With blessings and encouragement

Just wanted to write a little about the David Sanborn’s “Song of the Shepherd” musical. For those who missed it due to exams or whatever reasons, I hope this sharing will bless and encourage you as it did for me.

The musical was a captivating 1 hour 30 minutes one-man show. David sang and danced throughout the whole musical, representing different characters….admired his stamina and loved his hilarious interpretation of Goliath! He used different impersonations of celebrities to represent the different characters of the story. And being once the lead male star of the “West Side Story musical”, Tony, sometimes I could catch a glimpse of “Tony” in “King David”.

The ‘Song of the Shepherd’ is about the rise and fall of King David and also most importantly the restoration of King David. And God called King David “a man after God’s own heart”….did you know that David is mentioned most often in the Bible besides Jesus? What was so special about David? That humble little shepherd boy who rose to become the King of Israel never forgot who God is. And even though he strayed, he was quick to repent and seek forgiveness. It’s not about how great we are or how perfect we are….it’s about how great God is. And this great God wants our hearts.

After the performance David asked this simple question that echoed through my mind,

When we spend time with God, do we do it like we are doing God a favour? Do we say to God, “See, I’m sacrificing an hour of my time to do my quiet time. So I expect to be rewarded for this ?

or do we think what a privilege it is to be able to talk to God anytime. If you forgot how much God went through to give you that privilege, go watch “The Passion of Christ” again.

Lastly, David shared about his father who became a quadriplegic after a surfing accident.

"A quadriwachamacallit???"

Basically the condition Christopher Reeves was suffering, that was what happened to his father. He was paralyzed from the neck downwards and totally depended on others for his needs. If he had an itch, someone had to scratch it for him.

When the doctor spoke to his father about accepting his condition, his father responded and said,

“I will accept whatever God has given to me. If it is His will for me to remain like this for the rest of my life, I accept it.”

It was tough taking care of his father months after months, knowing now that his father couldn’t go trekking in the jungle anymore to share the Good news to the unreached.

One day the doctor came for a follow up counselling session with his father to make sure that his father has not been entertaining suicidal thoughts.

So his father said, “Only God has the right to decide when I should die. I don’t believe it is right for me to take my own life. But I have one question for you doctor…”

“You counsel patients like me about suicidal thoughts. What do you expect quadriplegic like me to do? Hold my breath???!!!”

Gosh! I love his father’s sense of humour. Today, his father jogs five miles a day, still goes jungle trekking to share the Good news to the unreached. You can read his testimony in his book called “Walking Miracle” from YWAM office. Btw it was sold out by the time I reached the book table…

With blessings,
caroline

THE GREAT BIBLE CHALLENGE

Hi guys & gals,

Just finished your exams?
Don't know what to do with your extra time?
Need extra cash to fill your pockets?

Here's your chance to win some cool stuffs and cash prizes - Join the THE GREAT BIBLE CHALLENGE! It is a contest tailored for you to learn and get your bum (quote and unquote) off the tv couch!...and give your self a chance to win CASH and some cool prizes.

THE GREAT BIBLE CHALLENGE will run for four months from 1 June to 30 September 2006. There will be monthly prizes and you stand to win handsomely in THE GREAT BIBLE CHALLENGE which is the culmination of the four months total points.

Fancy yourself earning RM50 in prize money? maybe even RM100? or maybe RM500????

Fancy winning yourself some cool giveaway prizes like movie tickets? Sunway Lagoon tickets?? thumbdrives? or maybe cool speakers? or maybe even a free holiday???? hmmmm.....

Read the rules and sign yourself up for THE GREAT BIBLE CHALLENGE!!

mikey

THE GREAT BIBLE CHALLENGE

1. The Contest is open to individuals below the age of 25 as of December 2006.
2. The contestant must first register with the Contest Referee by submitting the following information:

Name

IC Number

Valid Email address

Telephone Number

3. All contest questions are sent via email. All responses must be submitted via email to the Contest Referee

4. The Contest will run for FOUR consecutive months from 1 June till 30 September.

5. The rules of the Contest:

Each Friday evening between 5pm – 11pm, the contest questions will be emailed to the registered email address of each contestant.

You are required to “reply to sender” with the attached answer/response with subject matter unchanged. Non-compliance may affect your participation.

All correct responses will receive 2 points, irregardless of response time.

Additionally, the first all correct (or with the most correct answers) response to reply via email will receive 10 pts. The second fastest with the most correct answers will be given 5pts, the third (3pts), the fourth (2pts) and the fifth (1pt).

