How's your heart today?

Dear Young champions,

I'm pretty sure all of you schoolers are in your mid terms. If not, a 2 -week holiday and you're probably reading this at some sun-baked island on a nice little comfy chaise.

So, how's your heart today? a weird question to greet someone with huh? But do you know our hearts, (not the coronary!) play a core role in our being? It affects the way we feel, the way we speak, the way we react, and the way we respond to God. Throughout the Bible, almost every character that you would have come across with, God never ceased to to address the heart, if you were to type heart on biblegateway's keyword search, you'd see throughout sciptures, from Genesis to Revelation, that the HEART was mentioned.

Do you know that till today, God still talks about the heart? In fact, the HEART's the first thing that He checks with a person. That makes you and I!

“Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” (1 Sam 16:7)

Do you also know that the way you behave reflects the state of your heart? Especially the way we respond with our word.

For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.(Matthew 12:34)

Sometimes it may even make us feel things that aren't true to what's really going on with us or even lie to us. It's out of control. There are times when we just don't understand what's going on. Anybody know what I'm talking about?

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?(Jer17:9)

But God knows it perfectly well. He has given us His Holy Spirit to help us through every kind of heart-matter.






"And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit" (Rom 8:27)

I pray today, that you'll give your hearts to Him. You and I can't manage it on our own. but God's peace can.

"And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus" (Phillipians 4:7)

Above all, remember that your heart plays a very important role in loving God. And that's a massive deal we're talking about! God! So take good care of it with God's peace.

young person,
We love and Believe in you!
YAT!

Change of plans!

IMPORTANT STUFF!

Some changes had to be made,so YOU'RE HEARING IT NOW
that the Speaker this Sunday (17th July 2011) is none other than PASTOR JULIE KHOO!

If you have been living on another planet and DO NOT KNOWWWW, ps.Julie has been moved a Sunday forward from being previously set to speak the next week. (not this week!) *whoop-dee-doop!

She has dedicated her life to be a pastor, an INSPIRING person and filled to the brim with a great love and awe for God. Even only after meeting her once and hearing her speak as few as the fingers of my right hand, surely SOON you will also agree IT IS A TREAT to have her with us, FINALLY! :) :) *EXXXCITED.

Then on the following Sunday, ANOTHER SWEET SURPRISE!
Our very own PASTOR GIDEON!!!! Definitely orders of char kuey teow, assam laksa and lala-chien are being sent out to him, in PENANG so he can bring them over when he's here.. But more importantly, our very dearly missed Pastor and Commander will be back at his familiar spot, perched on the edge of our stage on the 24TH OF JULY!

So I hope I don't have to say anything more,

  

   SEE YOU THIS SUNDAY! AND THE NEXT !!

Pigeons are so cute aren't they? (;

WE'RE 12 ALREADY!

HEY!

So if you weren't in church the past Sunday you missed out! because..
WE HAD A GREAT CELEBRATION

OUR TWELFTH BIRTHDAY PARTAYY!!

One big candle for the past 10 years and 2 small candles we blow with happy tears!

We kicked off the celebration with an acoustic performance by some of our very own youthalivers!

 A video of photos taken in the last 12 years of YA! played back forgotten memories and adventures

  of us in funny haircuts and chubby faces.

Then we got up and boogeed into game time!

  And had some fun running around playing H2O..

RUUUNNNNNN!!

We had a silly time playing this game where EVERYONE went running across the room trying to fill their gap with a boy or a girl from across the circle.

Pity those LOSERS that were too slow and had to leave the circle though! Aww.

 Then soon after the short and VERY sweet sermon by Pastor.T,
  we sang and cut the CAKEEE!

yayyyyyyyyyyyyy!

There was pizza and drinks and yummy buttery sugary cake to CHOMP on to end the happy day..

Such a happy day spent together!

* BURP

hehe!

wish you were there!

UPCOMING EVENTS!

YAYY!

If you've been feeling bored lately?

Been wondering..

"Why got no YA! Teen's activity wan letely??"

Well, its because its all been slowly and nicely planned out and packaged for you, silly!


First of all,

The AMAZING G(RACE)!

Well, no, its not exactly this race we're taking part in..

But its a SIMPLER, FUNNER AND COOOOLER version!

