TRIGGER! a cg of 17 & 18 year old youths from WEFC Youth POD! ADELINE!! Eu Jin!! SARAH; BERYL; PEARLY; KEITH; JOSHUA; JOEL; DAVID; AARON; EZRA; BRANDON; ETHAN; LUKE; ESTHER; JIAMING; KELVIN GOD's word! :) TALK. ShoutMix chat widget PAST. November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 October 2009 March 2010 April 2010 June 2010 October 2010 November 2010 January 2011 February 2011 March 2011 April 2011 May 2011 June 2011 July 2011 August 2011 AFFILIATES. Adeline Joshua Keith Michelle Pearly Sarah David CREDITS basecodes by: Jane edited by: Pearly ©Trigger '08 ; '09 |
Friday, March 27, 2009 @ 12:47 PM
i/cs for open sun ok, just some things to add to David's post, bcos the names weren't clear. also, the name that's in bold and blue is the main i/c of the station. so please call up your partner-in-crime to decide who to buy what for tmr ok? and get the stuff prepared in time for cg. lastly, wear sports attire everyone (that includes shoes). if anything else was left out, sms david. CG starts at 2.30pm. remember your memory verses too! ade Overall in charge: David and Ethan 0.5. Ice licker -Luke, Beryl, Ethan 1. Pac man -Keith, Joel 2. Captain fruit -Sarah, Ezra, Brandon -items. FRUITS. ok, this one is tricky, please conference amongst yourselves and buy a variety of fruits. Any qns, call david. 3. Ultimate prata. -Esther, Aaron 4. Touch papaya -Josh, Pearly purplecross wrote. Thursday, March 26, 2009 @ 10:42 PM
open sunday - things you needa know. hey guys! first post, what an accomplishment. okay. here's what's happening for open sun. everything here's tentative, btw. we have one ice-breaker for everyone, followed by 4 station games (two teams per station at a time). hopefully, we'll end on time. SO. overview: total time. 3~ hours venues. cana, fushan, G1,6, bbal courts opposite 0.5. Ice licker (which is our ice breaker .___. ) -manned by everyone without a station; if your name isn't below that's you. -items needed. plastic drink bags (like the ones from 834), the clues, tubs, water (for ice), stones. -venue. cana hall -procedure. we freeze each team's clue (where to go, in what order) in a tub of ice. they have to lick the ice till it melts. they're timed, the ones who finish fastest will get some advantage. points, maybe. we'll see. -note. teams dont leave once they have their clue. they wait till everyone's done before moving off. time and placing is recorded though. 1. Pac man -Keith and Joel -items needed. paper plates, marshmallows -venue. G1, G6 -procedure. we put marshmallows on paper plates and teams have to walk around picking up as many as they can with their mouths. there may be monsters or whatnot, i'm not sure how it works. haha, can ask keith on sat. 2. Captain fruit -Sarah, Eliza -items. FRUITS (not confirmed which ones. actually, fruits may be ex, so we could end up using cabbage), and chairs. -venue. bball courts near mrt tracks. -procedure. its just captains ball. with fruit/veg of course. 3. Ultimate prata. HAHA. -Esther, Aaron -items. frozen prata (the cheap ones you can get from anywhere), chairs -venue. bball courts near mrt tracks. -procedure. its just ultimate frisbee. with prata of course. 4. Touch papaya -Josh, Pearly -items. Papayas (at least 3 total), chairs -venue. fushan -procedure. its just touch rugby. you get the idea. we're having a test of the games this sat so station ICs pls find a way of getting the items you need for ONE session of the game. if really can't, you can ask some other IC to help you buy or something. whatever works la, haha. and keep the receipts! ade says "the items are so cheap, don't bother claiming from the church!!" -.- but she's probably wrong. so keep receipts. oh, we haven't thought of prizes yet. can discuss more this sat. thanks for reading this whole long thingum (: tired-ly, .tai p.s. ade owes us cg outing, let's not forget :D tai. wrote. Monday, March 23, 2009 @ 11:06 PM
outing postponed hey trig, i've decided to postpone our cg outing because we should test run our games for open sun. When we plan, we need to give it our best and ensure that our loopholes are covered. and also, i just realised, we've not thought of a wet weather plan. our weather has been pretty erratic, so, it'd be good to have back-up. david will blog soon to update you guys on our plan and who's in charge of which games, etc. oh, and this sat, please come prepared to recite the last 3 Bible verses which we've agreed on: matt 25:29, "For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him." john 15:5, "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing." 2 Cor 5:17, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" no BS. oh, and girls, those with the book, you can start reading until Ch4. We're meeting next sat April 4, 12.30pm. will confirm venue later. with love, ade purplecross wrote. Saturday, March 21, 2009 @ 10:53 PM
