A prayer for this family

..Steven Curtis Chapman’s five-year-old adopted daughter, Maria Sue Chapman, was killed in an accident on May 21, 2008. The little girl was hit by a car driven by her brother in the driveway of their home in Franklin, TN..

(Maria is the girl Steven curtis chapman is holding)

For those who might not know about him, you can wikipedia him. He is very well known gospel singer and song writer. This news about his daughter has shocked many people, and my prayer goes out for him and his family, especially the brother who meant no harm but accidently killed his own sister. It will be very hard to live with such memory for the rest of his life.

There was actually something else other than just this sad news..while reading their profiles, I learnt how he and his wife has started a charity organization to promote adoption and help families with the cost of adoption. He has provided grants to over 1700 families wishing to adopt orphans from all over the world. As the pictures shows his youngest 3 girls are adopted from China.

To adopt children are something that was always in my heart. As I look at the picture of Chapman family, something just deeply moved within me. I do not hide that I was about to be aborted simply because I was a girl. If Jesus didn’t appeared to my parent’s dream and gave them a baby(which was me), I wouldn’t be alive at this very moment. And I am very aware of this every single moment i breathe.

Some asks, don’t you want to have your own kids? Well, I don’t do kids at the first place, but I have such desire to adopt some childrens from different parts of the world. (ya, angelina jolie). Come to think of it, we as a christian, are all adopted sons and daughters to our Father God. He only had one son initially, that was Jesus. Now Jesus calls us all brothers and sisters – what a huge family we are! We are in such a realtionship here. If God the father didn’t adopt us at a huge cost of his only son’s life, we all are eternally doomed somewhere.

There are millions of lives out there who doesn’t have a good christian family environment. If they have been given a chance, we never know who they will turn out to be! Israel Houghton could have been remebered as an abortion statics, just like myself. My heart reacts to this facts, and I am becoming more aware of it..

anyway, this news about little girl’s death just about made me sleepless, thinking about how storms and thunders also stuck christian family as well, about adoption, about the brother of the little girl, and about that influence it will have on his heart of worship..

 

On serving

We say a lot about serving others. I would say the true motivation will be tested for sure, when ’serving’ gets tough. When no one seems to appreciate or even recognize of your ‘great sacrifying acts’, when you go unnoticed and slowly all you doing at the back is accepted as just a norm, and all you feel is frustration, and no one can encourage your heart of deseration, right there and then your true motivation will be tested.

Are you a servant of God? Then live like one.

 

During D2 IC (inner core) meeting..(It’s a *sparkling grape juice*)

Mr. and Mrs. Tan

Somehow It seemed we were busy taking picture of ourselves…here are some of the products..

Grace was the most beautiful Bride ever.

Amazing reception team..I’ve booked them for my wedding already! Just wait for another…many more years. lol

Shiny guys…erm, literally.

Shiny…Melissa…lol!

The food was AMAZING!! It was like….”WOW!!!!!!!”

Yeah I know I know, it is too dark. My bad.

And they lived happily ever after!

THE END.

Mr. and Mrs. Cheah

It happens very rarely that you get to meet some people who are very special and important to you. As for me my spiritual parents, other than my physical parents are really Mel and Beng, who nurtured me and grew me to be who I am today.

When I first knew them 6 years ago, I was..erm, a mess, let’s just put it that day. They’ve seen my worst and saw me through my ups and downs of life and spiritual journey with God. Without them guiding me through the path of confusion and struggle, I don’t think I would even be in the church by now. In many ways I am very greatful for their love and their life poured out for me. They were always such a rold model of godly servants and happy couple that makes others have hope about marriage as well..lol.

May is a big month for them since it has both of their birthdays and their wedding anniversary. So we had a simple dinner at my house, – yes indeed a very humble dinner, since my main dish got burnt and I had to throw them away! sob sob! – The cake looked totally different with my imagination as well, I wanted to decorate with nice letters but what turn out to be was like…writings with eyes closed sort.

We had to make an apointment a month ahead to be able to arrange this time, so I really cherished the time spent together. The people in Montreal will be greatly blessed when this couple comes into their lives. And I am looking forward to see many more ‘Christine’s come about in the future through their love and care. LOL..

with love,

 

 

 

On Hillsong United

I have to be honest in this. I was afraid. I was worried that because of the brilliant lights and sounds and camera movements on a huge screen, beautiful voices and fancy guitar players..all these may hinder people from worshipping God. I was afraid that any of the human pleasing arrangements would take away the focus from the object of our worship.

We are not to admire the worship leader for their voice or musical skills, during the worship. That’s why the stage or flatform can be the most dangerous place – no one gets the glory an credit other than God. What do we talk about after the concert? The worship leader is cool..the drummer was awesome..the singers sang so good..the preacher was funny…. How about the presence of God? we should be afraid that we will be asking ‘where are you, God?’ while all the music is playing and lights flashing and hands are lifted up. That’s gonna be THE most scary thing.

As for God I believe he doesn’t care as much about the skills and techniques as the broken and contrite heart of worship. In our own room, no music, and sing out of tune in tears in thanksgiving unto the Lord, I do not know any more genuine worship. So I feel like worshipping God in my own simple tune, in where my heart is not forced to pump according to the beat of the loud drum.

Don’t get me wrong, it was an awesome night. I was searching for my heart why I felt what I felt, the unidentified feeling of being afraid. Tonight so many people came in front to make a decision to follow Christ and rededicate their life to the Lord. Of course the time was very short, and the proper gospel (sin, Jesus, the Cross, the forgiveness, the eternal life..) was edxplained very briefly – personally I don’t think it’s thorough enough for someone to understand what they are committing themselves into - Without going further in ‘worship evangelism’, wherever there is a presence of the Lord, there is a transformed soul. That was the initial reason why I stayed in Hope Brisbane church. I felt such a tangible presence of God during worship, and I thought to myself, ‘My. Where else would I go? God is right here!’ and that was the end of my churh hopping.

My prayer is that we will be worship God in and out of concert, not only when there is a cool band and awesome music we can jump and sing for the Lord, but rather in our daily lives, be the living sacrifice unto the Lord, that is, the true worship. So we don’t give an excuse saying because the music is out of tune, because the worship leader is not anointed enough, thus I couldn’t worship God today, but in every circumstances we will focus on the Lord only. As long as God is the same, our worship should be the same.

Lord, draw your people to live the life of a true worshiper.