The Light of The World

HEYY GUYS, sorry for procrastinating so much and not keeping the blog updated... but i've been pretty busy lately so yarh. :/

I'm blogging about the week when I shared DEVO! :D which was like... urgh, i can't even remember... just shows how much i've been procrastinating. Well, if you guys weren't there that week, I shared from Matthew 5:14-16. I shared about being the light of the world except through a different way. By serving in volunteer work! :) Well, usually you would associate being the light of the world by being a good example for others like getting good grades in school or being the model student. However, you can also be the light of the world by taking part in Christian Service.

After that, we broke up into our forms and discussed about what Jon had shared about from the past few weeks before that. So yeah! That was Impact for that day.

ANNOUNCEMENTS!
Impact Camp 2012! Last day for early bird is 22 April which is like next week so sign up NOW!! :)

IMPACT'S GOT TALENT!!

Hey everyone! Sorry for the late late post. YEA Impact successfully held the first event in its history - IMPACTS GOT TALENT!!

Woohoo without further delay, let's see what happened on that amazing night!

Firstly, when you walked into the Chinese chapel, you would notice there were cool Impact banners hanging around and there were some pretty fairy lights too :D Then the background music started to die down and a monstrous masculine figure took to the stage, our very own host- JON NGAN!

First up was James, Rayshell and Sam! Well, hehe their voices were all pretty sexy after screamin alot in DJCF camp, well except for James! Haha but nonetheless, they managed to perform 'You Make It Real' by James Morrison pretty well :) so kudos to them!

Then it was The Risen which was Reuel's group. They sang 'Safe and Sound' :) It was a good take on the song! Very impressive indeed although Kevin's guitar wasn't tuned :P And then guess who was up next? *drumrolls* Reuel Liu! HAHAHA he gets his second roll of the dice for a chance of getting the best performance! He sang 'Someone Like You' by Adele. It was a tough song to take on if you ask me. You would have to have skillz to pull that song off! And skillz he had! He did a wonderful job and had some very good vocals (even though i know nothing about vocals) :P

Then came the lucky draw! The elusive Starbucks Debit Card fell to Cassy Khor. ME JELLYYYY! Haha but she deserved it after baking those awesome cupcakes for the event break :)

Then moving on... The Dawn of the 98's put up a wonderful sketch. They revived old memories of one very memorable joke. Hahaha.

Hey GUYS remember this hair? ;)

They really did put up a funny sketch (Y). Good job indeed!

Then came David and Jordan's turn to perform. They did a great take on the song 'Just Haven't Met You Yet' by Michael Buble. David was certainly a revelation to some of us :) What a great voice he had! :D

Then came the one and only Lim Ee Ren to perform :P He did an AMAZING job with the song 'I Won't Give Up' by Jason Mraz. Exquisite performance indeed!! 

Yes it is this SNOBBBISH BOI!

Then up next was Daniel Chan's group to perform. They sang the song 'We Are Young'. And did an extremely good job considering they joined in pretty late and didn't have much time to practice. So good job to the Taman Sea-ians!!

Then came VIP! They danced to the beat of my heart  a wonderfully choreographed hip- hop routine :D It was GREAT! They didn't do acrobatic flips and all but their synchronised performance was enough to blow me away! 

OOH another dance group! MONST3R from SMKDU performed their K-pop dance. It was honestly one of the most synchronised and well planned dance routine I've seen on Impact's Got Talent :p HAHA but they were seriously good (Y) and they could pop and lock according to da beat of the music so it was really really well choreographed!

Then the judges went to decide the winner in a small room at the corner. LONERS! :p While in the meantime, a magician named Jon came to do some magic tricks! In case your wondering, NO THIS IS NOT JON NGAN! Well Jon fascinated us with some cool tricks, including a mind blowing dissapearing page trick at the end, and he also cracked up some lame jokes along his performance which I would say is on par with the great Alycia Tan's lameness :P

Soon, the judges came out with the scores tallied and the winners decided. So I'll just go ahead and announce it then: 

Second Runner Up goes to......*drumrolls* THE DAWN OF THE 98'S!!!

Runner Up goes to......*drumrolls again* MONST3R!!!

and THE WINNER IS......*final drumroll* JAMES LEE oops sorry LIM :p

HAHAHA the winners thoroughly deserved to win and only God knows what they will do with that load of cash :) So a wonderful event came to a close and we can only thank God for making this event a major success! So thanks for reading and God bless and see you at our next event ;)

Hey guys check out my bieber hair!

