Soccer League – 20 April 2008 April 21, 2008

Indo District United vs NYP Benchwarmers….. siapa yang menang??? hauhauuaa……………. Pertandingan pun berlangsung dengan sengit nya di Yio Chu Kang Secondary School kemaren…. jam 5pm.

Kayak nya pemain kita udah pada capek semua ni setelah tanding beberap kali. Maka nya ayo….. dateng dateng n support yo………..

Final score from last Sunday match adalah 1-3

Ga pa pa………… Maju terus INDO DISTRICT UNITED……… Jangan menyerah ocre…???? ^-^ Ntar dikasih reward kalo menang. Reward nya pijit gratis dari…. dari….. dari….. hm…. dari….. kita liat aja siapa yang diutus untuk jadi pemijit andalan nya. hauhuaa…….. Pokok nya tugas the football players untuk nendang itu bola ke gawang ok…. Inget gawang lawan bukan gawang sendiri. wakakakaka……..

ini lagi ngapain duduk duduk….????

yach….. masih duduk duduk juga…. hm…. kapan main nya ya..???? :p

pak…. ini maen bola bukan arisan…. hehehe…. ternyata cowo cowo jaman sekarang banyak kemajuan… :p

Shepherd Training April 21, 2008

Mbek…. mbek….. ini suara kambing ya? Hm…. kalo suara domba gimana ya??? hauhaua….. It doesn’t matter… ^-*

Shepherd training baru saja berakhir last week. Ngapain aja emang nya? Di sini para shepherd di train gimana untuk memiliki hati seorang shepherd… Interesting rite…? And congratulation juga buat kalian yang ikut….. Graduate oledi………. Yeah….. It means more shepherds…. and more sheeps will come also… hauhaa…….. Praise the Lord……. ^-^

Apa saja yang dipelajari??? Mari kita baca story dari temen temen kita di bawah ini :

Nia – What I like the most from this shepherd training is having the opportunity to learn from other shepherds’ experience. It makes the teaching fun as it is not based on theoretical only, but it is based on real life application. It improves my knowledge on how to shepherd God’s people and it teaches the importance aspect in shepherding. I want to be a shepherd as it is one way where I can serve God and to be molded by Him.

Veronica – In shepherd training, I learned that indeed being a shepherd is a privilege and opportunity that God gave me to grow even more in His knowledge and His understanding. Besides the knowledge and the skills how to do follow up and how to teach my sheep, I have also learnt why I want to love and take care of someone that I did not even know who she is, yet I am willing to go extra miles do that she can have closer relationship with God and experience God by herself. I want to be a shepherd simply because I want to be used by God even more so that I can grow in His character and become more and more like Him. Since I was a shepherd, I just realized that it is not easy to take care of someone hence I need to depends on God and ask God for a big heart for people. It really makes me to have closer relationship with God also.

Andri – After I joined the shepherd training, I become more aware of who a shepherd is. Becoming a shepherd is a privilege and not a task. I also got more understanding in various cases regarding the sheep, which I am sure it will be useful in future. I decided to be a shepherd because I want to see myself grow even more in Him by taking care of His flock and trying to apply all what I said to my sheep trough my daily life.

Erwin – After the whole lesson, I have learnt quite a lot of things especially in the area of skill to take care of my sheep, and I get the idea on how to be more sensitive towards the sheep’s needs and how to deliver the right impartation / teaching based on the situation or condition of my sheep. I also learn the knowledge on how to manage different situations that might appear in taking care of someone. Why do I want to be a shepherd? At first, it was because the leader asked me to do so. Naturally I would not have the thought to be a shepherd. Along the way, I realize that our group has been growing and the need for more people to rise up becomes essential. So my desire has grown and also because I want to experience how the life of taking care of someone is like how my shepherd has taken care of me.

Cynthia – There are many reasons of why I want to be a shepherd. Mainly is because I want God to use me as His vessel to nurture the new believers and bring them closer to Him by having the right understanding about God. I also want to experience Him more in my life by being a shepherd, as I understand that there will be numerous challenges ahead. Last but not least, I want to be able to give not just receive. Throughout the six sessions of shepherd training, I learnt that a shepherd must have both servant hood’s heart and skills. Servant hood’s heart because a shepherd sometimes must sacrifice their own time/personal interest for shepherding, and skills to do creative teaching to ensure our sheep understand the points. Although I’m still not fully confident being a shepherd, I believe all the basic knowledge and with God’s empowerment, I can do it because we can do everything in Him who gives us strength.

Kim Liong - The first reason why I want to be a shepherd is because I want to learn the skills of how to take care of people so that in future I may be able to use it for my own family also. But during the shepherd training, I learnt from 1 Peter 5:2 that it is one of the ways to serve God so I decided to become a shepherd and take care of God’s people. From the training, I get to learn how to help people to handle different problems and in future if I face such problems, I may also be able to handle them. I have also gained a lot from other shepherds’ past experience. Furthermore, I also get to know my own weaknesses so I can grow too.