There will be four categories of questions each month. In the event that any particular month has more than 4 Fridays, there will be no questions sent out on the last Friday of the month.

Each week, the contestants will try to accumulate as many points as possible to vie for the Monthly Prize.

The points will only accumulate for the month itself. At each beginning of the month, all scores are refreshed to zero.

Contestants are allowed to register at any time and be eligible to request for questions that were sent our earlier, if any, for that particular month.

Questions are based on the New International Version (NIV)

Contest Referee’s decision is final and no complaints will be entertained.

By sending your response by email does not mean that the Contest Referee has received the reply. Each response email will be acknowledged by a reply by the Contest Referee.

The time of the receipt of the email is time-stamped by Google Mail.

Weekly and Monthly Results will be published at: http://ywap.blogspot.com

Answers will only be published at the end of the monthly contest at: http://ywap.blogspot.com

Look out for clues that may be randomly shared on http://ywap.blogspot.com for assistance to solve the Great Bible Challenge.

You may use any bible study tools such as the Concordance, Dictionary, or the Internet or whatever means to help solve the questions/puzzle/code.

6. The Four Categories of the Contest are:

Bible Verse Scrambler:

i. You are required to unscramble the alphabets of the words of a verse/passage and rewrite the verse/passage and quote where the bible verse/passage is found in.

ii. Eg: “ROF DGO OS DLVOE….” has to be unscrambled to form the words, “For God so loved…” AND also quote John 3:16 to complete the answer.

Mix Up Verse:

i. You are required to reorganize the words of the verse/passage to form the correct verse/passage. You will also need to quote where the bible verse/passage is found in.

ii. Eg: “LOVED SO GOD FOR…” has to be reorganized to form the correct verse, ie. “For God so loved…” AND also quote John 3:16 to complete the answer.

Break the Code:

i. You are required to either:

Find out what is the common relationship between the items mentioned OR

Solve Bible Maths OR

Unscramble a scryptogram (code). Solve the code and discover the verses OR

Solve the riddle

Bible Challenge:

i. You are required to answer bible trivial questions relating to

people of the bible

places in the bible

event in the bible

7. All points secured by the contestant during the contest will add towards the Grand Prize – The Great Bible Challenge at the end of the four months. This means that points secured in each of the four months will be added up together to find overall winners for the grand prize. Eg. If you secured 20pts in Month 1, 15pts in Month2, 30pts in Month 3 and 5pts in Month 4, you will have a total of 70pts.

8. Prizes are subjected to change without notice but will be replaced by items/cash of similar face value.

9. The Contest Referee has the right to admit or reject any contestant registration without giving reasons. The Contest Referee also reserves the right to terminate any contestants found cheating or in violation of the rules.

10. A confirmation of the contestant’s eligibility to participate in the Contest will be emailed to the registered email.

11. Please register by sending an email to:

mr.michaelfun@gmail.com with all the relevant information as mentioned in Rule 2.

12. Please submit all enquiries or need of assistance to the same email address: mr.michaelfun@gmail.com.

Bumming Time!!

Woooooohooooooooo!!
Exams are over! Are over!!
Guess everyone's on holidays right now..hehe!!
But guess what?! I got 3 offical months to bum around!! Wahahaha.. =P

Hope you guys did well in your exams..now just waiting for the crying part to come..
*sob sob sob*.."I flunked!!" Hahaha..

Nah..Just kidding..All of us are smart people yeah!! Hehehe.. =)

Anyway, HAPPY BUMMING around!!

Quoting Agnes "Make use of yourself!!"

Cheers,
Official 3 months bummer..
Eunice!! =)

BBQ 27 MAY 2006

HI - Some quick update on BBQ Nite this saturday-

1. It's at Kevin Ho's house in Damansara Jaya (it's near KDU).
   
2. Those of you who needs transport, meet at the church by 6.30pm! Those who can avail transport (ie got space in your car), please meet at the church also by 6.30pm. For those who can arrange car-pooling with your friends or friends' parents but need directions to Kevin's House - can call me or Kevin or Andrew or Tze Yuen or Eu Chung or Ian or Crystal or Eunice for directions....don't call Agnes (you'll end up in Ipoh!)
3. Food is prepared - BUT if you want to contribute food & drinks & salad& whatever, you can coordinate with Andrew or Kevin or Tze Yuen or Eu Chung or Ian or Crystal or Eunice....So far got beef, pork, sausages, fried meehoon, drinks, fruits, salad.... you are welcome to contribute soft drinks, agar-agar, crisps, cake, junk food...(if not enough Kevin will go tapau chow farn!)
   
