disini dan gw banyak maen maen.
Gw juga punya lumayan banyak temen disini terutama dari teman sekolah gw dulu di Aussie and boleh dibilang kehidupan gw lumayan fun. Tapi lama kelamaan, gw mulai bosen karena gw ga tau apa yg sebenernya gw cari. Tiap hari juga begitu begitu aja.
Akhirnya gw mulai mikir dan bertanya kepada diri gw sendiri, kenapa gw ada di Singapore and sebenar nya gw mau ngapain seh di sini. Untuk balik ke Australia, gw jg sudah mulai males. Akhirnya gw terus kerja di Singapore karena gw pikir gw jg belum siap buat balik ke Indo and committed buat bantu bisnis keluarga. Gw paling takut ama yg namanya commitment.
Setelah 4 tahun berlalu, suatu hari gw dikenalin ke Indo group ini dari sepupu gw pas BBQ. Awal nya waktu kenal sih biasa biasa aja. Gw merasa ga ada yang special dari group ini. Kemudian, gw mulai join group ini dan kegiatan nya. Gw mulai ikut ke gereja, care group and pelan pelan gw bisa melihat sisi kehidupan yang lain di group ini.
Gw mulai mengenal Tuhan lebih jauh. Setelah itu gw juga merasa kalo hidup ini lebih berarti and gak semu lagi seperti yg dulu dulu.
Dulu rasanya gw diajar untuk egois and ga boleh kalah sama orang lain. Walaupun banyak temen, tapi sedikit yg bisa gw percaya and yang bisa mengerti kalo gw ada masalah. Sekarang di sini gw merasa punya keluarga baru di luar negeri dan gw jg belajar untuk membagi berkat gw.
Gw sudah dibaptis air di gereja ini, dibaptis roh kudus di gereja ini, dan sekarang juga sudah jadi member Hope Church (satu hal yg rasanya hampir mustahil gw lakukan dulu). Inget kan, kalo gw tadi bilang gw paling takut sama yang namanya commitment J. Tapi pandangan gw diubah oleh Tuhan.
Kalo gw melihat ke belakang, dari waktu kecil trus 6 tahun sekolah di Australia and sekarang sudah 6 tahun jg kerja di Singapore, gw bener bener terkesan ketika melihat bagaimana Tuhan menempatkan diri gw di tempat yg berbeda, di lingkungan temen temen yg berbeda.
Secara gak sadar character gw dibentuk. Kalo dulu, it is always about me, gw dan saya. Sekarang gak lagi selalu tentang gw, tapi juga kamu atau dia.
Gw bertumbuh untuk lebih rendah hati (ga sombong) dan lebih menghargai pendapat dari orang lain.
Tuhan kasih gw kesempatan untuk melihat dan mencari sendiri kehidupan seperti apa yg gw mau. Gw percaya gw ada di Singapore bukan karena kebetulan, tapi karena Tuhan mau gw melakukan dan menemukan sesuatu di sini. Gw sekarang lebih aktif di pelayanan. Walaupun jadi agak sibuk, tapi ada kepuasan sendiri bisa melayani Tuhan and all brothers and sisters in Christ.
Baru baru ini Tuhan juga kasih gw kesempatan menjaga satu domba yang besar. Kalo dulu gw selalu dibimbing sama shepherd gw, sekarang gw harus belajar menjaga domba baru ku dan kita mencoba untuk share mengenai hidup kita masing masing.
Gw merasa damai and ada joy juga punya temen temen yg unik, yang berbeda dengan temen temen gw yg dulu.
Kalo dulu temennya cuman Hi-Bye doank, sekarang gw membangun persahabatan yg lebih dalam. Teman yang bisa mengerti gw and gw yakin mereka pasti akan menolong gw tanpa diminta kalo gw ada kesulitan.
Gw sudah menemukan hidup yang lebih berarti di Singapore setelah mengenal Tuhan. Dan gw yakin kalian juga akan menemukan tujuan hidup kalian asalkan kalian percaya dan berserah kepada rencana Tuhan. Tq….

Delwin – berubah…. jadi yang merah ato item???

