Orientation of Year 2011

It's been a year since our last orientation, and quite some time after our last post. LOL. Time flies, and usually it flies real fast. It's a blessing that our fellowship is now 3 years old. HAHA. Yeap, it all started with just a few people, and now we have around 15 members already.  Hallelujah and praise the Lord that we have grew in numbers. To be frank, we had and have always had problems when it comes to our venue for fellowship. And once again we should really give thanks to our Lord Mighty God for giving us the bigger space downstairs. =) orelse, we would suffocate in one small room.

One of the funny incident was, sister Xueying, the assistant of our Caring Department, was supposed to get ready 100 balloons for decoration. Imagine that wehy, 100 balloons in her car? LOL!! But then, when she reached, the balloons weren't ready yet, but the car was full of it already. All of our members had to come out and help bring the balloons in. HAHA. It was epic man! Too bad we didn't have the chance to take a picture of it. Then we have our ice-breaking session. They were supposed to pass the bread to the last person using their body, depending on what they've drew. We had lotsa fun, the whole hall was full of laughter. I guess. HAHA.

 

He ain't gay, he was just passing the bread. Don't get him wrong. LOL!!

Next we had praise and worship, by sister Kaiyun. Of course, how could we forget to praise our God after having so much fun? :) Later, we had a short speech from our advisors, which are Mentor KeeSern and Mentor David. Then followed up by our cute sotong Moniter, sister Carol Phua, who made a presentation about our fellowship and introduced the commitee of 2010/2011. As you can see in the picture, brother LeeDat is the only guy in the commitee. Lucky guy!! xD Obviously, our fellowships are lacking in terms of guysss. After all that, it's teeaaa timee. Just something simple, umm..packet drinks, sponge cakes, toffees and shortbread baked by one of our members. Seriously, the guys in our fellowship just don't grow up. They get fascinated when they see the balloons. And how itchy-handed they are, started to burst the balloons one by one and laughed at the same time. It was as though they were excited or something. Tsk tsk tsk.

 Praise and worship session by sister Kaiyun.

 

 

Mentor Keesern giving his opening speech.

Ohh..and don't forget our sotong Leader. xD

 

I believed this was quite a success as everyone had a blast. And let's all pray to God that the attendance will continue to maintain in this manner, and hopefully will grow in numbers too. We should really be thankful that we can have a fellowship to grow mentally and spiritually together. There're actually some churches out there that doesn't have or doesn't have the chance to establish one. So, always be grateful with what we have. And may God give us wisdom and strength to serve him and glorify his name. Let's all work together and make our fellowship the best fellowship ever!! Amen. =)

The commitees, with only one guy. HAHA

 See, these guys just don't grow up, stick themselves in the bed of balloons. LOL

Food and drinks!! 

Interaction between the members and also the mentor.

 We are one big joyful sotong family!! :D

Our Wake Up Call

Christ’s letter to Sardis was written to a church with the words of Him who holds the seven spirits & seven stars.. The Sardis church was dead, but on the outside it still looked to be alive because of its brilliant past and the good works it was carrying out.. (referred to Revelation 3:1- I know your deeds, you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.)

We tend to measure the health of a church by all the activities we see going on, while God looks beyond the works to the motives. Revelation 3:1 says: “I know all the things you do, and that you have a reputation for being alive—but you are dead.” Christ told the church that their actions did not “meet the requirements” of God (v.2). In other words, they were not being performed out of love for God and in obedience to Him.

Our motives are important to God! 

Do we carry out works to look good in the eyes of others, to overcome our feelings of guilt, or out of a sense of duty? 

While our outward display of actions may be enough to fool people into thinking we are committed, alive, and vibrant, they won’t fool the God who knows our hearts! 

** Remember God’s words in 1 Samuel 16:7, “The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

Christ tells the few remaining believers in Sardis to wake up, strengthen, go back to what you first believed, and hold to it firmly (Revelation 3:2-3). By following that same pattern, we can make sure our lives are God-centered and our motives pure and holy. 

(Original Version: Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God. Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent...)

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We as a Christian,,

are we down with a lot of activities and forgetting God?

are we filling ourselves with wordly thinking so that we please assimilate in the secular society?

are we really the salt and light of our school and friends?

Lets think about that..!!!

4th September

We had the privilege to listen to an invited Pastor about the ministries in China. They serve the Lord with zeal. We as Christians should expose more to the various Christian Ministries around the world and learn from them. Improve on and serve God unfailingly. This is our Mission, to testify God and preach the gospel. We're proud to be the chosen one.

The speaker challenged us with this,
"What if your belief is not true?"

He also said that many people believe or accept Christ because they want to have eternal life, they want to go to heaven. But the true way of believing in Jesus actually is to be more like Christ. If we have Jesus as our savior, our characteristics will reflect our identity.

Merdeka !

On Aug 27 2010 , we had this really interesting message by Sister Adeline - I Love Malaysia ! 

She showed us that we could be living in oblivion of the beauty of Malaysia because of the many problems we face in the society nowadays. 

She showed us many unknown locations to us such as a Gua Nasib Bagus in Sarawak which has the largest underground chamber in the world ! 

Besides that we have places such as Pulau Sipadan which has a really beautiful beach and crystal clear water ! Not to forget the marine activities going underwater ! 

In lieu of our National Day, the few of us wore traditional costumes from 3 different races. 

The Baju Kurung, Punjabi Suit and Modern Cheongsam . 

Surprisingly, each of us wore a different one without being told .. i guess that happens when you've known each other almost your whole life . 

We LOVE Malaysia !

Festive!

Hey peeps, Joy Fellowship wishes everyone a.....

BLESSED MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL!