The HAPPENINGS of God's Clay in 2006/2007

2007-06-01 - 3:53 p.m.

God's Clay bible study grps!!!

Finally updating again!!!!!
Well...after the last entry..God' Clay have gone thru a lot and has just move to a new stage, we have now split into 2 biblestudy grps so that we can have more sharing and better discussion and easier to grow spiritually and gain support from one another...with Ellen taking one grp,and me the other and Englee overseeing both our grps. And so far our sessions out of sundays on a weekday nite have been very productive and fruitful!Ellen's grp doing the book of Ephesians and my grp currently doing 1 Thessalonians! Its like the very first time where we really have a real biblestudy session with a smaller grp and peer leading. And our grps has been bonding more week by week and Sundays is like where God's Clay comes together again!It is a good way to end the week! =)

2007-02-20 - 11:13 p.m.
God's Clay CNY visiting day!!!!!!

Our small grp decided to meet up for breakfast at some open air macs in orchard in the morning first...and we didnt expect to go visiting at first until the last minute when ben tan and cherie open their hse... vyan,justin,josh,soe,moonie and me met up for breakfast first...had a good fellowship time...before our first destination to ben tan hse in bishan... with tw joining us too... after that...we rush to cherie hse at holland V... watch the movie Se7en there, its abt the seven deadly sins...... quite a good and interesting movie. ...

(Played BANG! at Ben Tan's hse)

(Moonie and soe was so scared when seeing vyan playing the game FEAR...u can see the pillows they use to cover their face...and this moonie was like screaming at every small scence lor, moonie was like more of the entertainment rather then the game)

(Ben Tan's dog.....and cherie's dog...i tink thats moonie foot on the dog)

(Thats cherie piglet and tiger... u can see the piglet nose is deflated in the first pic...haha... bcoz i press it in!)

(Cherie was like trying to teach moonie and soe how to memorise the Sine,consine rule using their hands...while vyan looking on)

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2007-01-01 - 9:19 p.m.
GOD'S CLAY NEW YEAR PARTY!
We just had our small grp FIRST ever New Year Pot Luck and Gift exchange Party!!! We went to moonie house which was super deeep in some estate around toh tuck area.... and it was quite a good turn out abt 20 plus of us came!!! AND CHIN EE SURPRISE us by dropping by too!!!!!! WE had a really good time of makan and fellowship! then a 30 mins worship session lead by kevin and Joshua! Thanks for leading guys!... after that we broke into 3 smaller grps to share abt our yr and our new year resolution! after that...We were like all in a rush when we realise we were lateee! We each grab a present each and then rush of to church for watchnight!Reuben,justin,jia zhi and me were like lost trying to get out to the main road to take a cab after chin ee send the girls to church first...while vyan,josh and kevin went another way. We actually literally RUN all the way... one big round and were actually lost in the estate for awhile! In the end we got to church in time at 10 on the dot...with vyan,josh and kevin joining us sooon. Well.... the extended worship was goood! Really like the song from youth alive "I CAN'T A DAY LIVE WITHOUT YOU"!!! well.. HAPPY NEW YEAR everyoneeeeeee!

(The God's Clay cake from englee... we ate after the watchnight!)

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2006-12-14 - 12:13 a.m.
God's Clay Retreat Pictures!!!! I really loveeeeeeeee God's Clay!!!!!!!!!! This is the BEST GROUP EVER!!!! (pictures courtesy of soe and feli!...)

(We made this in the sand at pasir ris, we had all our hand prints below the God's Clay word)

