Went to CHCKL today. I took every mode of transport to get there. Private car, train, bus, taxi and walked. In that order. And mega huge thanks to Sherene who sent me back. Yup, shout out to you if you ever find this blog post.
It was really quite the CHC experience. Just that instead of spending the 1 hour plus queue-ing, i spent it travelling there. The train ride took an hour. The mini bus was rather interesting. It has exhaust smoke coming out from the front dashboard. Thank God it didn't smell like the diesel exhaust of taxi's in Singapore. But seriously..... that was one weird bus ride.
Cutting to the main part cuz it's quite late already, Ps Derek was the preacher today and pretty much the main reason why I went. It was a rather simple sermon, but the altar time was really powerful for the CHC people. He had a word of knowledge and like 7 or so people responded, prophesied over two of the music team people and countless other leaders. He's a really powerful minister.
Then after that followed Kevin's cell group. Shout out to Alethea if you're reading this :)
It was a belated birthday celebration for Jasmine (if I spell it correctly). And here's my memory test. Jasmine is in her first out of 4 years of being a teacher, planning to teach Maths as a major and BM/BI as a minor. Other cell group members were Alicia and Tung who left early, and Esther, who's a final year Industrial Chemistry student, also at UM with Sherene, the cell leader. She's studying for her PhD (forgot in what, but something bio-related, more evidence that bio isn't my thing). She's also the zone secretary for East Zone. Yup, shoutout to E12! (Yes they name the cell groups the same way as CHCSG).
Yup, for now, it's really the distance that isn't nice. Oh well, I'll need to pray more. I always do. But I need to pray more. Here's something I took home personally for me. I'm believing it to be the theme verse for my 2010!
From Job 23
10 “But he knows where I am going.
And when he tests me, I will come out as pure as gold.
11 For I have stayed on God’s paths;
I have followed his ways and not turned aside.
12 I have not departed from his commands,
but have treasured his words more than daily food.
13 But once he has made his decision, who can change his mind?
Whatever he wants to do, he does.
14 So he will do to me whatever he has planned.
He controls my destiny.
Yup, to come out pure as gold through testing, to stay on His paths and not turn aside, to treasure His word more than daily food, and to live in the security that He controls my destiny. I'm definitely gonna go deeper into this :)
Thanks Ps Derek, CHCKL and E12 :)