Adults Church Camp 2008 April 14, 2008

ADULTS GETAWAY of the year……………… is coming………!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kapan itu????? 5-8 June 2008 di Concorde Hotel, Shah Alam, Malaysia. Wah….. pada udah siap belom? Udah pada daftar kan? heuehue….. Theme for this year is A Care Group Church. Apa ni??? Kurang tau juga… hahahhaha…….. Maka nya join aja to find more about this

Berikut testimony dari Fiona where she decided to take a step of faith to join church camp despite her situation now : Church camp is an event that I am looking forward every year. A time when I can be refreshed, get closer with God and His people, and experience God even deeper beyond my imagination. It is a gathering with lots of fun, laugh, and joy. It is a good time to spend together that you will never regret. This year, I face some difficulties. My dad had stroke and half body affected in movement. I am taking 3 months no pay leaves to take care of him in Indo. However I believe in Matthew 6:33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” I still want to go for church camp. No matter what is my current situation, when we seek His kingdom first, He will bless us So what are you waiting for? Come and sign up for the camp…!!!!!

heuue…. Silvia Yustanti ga mau ketinggalan juga neh…. mau share kenapa dia mau ikut church camp : In the beginning, I considered church camp as a costly way of praying to God. I can pray everyday at home, during lunch breaks, or in the bus. So why should i bother to go to church camp. But Fiona’s testimony moved me and I asked myself, ” What is faith without practice?” Several time before, God gave me this verse in Matthew 6 about how God will provide as long as we choose to seek His Kingdom first. Today, I have decided to let Him dig deep down in my heart, find my illness, and heal me. I have decided that His power, His promises, and His miracles will not have any financial boundaries anymore. I want to show him that by going to church camp, He has the control of my life and He is everything for me. I will cherish my relationship with Him and all the time He has helped me in my life. I know that He will always be by my side in moments of joy and sadness, success and failures, health and illness.

Welly also here……. ga mau ketinggalan juga ini brother : Church camp, at first it sounds nice and I feel excited. But after I heard about the fee which is S$ 350.00 wow…. that’s a lot of money for me. Because recently in March I have to go back to Indonesia, and I spent a lot of money for the flight and other things. I also don’t think that my Project Manager will approve my leave again because this year I already applied leave for two times and the last was on May exactly 1 month before the camp. After a few days think about it, I decided to forget about this church camp even though actually I want to join. When I saw my brothers and sisters in Indo Service registered to this church camp, I just wondered why I can’t join this camp. I pray for this and God gave me the answer. Very fast…. a sister approached me and asked me about the camp. At first I said that I can’t join because my leave and the fee also. She helped me to think about it and I started to think about the camp again. I want to go to this church camp because…. in my previous camp…. God has blessed and refreshed me. I received and learned so many things. Made me closer more and more to God. After one problem finished…. it left only my leave. I started to think that God has opened the way for me to go to the camp. At the end, I decided to register for this church camp even though I still don’t know whether my Project Manager will approve my leave or not. But by faith I will be able to get my leave for this church camp. I believe that through this church camp, many greater things will happen and bring us closer in our relationship with God. So don’t lose this chance, register now to Adults Church Camp 2008…!!!!

Oi oi…… Andrew juga ikutan lo….. – When I saw that there would be a church camp shown on the slide show during service, I had no interest at all to join because I have planned to go back to Indonesia right after I completed the probation period for my job, which would be the same month as church camp. I have set this plan even before I came to Singapore in February 08 because I have not gone back to Indonesia for almost 1.5 years. I also thought to myself that I had joined church camp a few times in Hope Malaysia so if I skipped this church camp, it should be still alright. Moreover, I was afraid that if I applied leave for both church camp and trip back to Indo, I might not get any leave approved at all. With these reasons, I decided not to join church camp. Many bro & sis have approached me to ask me to join but I still had the strong feeling that I would not go to church camp (how stubborn I was). Until one night before the extended deadline for registration, when I was doing my quiet time, deep inside my heart I felt so guilty. I felt like I had done something wrong. God did not leave me in guilt but God revealed to me what is the area which I had done wrong. God asked me “What is the reason that I want to go back to Indonesia so badly?” Is it because of family, is it because of friends, is it because of fun? Then I was shocked to find out that the key reason why I wanted to go back to Indo was to have fun with my friend and my relatives. It was because they keep asking me when I would be going back to Indo and agreed to go around with me when I was back. Then God dealt with me. He asked me “Is going back to Indo more important than getting closer to Him?” On the next day, even though I was still under probation, I took the courage to ask my manager about the advanced leave and he replied instantly “Of course can”. Now I have signed up for church camp and rescheduled my plan to go back to Indo at a later time. So I would like to encourage bro and sister with the verse of Matthew 6:33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” See you guys in the church Camp 08!

