GOOD FRIDAY + EASTER PARTY 2010

COME AND DISCOVER THE TRUE MEANING OF
GOOD FRIDAY AND EASTER.

Got to go for class at 2pm?? That's not a problem at all. You can still join us from 1pm to 2pm. Let nothing hinder you from coming for the party cause you won't wanna miss the fun. Afterall, it's only once a year.

Music, food, fun and fellowship await you!!

ALL ARE INVITED !!!

31st CF Minutes...

Date : 26th March 2010
Time : 1.30pm
Venue : Room 107
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There were no ice breakers nor praise and worship this week.

Pastor Nick Loi, from Christ Church came to lead and teach us in the course, "Just For Starters" - seven fundamental bible studies. We started off with chapter one which was "Saved by God". It may seem simple but there's so much more to learn if we actually read the Bible verses within the context and understand it fully. It was a good start, really interesting and it kept us thinking.

We truly encourage everyone - christians as well as non-christians to join us for this course to learn and understand what christianity is all about.

Focus verse of the chapter :

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this : While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! (NIV)
- Romans 5:8-9 -

Don't forget to join us for our good friday & easter party this coming friday on 2nd April 2010 at 1pm in muliti purpose hall. More about it in the next post =)

p/s. Welcome to CF, Michelle and Clement!! We're so glad to have you all with us =)

p/s/s. There will be a course - "Christianity Explored" conducted in Christ Church every wednesday at 7.30pm starting from 31st March 2010. Feel free to join if you're interested to know more about christianity. All you need to do is just sit and listen. No fees involved. Dinner is most probably provided too =)

30th CF Minutes...

Date : 19th March 2010
Time : 2.00pm
Venue : Room 107
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We started off with an ice breaker and it's been a while since we last had one. A few newcomers came to join us so we played a simple get-to-know-one-another game called "Hi, Yes and Meet".







Then, we sang 2 songs led by Eric - Trade Your Heavy Heart and Amazing Love.

As mentioned previously, Joel led us in a course titled, Two Ways To Live - basically what christianity is all about.



We learned how to share the gospel with the aid of 6 pictures:



Explanation to the numbered pictures :

1. God is the King and He made the world. (Revelation 4:11)

2. We reject God by trying to live our own ways without God. (Romans - 3:10-12)

3. God is loving so He won't let us continue rebelling thus He punishes us. (Hebrews 9:27)

4. He sent His son, Jesus into the world. Jesus is a man, also God Himself. Jesus is perfect without sin, yet He died for us on the cross so that our sins are forgiven. (1 Peter 3:18)

5. God raised Jesus to life and made Him again the ruler of the world. He conquered death. (1 Peter 1:3)

6. This leaves us two ways to live: -

- Rebel against God, reject Him and go our own ways OR

- Follow His ways and submit to Jesus as our ruler.

One leads to punishment while the other leads to forgiveness of our sins
( John 3:36 ). Which way would you choose?
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CF has been rescheduled to 1.30pm so, have a quick lunch and come and join us every Friday in Room 107. We hereby welcome Whitney, Olivia, Adrian, Wai Yee and Preyah. We're so glad you all came and we're looking forward to seeing you all again in our upcoming meetings!!

29th CF Minutes..

Date : 12th March 2010
Time : 2pm
Venue : Room 107
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Meeting commenced with 2 songs led by Eric - This Is The Day and Jesus, Lover of My Soul.

More planning and discussions were carried out during the meeting and we've decided to join the course "Just For Starters" with the help of Pastor Nick invited by Joel. "Just For Starters" is designed for beginners (new christians) to gain a full understanding of the gospel and explain it further. It's quite simple and interesting and we believe, everyone should go for it.

However, we will only be able to start this course in the following week. Therefore, Joel will first lead us in another course called "Two Ways To Live" basically to know and share the gospel.

Further discussions were carried out for our Good Friday + Easter Party which will be held on 2nd April 2010 in MPH.

Here's the good news : CF IS NOW OFFICIALLY OPENED TO EVERYONE !! Come and join us this coming friday, 19th March 2010 in room 107. Don't miss the fun and fellowship! =)

Perseverence

We are struggling Christians trying our best to stay pure.

Constantly battling against temptation, resisting its allure.

Sin seeks to plunge us back, making us more distressed.

Its pull and push cannot be easily suppressed.

Pleasing God I know will take more than just living by His Law.

For He has sent us His Son and by His sacrifice has saved us all.

God has saved us from the wrath of God that we rightly deserved.

By God’s grace and compassion we have been preserved.

Jesus Christ who knew no sin took on sin for all mankind.

Fully God yet fully Man Jesus came to purify our heart and mind.

We know that we are sinners struggling through this sinful world.

But yet our Father through His grace takes care of us in the present and tomorrow.

So yes, we will always battle with our sinful natures but we are not without help.

For we have Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior to aid us reach our heavenly home.

Yes, we used to live a life of lawlessness and on the sharp edge of Satan’s knife.

But now let us repent and by God’s mercy and grace receive eternal life.

Our Sovereign and powerful God is the Creator of all things

The time will come when God will cut away our sinful strings

For God will destroy this earth of pain, sorrow and sin by fire

We then will live with God for all eternity and no longer be plagued by our sinful desire.

By Gareth Rennie, South Africa

personally, i would like the title to be Till We Reach Our Heavenly Home, lol... anyway, wonderfully written and so deserved to be shared to anyone who can see! miss ya guys and dont stop be fishers of men for God! ;P

Our very 1st CF meeting in 2010

Hi everyone!

It has been quite some time since the last meeting during last year.
We are glad to have our faithful CF members to join us! May the Lord bless them abundantly!

Here is the 28th CF minutes:


Date : 5 / 3 / 10

Time : 3pm

Venue : Room 107

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Eric lead the praise and worship with 2 songs.. Over the mountains and the seas and a malay song named Hari Ini...

All of us welcome Xuan to the meeting and we gave words of encouragement to him for he had accepted Jesus as his personal Lord and Saviour on the 13th of January 2010. Praise the Lord for His wonderful works!

We decided to have our CF meetings on every Friday at 2PM since most of the students can make it.

We have a fruitful discussion, Joel Wong suggested a few books for us to follow for the course so that we will have a good & strong foundation before we reach out to others non believers. We will continue to discuss the materials and sources that we need for this weekly course. Joel Wong told us that he had asked his pastor to come and help us in our CF as a speaker for the courses.. Joel suggested that we should start on the book "Just for starters".

During the meeting, Eunice suggested that we should have an Easter & welcoming party on the 2nd of April 2010 in MPH at 1pm. All of us agreed to this suggestions. We will continue to work on it for the coming week.


The meeting adjourned at 4.30pm.