Coming up this Saturday

Hello Young People,

Watch out for something interesting this coming Saturday. Here is a prelude to it.


See you at 3.30p.m. on Saturday for another exciting day and let's give our first Saturday of 2009 for the Lord.

God Bless.

Merry Christmas!

Wishing everyone a joyous Merry Christmas 2008!

May this day be a blessed one filled with

joy,

happiness,

peace,

blessings

and love

as you reflect on the true meaning of Christmas.

Have a great Christmas! God bless. = p

Work Hard Play Harder

Work Hard Play Harder

I bet everybody has heard of this

phrase numerous times.
But when you come to think of it, this is what our activities are about. It’s either work or play.

For the life of a student, studying is kinda considered as work (if you consider it as play.. you're insane =P lol), along with house chores and a part-time job; any activities other than those are considered as play.

For the life of a working adult, your job is your work and anything that is not related to your job is play.

My question for you all is; In a world that separates activities into Work and Play, where does spending time with God fit in?
Is it Work? Or is it Play?

A little bit of something to ponder on and discuss about. Do send comments on what you think. =)

Love,

Aaron Tan

Young Gen Cell Christmas Celebration Bash!!!

The Young Gen Cell is having a Christmas Celebration Bash this Friday. Yay!

To make this event a special one, we are inviting all of YOU from Youth Impact to join us...

You are special!!!!

Come and enjoy yourselves as we celebrate Christmas with one another.

It is a pot-bless dinner, so there will be lots of food around. = p

This Friday will be a great celebration with songs,

food

and LOTS and LOTS of fellowship and fun!!!

Hoping to see you there.

Where: Church @ 3rd Floor

Time: 8.00 - 10.30 pm
What to bring: Some food (enough for around 10 people) and yourself!!!!!
If you have any questions, feel free to call Aaron (016-4124777) or Vive (012-4125325)

Youth Impact Service on 29 November '08

Our icebreaker started off with a little game. You can try it yourself: if you’re a right-hander, turn your right leg clockwise in circles. At the same time, you must draw the number six with your right hand. Sounds easy, but no one managed to do it…
After that, we had a fun time playing hide-and-seek. All of us are still kids at heart. = P
It seems that finding good hiding places in the church to hide was hard and rare. No pictures were taken because everyone was busy hiding. Sorry!

Today’s message was shared by Uncle Vive. It was about The Veil (Exodus 26:31-33) which divided the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

The colors used in the Veil paints a portrait of Jesus and who He is.

• Blue = color of the sky and reminds us of the heavenly origin of Jesus, the Son of God. (Rom 8:3, 1 Tim 3:16)
• Scarlet = color of blood and represents Jesus as the Lamb of God, the perfect sacrifice for all of our sins. (Rev 1:5, John 15:13)
• Purple = color of royalty which speaks of Jesus as the King of Kings (Isa 9:6-7, Rev 19:16)
  = a mixture of blue and red that symbolizes Jesus as God and man.
• The cloth used was pure, white linen = purity of Jesus Christ who is sinless (1 Pet 2:22, 2 Cor 5:21)
• The cloth was to be twined and made by a skilled man = the cloth was to be weaved specially.

The purpose of the veil:

• It served as a warning = not to trespass the Most Holy Place.
  The cherubim were a guardian of the holiness of God (Gen 3:24).
• It served as a wall. (Lev 16:2, Isa 59:2)
• It served as a way.
• It served as a witness.

The Veil was not meant as a barrier between the Israelites and God, but as protection for them so that they will not be consumed by His holy fire.
Now, we can come to God without any veils or barriers to hide behind. The question is; has the veil really been torn in your life?

Youth Impact Service on 22 November '08

Our icebreaker started off interestingly. It was a game that required speed and fast moving fingers and hands. Enjoy the pictures.

Deswyn giving a talk about this flower...

and unexpectedly, everyone's paying attention to him.

the human train

everyone laughing at something invisible

Melissa wondering what's going on at the back

at the back: heads, tails...

Melissa: I'll take this flower and hit you first! *evil laugh*

Ephraim: Well, i can always use my brute force *clenched fist*

the showdown between the modern adam and eve!

and.... the forbidden fruit (flower)

After our praise and worship, it was time to feed our spiritual man. Today’s speaker is none other than Aunty Felicia. Her message was a continuation about the tabernacle bible study. It was entitled “The Golden Altar of Incense” (Exodus 30:1-10, 34-38; 37:25-29).

- The Altar measured 1 cubit (1.5 feet) square and 2 cubits (3 feet) high.

- 2 poles made of acacia wood were put through 2 gold rings on opposite sides for transporting purposes.
- It was made of acacia wood and overlaid with pure gold = the two-fold nature of Jesus (fully man and God).
- There is a golden crown around the top = symbolizes Jesus crowned with glory and honor. (Hebrews 2:9)
- 4 horns protruded from the 4 corners = signifies God’s power and authority

- The horns were sprinkled with blood to cleanse the sins of the Israelites = power of Jesus’ blood when we confess our sins and ask for forgiveness (1 John 1:9)
- The Golden Altar was just outside the Holy of Holies and positioned centrally in front of the veil between the Golden Lamp stand.
- The priest would burn sweet incense on the Golden Altar every morning and evening besides tending to the lamps.

- We can keep burning for Jesus by having a regular life of reading the Bible and praying with the revelation of Jesus Christ.
- The Golden Altar is only used to burn incense which is made of equal amounts of 4 spices (stacte, onycha, galbanum, and frankincense).
- Only he/she who has a pure heart and clean hands (Ps 24:3-4; James 4:8) can come before a holy God.

