讓我容許自己忙裡偷閒十分鐘吧...

今天真的很感動. 為什麼? 原因有二

1) 今天coop workshop完了後, 同可愛的sylvia同學一齊飛奔由wood 到scarfe, 計時為5分鐘. 可想而知我們是多麼的"歸心似箭"! 幸好還趕上了為Joshua Edward 按手祈禱! 有這兩位導師是天父給我們的恩賜. 他們改變了我的生命. 改變了每個ST的生命. 改變了CCFers 的生命. 希望神繼續保守這兩位導師未來的事工. 加力給他們! 在為導師們祈禱後, 大家竟又為我和DK祈禱, 真的很很很很很感動! 真的感覺到 "being loved". 由上次大家知道我不能再回CCF帶週會的時間, 我已經收到很多祝福鼓勵的說話. 雖然很多的人, 大家相識了真的很短時間, 但這段時間裡, 大家一起學習, 一起歌頌神. 不知不覺間也有一個很strong 的bonding! 我真的很愛CCF這個家. 我真的覺得能來到CCF是神給我們的福氣, 沒有CCF 沒有今天的我... (雖然話說得有點兒誇張, 但可真是事實的確如此!)

2)另一樣我很感動的是...我們CCF 的lost tradition ---SINGSPIRATION 回來了! 還要比我以前去過的更強盛! 我只不過是在星期二有一個random thought 跟DK 分享一下, 誰知道他竟十分支持, 然後Roson 又一口應承彈結他, 最後更為我們做了漂亮的小冊子! Erico Vivian 亦很支持... 各位的反應是我意料之外的. 我本來以為天氣這麼惡劣, 大家會反對呢! 最後更奇妙的是, 天氣在今天竟然好轉, 不單止不下雪, 氣溫還升高了, 難以置信嗎? 我相信是神聽禱告, 祂看到大家火熱的心, 為我們打氣! 今天唱的每一首歌, 我都是由心的歌頌神的. 我很感謝大家的支持, 大家不怕冷不怕髒不怕醜, 高聲高頌我們的神! 我希望我們的歌聲可以打動別人的心! 大家下學期還想再唱嗎? 我很想繼續呢! 大家一起祈禱, 讓我們繼續唱下去!

考試快到了... 各位要一起加油噢!

Ok...I can't help slacking off once I got home. sigh...

Oh well, I am soooooo looking forward to tomorrow's singspiration! I got this random thought of starting it this thursday and I actually got the whole ST team to back me up! Thanks all! I love you!

Hope the weather is not too bad tomorrow. Let's sing with our heart and praise our lord with our voices!

It's close to the end of term. One more week to go then we are into the Final exam mode. I am just amazed that how time flies. Time flies; During the time, things happened, things changed, we got through them all together and we moved on, we moved on in One direction. The togetherness as a team, as brothers and sisters, as friends is something so wonderful that I could not ever appreciate more.

Next term, dk and Mandy are going on with thier coop workterm and coop workshop respectively. They won't be able to make it to our Thursday's CCF gatherings. We will miss them. Thinking of it now, I am already missing them. Of the ST out of five, Erico, Vivian and myslef will be there. dk and Mandy will be working backstage, helping, supporting and praying for us. E.V.R will be there to carry it out and carry it through. Yeah. dk and Mandy will pray for our CCF wherever they are. So will we pray for them.

dk and Mandy, do not feel sorry when you are absent from CCF. Enjoy whatever you are doing and glorify God in whatever you are doing! Love you~


God hears our prayers. He continues to bless CCF and bless our ST so that we grow as individuals, we grow as a team and we grow as a community. Father, please build our team , train us and expand us; please contiune to conform us and make us humble servants of Yours. Amen!

我想extend on 上一篇entry.

今日終於到左呢個咁特別的日子. 今天, 我剛好加入了CCF (由第一個週會到現在 )兩年. 由上年到現在, 帶詩歌帶了一年, 最後, 今天是我短期內最後一次參加CCF 週會.

本來我在心裡想了很多遍要說的是什麼, 大概有5-7點吧...誰知道說出口的, 一半也可能沒有. 不過今日所說的, 全都是由心所發.