Another person who gonna join this church camp…. Steven – Alasan untuk tidak ikut Church Camp, pertama aku baru mengambil leave selama 2 minggu mulai dari 16 – 31 Mei, dan setelah itu harus mengambil leave lagi untuk Church Camp. Aku mungkin harus mengambil unpaid leave, padahal aku memiliki rencana untuk berlibur panjang tahun depan. Kedua apakah ada manfaat dari Church Camp yang tidak bisa di dapat dari kebaktian. Alasan untuk ikut Church Camp : Exercise faith & hope. Aku ingin bertumbuh dan bisa meletakkan Dia sebagai prioritas pertama ku, tetapi tidak ada action dari diri ku untuk melakukan hal ini. Semakin aku tidak ingin melakukan sesuatu, semakin aku harus melakukan hal tersebut. Oleh karena itu aku memutuskan untuk daftar church camp. Luke 17:6 “Faith as small as a mustard seed….” Please keep praying for me and with me that I will get my leave approved in June.

Let’s exercise our faith by joining church camp………

Soccer League – 6 April 08 April 7, 2008

Kemaren…. acara nendang nendang pun dimulai lagi. Karena abis ujan….. lapangan nya becek banget….. Para pemain bola udah kayak mandi lumpur….. kotor banget. Ih….. hahahahhaa……….

Even hujan rintik rintik pun…. itu tidak menjadi penghalang buat pemain bola kita…. dengan gigih dan semangat nya…. mereka masih berusaha kuat untuk mengejar ngejar bola ^-*

Kemarin team kita pun berhadapan dengan Impossible Team dari Youth group….. Bisa dibayangkan ga si adult lawan youth…. level tenaga nya juga jauh berbeda. But no problem…… our team has young spirit…. hahahaha….. amen……..!!!!!!!!!!

Pertandingan pun di mulai jam 5 sore di Riverview Secondary School….. dengan score akhir 1-4. Yah…. kali ini banyak kebobolan goal….. It does not matter…. Tetap semangat untuk tendang tendang nya ya for the next match…. ^-^

Ayo……….. kejer terus…………!!!!!!!!!!!!!

latian dulu ah…….

siapakah dia dengan nomor punggung 5 ???? :p

sebelom lari di lapangan… mendingan olahraga jari dulu ah… main PS.. hauhaua….

ih…. abis main lumpur pun masih bisa gaya…. cool man… cool…. ^-^

seperti biasa…. abis main… bikin lingkaran…. ngapain si??? next time ikut nimbrung ah… heueh… ^-*

New Sister in Christ – 3 April 08 April 7, 2008

Sze Yee… Sze Yee…. ini lah nama nya…… Emang ada apa gerangan dengan dia? heuehue….. On 3rd April 2008, during care group…. dia invite Jesus into her life Yeah….. very happy…. hauhaua…..

Dari nama nya udah bisa recognize kan kalo dia bukan Indo… but Indo Group really open to every nation. Let jala ikan from the east to the west, from the north to the south….. it means….. everywhere….. Come on…….!!!!!!!!!! ^-^

Hopesem 2008 Trimester 1 April 7, 2008

Hopesem Trimester 1 baru aja berakhir….. yeach….. congratulation buat kalian yang udah graduate. Gimana nilai nya? Score high? hahauhaa……….

Topic Hopesem Trimester 1 yang baru saja berlalu adalah tentang Old Testament Survey dan tentang Church History. Wow….. great lesson….

Ini dia story dari brother kita yang ikut… ^-^

Roberto – Taon lalu banyak yang semangat ikut Hopesem Old Testament survey, so gua ikut ikut aja. But waktu gua attend, I think it helps me to understand and equip me briefly what Old Testament is all about. This year I attend Church History. It was also a good one. It ignited my desire to know about what happened with Christianity in the past. We can learn from history. So, I encourage you guys to join and to be hungry for knowledge to know more about Christianity. Ciao…

Erwin – Old Testament survey, yeahhh. So glad I could attend this lesson where i learnt a lot especially about the history in the old testament obviously, haha….  Eventhough I have not read the Old Testament book, through out this lesson I get some ideas on what actually going on in the time before Christ born and it gives me extra motivation to finish  reading the new testament and continue to Old Testament. So I would like to encourage all of you to willing to go for extra miles and join the next lesson which is New Testament Survey or The Christian Faith, and expect God to equip us.^_^.GBU.

Hopesem Trimester 2 pun akan dimulai….. Courses yang di offer adalah NEW TESTAMENT SURVEY dan THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. Pasti ga kalah menarik nya….. Ayo buruan daftarkan diri kalian ya….. C u at class….. huehuehue…………..