Praise God for HTC2009

Dear brothers and sisters that prayed for us throughtout this period...

The HTC2009 lastly held its closing on 27 Aug 2009... it closed wonderfully with a revision by drama presentation for the 10th selected lessons that we have gone through in 14 days time. Of course it ended up with some fingerfood for our teachers and students too.

We have so much in heart to give thanks to God for be with us in this camp:

1. God gave us strength

As there is only three of us in the organisation team, most of the preparation tasks are on us. However, everytime when we felt tired after the morning camp (we need to start preparation for the net day in the afternoon n sometime dragged till night). God always gave us new strength to continue with a grateful and happy heart.

2. God provided all our needs

We need good weather for the outdoor activities, God provided (at the moment, the school still do not have a big hall that can accommodate more than hundred children. We need money to run the show, God provided. We need helpers for each team (we have 10 teams), God provided 2 teachers for each team. We need materials for the lesson, God provided a wonderful materials by knowing Him more through different name of Himself. We need speakers for everyday messages, God provided His servants from Singapore, Sarawak n in-house Singapore pastors. We need prayers to protect all of us, we have a group of faithful missionary friends from Sarawak to pray for us n provide physical helps if needed (they helped us to spare a lot of recycled materials too for the activities). And God also provided you, our prayer partners to become the strong pillars behind us n this work. Thank God so so so much.

3. God is be with us

In this camp, there was a cheating case happened where a boy cheat on the money (coupon) of another team during the cooking session (they used coupon as money to "buy" materials for their team cooking). As the judges checking out the issues, found out that the boy's team purchased the materials which worth more than the coupon that they had been given. The disiplinary action was taken place immediately after the incident.

However, that afternoon, when we checked out the photos taken. Found that there is one photo that showed the incident --- it was really a shock for us as what we didn't see, God showed it to us through randomly taken photographs. for the boy n the team, I think this is really a living testimony to them that God is always there to watch out what we are doing (so coincidently, the topic for that day is "Jehovah Shammah - God is always there").

4. God loves Cambodian

in this 14 days, as days passed, we saw the students changed gradually, although is slow, but progressing. For bw's group, started with "forcing" the students to pray for the snack time n during lesson time, till the last day --- the students waited for her for 15 minutes before they started eating, just to wait for her to come n pray together before they started eating. This is a wonderful and touching eperience for her.

In other teams, we saw also the team spirit of the students changed gradually, heart of selfishness lessen with the increase of loving each others in the camp. some life are touched and even teachers admitted they knowing God more through this camp.

God is here, not only with Malaysian or Singaporean, He also stand with Cambodian people here, will you join the line?

we are going to Singapore today, n will be back on Monday -- to attend the fund raising dinner for the school and other ministry. Please pray for our journey mercy. We shall update you more when we come back. May God be with you...

HTC 2009 update!!!

Dear brothers and sisters at home, another week passed. May the blessing of God be with you and your family continuously. We are busy here right now --- for the Holiday Training Camp 2009.

Praises and Thanks to God:

1. SK felt sick (with minor fever) last Friday, after the few hour expose under sun. Praise God that after an afternoon rest. He regained the strength and able to continue with the following preparation.

2. Praise God that provided us good weather continuously.

3. Praise God that although we faced a troublesome neighbour that complained that he can't sleep due to the noise created from the camp (during 10am-12am, our outdoor activities time). But the condition solved after some communication.

4. Thanks God for the students' health and strength. They did complaint that they are tired. but they still excited to look forward for the next day.

5. Thanks God that the worship teams (we have 4 teams, they take turn to lead every morning) have improved a lot in term of singing n leading. Thanks God for building them up.

Please join the happiness and the blessing to the students here...

The 6th day

Topic: Jehovah Shalom, God is our Peace

Worshop: Present peace feeling from the story in bible with Fruit Decoration

In the photo: All the end products of the students, waiting for the final marking.

Champion of the day: "Garden of Eden"

Did you see Adam and Eve somewhere?

The 7th day

Topic: Jehovah Rophe, God is our Healer

Workshop: God cleanses our sins, so we can help to clean our neighbourhood too.

In the photo: A group of students picking up plastic type rubbish from the roadside.

Guess what it is? We are moving the RUBBISH back to MSC.

That day, 10 teams went out to collect only plastic type rubbish from roadside. We managed to have in total of 260kg rubbish in the school. Praise the Lord that the rubbish lorry came on the that afternoon to move out all these rubbish, if not we may need to stay with these rubbish for few days.

The 8th day

Topic: Jehovah Rophe, God is our healer (Part 2)

Workshop: Follow the God's Footstep

In the photo: She is trying her best to listen to the instructor's voice (~~God's voice?).

However, sometimes there are so many distraction voice that interrupt us from hearing from God. He is trying to differentiate the instructor's voice from other "fate instructors" from other teams.