今天的感覺真的很悲喜交集. 因為大家(尤其first year 的好姐妹) 都說了很多鼓勵的說話. 很窩心呢...

"千般百般暖流 從你關心的說話
深深感激一切 我一生記心中"

今天好像感覺到, 雖然面對茫茫前路, 但是我背後有一個家會隨時支持我.

"在這爭戰中 要儆醒奮起 以讚美作武器"

將來面對工作的時間, 我一定會記得讚美, 會記得在CCF中大家一起唱歌頌讚的時間

CCF 我會掛念你!

今天overall我很開心. 為什麼? 就是沒什麼特別, 所以就很開心. 而且我今天終於收到我訂的那兩本書 <> and <> also the CD of Casting Crowns with we are the body and who am i.

昨天去了jubilization. 三次回到世界中心的jubilization 我最喜歡這一次. 因為我喜歡除去舊人, 穿上新人的message. 當然希望自己能做到吧!

不知不覺, 原來這個星期四便是我在短期內最後一次可以在ccf 星期四的週會帶singspiration. 由year 1 下半年到現在, 返ccf都有差不多2年了. 我印象中我沒有skip過一次. (我平時上課應該skip得更多). 我真的很喜歡ccf.

CCF是我重新認識這個信仰的地方, 是我成長的地方, 是我找到一班志同道合的好朋友的地方. 我真的很捨不得走呀... ! 雖然不是完全沒有機會來, 但是這未來這一年多, 可以到ccf週會的機會也不知有沒有十次... 我一定會時時掛念ccf.

"願你帶著歡笑, 走進這個家" 進來當然開心, 離開卻總難免傷心.

不過我希望去coop 呢段時間, 我會可以更努力去裝備自己. 其實現在的我, 實在不足以去帶好一個週會. 頂多也只可以做好帶歌的部份. 希望我可以用這段時間, 做一個更成熟的門徒, 到我再回歸CCF的時間, 可以做得更好!

哈哈! 不過以上的所有事, 都有一個prerequisite. 就是我要pass我全部的courses 和 沒被人kick out of coop! 我會努力的.

大家記得要為CCF 禱告, 也請為我禱告吧!

Have you guys ever asked those questions like "do i have to pray again if i am finishing the left over food from lunch?" or "do i have to pray when i drink water instead of eating a meal"?
Well, tonight, I found an answer.

As you might know, each year around this time when it rains a lot for a few days, the tap water tends to get cloudy. At least for my area.
So tonight I went to Safeway to buy some distilled water... but I soon realized all the large bottles were sold out. Having failed my mom's order to buy "large-water", I looked for those 6-pack bottled waters, but those too were sold out. While I was looking for water, some lady carrying 4L milk and other drinks said, "I just want to get more fluid!!"
Wow. At that moment, I realized that although we always feel that we are secure, we are really helpless when something happens, for example, when the water system gets contaminated.

We are really so blessed to have all the basic stuff and a lot more. Need I say anymore?

這些日子大家也很忙碌, 但不知為何, 我好像很悠閒似的. 可能我太懂忙裡偷閒吧! 所以我想在這裡寫下一些隨意的想法(as in random thought =P)

我在看一本書名叫<>, 故事是講述一家四口遇到車禍, 父親和兩個女兒幸保性命, 但母親卻傷重不治. 而整本書就是父親在車禍後寫下的感受.

雖然還沒有看完這本書, 但越看下去, 就越感到人的力量真的很有限, 生命亦是多麼脆弱. 有沒有想過假如下一秒鐘便要離開世界, 你有什麼是最想做的? 有什麼會後悔沒有做的? 最想做 的事, 我真的想不到, 因為我太多事想做了, 例如結婚生仔, 環遊世界, 吃喝玩樂 等等. (說笑罷了, 真的沒什麼很想做的). 但後悔沒有做的, 可能是沒有機會多和家人相處. 尤其過了加拿大後, 雖然和家人再沒有爭拗, 關係表面上好了, 但是卻少了很多溝通. 也真慚愧, 到現在也沒有對爸媽說過我其實很愛他們的...