4. The BBQ ends at 11pm - please let your dad/mum/baby sitter/guardian know...
5. Dress casual - NO ties, long sleeve shirts and formal dresses allowed.
   
6. Ask and Bring your friends - ALL ARE WELCOME. (But we appreciate if you can let Andrew or Kevin or Tze Yuen, or Ian or Eu CHung or Crystal or Eunice know so that WE ALL know food is enough!

Let's Have fun....

Inter-Church Bible Church 2006 - Questions & rules

Background and Content

1. Questions for Background and Content shall be answered as a team
2. Each question will be given out to all teams together.
   
3. Answers will be selected by lap tops placed on the teams’ table.
   
4. There will be 3 rounds of questions of 3 levels of difficulty. (1 question/level)
5. Each team can choose to answer all questions or stop answering at any level.
   
6. Each level will have ascending points, 5 pts, 10pts and 15pts.
   
7. If any question of each round is answered wrongly all points for that set will be forfeited.
   
8. All teams will have 30sec to answer each question.

“Historical and Geographical facts” and “Interpretation”

1. Questions for “Historical and Geographical facts” and “Interpretation” will be asked to the 4 participants’ one at a time.
   
2. Participants will take turns to answer the questions posed to them.
   
3. The questions will be read once and will be displayed on the screen.
4. After the reading, the participant is given a maximum of 1 minute to answer the question.
   
5. No discussions among participants are allowed.
6. In that one minute the participant may choose to open the question to the group by declaring “Open to Group” and the group may discuss and answer the question in the same 1 minute.
7. The participants are not allowed to refer to the Bible during the quiz.
   
8. The questions will be answered orally.
9. TEN (10) points will be awarded for each correct answer.
   
10. FIVE (5) points if the group answers.

Memory verses

1. Memory verses will be written on the specially prepared paper that will be handed out to the participants during the quiz.
   
2. No discussions among participants are allowed.
   
3. TWO (2) minutes is given to all participants.
4. There will be a team and floor event for memory versus from any part of the I Timothy (Jumbled Memory Verse).
5. All will be given a group of words to arrange the selected portion of I Timothy.
   
6. A total of 2 minutes will be given and the judges will allot points similar to the memory versus below.
7. For the memory verses, each memory verse question carries a maximum of 20 points.
   
8. 0.5 points will be deducted for every word or punctuation mistake.
   
9. Each center is to provide one judge to assist in checking the memory verse.

Floor Questions.

1. There will be questions for the floor in all categories except memory verse where the centers can discuss and answer.
   
2. These answers will be written and sent back to the judges for marking.
3. The floor will be allocated 15 mins to complete all questions.

Points Mining

There will be a Final Session called “Points Mining” Session.

All the teams and the floor will be given 50 questions to answer in 2 min, all right answers will receive 1 point.

The decision of the Quiz Master is final.

Inter-Church Bible Church 2006

The details are as follows:

Date: Saturday 8 July 2006

Venue: Agape Chapel, 55-2 Jalan Cecawi 6/19A, Section 6, Kota Damansara. (We'll meet in BSGC and go together.)

The quiz will start at 3:30 pm. We will meet in BSGC at 2.30pm.

The quiz format, the questions will be based on the following categories:

a) Background of I Timothy & Content (90 points)

b) Historical & Geographical facts (40 points)

d) Interpretation (40)

e) Then there will be a section on memory verse. (80 points) The verses to be memorized are:

• I Timothy 1:15-17
• I Timothy 2:1-4
• I Timothy 4:11-13
• I Timothy 6:6-9
• I Timothy 6:11-12

f) Jumbled memory versus. Team (20pts) Floor (20pts)

g) Floor questions (100 points) all categories except memory verses.

h) Points mining (50 points)

Exams almost done...Holidays beckon...

Wow.... seemed like just yesterday, we were praying for ALL of you to do well in your exams and that you guys wont stress or sweat too much over it.... and now it's almost done....in fact, for some of you -it's already over (Cool! especially when others still got exams!!! hahaha)

Anyway, we have programs planned up for you guys...not too much but enuff to keep you guys busy!

