Ablaze Conference in just under a day (according to Don’s MSN countdown)!!!
It’s so awesome that more than one exclamation mark is necessary 
Here are my goals for this year’s conference.
1. God to give me a bigger glimpse of my future in him
2. For his spirit to fill me more and more
3. Engage with the Hope Singapore leaders, other delegates and PHUQ2
Lord, let my future in you be revealed.
Here’s the scene:
I’m watching TV when my dad comes rushing upstairs looking excited. \
“Trung, Windows 7 upgrade only $50.”
The possibility of a bargain price for something that sounds expensive always gets my parents excited. So I dutifully looked at the info and what do you know, there was the $50 dollar info.
Intrigued, I scrolled down the article and saw the killer blow: available to USA, Canada and Japan.
My dad in all his excitement forgot to read through all the info.
HIs response? “Well I was right about the $50”
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Even though I shake my head now, knowing me, in 15 years I’ll be remembering this moment with great fondness.
For the budding fashionistas, those interested in culture and all its craziness, looking for a trendy lifestyle blog or just whether that restaurant that everyone is raving about is worth the hype, a couple of Hope people have set up their own blog to follow.
http://closetoverload.wordpress.com/
Enjoy.
At life group last Sunday:
Mae: What can we learn from 1 Samuel 3:12-7
Guys (names protected): Don’t be a player…with church girls
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Watching David and Fung arguing whether the correct word was consistent or consistency
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Being blown away by how God has spoken into the lives of every single person of my life group
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Man I love being part of PHUQ2
Thanks to everyone who celebrated my 21st birthday by spamming my Facebook Wall, sending emails or sms – it is must appreciated. As Mark said to me (and sister) on MSN – I can now legally gamble in the United States.
Thanks to everyone who contributing their part in my life
Heads up to the PH Champs + Don (the sheep) + Fung (my ’special’ friend…still don’t know what that means) for organising my surprise party – I was actually surprised. One moment I’m sitting down waiting for Empowered to start and the next, I’m having people wish me happy birthday and Fung throwing coins at me. Thanks for your words of affirmation and for showing such love in my life.
And in the midst of this, I studied. You can take the boy out of the nerdiness, but you can’t take nerdiness out of the boy. Especially a week before exams.
But seriously…
THANKS EVERYONE!!!
For the Federer fans. Sampras fans, view at your own risk. I am not responsible for any loss, damage or injury inflicted from you viewing this video etc etc.
With all my exams close together, it essentially means that I have to study for all my subjects at the same time. It’s essentially meant that my brain is this massive dam full of a lethal cocktail of random information and obscure facts. Here’s a glimpse of what will be floating around my head during the next two weeks:
“Neoclassical growth theory predicts absolute convergence (same income per capita levels and same growth rates) for economies with equal rates of savings and population growth access to the same technology”
“The social contract established the state with power to make and enforce law. People gave up their individual autonomy to a sovereign authority that they created. This was done to receive to receive the protection of an all powerful sovereign to be safe in person, property and liberty”
“The principle in Barclays Bank Ltd v Quistclose Investments is that where one party advances money to another with the mutual intention that it should not become part of the assets of the borrower but should be used for some specific purpose, then a trust of the moneys will be implied if the purpose fails”
“A time series is stationary if mean, variances and covariances of the series are all finite and do not depend on t.”
The following day Jesus wanted to go to Galilee, and He found Philip and said to him, “Follow Me.” Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and also the prophets, wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
And Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”
Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
I reading this passage as part of my Quiet Time and it really struck a chord with me.
I can imagine what was going through Nathanael’s head: What? the Messiah, the one who the OT prophets foretold would restore the nation of Israel would come Nazareth…that place?!
I have been guilty of the very same attitude. There have been people that I have dismissed for some reason or another. They don’t seem mature enough. They don’t seem committed enough. They are this or they are that rah, rah, rah. Yet they have been the people who have surprised me the most with their desire and desire to grow in Christ more and more.
It makes sense. Who are we to determine who can or cannot make an impact for God? Since when did going to the right school, uni or coming from the right side of the tracks meant a single thing to God? How can we, of our own nature, contribute anything significant to the kingdom of God? By our own strength? I don’t think so?
Can anything good come out from that girl who’s on the fringe or from the person who skips church every second week?
Come and See
The one thing about being a champ is that you’re always learning, always finding out more about the people who serve with you.
But the key thing is that as a leader, I always want to be:
A MONKEY
SURPRISED
The one thing I love about PHUQ2 is that the people there always surprise me with their dedication to help out, their enthusiasm to take ownership of the group, to rise out and to step out of their comfort zones. It seriously blows me away. And to think, that God has given me the privilege of witnessing the transformation of the people around me in Ablaze. It’s awesome stuff guys
I’m seeing it in other aspects of my ministries too: in logistics, I saw little Joseph Lay checking out logistics and I was fully stoked.
I’m fully surprised by everything that’s going on hey but I wouldn’t want it any other way. As long as I live, Lord, help me never to write off the write offs…
Because you will always prove me wrong
I’m on the verge of finishing typing up my first set of discussion notes ever for life group.
It feels weird being part of this process. Back when I was young(er), discussion notes were something that magically appeared in my email and written by people who were spiritually mature than I was. And now, I’m typing up about what it means to be a good steward of finances and time for life group this Sunday.
It feels weird, but in a good way
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