Would you?

Next week Impact will be having a special Valentines/CNY dinner special!*SCREAMS!*

Things you need to know = ANNOUNCEMENTS! :)

Its from 5:30-9:00

(To the afternoon session-ers, don't skip school! It doesn't matter if you come 10 minutes late!)

Bring RM7 (For your MAKAN! :D)

There is no dress code. But to those sporting people.. DO DRESS UP :D

B'cus we'll be having a 'Best Dressed Award!'

Last but not least,

Invite your friends!! :D

I can promise you that it'll be loads of FUN!

That's for next week! :) This week we started Impact with the usual icebreaker, SIGNS! After all the hand signaling and trying to guess who's IT.. We went into a great time of worship led by Rayshell. When worship ended, the Emcee, Reuben made the announcements! Which was basically what I've already wrote this now.. Yea, the V'day one! The microphone *the one with a personality* was then passed to Jeff and he sort of introduced to us who our speaker was. His name is *Grand Music Plays which is then continued by drum rolls..* PASTOR RONNY, use to be youth pastor!!

He's this guy who was born in Australia

Moved to Holland when he was 8.

His parents divorced when he was 12 and he went through many difficulties in life.

When he was 18 he went back to Australia.

Got married!

Searched for the living God and found HIM :)

Had 2 kids.

One day, he came back from work as usual and found out that his wife and kids weren't home. He saw a note his brother left on the table that asked him to go to the hospital for something has happened. He asked his neighbor to pray for his family cause he knew smth was wrong. When he reached the hospital he found out that his wife didn't make it and both his kids has really bad head injuries. The doctor said that they wouldn't survive but with loads of church members and Christians coming to pray and lay hands after 6 weeks they were completely healed!! Praise GOD! Amen? even the doctors said it was some one so almighty who did the healing!! Our God is an Awesome God alright!!

God Blessed him abundantly and he got married again with another two kids.

Then one day, God ask him to leave his comfort zone and serve him.

They left everything behind and came to Malaysia.

Paster Ronny is now ministering/serving God in Kalimantan

*Did you know in a one day 40,000 people around the world die cause they have no food?! How sad is that?*

He helps the children there who have no food and no medical treatment at all.

Some of them die cause they have lots of scars on their hands and feet.. And they don't have dettol to clean their wound.

If they get sick there's no clink to go to at all..

Ps. Ronny went there and started taking in kids..

First 7 kids then 30 and now he has 400 kids! :D

He bought a piece of land and has build a school there for the kids and is building a hospital..

They need lots of prayer and it would be good if we could remember them in our prayers.

All of us have a purpose in life and we have to fulfill that purpose that God has given to us.

God is using him to do His will *Which is his purpose* and I'm sure he will be VERY HAPPY to use you as well *for different purposes as well as spreading HIS love*

The Question is Would you allow HIM to use YOU?

lol. :P

Third week of IM:PACT

Hello, fellow Impact-ors! :) Since Reuben was MIA on Saturday, *sniff sniff* and Yi Fen hasn't updated the blog about the third week of Impact, I decided to save her some time :)

The third week of Impact started off with Rayshell as the emcee- the new comers of Impact were asked to come up to the front to introduce themselves to us; telling us their names, age and the color of their toilet bowls (why that, actually, Rayshell? HAHA) It's great to have new comers at Impact! Especially you awesome Form 1s! I loveeeeee Form 1s! :D (Okay, Alycia, jangan terpesong)

After the emcee-ing, we proceeded into a short icebreaker, where we played the Whispering game! *whisperwhisper* :D In that game, I (Alycia la) was to whisper something random into the ears of the people at the corner of the human horseshoe and they were to whisper it into the ears of the people who were sitting next to them, and this went on until the message reached the middle person. That person would come up to the front and say the final product of the sentence. The accuracy of the two sentences were then compared.

Well, it was really hilarious how a message like "The cameraman didn't know how to whistle, so he asked his camera to take up whistling classes from the cellophone tape." could end up as

"THE CAMEL ON A WHISTLE" - David Everns Lim :P

Good job la, HAHA. Anywayy, Impact resumed with a wonderful time of worship led by James and his team :) Oh, announcements this week-

1) IMPACT SLEEPOVER
- has been postponed, it will NO LONGER be on Jan 29th as planned
- When, you ask, will it be then? AHHA! That's for you to come to Impact EVERY WEEK to find out! Muahahaha *cough* Okay la, it'll probably be somewhere in May xD

2) IMPACT'S VALENTINE'S DINNER
- will be on 6th February 2010! *people applaud*
- It will be from 5.30 pm- 9.30 pm :) Come on time ar! Afternoon sessioners who have school on that day, aiya that one give chance la :)
- No, there won't be any special/out of the ordinary dress code, thanks to *lalalala* :P You can, still come in dresses (for the girls) and your smart-looking collared shirts (for guys) if you want to though :) But not too formal, of course, as it is just a simple Impact dinner :)
- Pastor Aaron will be speaking that day, so you DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS, you guys! :) It'll be awesome! :D
- Remember to bring along RM5 to the dinner if you're coming for it! Wait, what do I mean IF! WHEN you come for the dinner! It's an event you definitely won't wanna miss! :)

3) THERE WILL BE NO IMPACT MEETING ON 13th FEBRUARY 2010
- Why? Because, HAPPY HAPPY CNY! HAPPY HAPPY YOU AN I! :D *okay, I can't stand that song xD* So yup, Impact-ors, take note! :D

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Okay, moving on! We had Uncle Allen Kam to come up to share his message with us :D *YAY* He spoke mainly about GOING BACK TO BASICS.