Church camp is just three weekends away (3-6 June) and I know some of you would be busy with CF camp as well in the week after...so when you guys come back, we are gonna play host to Elim Youth from Ipoh!!! Think one night away from your parents.... think one weekend of hanging out in church... think one weekend of makan and laughing and games.... think one weekend of fun....before you get back to school again.... (had to kill the dream before it goes too far - after all, you still have exams in sept and november....hahahaha - me? me no more exams liao......) There's also gonna be the World CUP from 9 June to 9 July, .......what a month it's gonna be....

Anyway, remember, we are also gearing up for two major events - the COPA IBA on 1 July and Quiz (on 8 July) ----> we are going for honours this year and we are gonna do some trashing big time this year...no more being trashed but we do the trashing this time round!!!!

That means we gonna start preparing NOW and work hard till July!!!

So for the next two months, we are going to breathe, eat and sleep 1 Timothy...play captainball and pangsai ....err....tahilah.....

so next few weekends....bring your sports gear...and your thinking cap...and be on time.....

tough it out, rough it out....

mikey!

Song of the Shepherd

Hear ye! Hear ye! Some Xciting news to share!

For those who enjoyed the Stage Acting and Dramatisation by Unc Mic last month, well here's a chance to hone some more of your acting skills with a real pro....not that I'm saying Unc Mic is not a pro...hehe! ACTS Church is conducting a workshop with David M. Sanborn on the 17th May 2006. That's next Wednesday...at 7.45pm. It will be held at ACTS Church and registration fees will be RM15 per pax. Those who are interested to sign up can call 03-56362147.

For those who prefer to be spectators and audience, they can watch David M. Sanborn who will be performing a one-man show about King David called Song of the Shepherd. And for those 'leng luis' out there, here's a chance to watch a 'leng chai' perform...hehe...you can catch him on the 19th - 20th May 2006. For more details, please visit www.theactschurch.org. And oh yeah...admission is free.



If you guys are wondering, who in the world is David M. Sanborn, well here's a little write-up about him:

David M. Sanborn, co-creator and star of the multi-million dollar hit musical, Judah Ben-Hur, will be performing his one-man show about King David, SONG of the SHEPHERD.

With his impersonations of Arnold Schwarzenegger (as Goliath), Keanu Reeves, Sylvester Stallone, Gene Kelly, Sean Connery, Jim Carrey and more than a dozen others, you'll see why this one-man show has already won the hearts of some 50,000 people on four continents - and why critics call it 'passionate, hilarious...truly breathtaking

~Dan Duis, WCTN-Radio~

*Please note that if you decide to go, it is purely on a personal basis. This is not a YW@p event....unless Unc Mic wants to make it so. What do you say, Unc Mic?

Cheers,
Caroline

Exam Tips!! =P

Knock! Knock!

Who's there?!

Eunice is back with her nonsensical, crappotological internet in her house!!

Hahaha!! =P

Anyway, one big tip for your exams dude...Pray before you even open your question paper!! =D

And hope all of you are sleeping well..and sleeping enough..
Dont have nightmares like I do, dont oversleep because dreaming too much like I do. Hahahaha!! =P

Ciao!!

Cheers,
Eunice!!=)

Hide & "Get Stuck"?

hide and seek was a great success.. all thks to our uncle michael who planned it up! See how much fun liyuan is having in her "home" outside the church near the stairs!! haha.. nice hiding place liyuan!! For those who din come for youth on the 6th of May really missed all the fun.. come and join us more on saturday to have more fun games like Hide 'n' Seek!! =)

Bitter then Sweet

Exams!! Exams!! Exams!!
What a nuisance!? Hahaha.. =P

Think everyone's gonna be having exams this month...So all the best to all of you (and me ><) Hehehe!!

I personally cannot wait for the exams to be over and have my holidays!! Wey...it's 3 whole months of holidays ler!! Muahahahaha.. (Jealous?! =P) And so ngam...all the super exciting activities that Uncle Michael has planned all happened to fall in the month of June and July!! Weeeeeee... =D Now, that's what they say in Mandarin, "bitter first then sweet". (Whatever!) Hahaha!!

Let's see....
1. 3rd June - Camp.
2. 10th June - Ipoh fellas coming down...
3. 1st July - COPA IBA...(Muahahahaha!! We're gonna lose again. Hahaha!!)
4. 8th July - Quiz...(Think Uncle Michael is pretty confident that we can win!! *finally* Hehehe!)
5. 15th July - Doulos!!

WooooHoooo!! Hope to see you folks on all these dates.. =P *greedy*

Cheers,
Eunice!! >.<