CG Outing Im having troubles finding a perfect place for CG lunch cos i cant find a place which is cheap enough, good and near cos many dun bother to make their own websites. So is there anyone who could suggest anyplace for a buffet? Cos those i have searched so far do not have buffet promos during weekends... So for those who want to respond to my request, please leave suggestions in the tag box so i can check them out for u guys:):D:P Thank you!!! Labels: Ezra-Doggy lover TRIGGER(: wrote. Sunday, March 15, 2009 @ 11:16 PM
memory verse for 14 mar We went thru matt 25:14-30 Memory verse is matt 25:29 For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. THANKS ADELINE FOR TREATING US TO DINNER! *lights fireworks in Adeline's honour* Too bad for those who didn't come XD -Esther TRIGGER(: wrote. Monday, March 9, 2009 @ 10:56 PM
MEMORY VERSE!!! :D HELLO ESTHER HERE! i'm here to remind you to remind your memory verse (duh) it's john 15:5... I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. i bet a lot of you are secretly planning to whack me now thanks to my sadistic tendency of reminding you to remember verses. In response to the previous 2 posts (essays) posted: For we walk by faith, not by sight: 2 cor 5:11 TRIGGER(: wrote. Sunday, March 8, 2009 @ 8:39 PM
it is hard, no one says it was going to be easy. i once thought that if i had doubts and sins in my heart, i've no business in church whatsoever. no right to serve, no right to be in the presence of God. but it struck me that if it is so, no one would be in church. In defense to my last statement i'm not saying that just live with your doubts and go about your christian life with that elephant in the room, never addressing it. What i'm saying is go to church with an open heart to hear God or rather listen to God. When there are doubts in your heart it can go two ways 1) oh i have doubts and therefore i should now be less confident of being a christian 2) is this a burden God has placed in my heart? How to serve God with doubts in your heart? i think what has happened is that these doubts have turned into guilt unknowingly inside you and this wound of guilt and doubts have been festering making it unseemingly harder to come to terms with. I hope you'll move on from it being a festering wound of guilt and doubt into a burden that you can use to serve God with. Its a total 360 degrees turn from the angle you are coming at and i hope that you do not think I'm trying to sound godly or anything but rather that I'mas broken as you are if not more. Sometimes you want answers to burning questions. but what if sometimes answers to questions are more questions, just more and more questions, more and more questions. These questions would take a lifetime to approach and analyse and account for, more than anyone on earth can sacrifice? In addition, some answers do not not answer but question. In that case, answers make more sense if you have derived them yourself. Threfore i urge you to consider why sometimes people in church dont give you answers, but questions. I've come to the conclusion myself that nobody's answers make more sense to me that my own answers. You may think then why bother asking anyone at all? i think that its is a journey that you must embark on to answer your own question. i mean look at it with a changed attitude. What if this is an oppotunity not a crisis? It may not seem that way now when you are confused and just seeking an answer, but i assure you everything happens for a reason. Well if i want to be an advocate of advice to you, i guess i also have to admit my shortcomings. I want to explain why i have not come to church for the past month. Just having noticed it myself, i was using work as an excuse not to come to church but whats the real underlying reason, could it be that i was trying to avoid? avoid people who seems to be superior than me in action and thoughts? avoid people who care for me knowing that i've let then down once again? guilty and worn out from the mask i was wearing i decided it was way easier to avoid. cowardice you may call it. However now, i realise that the farce i wear in church is becoming way too thin and i'm determined not to be two faced anymore. I'm coming back different from before. determined to be nicer and care for the poepl around me who care. Learn from my mistakes, avoidance is the key to not getting your answers. Lastly i just want to say that God may have noticed us sticking to one gift that he has given us, and that we focus so much on this particular gift that we neglect our other gifts. It may be for this purpose, that he wants us to develope the other bigger gift he has placed in your life, that he dormants the gift we are so keen in. to readjust our focus, to remember that all gifts are from him and that no gift should be bigger than the maker/giver of these gifts themselves. If we could realise, maybe just worshipping God without the baggage of noticing anything else then could be a lesson God wants us to learn. Having said all that i just want to leave everyone with food for thought; When God is the greatest moral, how can you call someone without God more moral than you. p.s. we all care, really and we hope that you will be able to stand on your feet soon. Work this burden for you and not as a guilt against you. On a lighter note, this isnt something i tell guys often but i'm just a phonecall away, i could be your listening ear. -keith TRIGGER(: wrote. @ 12:20 PM
