the first day of 2006, i decided to spend it rather meaningfully. i met up with jun yuan and tsung wei early in the morning to go the city harvest's new year service at the Expo (:
man was the place big, and city harvest church had hit a record 2002 members and the turn up was overwhelming, young and old, came by car, bus and mrt from all over singapore, in unity todae for one cause, to thank the lord for the blessings he gave us, and also for begin a new year with a new start and new direction.
we sang songs and prayed a lot. and then there was the service by Rev. Kong Hee, which was quite unconventional and rather amusing. haha, he mentioned abt how he disliked christains who said they believed in the Lord, ONCE. who has followed the faith, ONCE. who has obeyed God's call, ONCE. haha it did add a lot of humour to the otherwise rather serious affair.
Remember Lot's wife he said, as he said not to look back at past memories or happenings that would make us bitter, sad or miserable. not to look back at past glories and continue to dwell in its yester-glory. not to look back at 2005 that was filled with sin, filled with problems and worries. and if we looked back, we would be like Lot's wife, who turned back and became a pillar of salt.
anw the service hit me in the face many times when the topics Rev. Kong talked abt were directly or not otherwise indirectly applicable to me. i was given new direction and well rather motivated and as for a non-believer at dat time, i was really touched and began to accept Jesus as my savior. that was when my road to being a believer started.
well den after the service we went over to the airport for lunch (: had some fried pork cutlet bento set haha. and as usual tsung wei was eating like.... bah... very slow... haha and over on the other side, jun yuan, lele and 2 cg members were busy playing dai dee and bridge. haha den i came over and dominated bridge (:
anw, it was a really fruitful day for me, even though the after service plans did not happen as the other pple we had wanted to play lan with pangseh us last minute... haha and everyone else wasnt really in the mood to continue la haha, but its ok ^^