FORMS ARE BACK!

Last week there was impact. No duh. There wasn't any icebreakers last week. :( But, we had devo from Tiffany and it was about how there are two gates in our lives. There is the big, broad gate and there is also the small, narrow gate. Her devo came from Matthew 7:13-14.

This is the summary of her devo. Basically, there are two gates in how we live our lives. There is a big, broad gate, and there is also the small, narrow gate. Matthew 7:14 says, "But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." The small gate is like an alley in KL, where you wouldn't wanna drive your car in it because it's so narrow and your car might get scratched, but you know that all the world famous food is in that alley. While the broad gate is like a highway, that gives you so much space but then the journey is boring. (My own interpretation xP)

We, as Christians, must always want to go through the narrow gate, even though it is definitely a difficult task. And we must stick with it for every day of our lives.

After that, we watched a video by GUM (for those who don't know, it's Greeters and Ushers Ministry) to encourage us youth at impact to join GUM to welcome people so that when we go for church, we don't feel like we're being greeted by a bunch of old people. So yeah, if welcoming people is your kind of thing, sign up for GUM. :D

Then, Jon split us up into our forms where we discussed about his sharings from the past few weeks.

And that was pretty much it for Impact this week.

IMPACT'S GOT TALENT IS THIS SATURDAY! Make sure the friends you invited come for the event ahh!

LOVE

Hey sorry I haven't been updating you guys. so this is what happened last week.

Well worship was really really good and heartfelt this week and even though Yi Fen had a sore throat, I thought she sang very very well :) It was a full band worship session and we rarely have those nowadays so it can only mean 1 thing... WORSHIP TEAM NEEDS PEOPLE! So do sign up by going to see James Lim or Reuel Liu kayy.

And Reuel did devo about judging others. Well, I find myself judging other people like ALOT. Whether conscious or unconscious, I judge people all the time and yea in the Bible it says how can we remove the speck from our brother's eye when we have a plank in our own eye? So we shouldn't judge because we ourselves are not perfect, let's leave the judging part to God kay?

This week Jon shared about loving God. There are 2 main parts in loving God -
1. Loving God
2. Loving people

Loving God: Firstly, we must connect with Him and one of the ways is obviously through worship. So we should worship God passionately and not just with the 'stony' attitude because He deserves the best. Imagine you go out with your boyfriend or girlfriend, your not just gonna stone there and just mumble a few words right? Of course you will connect with him or her with full of interest and your gonna treat him or her like their the best, so I think God deserves that or actually even more so worship Him with all your heart, soul and strength!

Next, we have to love the church, in our case here it is IMPACT. We have to love it and get involved in Impact activities and make Impact not just 'a regular hang out place' but make it OUR place where we get closer to God. So involve yourself in activities or just make yourself available. A good opportunity to do that is the upcoming Impact's Got Talent! Yi Fen and Tiffany are looking for ushers so if you wanna help out go see them and make yourself available :)

Moving on, we have to obey God's Word. So we should read our Bible to know what His Word is and then we have to obey it :) Besides, reading the Bible will help you know God better and thus you know who you are loving :) So do make your daily devo a priority.

Finally, we must love people, because in order to love God we must first love the people God put in our lives. If we cannot even love people who we can see, how can we love God who we can't see? And this doesn't mean you should just love your lovable friends because everyone does that, instead we should love the rejected and the people who are hard to love, Jesus Himself did that too :)

So yea that's all for this week. Sorry for the loong post and one final reminder:
IMPACT'S GOT TALENT IS NEXT WEEK SO PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE COMEEEEE KAYY!
Thanks and God bless :)

Father

WOOOHOOO! IMPACT'S GOT TALENT JUST A MONTH AWAY! COME COME COME! Remember to get your tickets from either Jordan or me at RM2 per ticket:) And don't forget to tell your friends about it and make this event a HUGE SUCCESS! And of course not forgettin' the most important thing, PRAYER! Please pray for this event and Impact as a whole too okay ;)

Moving on, the "sign" game was finally introduced to the form 1s and form 2s. A pretty fun game indeed! *coughshernweicough*

And I did devo this week, I hope i did at least a decent job but I know I talked TOOO FAST - I will slow down next time- but I hope you guys got the gist of it which is to forgive those who have wronged you and apologize to those who you have wronged :)

Worship by Tian Xi and AV by Yi Fen. HMMM. Sounds like the worship team and the AV team needs some recruiting all right, so do join the worship and AV team kay! Big or small, surrender your talent to God and He will work wonders through you :) But worship was really really good and it was really heartfelt worship.

