YF This Year...

For all of you who missed YF last week (3.1.10), the photo above is a picture of something that was given out to all the YFers present last week. It's a very nice ruler with... a PUZZLE!!! So if you're feeling bored in class, all you have to do is to take the ruler out, play with the puzzle and that will make you feel recharged so that you can pay more attention in class!!! More importantly, the puzzle has a nice logo and the words "Transforming Flame" on it.

"Transforming Flame" is not just some random phrase that sounded nice enough to be put on the YF ruler, but behind it lays a very deep and powerful meaning. What is that? Come to YF this week to find out!!! The program this week is Introduction to 2010 YF.

See you then! :)

Yunnan China MIssion Trip

hi to all of you in YF.... it has been 2 weeks since i last see you guys in action, miss you all very much... keep thinking how was YF when i was in China.. finally im back and just to share with you a bit of my journey....

we took off from KLIA on 27th morning and reach Kun Ming around noon, then we went to visit the Cultural village in Kun Ming where they display, show and explain the culture and building and life of the 56 minority tribes in Yun nan. the place was very beautiful and an eye opener for me. since we are going to meet some minority tribe people is good to know a little bit about their culture. the next day we visited a shelter home which took in abandon children or street kids in Kun Ming.. we sing song with them, acted a drama for them (prodigal son story) play games with them, share & chit chat and pray with them. the testimony of the person in charge of this centre Sister Mary really touched our hearts as we see how she surrender and obey God's calling and direction and experience God's blessing. after the centre we travel for 2 hours to visit a tourist attraction in Jiu Xiang. it was a very beautiful natural cave, the difficult part was that we have to walk for nearly 2 hours.

thats all for now the next post will be about our 3 days in the primary school in Li Ming....

Committee Retreat and NSCFL Camp 09

Most of the committee members for next year (2010) went for the committee retreat on the 21st and 22nd of November, 2009. The retreat was held at a place called Cactus Inn Resort, and it is a nice place. The retreat was fruitful as well as fun.

The NSCFL Camp 09 was held from the 23rd to the 28th of November, 2009 in STM, Seremban. 8 people from our YF went. They are Derrick, Joanna, Amanda, Jerrel, Regine, Caleen, Yun Yee, and Fiona. Campers met new friends and had a great time. Most importantly, the campers learned more about God. There was also a session of fasting and solitude, a time when campers got to be still and listen to God's voice. All in all, the campers were taught to walk with God.

There are some photos in Amanda's blog, and more photos on Facebook :)

YFers, continue to walk with God!!!

29th November, " Bible Quiz"

Hi everyone.As Sern Wang is on a mission trip in China, I took it on to myself to update this blog. Hope you do not mind, Sern Wang. Anyway, I'm just going to update on the 29th of Nov programme which was,"Bible Quiz".

This week, YF started at 4.10pm, with a short welcome and opening prayer, where we thanked our Heavenly Father for blessing the committee retreat, Vacation Bible School (VBS) as well as National School Christian Fellowship Leader's Camp.After that, Jason Ng led in a time of worship, followed by offering.

After that, the Bible Quiz began. The Bible Quiz was based on the book of Genesis.You Shen divided the youths into three groups. The first game we played was a version of "True or False", where members of each group took turns to answer the questions that were asked. Most of the youths were able to answer the questions correctly, Praise the Lord. The competition was close but in the end, Group 3 prevailed narrowly.

The second game was something like Pictionary, where a member from each team was to draw the given situation on the white board and the rest of the group mates were supposed to answer. The youths enjoyed themselves very much, trying to figure out which situation from Genesis were their friends drawing.

YF ended quite early, at 5.10pm. You Shen then asked the youths to rehearse for the upcoming YF Christmas carolling. The youths managed to rehearse five songs, before going home.

All For Love, Love For All

In His service,
-Jonathan So-
Vice Secretary,
Youth Fellowship,
Gereja Grace Batu Pahat.

8 November 2009 - Sharing by Rev. John Tan

When i was a youth myself maybe around 14 years or so i heard an amazing testimony of a pastor who had been greatly transform by the love and power of God. This pastor is none other than Pas. John Tan. after more than 10 years i could still remember his sharing and testimony. Thank God for this opportunity again to invite him back to Batu Pahat to share with the youth his life experience and testify to the greatness of God and the love of Jesus Christ in his journey from a gangster and criminal to becoming a faithful servant of God. We are also very happy that FGA church and Berean AOG church youth can join us together in this wonderful youth gathering. Rev. John Tan also brough his 2 sons to present a few songs with their amazing voices... (singing Jay Chou song some more)... many youths has been touch by Rev, John's life story knowing how God save his life from death penalty and giving him the mission to minister to those who are involved in gangsterism, drugs, prison & Aids (his whole life story is so long that is impossible to be weritten here, go ask those who have join the program...) Rev. John also encourage us to offer ourselves to God and serve Him faithfully and remain pure and holy for Him. We really appreciate Rev. John for taking time to be with us and we continue to pray that God will use Him mightily to help those in need.

What's the difference?

1 Nov 2009... hmm im late for this post, was occupied doing the christmas devotional prayer calendar for our church Christmas Gospel Rally. well this week YF program started with an ice-breaker lead by Edrick, we are suppose to find a partner and talk to each other for a few mins to know our partner a bit more. then we are to sit back to back and answer few question about our partner. well i believe it did help us know some things that our friends in YF... Uncle Peter was our speaker today and he share with us about the beliefs and history of some major religion in our country. its interesting and beneficial to know some information and facts about other religion as we are living in a multi-religion society, and everyday we come across people with different faith..... but most importantly uncle Peter also share how Christianity is unique and true where salvation is given not because of any human effort or works but by the grace of God who took the initiative to come to seek and save that which was lost.... Praise the Lord. And so coincidently it was uncle Peter's birthday that day so we sang a birthday song for him together at the end of the fellowship.

Bible Discovery : Purity

This week bible discovery was on 2 Timothy 2:22
"Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart."
we had good discussion when we break into the defferent groups according to our age. questions like "what do you think is purity?", "how pure do you think you are?", "how do you relate purity & happiness?" and etc are really heart challenging to many. the main lessons that we learn was how to stay pure in a 4 step purity plan...
1. Flee away from evil desire (it mean run away not to challenge it or debate with it...)
2. Stay close to what is right (like God, God's word, ...)
3. Pursue Faith & Love
4. Stay with Godly company (friends who also want to be pure)
so let us encourage one another to stay pure and dare to be different in this very confused & chaotic world.