Made just for you and me, a race around the Klang Valley and..

DETAILS!

-This year the theme is 

Yes

Yes 

Yes.

We're supposed to be Dressed inside out! pants, shirt, skirt, socks, ear rings (put them on backwards!)

However creative you get, the closer you get to winning the Best Dressed title! (inside-out, that is.!)

- Teams are to be in Groups of 4 people!

- One team member must be Above 18 years old, that means..One member must be 18 or older!

- And..All teams must be UNISEX. This does not mean what you probably think it means.., It just means, there must be both boys AND girls in a team, 1 girl+3 boys OR 2 girls+2 boys OR 1 boy+3 girls..Any of the stated is allowed. No Pondan's/AhPon's/AhGua's, Okay!

- Date: Here's the important part.. Due to safety reasons, the date of the race has been postponed. As of now, the date hasn't been set yet, so please be patient and use the time to figure out Who you want In Your Team!

For any questions, please FB message/ SMS/ E-mail/ Snail mail/ send smoke signals to..
David Yap :)

Get READDDDDYYYYYY! can you hear the Amazing Race song playing already?
Tam tam dam dam tam tam .. or is that Mission impossible?

haha!

Building a Strong Family

( Based on the sermon by 

Bro. Lee Wee Min of Focus On the Family )

Some families have it all : A cozy home, loving parents and loved children;

some families continuously sit on a roller-coaster ride :  Happy when something good happens, angry when something bad happens and sad when something tragic happens;

some families live for one day at a time : Momentary happiness, long worried faces and striving to make the best one day at a time;

some of other families are lost and broken : Missing a family member and unable to move on or just separated although nearby;

and some have no one at all.

We can change the situations we are in, we can have a better family. A stronger family. Because God called us to Build a Strong Family.

3 Foundations to consider...


- Love God.

Deuteronomy 6:5

The Message (MSG)

 5 Love God, your God, with your whole heart: love him with all that's in you, love him with all you've got!

Love the Lord, Yahweh and no one else. Knowing in every part of yourself that God is watching everything and testing everything I say, I think, I do. What we say and do affects our family members, our younger siblings, the people who see us everyday.


Sometimes do we really even think twice about the actions we take? Like when we snap back at out parents when they nagging at us.
When we say something we shouldn't, do we just pretend like its not important?

- Be captured by His word and Pass it On.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7
The Message (MSG)
 6-9 Write these commandments that I've given you today on your hearts. Get them inside of you and then get them inside your children. Talk about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in the street; talk about them from the time you get up in the morning to when you fall into bed at night. Tie them on your hands and foreheads as a reminder; inscribe them on the doorposts of your homes and on your city gates.


When we here or read from the bible, we should share what we've learned with the family. Letting God show us how to handle ourselves with our family..

For example,


Ephesians 6:1-4
1-3 Children, do what your parents tell you. This is only right. "Honor your father and mother" is the first commandment that has a promise attached to it, namely, "so you will live well and have a long life."
4 Fathers, don't exasperate your children by coming down hard on them. Take them by the hand and lead them in the way of the Master.


Here it tells about children, to obey their parents and respect them dutifully. Also to fathers, they shouldn't provoke/ criticize/ pressure their child, but to guide them in ways that the child will find easy to follow.



- Bring His goodness and Providence into the Family
Deuteronomy 6:10-12
 10-12 When God, your God, ushers you into the land he promised through your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you, you're going to walk into large, bustling cities you didn't build, well-furnished houses you didn't buy, come upon wells you didn't dig, vineyards and olive orchards you didn't plant. When you take it all in and settle down, pleased and content, make sure you don't forget how you got there—God brought you out of slavery in Egypt. 


God's desire is to bless us, but watch out that we do not forget God's goodness.


It says in..
Deuteronomy 8:19
 19-20 If you forget, forget God, your God, and start taking up with other gods, serving and worshiping them, I'm on record right now as giving you firm warning: that will be the end of you; I mean it—destruction. You'll go to your doom—the same as the nations God is destroying before you; doom because you wouldn't obey the Voice of God, your God.


This is for us to be reminded that all we have is A Gift from God. Especially, the privilege of having a family whether perfect or not.


Let us refocus, to what's good about our families and work on it:)