( vyan and me were so bored before checking in...we started playing the "vampire chac"..i just learn that game the day before this retreat..so sux at it in this video... but now pretty good at it! hehehe!) (we were so tired after staying awake the whole nite... we knocked out immediately at abt 7 plus am when we return back to the chalet!!!) (God's Clay at entrance of costa sands, before check out) (God's Clay at delifrance in white sands mall after the retreat) (I Love God's Clay!!!!!) Anyone who have more photos or videos of God's Clay at the retreat or camp do send it to me! Thanks!!! 2006-12-10 - 11:46 p.m. WHAT A WONDERFUL SMALL GRP called GOD'S CLAY!!!! Todays YM service was a blast again! Looks like YM REVIVAL really maybe coming! Vyan,cherie,moonie and soe met really early today at abt 9 am just to pray before the service started... camp has just ended and our small grp retreat not to long ago and our Grp has matured to a whole new level. And now we are planning to make a point to come evey sunday earlier just to pray for before the service. When we got to service... WOAHH!!! Yiling told eveyone to feel free to go to the front to praise and woship! And yess it was gooood! the fire and passion in the youths were still there! Almost eveyone jumping and hands lifted up! YEAAAA! After that was small grp time... at first i wasnt sure how long we cld spend during this time, bcoz englee cldnt come and i was afraid i ended to fast as i was told to lead today. BUT strangely.... today small grp time was the longest in HISTORY!, first we broke a record yesterday after the JOH for deciding what to eat for dinner... abt 1 hr 15 mins deciding!!! and now we broke the record for longest small grp time... We like started sharing our camp experiences and it took like 2 hrs plus!!!! We ended like abt 1230 plus until the 1130 service grp had to come in. And thru out this sharing session i was really touched by eveyone in that room. As everyone was sooo opened and i almost even cried while hearing their testimonies... and for me to cry is like the mooon turning blue. But i was really glad that our grp has grown sooo much over this years... and after this looong sharing session abt 16 of us God's clay ppl all went to have lunch together at carl's junior... what a fellowship we had man! to see this bond in us now! i'm like crying in my heart oready... sob sob... hahaha..jus joking.. but i really was feeling that in that rooom at that time. I REALLY LOVE GOD'S CLAY!!!!!!!!! 2006-12-04 - 12:33 a.m. Great God's Clay retreat!!! It's been a really one eventful yr this yr for God's Clay and this is one retreat i will never forget! We started our retreat with a pot luck at some hut near the beach... and surprisingly,this is the BEST pot luck we ever had! We had so much FOOOD! normally our potlucks are like a failure... but we really have to thank Englee for contributing so much food. We then played our "traditional Polar bear game!" This time.. moooonie really improved a lot! hahha Check in to the resort abt 3... and played some games first... vyan and i was playing the "vampire chac game"... and we are getting goood at it man!!! Next was our first discussion session! And the discussion and reflection of what God's clay is today was very real and open! I started of the sharing by saying how our grp has grown closer to each other ever since the last retreat till now... and it was really good reflecting on the past yr. God has really bless our grp so much! The discussion became became more serious as we discuss of what our grp really need for the yr 2007... although i totally agree that normal sunday small grp time is really not effective... Feli brought up a Very good point which i feel that as a mature grp now... we should CHALLENGE ourselves for a more in depth Bible study and grow more spiritually as well. And so this is one of the main focus our grp can move to for the yr 2007! And i didnt even think of it, Thanks Feli for bringing that up... Our other grp members also then opened up with real honesty, and it really brought this time of sharing even further and deeper...and i really feel this is what a small grp sld have. Englee brough up this main thing, it was abt "LOVE". As love is the main thing a grp sld have. Well i do feel our grp have love oready, but well we still need to maintain that and grow in that more! Later we went to the beach... had some really cool God's clay carvings in the sand... and had a really cool dinner by the beach! We ordered pizzas as well as a lot of the left overs from lunch. And as usual, we cldnt finish all those foood.... so we played this game... "I NEVER...." and bcoz of this game... we somehow finished almost the entire meal layed infront of us...but we were super bloated up by then! We then had a MASS DANCEE trial! the girls taught us the mass dance for the upcoming ym camp... so vyan,josh and me was like learning the guy role for the dance at the camp and we are like then suppose to show the rest! I tink! arghhh! And the guy role was actually quite girly at first..because the entire Choreography was done by our very own God's clay dance girls! Well... did abit of twitching here and there... but only manage to cover verse one...oh welll mass dances really remind me of CJC orientation! sighhh.... After this had another great time of worship lead by Feli, ben tan and josh. And we den carried on with our discussion and sharing for our grp... Englee then ask us to really take 30 mins of a real SILENT RETREAT... just to focused on God and to hear what he have to say to us... so vyan,justin and me then went out near the beach for some time of solitude.... during this period... i really cld sense that God's presence was really in our midst... i felt so at ease during that time... and i really didnt want the time of solitude to end...i actually felt i was kinda restricted by the time... but it was a very good time of sharing betweent the 3 of us when we gathered back... we then headed back to the chalet... and each of us shared our experience in that time of SILENCE! And the girls all shared abt how each of them could really feel that God was in their midst and that there was like this PEACE of mind among them, the fear of spiritual warfare we talked abt earlier subside and each of them was sharing how they like literally saw a "glow" in their faces... and like there's this undescridable JOY in that room suddenly! And cherie shared how she came into that room after her dance recital... and she immediately felt this strong presence of God there that made her cry. When hearing their sharing.... it actually touch my heart that i almost cry.. But i didnt ah! But that was how touch i was internally... imagine seeing what God's grace has done for our grp over these years made me just in AWE for our ALMIGHTY LORD!!!! We then had a mini birthday bash, and i actually wanted to continue that time of silent retreat and not to play any other games. So some of us headed to the beach at like 2 am oready in the morning... i actually wanted to go there for some solitude..but in the end didnt really do it... so as i layed back at those breakwaters rocks... gazing at those stars in the sky! SUDDENLY MOONIE SHOUTED! SHOOTING STAR!!!!!! And Ben tan was next to me and said...I SAW IT TOO! And i was like!!! WHAT!!! I was staring in the sky but i MISSED IT!!! ARGHHHHHHHH! Everybody there saw it except meee!!!!! Whats the odds of seeing one!!!! welll.... after that... with just some of us left... we all just gathered real close to each other sort of like a circle and started just talking and sharing random stuff as well as some realllllly DEEEP AND PERSONAL stuff! The HIGHLIGHT of this time was VYAN TANG WAS LIKE FARTING ALMOST EVERY 10 mins the entire nite! And i really mean that much almount of times he farted!!! Its like a NEW RECORD or something... never knew one cld FART THAT much!!! Well...in the end we spend the entire nite or rather morning awake.... talking and talking with just real honesty... its just like we felt so opened and comfortable suddenly with each other we cld share stuff even what we normally would not share to somebody of the opposite sex. We also felt that we sld talked abt each other weaknesses and how we cld overcome them. Well... we cldnt see the sun rise, bcoz the beach was facing the wrong side!so sad... but well by the time we headed back to the chalet it was like 7 am oready... and we were like so FREEZING outside the entire nite we just went to the mattress and KNOCKED OUT! Abt 2 hrs later we woke up and just had a closing session of pray and sharing. After that some of us headed to white sands mall and played POLAR BEAR again over lunch!!! Signing off BEN LAU!!!