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A dinner/party for Church Mid-lifers’ Camp committee

We had a simple dinner/party for the Mid-lifers’ Camp committee. Joseph/Amy/Stephen, Jasper/Josephine and Timothy/Tracy/Theodore/Thaddea/Theophilus came. We prepared some simple pasta, baked vege and meat-ball soup, and had grilled pork and beef.


We had prepared the food several days in advance.


The under-12 children sat at the living room, while the adults and teens sat at the dining table.


We had good fellowship over the food.


Timothy even brought a cake for Grace’s birthday!

Here’s the group ohoto.

Esther leading worship, inter-churches football

Esther was the worship leader for Youth Sunday this year:

Her voice was clear and the delivery of the songs, bible reading and prayer was very nice.

The team went through the Saturday service and the 2 Sunday services.

On Sunday, Grace swam 20 laps, David and YowCH swam 10 each, Joseph swam 8 and Samuel swam 4 (Esther was leading worship). After swim, we had football training. David helped out on the field as part of his school volunteer community service. After training, we stayed on and watched the football friendly match between The Bible Church, Singapore and Mount Carmel Bible Presbyterian Church. David played for TBC,S for a short while.

There was a case of a Mt Carmel payer getting a bad cramp, and YowCH helped him off the field.

Our church was in red. We lost 1:4.

The group photo of both teams.

Joseph and YowCH attends Church Juniors’ Camp

YowCH was in the camp committee and Joseph attended the church juniors’ camp from 21 to 23 June 2019. Click photos below for the page.



Church Mid-lifers’ Camp

Grace and YowCH attended the Church Mid-lifers’ Camp from 15 to 17 June. Joseph and Samuel tagged along, while Esther and David attended the youth 3D2N prayer camp in church. Click on photos below for the page.


Dinner with BCG at SAVH Dining in the Dark

Together with Beacon Cell Group, we had a dinner at Dining in the Dark, under the Singapore Association or the Visually Handicapped at Toa Payoh Rise on 15 Feb 2019. The boys were at Quincy’s place together with the other children, while Esther was out with her CJC friends.

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That’s our group photo before dinner.


We ate in total darkness and got to experience the world of the blind. It was a very challenging and humbling experience.

The food was OK, but the fellowship over the dinner table in absolute darkness was a very special experience. We learned to appreciate our sight and understand the struggles of the blind better.

Updated: Esther’s Cebu mission trip 8 to 13 Jan 2019

Esther joined the Church’s mission trip to Cebu, Philippine from 8 to 13 Jan 2019 while waiting for the O-levels results. Click on the photos below for the page:



Christmas!

We celebrated Christmas with service at church in the morning. We attended first service at 8:30am (after breakfast at the West Coast hawker centre). Then YowCH and Esther sang in the choir for the Chinese Service at 10:30am.

Right after that, we rushed to the children’s programme at 10:45am where Esther and David were in the worship band and also helped with games.


In the afternoon, we prepared dinner and had a nice Christmas dinner with Grace’s parents and Gene. We cooked white wine clams, mala baked chicken, saugages, beans+mushrooms, steak, cucumber, ABC soup and century egg.

We had fruits and wine, too.

And at the end of dinner, we had a fruitcake (bought from Han’s) soaked with XO and Cointreau (we infused on Sunday, so there were 2 days of soaking).

After dinner, we enjoyed singing Christmas carols.

Updated with Esther and David at Youth Camp

Esther and David were in the Church Youth Camp at Bethany Christian Church at Kota Tinggi from 10 to 14 Dec 2018 (while YowCH, Grace, Joseph and Samuel were in The Shorea).

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YowCH’s bike fall, Church carols singing at West Coast, Joseph’s Batam trip testimony, soccer in the rain

On Saturday, 1 Dec, YowCH went for his regular run and then continued with 5.00km of cycling within the carpark area. At 4.95km, he had a fall and hurt his knees, left wrist and sprained his neck. Thank God all the injuries are minor. The bike slipped at a turn on rather slippery surface.

In the evening, YowCH and Esther performed as musicians for the church’s carols choir team at West Coast area. It was very tiring but fun.

It was rather boring for the boys waiting for the event to start.

The first part started at 7:10pm and we sang for about 12 minutes, before the Member of Parliament conducted the Christmas Tree lighting ceremony and the Aerobics Cheer-leading performance.


David helped with the video and Grace took photos.



During the break, we had to replace one string on Esther’s Takamine which broke during the first part.

The second part started at about 7:40pm and we played adn sang for another 30 minutes. Esther had a soloist part!


After carol signing, we had a late dinner at Xin Wang, West Coast Plaza.

On Sunday, Joseph shared his testimony with the rest of the Juniors in church during the post-Batam trip party in church. We did not swim this weekend to attend this party.

After the party, we went to Decathlon, Joo Koon to get some sports stuff while heavy rain poured outside. We had sushi lunch at Sushi Express, where every plate is $1.50 and the green tea is free. Total of 40 plates.

After the rain, Joseph and Samuel attended football practice. We saw a nice rainbow, which later grew to a full-arc!


And after the rainbows, it started pouring again!

Joseph and Esther on Mission Trip to Batam

From 23 to 25 Nov, Joseph joined our church’s mission trip to Batam under the juniors program, and Esther went along as an adult helper.

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