The 9th day

Topic: Jehovah Tsidkenu, God is our Righteousness

Workshop: Ten Commandments Stations

In the photo: Narrow Path Room, is difficult to go through narrow path, but you will definitely have a good reward after completing it (a sweet for each student).

One of the 10 Commandments station: Keep away from sins!!

Once the wired was touched, the music alarmed us. Just like the alarm from Holy Spirit that wants us to keep ourselves away from sins.

The 10th day

Topic: Jehovah Tsidkenu (Part 2), God is our Righteousness

Workshop: The Young Inventor, God grants us such a creative brain to think out differently.
In the photo: make something out of recycled materials.

(1) Make a cover to protect the toilet paper from getting wet in the toilet.

(2) Make a watermelon juicer to squeeze out the juice.

(3) Make something useful from the recycled materials.

Let's wait for the judges to come!!

Hahaha! We are the Champion of the day!!!

Thanks for be with us! See you next week. Remember to pray for us! Pray for the students' salvation and spiritual revival!

May God bless you!

1st week of HTC 2009

Dear Brothers and sisters,

After a week of HTC, there are a lot of praises that we need to submit to God, please bear with us for some of them:

1. Good weather: although now should be the raining season but God provided wonderful weather for us this week. all the out door activities were carried out in sunny days : ).

2. Thank God for the speakers. We were actually running out of speakers for next week message time but God again is our provider, now all the speakers are in place. Thank God for the ever present help.

3. Thanks for our health. Since the weather is hot now, many times we felt sick but each day we are refresh by God.

We would like to share some photos of this week programs.

The 1st day

Topic: Jehovah Jireh "God is our provider"

Workshop: Made team banners and flags

In the photo: One of the teams replaced Angkor Wat with Love, Joy and Peace from God

The 2nd day

Topic: Jehovah Jireh part 2

Workshop: Create Abraham's Altar with recycle materials

In the photo: the Champion of the 10 teams

The 3rd day

Topic: Jehovah Nissi "God is our battle fighter"

Workshop: Water cannon ball battle

In the photo: One of the teams was preparing their water cannon balls to fight with the opposing team

The 4th day

Topic: Jehovah Nissi part 2

Workshop: Survival skill BBQ

In the photo: we provided 13 items for them to search in the school and they have to BBQ them into edible food. items such as sweet potatoes, brinjals etc.

some teams produced good results

some teams...... ehm, are these edible???

The 5th day

Topic: Jehovah Shalom "God is our peace"

Workshop: Compose new songs that bring peace feeling to worship God

In the photo: One of the teams was presenting their song

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Throughout the week, students enjoyed the camp and felt excited for the new programs each day. We need your prayer to stand aligh with us in the students and teachers' salvation and relationship to God. Please pray together for the camp:

1. Pray for the students: May the words of God deeply sow in their hearts.

2. May God use this camp to transform the students and teachers life onto Him. so that this camp would not be just another activities added to them.

3. May God continue to provide good weather and all the preparation that we need.

Next week:

Topic: Jehovah Shalom Part 2, Jehovah Rophe part 1 & 2, and Jehovah Tsidkenu part 1 & 2.

HTC 2009 has started!!!

Dear brothers and sisters,

Thanks for praying for the Holiday Training Camp (HTC 2009). With the grace of God, this camp has been successfully started since this Monday. Sorry for late in updating you on this. This three weeks camp comes with different program each day. However, all of the 14 days messages are linked to the same theme -- "Knowing God More". In this camp, we allocated 1 hour of sermon time for explaining the different characters of God, n followed with 2 hours workshop on the same topic of the day.

We have 102 students registered, but currently those attended are about 90+ students.

Please enjoy some photos for these two days programs.

Message and praying time (every day 7:30am - 8:30am)

Small Group study and handworks (8:30am - 9:30am)

Snack break (9:30am - 10:00am)

Thanks God that a church visiting team from Bintulu, Sarawak made 500 paos to the camp (within two afternnon). We can distribute all these paos in three different days for children snack.

Workshop (10:00am - 12:00am)

Yesterday - create banner and flag for their own team

Today's workshop - creata altar as the message of the day - "God is Our Provider" - about Abraham offer Issac as the sacrifies

Ten different design of altar in their imagination. We are surprise to see that the students have marvelous imagination and they did their altar very well. We will share about the photos of the winning group next time.

Please pray for this camp:

1. Pray for the work of Holy Spirit among the students and teachers. May their heart be touched through the sermon, worship, small group discussion or the activities in workshop.

2. Pray for the unity among the organizing comittee and teacher who helped in the camp. May their life be a living testimony to attract students to know more about our God.

3. Pray for our health as we are busy each day to get ready for the next day activities.

May peace of God be with you and your family.