To summarize what he spoke about, here's something real important that we must always remember :) Going back to BASICS, what does BASICS really mean?

B- Bible
A- Acknowledge
S- Sacrificial Love
I- Impact
C- Communion
S- Salvation and Service

Remember, everyone! Going back to basics will really help to ground you, so everytime you face a challenge in life, you know what you have to do- Go BACK TO BASICS :) Also, always be a friend to someone. Reach out not only to your close friends, but to anyone at all! By doing that, you're really making an impact in your school, or wherever you are!

After that, we broke into our forms to discuss about the message that was bestowed upon us. Then, those who wanted to play games went ahead to do so, and TNF did their TNF thing and so on so forth :)

And with that, the third week of Impact ended! :D SEE YOU ALL NEXT WEEK AT IMPACT, IMPACT-ORS! :) God bless you all!

the se7en contemporary sins

recently over 100 european youths were asked to redefine the seven sins as we know it and this is what they came up with. or before that here is a list of what we know as the 'old' seven sins:-

1. pride
2. envy
3. gluttony
4. lust
5. anger
6. greed
7. sloth

and the 'new' list the european youths came up with...
1. racism
2. dishonesty
3. bullying
4. greed
5. adultery
6. anger
7. envy

read more here, or click here to see a slideshow (some interesting comments there).

interestingly, in this new past-paced world where everyone's always 'busy' with something or other 'sloth' is no longer seen as a sin, or at least didn't make it to the 'new' list. so ya, slow down and take a break occasionally to berlepaking with those who are dear to you.

what do you think?

IM:pact--The Second Week

While last year's form fives and the CUG were busy in Step Up, we IM:pactors had our own Step Up.

Anyways...

We started of with an icebreaker called Poke-A-Tissue.  Why Poke-A-Tissue?  Cos the instructions were written on a piece of tissue -_-" Trust Alycia to come up with that.  It was something like musical chairs but without chairs.  So when the music stops, Alycia reads out the instructions and within five'ish seconds you are suppose to do whatever the tissue says la...

Later we had worship lead by Tian Xi without all his friends...

And later some more...we introduced the committee of 2010:

President/CEO/Big Boss: Eirene

Flowership (Stigma): Weili

Assistant Flowership (receptacle): Rayshell

Publicity: Yi Fen

'The Other' Publicity: Reuben

Worship: Alycia

So here you are...the committee of IM:pact 2010!

Weili and Joseph did some questions to ask the com, and after that we had sign-up time followed by Captain Ball in the sports complex.

And that was IM:pact's second week.

Remember about the sleepover on the 29th and 30th and please remember to ask permission from your parents.  Have a great week in school!

Impact's Opening!

Its 2010 and YES, Impact started today :)

For those who missed out, Come Next week!!! :D

Cause, cause, cause there would be a big.. * whispers to one another*

SURPRISE!! (And the only way to find out is to... COME!!)

BTW this year's theme is.. Back 2 Basics (As you can see..)

This is a recap for today,

We started of with a small ice breaker just to introduce the new comers and the form 1's. Then we went into a time of worship lead by Alycia and team. After that, JEFF made a few announcement..

~Disaster relief workshop *more info on the previous post :)*

~Impact sleepover that is on the 29 of Jan *YES!! Its this month*(More details soon!!)

~No apologies workshop some where around June

~ Mission trip in Cameron is during the August hols

*Interested? look for EIRENE :D*

OH andd

~Looking for camp committee.. Interested to help out for camp?! look for Weill this time!:)

Jeff also introduce the new feci's :) (YOU, gotta go to find out!!)

Paster Aaron shared on John 15 (yes, the whole chapter)

and we will be splitting it in to 4 parts.. And learning it through out the year. Go read it :D :D

Then, we broke up into our forms for a little while.. And then had inter form Games!! ;)

Sink, Save or Fold..

A game where by you need to go for Impact to find out how fun it is!! :)

Yup, so that was impact for the day..

Remember to turn up EARLY for impact next week!

Do turn UP :D

Looking forward to seeing you there!! GBU! Have a great second week of school!!

disaster relief workshop

a workshop on disaster relief will be conducted at church and all pjefc youths are invited.
Date: 23 Jan 2010 (Saturday)
Time: 9:00am to 4:30pm (you can go for impact after that)
Fee: rm8 per person (includes tea, lunch & materials)
register at i-counter or look for me.

the third place

an interesting idea of having the church as the third place. so what's a third place? your first place is home, where you spend most of the time (i hope :-) eat, sleep, be with family... the second place would either be school or workplace. so where do you go to chill and spend quality time with your friends? is your third place the mall? hope not... can church be our third place?

check out java joe's, a coffee place operated by a church (they have pictures too :-) can we do something similar for our lounge? well maybe not turn our lounge into starbucks, but can it be a nice comfortable living room for us to hang-out, have meetings, and as a service to the youth's (including college peeps) in pjefc?

even more stories here.