1st Cell Group Gathering

To celebrate our first cell gathering, we had a steamboat dinner at my home last night. Most people prefer to have steamboats in restaurants because the preparation of food varieties can be quite tedious and time-consuming. But that does not apply to my cell group because my members are "highly-acclaimed chefs" when it comes to food, LOL!

We were blessed to have the young and dynamic Pastor Connie Yong as our guest! And I shamelessly asked her to pose, hahaha! Son Aaron warming up for the Praise and Worship. Roseline and I prepared gifts of appreciation for cell members. The Juniors were too engrossed in their own activity.
Taking a group photo before dinner.

Smiles. Food, food and more food...



What do the two signs (Sign Language) mean? xD The thumb pointing to the lips means "delicious" and the other other sign of "pulling the chin" means "salivate".

All glory to God as we seek for a blessed 2009!

A Holiday Tradition Continues

It was joyfully not a "Silent Night" when my cell group gathered yesterday evening. A holiday tradition continues!

The Christmas caroling last night brought us the spirit of warmth and love of Jesus Christ as the SIB Krokop Evangelical Church youths visited us upon our invitation.

Suddenly and so rarely, my neighbourhood was alive with much cheer!

Thanks to Bro Garry Lin, who took the photos using a Nikon D60. You can click on each picture for a bigger view.

Taking a group photo before the caroling

Getting ready
What a beautiful photo!
Using Sign Language to sing

Our appreciation to Pastor Grace Gundersen and her hubby Bro Kurt

We also wish to extend our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to Pastor Solomon Bulan for arranging last night's caroling for us.

Last but not least, we also want to thank Bro William Ting who dropped by to help take photos too. Enjoy the nice pics taken by him at this slideshow!

Beautiful evening

The Visit of the Shepherds

Luke 2:15-20

When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about."

So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them.

But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. (KJV)

The Christmas Parade and celebration last night at Miri City Fan was awesome. Thousands of worshippers from different denominations arrived at the venue as early as 5:00pm. Thank and praise God for the excellent weather!

We arrived at 4:00pm to do the finishing touches.
View from the Pustaka around 5:00pm.

The view from opposite side, facing the Pustaka.

The Praise and Worship team (in white) on stage. Watch the opening video here.

Our church members arrived early too!

Y.B. Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Dr. George Chan declared open the parade by drumming.
The Boys' Brigade from Methodist churches - our pride!
So cute!

A wise young man and a shepherd boy.

As chief usher, Roseline had her hands full!

The walk around the town.

The working committee group photo. All but one of the volunteers were from my cell group. It was a great priviledge to be able to serve our Lord.
After completing our job we went for supper. xD.
We want to thank and praise God for giving us the opportunity to celebrate Christmas and remembering the birth of our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ! It was a beautiful evening we will treasure in our hearts forever.

Combined Cells II

Last Friday night we had an awesome gathering with Bro William's group at our church's Fellowship Room. It was the second time for us to combine with another cell (the first one was with Sis Sii Ling's group) since my group was formed three months ago.

The food theme was "Western". Wa... I didn't know there were so many super chefs in our midst. Arguably their culinary skills could be better than any five-star hotel restaurant chefs in Miri! Roseline with her famous signature dish, the Shepherd pie! It took her almost four hours to do it!
Peter, our dynamic visitor from SMCGC, lead in the Worship and Music. Thanks Peter, you were simply amazing!

To make the fellowship more fun, we had a bible quiz. Divided into two groups, it was a battle of the two genders! I anticipated it would be a close contest but...

but the indomitable sisters beat the brothers easily! :-(

Richard from my cell group was the first to share his testimony.

Jennifer from my cell also shared. Notice the LCD screen in the background? For the benefit of our hearing impaired members, the words were typed out simultaneously as the speaker shared.

Who is this vivacious sister? xD

Victor, our hearing-impaired brother also shared by typing his thoughts onto the screen.

The wonderful evening ended with a closing prayer by Bro William.

Thank you Bro William for the beautiful photos, and thanking all for blessing us!

Sign Language Class completes

How time flies! The Sign Language class which started on Sep 22 has ended yesterday. Intended as a language programme undertaken by my cell group members for the benefit of the community, the free Introductory Course was conducted by Victor and his wife Kristy. Roseline also helped.

From what I could see yesterday, everyone had a good time.

Here are the pictures taken yesterday afternoon at SMCGC.

Class in action

Class monitor's appreciation speech

A gift from all the participants to Victor

Group photo

Roseline reading out Victor's message on his bookmark gift to his students

Celebratory feasting!