Hey. Just for anyone who doesn't know yet, I left cg yesterday, and pretty much (for now, at least) renounced my faith. Didn't eat bread or ribena at service either, didn't sing. Its not really so much that I don't believe in God, to be honest. Its more like I don't really know how to love God like this. There have been some questions on my mind for a long time that I've been putting off because I was...occupied. And these questions...it really takes knowing certain things that most of you don't in order to realize, and feel indignant about the system of how Christianity works. If I'm to be completely honest as I have been already...it takes a lot to declare in front of a whole church of Christians that you really doubt your faith-than yeah, the truth is that if someone could actually decently come up with a reason as to why God operates the way he does. Keith said 'an idle mind is the devil's workshop', but that's really not what's going on with me right now. Or you could say that its this world at fault and not God? The God we love is supposed to be perfect and just. Someone told me that he lived by the principle that God wasn't fair, which really shocked me, because while it didn't really help me, it gave me something to think about. I dont know how you guys know how to react to this. Some of you have already been defensive. Particularly people I thought would be mature enough not to take anger at this kind of thing, to have the audacity to demand an answer from me. Caleb once said that cg leaders aren't more perfect, they're more broken, hence they can teach for experience and guide us away from what they're had the misfortune to go through. And while I don't always believe that they're 'more' broken, the truth is-we're all damaged goods. At least to those of you who really can't stand to even look at me, then tough luck because if that's what being a Christian is, than I'm amused at how similar it is to the way the world operates. For those of you who have been indifferent, I'm going to take it that you either can't figure out what to say to me or you just don't care. Adeline once said that when someone part of the body is hurting, we should all be hurting. I think most of you know what I'm referring to. But for me...well I don't pretend to understand if I can't. Maybe once I used to be able to understand...but I can't now, so do you will. Those who are just surprised...well some of you who knew me back in the day know that while I haven't always been the most serious Christian, I was baptized, and I was pretty confident, pretty determined to save people. To save anyone and everyone, to be precise. And I still believe that. When we were mock tortured in youth camp, I didn't renounce my faith then (though I'm pretty sure no one did, since everyone knew it wasn't actually real despite the whole eating crap thing.) because even at this point I believe in Christianity. I believe in a relationship with God and that he died to save us, but right now, it doesn't mean I'm happy with him, his system, and I am struggling to love him. I really struggle to love him. See, I would die for what I believe in. I believe that God really did want to save all of us. I believe that God exists, that he does love me (otherwise it would be much harder to grasp the idea that he even exists), that you know, we're chosen and all that. That we're meant to go out and save people by his name. And I'd rather die than renounce the things that I believe in-I really would. But at the same time, I believe that people who are more moral than you and I shouldn't be born destined to go to hell regardless of what we do in this time. I believe that the term 'free will' is false and its not something I can respect. Because really, what idiot wants to go to hell? Its not a choice. And maybe I'd rather go to hell than see people that I care about end up there, but what good would that do? Do I resent God for it? ...yeah. Some of you might take offense, or become more argumentative about proving your point. Its not that I'm not open minded. Trust me, I'm more open minded about many things than some of you might think (especially keith, lols.). Its really that if you're going to argue, than say it logically. Think about it, come up with decent points and don't get upset if something I say contradicts what