所以呢, 這幾天特別想家. (又可能"下雨天總掛念從前 " 的原因吧^^). 也特別花多些許時間和婆婆舅父母一起. 雖然只是吃飯的時間, 但是只要在一起, 感受到大家的存在, 也很好了

我今天做了另一件很勇敢的事(只是我覺得很勇敢而已), 就是我邀請了yours 的朋友一起去參加operation christmas children. 平常的時間我很少會有衝動去邀請他們一起去做事, 因為我覺得自己跟他們總有少許距離, 不算得上真的很好朋友.

但是今次不知為何很想他們也去參加這個很有意義的活動, 所以我發了一個電郵給他們, 告訴他們這個活動. 希望他們會參加吧. 請大家為yours 的人禱告, 希望神會温暖他們的心, 去做這件有意義的事, 亦為operation christmas children 禱告吧! 希望多些人會參加, 多些小朋友可以感受到在世界的另一邊, 還有一班人會關心他們的.

如果你們還沒有pack shoe box, 快點pack 吧! 原來safeway 是可以drop off shoe box 的! 很方便呢!

Tomorrow is my friend Jack's baptism. So he had a special testimony / sharing in tonight's fellowship. He spent maybe 30 to 45 minutes telling us about his past, how he joined our fellowship, and how he decided to follow Jesus for the rest of his life. He was very honest with us, telling us what he was thinking, how he felt about the Christians he met, how he felt about the Church before, etc.

From his sharing/testimony, I noted four things that the Church (CCF in this case) should possess to make disciples:

1) Relevancy. Worship and message must be relevant to the culture of the audience. For sure worship's target is not the people, but God. However, if the worship fails to bring people to worship God, then the worship has failed in its task

2) Authentic caring. As in not some "assigned carers" nor "caring in the church". What I meant by authentic caring is to build a relationship through "out of church activities" that are of interest to both sides. The keyword is "authentic". Authentic caring should not be assigned, but self-motivated.

3) Teaching. A person who has faith without understanding would be easily confused or shaken. Understanding and faith are not oppose to each other; instead, understanding strengthens faith.

4) Community. Since Christianity is never a private religion, it does not make sense to experience faith in a solely individual fashion. How should I describe it? To do our parts to bring people closer to God, we have to immerge the person into a Christian culture. Think about learning English. We dont learn English by watching Chinese televisions and reading Ming Pao. We learn English by immersing ourselves in the English culture; we make friends with English speakers, we listen to the radio in English, we watch their movies, read their newspaper, etc. The Christian community works in a similar way.

I hope it is obvious that God's presence is assumed in all of these. Therefore, prayer is essential.

Comments?

哈哈! 這個blog 真的荒廢了很久了! ST 們...快D灌水吧!

這兩星期我經歷兩件很令人興奮, 很值得歡喜的事

1) Arnold的浸禮. 這是我第一次參觀的浸禮, 原來浸禮是這樣的. 每個人也很開心, 替受浸的弟兄高興. 我們時常也會聽到人討論是否需要浸禮, (若我沒記錯的話, CCF Bible study 也好像有討論過). 我不記得其他要受浸的原因, 只記得是要做一個神的見證, 向眾人宣佈基督徒的身份. 我真的很開心看到這些比我年紀還小的人, 有勇氣作出這個決定, 向眾人做見證. 當大家唱"快樂日 快樂日 耶穌洗淨我眾罪蒘"時, 我真的感受到由心的喜樂

2) 今晚佈道會後, kent 決志了!!! congratulations! 真的好好好好好開心. kent 一向是我和sylvia的好朋友, 就只是一向覺得他比較多說話和無聊. 我也不知道他為什麼會返教會. 還上主日學, 十分勤力. 真的有點自愧不如. 我不知道他是否在牧師呼召的時間舉手, 但是erico 和vivian 散會後向他講解救恩卡, 然後他就決志了! 多令人感動, 因為又多一個朋友接受了主基督救贖, 重新建立了和神的關係, 得到永生! 傳福音其實不單止是使徒的一個使命, 傳福音更是一件開心的事, 所以我們應更加努力!! GO CCFers!

大家要記得在忙亂裡, 不要忘記要為身邊的大事小事感恩!