Wh0 Am I? – 5 MaY 07 May 6, 2007

Siapakah aku? Apakah tujuan hidup ku? Inilah kata kata yang diucapkan oleh Jessica.
Pernahkah kalian mempunyai pertanyaan yang sama seperti Jessica?
The answer is “Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life”
Bersama Yesus, hidup kita menjadi penuh dengan arti, karena kita tau siapa kita dan apakah tujuan hidup kita

Don’t forget, next Saturday 12^th May 07, kita masih ada Indo Me Special “Why Am I Here?”
Do you want to know the answer?
Come…. come….. and come this Saturday.
You will find the answer.
No consultation fee will be charged ^-^

Oya….. ampir lupa. heuheuheue……….
Yeah…… “New Beginning” song dinyanyikan lagi last Saturday. We have one new convert, Jennifer.
God is so good and really….. really good ^-^
Jennifer, welcome to the family of God………!!!!!!!
We are glad and very glad……….. ^-*

So guyz…… c u this Saturday at Bayview Hotel, level 2, Ruby Room, 4- 6pm

Jennifer, we welcome you to the family of God…

Lab0uR daY – 1 May 07 May 6, 2007

Merdeka…!!!!!!!
Ga usah kerja, ga usah sekolah. Yuhu…… asik d
As u all know, 1^st May itu Labour Day. So saat nya kita relax. But kita ga mau holiday kita dilewatan gitu aja. We had some activities. Apakah itu?

INDO A1 : PASIR RIS
Pas mayday kemarin, grup kita, orang orang yang keren n imut ini (hehehe…..) pergi ke pasir ris park, dimana disana kita maen games-games yg seru n piknik bareng di tepi pantai. Suit….. suit…… romantis kan?
Basically kita maen 3 games in total. Games yg pertama, namanya “maze”. Di games ini kita disuruh nyari beto n sisy di dlm maze pohon pohon yg membingungkan n deceitful. hehe…..Trus abis gitu, kita jg maen bola, tp dengan kaki diiket. Another games was tom, jerry n bulldog, dimana si tom bakalan mencoba utk menyerang si jerrry n si bulldog hrs ngelindungin si jerrry. Pokoknya seru dechhh…..Meskipun agak panas, but I believe that everyone enjoyed the games.
Trus abis gitu kita masuk ke romantis part. Heuheue……. Kita pergi sebentar ke pinggir pantai sambil makan sandwich yang ueennnakkk buatan double melisas, n pao….(thanks guys…..)
But…. eit….. ga sampe gitu aja acara nya.
Malem nya kita pegi ke geylang buat makan beef horfun yg terkenal itu lho…..Trs saking kenyangnya, akhirnya kita decide utk jalan ke mrt, yg sbnrnya lumayan jauh hehe….alasannnya sih buat nurunin makanan….^-^
Meskipun lumayan cape, but we did enjoy our time together……
Thank God juga, that He gave us a nice weather. Soalnya sblmnya di west itu udah mendung dan gelap banget. Tapi karena kita pray, then God answered our prayer. Praise the Lord!!!

INDO A2 : ^CUTE^CUTE^ DAY
^cute^cute^cute^ was the word of the day….
Everyone was enjoying being like a small little kid.
We sing, we dance, we play, we laugh, we celebrate birthday
And we watch “Spiderman 3”
Wow… cool yeah… what a ^cute^cute^ day.

INDO A3 : PULAU UBIN
Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, White – what colours do we miss? Despite of different colours shirts we wore, we came from different nationality, different background and yet we’re united in one spirit to spend our Labour Day at Ubin
Famous Changi Village Nasi Lemak was the food we had for lunch. Well, good food deserves waiting and we queued for around half an hour. It’s cheap but I guess the portion was not sufficient for our “men”.
“UBIN” – here we’re to conquer you after filling our stomach. We rented the bike and it’s really cheap. Keen on knowing the price? Please call Eddy and he will let you know. But I think after reading our story in a later part, guess you may consider of getting a better bike instead ^-^
We cycled for more than one hour. Throughout the journey, we had countless coconut drinks, photo taking sessions, a simple faith games to test our courage and a free 933 radio live station who presented us with songs. We were sorry that we had some accidents, as one brother and one sister fell down from bicycle. ^-* One of our brothers made this remark, “it looks more macho for men to have some scars”. Is it true? ^_^ One of our brothers’ bike broke down half way and therefore this was the first time I saw 2 men were sitting on the same bike. Most of all, both of them are not small in size Sorry, no photos, waa haa haa
Lastly, we ended our Ubin Trip with yummy seafood. It’s great!
We truly thank God that all of us were greatly blessed with a good weather and had a fruitful and memorable time with one another in Ubin.