you say. Because I'm not unreasonable, and I WANT to go back to church withh my head held up high and declaring I'm a Christian, but how could I possibly do that with doubt in my heart? Because there's going to be a point of time where YOU become old enough to question yourself. Maybe you already have. Maybe you won't be so in doubt or crushed by the reality of this lack or loss of faith as I havem but you will doubt God, because we're not perfect. We're not able to love unconditionally. But we're trying. And I guess what I really want to say, in the midst of this is that I'm sorry. For anyone who feels I let them down. I don't think any of you were looking at me as a spiritual leader or anything. Maybe a basketball leader, but not a spiritual leader. But just in case you were, I really apologize. I backslided, I guess. But well. I'm definetely damaged goods, and you won't see me denying it. I...really want to be forgiven. ...but how do you love God when you're like this? Luke TRIGGER(: wrote. @ 3:29 AM
umm HELLO :) i have created an 'universal' account as requested by adeline. i'll try to sms you guys the username and password asap. the word GOD is in caps, but somehow appeared in small letters :( well, have a great week ahead :D -pearly. TRIGGER(: wrote. Saturday, March 7, 2009 @ 8:16 AM
Joshua's QT Read James: 5 1-6 Jesus said it, Paul said it, and James says it. Be careful with money, it is dangerous because its so easy for us to put it on top of the 'most important' list. "We should love people and use things, not use people and love things" In verse 2, James writes that 'money will not last' What we can take out of this world is relationships, and that's whats important James holds the thought of having friends as 'a high priority' From Adeline's guideline, the Sin to avoid is placing money over friends the Promise to claim is the exact opposite? i don't exactly have an Example the Command is to ask God to help you invest your time in relationships and people Knowledge gained is that 'money will not last' How important is money to you? Have a great day, sorry this was long overdue :S Joshua wrote. Tuesday, March 3, 2009 @ 3:23 PM
7 March's Bible Study hey, this week, let's do things this way, apply SPECK according to the following passages from John 15: 1-11 and Matt 25:14-30. There's JPM this friday 8-10pm. CG same time at 2.30pm at G6. that's all! have a good week :) love, ade p/s. something to think about. do you agree with these lines from a song: Lie awake in bed at night purplecross wrote. @ 7:38 AM
Ezra's QT Hey guys... Ok was reading 1 peter 3:13-14 "Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? But even you should suffer for what is right , you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, do not be frightened. But in your hearts set apart Christ as lord. Well...im sure most of us have heard it but i guess most of us had not been following it very often. I feel that it renewed my determination to be a more 'God-sensitive' person than 'world-sensitive'. Hope it helps u guys:):):) Many people tend to laugh at us when we are trying to be 'saints among them, there are a some among us.. Those who are already doing whats right, especially, get a lot more of criticism from others... Guess thats God's opposition party trying to weaver ur faith, so be strong in the Lord...and "do not fear what they fear" for u know the Lord is (quoted from David) sovereign, they don't. Gdnite and stay strong!! God bless!!:):):):):) purplecross wrote. Sunday, March 1, 2009 @ 7:50 PM
Esther's QT Proverbs 25: 21-22 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty give him water to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you. According to Adeline's acronym, SPECK, i guess it should fall under command... Well, I guess the command is obvious, nevertheless, i shall analyse this the E.lit way. There is a paradox in the first verse, because there is a contradiction in what would be expected. As human beings with sin, when we see our enemy(ies) in distress, we would gloat at them and enjoy the sight of being tortured. However, God tells us that when we see our enemies, we should help them, and "in doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head". Thus, we, as christians, should learn to love our enemies and help them out in their times of need "and the Lord will reward you." The phrase "heap burning coals on his head" can be interpreted in two ways: 1. You will make the enemy feel bad and guilty towards you. (hence you have triumphed over the enemy!) 2. Bring them warmth. (therefore you are a nice and obedient christian who loves and respects the Lord and follows his command.) I think it's really up to the reader to decide which way suits better. So, in conclusion, we should help out people who are in need, even those that you hate, because it will please the Lord! purplecross wrote. |