Hello people. Good Friday is coming and I wonder what are the thoughts running through your head. What is good friday to you? You know this is one of the most powerful testimonies that we can share with our friends. Good friday is a time where it has the most powerful message of forgiveness and redemption of our sins. The best work of reconciliation that we can ever tell off. We have many opportunities to invite our friends to church with the many activities that we try to plan.

Remember the little skit that the Core group had put up when we were launching the theme of the year? The one where we had hammers in our hands telling you of our vision to double the number of people in YZ so that we can knock down the wall making the current YZ room bigger. I hope you guys haven't forgotten. Well, it may be hard to find invite our friends to church because we fear their rejection but yet, it is said in the bible that as followers of Christ, the best thing we can do is to share of our faith to those who have yet to believe.

If you realise, there are many opportunities to invite your friends to church (ie. games time, gospel sunday, youth sunday etc). I really pray that each of us be serious in thinking of the person we really hope to bring into the Kingdom of God. Let us share this good news to all of them.

One event that you can bring them to would be the upcoming easter convention held from next wednesday to friday. There are services in our church at 7.30pm on Wednesday and Thursday evening. On Good Friday, the service will be held at Singapore Expo Hall 2 at 10am. Do come down and join us at the services. =)

BTW! YZ 8 Anniversary is coming up on April 14. We are having our thanksgiving in church at 6.30pm. Do avail yourself as we celebrate God's goodness to this ministry. Your parents have been invited as well. Do ask them to RSVP to either Rachel or me, Eudora soon. Look out here for more details of the thanksgiving!

eudora

You are strongly encouraged to bring your friends along for this great time of fellowship. We will also be playing soccer and captain's ball so as to build our bonds for the upcoming Synod Youth Games Day. I hope you guys have already formed your teams.

dora

Hello people!!

Finally Youth Sunday is over and I thank God for the positive responses that I recieved. Indeed it was an exciting experience when I saw that there were people in the congregation sitting there, worshiping the Lord, in Spirit and in truth. When I saw you guys out there, it added even more encouragement. =) I hope that you guys have learnt a lot from the sermon that day because indeed, when there is sin in our lives, we cannot function as best as we can as Christians.

I was browsing through the new paper the other day and I came across this very interesting article about this group of christians in the fashion industry choosing to meet up with each other to share of their struggles to stick to their moral principles as best as they can. As you all might know, the fashion industry is one where sometimes principles can be compromised and worse, you can be mocked for standing up to your principles.

What encouraged me when I was reading this article was that these people stood firm to their convictions, to be a good christian even though they could have lost certain jobs. How many of us are willing to give up jobs that could be high paying or friends that would mock you for standing up for God? I don't believe many of us would because friends are very important to us especially during this time when we are all growing up. We tend to confide in our friends more than we confide in our parents.

I do have my own experience to share. I recently had to give up this internship position because I would have to compromise on my christian convictions and almost give up coming to church for the next six months. It wasn't easy to make that decision because the offer that they had given me was so attractive that as an intern I would actually undertake a project that I can call my own. But well, I gave it up anyway. =)

It's not easy to stick up for God but when you do so, God honours you in ways that you cannot imagine. God honoured me and I got a good internship somewhere else.

Anyway this saturday is GAMES TIME again! It starts at 4pm and we should end by 6.30pm. If you can, we can all go out for dinner together after the games. Yep. Look at this place for more information!

loadz of love, eudora

I realised that this blog has been left stagnant for a while. Well I presume that most of you are in your last week of term one and therefore, most of you are recieving your term grades and well for the sec 4 students, probably having your first meet-the-parents session of the year. I wonder how are all of you are feeling right now.

Going through the first term of school may not have been the easiest transition for most of you especially if you're a sec 1 student, sec 3 student or even JC 1 student. Thrown into new environments, trying to handle the new subjects and new demands of almost everything. Yet, many lessons can be learnt just within these 10 weeks of school alone.

As expected, adjusting back to school is difficult. Making new friends, feeling like all else is futile because you are not doing well in school. But I want to encourage all of you, God is ever present with you. He is your friend when you feel you are friendless, He is always there to catch you when you feel like you are falling from the sky because you aren't doing well in school. He understands when you feel misunderstood and well, corrects you when He knows you need to.

Sometimes, He may do things that we do not understand but when we look back, we see the good that God has planned for us. You see, as humans and more less teenagers, we tend to be a little more headstrong especially pushing for the things we want. We sometimes turn our backs on God's calling for us because it's not the way that we want to go but you know, it's just like the story of the prodigal son. God is like the father waiting for his son to return home. It's never too late.

We tend to stray away from God when things get tough but trials come our way so that we can be strengthen in our faith. Satan will try means and ways to get us away from God. My encouragement to you guys is really to stick close to God. He is the one who gets us through the hard and tough times. He is our encourager when we lack encouragement.

Take heart. Press on.

- dora