- The Golden Altar represents Jesus who is our intercessor before God in heaven (Romans 8:34; Heb 7:25) and all of us should be interceding here on earth too (Num 16:41-50).

Youth Impact Schedule for December 2008

Young Gen Cell Update

This Friday Cell, 28th November 2008:
Venue: Ps. Geoffrey's place, Gambier Heights.
Time: 8.00pm

Hey, hope that you all had a great week.
We'll be having our young gen cell group meeting on Friday, at Ps. Geoffrey's place.
Let us come excited and with an expected heart.
Really looking forward to see you all this Friday night.
If you don't know the place, contact Aaron Tan or Deswyn for details.
Bless ya heaps.
Love,
Aaron Tan

Obituary

Our church was saddened to learn this week of the death of one of our most valued members, Someone Else. Someone's passing creates a vacancy that will be difficult to fill. Else has been with us for many years and for every one of those years, Someone did far more than a normal person's share of the work.

Whenever there was a job to do, a class to teach, or a meeting to attend, one name was on everyone's list, "Let Someone Else do it." Whenever leadership was mentioned, this wonderful person was looked to for inspiration as well as results; "Someone Else can work with that group."
It was common knowledge that Someone Else was among the most liberal givers in our church. Whenever there was a financial need, everyone just assumed Someone Else would make up the difference.
Someone Else was a wonderful person; sometimes appearing superhuman. Were the truth known, everybody expected too much of Someone Else. Now Someone Else is gone! We wonder what we are going to do. Someone Else left a wonderful example to follow, but who is going to follow it? Who is going to do the things Someone Else did?
When you are asked to help do anything, anywhere this year, remember -- we can't depend on Someone Else anymore.
-Author is Unknown-

This is a great story from the internet. It should make us realise not to depend on Someone Else all the time but to be willing to serve God wherever, whenever with anybody in any capacity we can with the gifts that we are bestowed with.
Have a great week. God bless. = p

Youth Impact Service on 15 November '08

For starters, we started off with a great and funny icebreaker led by Win Shern. Everyone was practically running around trying to get to the things mentioned. Especially when the things were rare and hard to be found… in the end, all of us had fun although Lin Ken’s head might be squashed by that time. = P Enjoy the pictures.

waiting for the game to start...

why is everybody desperately trying to reach for something? *scratches head*

can you find Lin Ken??? i can't...

answer: he's under this mountain of people on top of him =p

After our praise and worship, we continued on our fifth lesson of the tabernacle shared by Sis. Sathy. The title of today’s lesson is on The Table of Shewbread (Exo. 25:23-30; 37:10-16 and Lev 24:5-9).

The Table of Shewbread was in the Holy Place on the north side. It was on your right as you entered the Holy Place. The Table of Shewbread means The Table of The Bread of The Presence because fresh bread was to be served on this Table before God’s Presence constantly.

The measurements of this Table were 2 cubits (36 inches) long and 1 cubit (18 inches) wide which signifies the witness of the Holy Spirit and the Word. We need both of them because the Spirit enlightens the Word to us. The Table also measured 1 ½ cubit (27 inches) high that shows the lack in fullness of God. The Table was made of acacia wood and overlaid with gold. It tells us of Jesus who is the perfect man and God.

Around the Table of Shewbread was a rim of ledge measuring a span wide. The Table was also bordered by two rows of gold moldings or crowns. The crowned border was supposed to guard the bread from falling off the Table. When God tells us of our High Priest, Jesus; He does not say robed with glory and honor, but CROWNED with glory and honor (Heb 2:9).
The border speaks of the separation between us and God and His ways.
- 1 Corinthians 10:21 = separation from idolatry
- 2 Corinthians 6:17-18 = separation from the world
- Psalms 23:5 = this was a table God prepared for David.

Four poles of acacia wood overlaid with gold were slotted through four rings attached to the four legs of the Table. The poles were used to carry the Table when the Israelites moved around.

12 unleavened loaves of bread were placed on the Table, one for each tribe showing that Jesus loves all of us equally.
The loaves were made from flour = The Lord partook of the Adamic nature. (Luke 1:32).
The breads were made of fine flour which must be crushed, grounded and shifted = Jesus went through the sifting of Satan’s temptation (Matt 4:1-11), the religious leaders’ testing (Matt 22:15-40) and scourging (Matt 27:26-30, 33-50).
After being grounded, the flour was bake with fire = the fiery trial of Divine allowed testing.
The word cake (Lev24:5) = Kawlan in Hebrew means to be punctured or wounded which pictures the sufferings of Christ (Isa 53:5-7).
The loaves were baked with oil = Scriptural symbol of the Spirit and Word, anointed dedication of Jesus life and service offered to His Father.
The breads were unleavened = Leaven is the symbol of sin while Jesus did no sin (1 Pet 2:22).
Frankincense was put on the bread = Jesus had the sweet fragrance in all that He said and did.

The loaves were replaced every Sabbath with new ones. This signifies the renewal of the covenant with God through the baptism. The old ones were eaten by the priests. Only the priests can eat this bread and only in the Holy Place. The table and bread are pictures of God’s willingness to fellowship and have communion with us.

God desires for us to be enlightened by the Holy Spirit and we need to go into a deeper and closer walk with Him. This can only happen when we partake of Him, the Bread of Life through the Living Word of God. Once we have his Word enlightened to us in our lives through the Holy Spirit, we can know more of His will and how to approach Him with our prayers and petitions at the Altar of Incense.

aww, love is in the air...

close up shot of them

Uncle Vive getting his belated birthday present!!!