Jurong Youth Ministry

"Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian anymore than going to a garage makes you a mechanic." - Laurence J Peter

Here are some camp photos… enjoy! heehee

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Found it on Brian’s blog. Thanks Brian & Mandy!

Yearly we celebrate Parents’ Day which falls on Mothers’ Day (just so dad’s don’t feel left out ha) This year for Parents’ Day, the youth and young adults worked hard to organize church worship service and prepared lunch for our dear parents… or at least we tried too!

On Sabbath, after the worship service and lunch we had a special “Parents Children Dialog” where both parties had a chance to voice their views on “FREEDOM! vs. CONTROL”.

I say its not easy being a parent neither is it easy being a kid. As kids, we need to earn our parent’s trust by acting responsibly. And as parents they too need to earn their kids trust being approachable, loving and accepting. Neither sides always get it right but whatever it is we want to thank our parents’ for all the love they have showered on us!

What are these youth leaders doing? Always meeting meeting meeting…

Well, yesterday the youth leaders had a meeting~ to kick-off planning for two big events this year… Youth Alive and a Youth Camp!

After so long, I was able to get my password back from wordpress. Geez’ums, wordpress is demanding.

Okay, I’m here to blog about Cell 2(and ZM)’s trip to Pitstop before Christon kills me for more late work. Hehe. I don’t have all the pictures yet, but I’ll post the best ones as soon as I get my hands on them.

On the third of April, that’s Thursday, Cell 2 met up for one of the coolest cell outings ever. A few of us had a bit of trouble getting there dry and on time. It was raining and it was a weekday after all. However, none of us got lost and we all got there at around 7 eventually, which is actually saying something because for once nobody was more than an hour’s late.

Well. The narrow staircase looked like you were about to ascend into some strange little store room with lots of mice and enough space for you to put your toe into one of the mouse-traps, then make yourself go deaf by screaming too loudly in an enclosed space, but then like magic, the room the door opened into was large, airy, and pretty. I told you it was magic.

I think the walls were red, but then you couldn’t really tell anyway, because whatever wall space they had was plastered over with layers of memories and notes in the form of permanent marker and photographs. And they had this giant shelf in the corner full of ubercool obscure boardgames that made me drool.

The games we played in order were.. Okay fine, actually I hardly remember the title of the games itself. The first game was something to do with dinosaurs and cards. And that’s where my memory goes haywire, because that’s when the food comes in. I bet none of you can remember either. Anyway, in the end we made a lot noise playing some hybrid-type game that was a cross between heart attack and cards; another that required us to use both our left brains and our right brains (and we all know who rocks best at that, don’t we?); and one that made us do animal sounds.

Beep beep!

Where else can you play board games, scream, eat, and be cool all at the same time?
Pitstoppitstoppitstop. 

-bernice! 

Alright

Cell 4 went out to chill and bond last Sunday at raffles place pitstop cafe. Although there were only 6 of us but we enjoyed ourselves. Or at least i did. Feels great that my cell is opening up towards each other. Sharing our struggles and supporting each other. Being a listening ear or be of help in any way possible towards each other!

Thats what a cell is for. Accepting us for who we are, Developing us to what God wants us to be, Supporting each other in times of trials and Celebrating with us our victories.
Its always my prayer that cell 4 would truely model the Acts 2 community one day. That we’ll be so willing to be there to lend a helping hand or a shoulder to lend on in times of need AWWW… how sweet right peepz?

Anyway, back to the outing. Activity wise, it’s all fun and laughter. In the short span of 2hrs we played with about 6-7 different boardgames at pitstop cafe. Ate quite alot of food (as usual, with joyce, mandy and clarence around)… hehe! Opps hope i din offend anyone… Don’t take it too personally okay?

Hehe… After about 2 hrs or so of games we went to Funan to grab some computer stuff for our dearest pastor Johnny as well as for ourselves, then off the Pastamania for a dinner!

We talked and shared randomly but its times like this that we bond and get to know each other better. The way we relate, our likes and dislikes. Hope that we can hang out more! Have fun as well as emotionally connect and really love and care for each other. Because thats what cells are for

Hehe… Not forgetting we left memories at the walls of pitstop cafe. Look at the attached picture.

Hey peeps you got to click on the picture to see the full one. I don’t know how to compress it sorry! and enjoy!

tricia