The Jon shared and he emphasized that we should really give our all to God from this short 4.30-6.00 period. And we really ought to do so because that's the MAIN reason why we come to Impact, so let's make it a habit to listen to the devos, worship the Lord, hear the announcements and message without flickering around with our phones or tablets(unless your bible is in there).

Jon shared about the perspective we have on God. Who is God to you? Is He a loving God, a merciful God, a jealous God or a fatherly God? The way we see God is important because it will reflect on how we treat God. So Jon shared about God as our Father and a father is someone who loves us and will give his children get what is the best for them. So when God answers your prayer about something that you want, it most should be good for you but if He doesn't answer it he may be asking you to wait for the right time, or even if He says no, He said it because He wants and knows what is best for you.

So that's all for this week and remember to check out the Impact's Got Talent page once its up for more info kay :) God Bless!


 

Valentine's Day

Everybody knows what day today is! IT'S VALENTINE'S DAY! :D It's a time when all the couples go dating while all the forever-alone's just stone at home. But, why am I talking about this stuff when I should be telling how IMPACT WAS!

This week's prayer meeting was DA BOMB. We had the highest 'attendance' so far. But, it would be even better if EVEN more people came for it YA? ;)
This week, Leon did devo about us Christians being the salt and the light of the world and how we must never cover this light of ours but let it shine for the whole world to see.

After that was an awesome worship session which was led by Reuel. OH OH OH and Elijah Chua played the guitar. *ROUND OF APPLAUSE*

Since this week's impact was about valentine's day, Jon had us break up into 4 groups and come up with skits for 4 different scenarios which were : The Overpossesive Girlfriend/Boyfriend, The Unreasonable Girlfriend/Boyfriend, The Stalker and What Not To Do On A Date. Sounds like title to movies rite... :P
At the end of all the fun and laughter, Jon gave a short sharing based on Valentine's Day. He said that if anyone is thinking of getting into a relationship, he/she should sit down and think it through and always remember how it will benefit his/her relationship with God. :D

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Impact's Got Talent tickets are out and they cost RM2 per ticket. You can find these tickets from either me or Evan. There will also be a lucky draw during the event so not only the participants will be getting prizes but a few lucky people will also be leaving with prizes. For those of you who don't know, Impact's Got Talent is on March 17th.

It Ain't Gonna Fit

Wow! Trisha gave us an AMAZING time of devo this week, didn't she? I feel that all or most of us can relate with her, we shouldn't just love our friends because don't the tax collectors do that too? It's not wrong but we should really try to make a more conscious effort to love our enemies. It is never easy to love your enemy but it is a move you wont regret taking, at least you know you took the first step :)

Worship was nothin' less than Spectacular too! It was a great job by Yi Qian who was worship leading for the first time! WOOHOOO! *CLAPS HANDS* It was really good to see that the AV's Open Song was functioning (in case you didn't know, it was down for a looong time) Well God does have His way and we must always trust him :)

And the IMPACT'S GOT TALENT forms has been passed out so do paricipate and invite your friends, and let's make sure we work hand in hand to make this event a success!

Session, once again by the beloved JONATHAN NGAN! Here's my take on what I understood from Jon's sharing. GOLIATH BIG, David small. Goliath challenges Israel, David insults him by calling him an uncircumcised Philistine. They fight, David throws a rock, Goliath looks at the incoming stone and *stones*. Goliath GG.com, David takes his head :O

Goliath: Ready or not, here I come!
David: WHEEEEE! I have airy pants, what size are yours?

Nahh, that wasn't the jist of Jon's sharing. I missed out the main part, where Saul hands his Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious armor to David but David decided if he was going out to meet an uncircumcised Philistine he would do it his way, LIKE A BOSS!

So yea, you don't need to conform to the world or be what the world wants you to be. You must be who God created you to be. God made each and everyone of us special and He has different plans for all of us so the world shouldn't be deciding our future when God has already decided on what we're wearing tomorrow, what we're eating and whatever we're doing. So trust that God has THE ULTIMATE PLAN for you and don't forget He is your creator :)

God Bless! See you on Valentines Day Special this week :) #neveralone Cause God is always here for us! :)