God's Clay for the last 4 mths of 2009

God's clay 2 sub bible study groups have finally been reunited again last saturday at our usual bible study place at YWCA lvl 7 life lobby after about 1-2 years of going thru many bible study sessions and topics from "the book of Thessalonians" to "I KISSED DATING GOODBYE" to " The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines by John Ortberg", to "Unwavering Tenacity- The story of Elijah from the book of Kings" and now as we start a new topic "1 Corinthians and purpose driven life"...(i may have missed some topics)... While some of us went for Precept inductive bible study sessions together for the last few mths too (Jospeh,Titus,Covenant..next up book of Daniel)

And now most of the guys are either in army already or going to army soon and a bunch of the girls are already overseas studying! So looks like the 2 years to come will be a very interesting year as we continue to fight for our small grp survival and continue to be supportive of one another spiritual life!

At the end of the day i know our ever Faithful God(The Potter) will still keep his claysss going strong! =)

(God's Clay have been molded so much over the yearsssss! From that small little plasticine clays when we were sec 2...to now the much grown and molded clays who are almost at the end of our teen years and moving on to young adulthood! )


Some of the happenings from end last year to this year 2009....

Saturday, December 27, 2008
The mini God's clay "day" retreat at ellen's wonderful BIG HOUSE!

(we slack at her nice cosy room for quite a loooong while!)

(the wonderful pot luck spread!)

(LUNCH!)

(The groups! The PS 3 Rock band on one side and the other side at the piano people playing with real instruments!...)

(the nice catch ups and sharing we had! for more than 2 hrs straight!!!!)


(moonie taught benlei and me how to play piano! A crash course in 20mins! I feel so accomplished!)

(dinner at adam road! The super good Nasi lemak there!)

Saturday, January 03, 2009

Chin Ee's Wedding!

FINALLYYYYYYYYYY!!!!! Our beloved former leader of God's clay is MARRIED!!!!

The reception and ushers... at 1230..

(preparation time)

(All dresssed up!)

(the guest starts arriving!....benlei looking at the cool family potrait)

(after all the guest was in!...see the EXCITED God's clay looking thru the window where chin ee was waiting....)

(Chin Ee and Mark!!!! What a LOVELY COUPLE!)

(The lovely God's Clay card for this couple!)

(the people in God's clay!........ even Ben Tan who disappear for a long time is back!)

Seee what MOONIE did.... from pic 1 to 3!....
(moonie climb from behind.... became an "ANGEL"..click to enlarge!...then...)
(The Guys in God's clay....with the MOONIE THE MOO-STER!!!!!)
(the Girls in God's Clay!)

(GOD's CLAY!!!!!!... We were the LAST GROUP that was reserved by Chin Ee to take this loooooong awaited photo!!!!)

Saturday, January 10, 2009

God's clay gathering at Benlei place...

(Cher and step greedily eat all those puffs...heh...benlei..secret weapon stash!)
(THE pot luck fooooood by the pool side)

(We played WORLD TOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!.... feli jumping on the trampoline!)

God's Clay in 2008!

Looking Back 2008......

First i wanna say a HUGE THANKS to my small grp God's Clay!!! This are the people that has truly been with me the longest! Seeing how i have grown over the years with the Lord from that very quiet boy in sunday school and than in small grp time... to now one of the more talkative ones...

This year has been a year where God's clay has grown so much,being more mature and now taking more ownership of the grp, despite the many new transitions from guys going NS, to girls going overseas and universities and a couple taking A's and IB and some doing our FYP! We certainly has stayed strong being that Clay that the LORD our Potter has been forming and moulding since the tiny us! And now we even having bible studies on our own in 2 separate bible study days!

Looking back we certainly have grown so much over the years, in 2002 (when we were sec 1s), we were still under the old sunday sch system , then we had Gary. and then in 2003 ever since Wesley Youth Ministry was form in 2003 when we were just those tiny sec 2s....

2003, that was the day our OFFICIAL youth small grp was FORMED... I still rmb vividly, we were all in a room in the OLD YMCA, where Ee lin and Joel took us for the first time and we were all quiet staring blindly to our leaders.

God's Clay over the years...(the milestones)

See how the leaders and faces of God's clay has change over the years...

2004 (i think)

(one of our pioneer batch of people from God's clay! We use to have many many picnics!...
I think our leaders than was joel,mark,jerrold...Ee lin left this year i think)

(Some old photo i dig out on God's Clay facebook!)

2005

(Our First Small grp retreat at Sentosa! ..this was when Chin Ee was our leader... and now in 2 days time shes going to get married!)

2006

(Our second small grp retreat at costa sands,Pasir Ris, this time With Eng Lee as our Leader!)

2007

(Our third small grp retreat! at praise haven, Transiting of leaders from Englee to Ellen and me)

2008!

(Our forth retreat at Praisehaven again! Got no group photo, (but GOD showed us this amazing RAINBOW in the MIDDLE of our final sharing and goal setting for our future!... It was like a PROMISE FROM GOD for our small grp! that same RAINBOW... GREWWWWW veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy largeeee and stretched across the room further in our sharing! It was an amazing sight!!!! )

(one of our picnic outings at Fort Canning!)

(Times when God's clay supported the Dance girls, this was at their "Final" dance together at MG dance nite 08)

(The Farewells one by one, as Steph,Ellen and Soe left one by one overseas)

(God's Clay reunion!!!! One at ym camp another at Candle light!)

(God's Clay OFFICIAL LAST DAY in wesley Ym on 28 Dec 2008... after 7 Years in wesley ym!...this photo is our graduation photo where we brought hats and tossed it in the air!)


(God's Clay!)

Signing off,
Ben Lau, Father Ben, Bendy...

Gods Clay Retreat 2008 (19 & 20 July)!
It was back to PRAISEHAVEN AGAIN! We made 2 history! First this forth small grp retreat for the first time was held in the middle of the year before some of them will be going overseas to study, secondly it was the first time it was held back to back in the same place! And well after 4 retreats and ever since God's clay wasofficially formed in 2002, 6 years ago! We have definitely gone very far! In fact i'm really proud to be in this small grp! With all the many different ministries i'm in and different Christian grps here and there... God's clay stand out the most as well its the loooooooongest grp i have been in, its the grp that we have seen each other gone thru the years from O'levels,A'levels,IB exams, Poly, Army and now most going on to University! We have gone thru together 3 major stages in our lives! And well they are one of the most talented bunch of ppl ever which has so much potential to become great leaders in their various roles! Ok i can go on and on! But well MOST OF ALL! This grp is my base small grp of all where i will be in for the rest of my life i hope!!! =P
Looking on in the future! We might see our kidsssss running around us too! HAHAHHA! wonder who will get married first thats what vyan said! hahah X)

Day 1 (saturday)
A bunch of us met up at Beauty world for lunch.... and where all the girls WHEN FOR A MANICURE!!!!!!!!! Madeeeee jon(benlei) and me so uncomfortable! HAHAH!

While they treated their nails and toes!..... steph,moonie,jon and me headed to praisehaven first...

Enjoy the pics.... CATCH THE LAST PHOTO ESPECIALLY!)

(steph,moonie,jon and me on our way to the seemingly "HOLY" area where all kind of christian organisation and churches there, from TTC,to like 4 kinds of methodist church and school to the SALVATION ARMY where we stayed!)

Some of the nice rooms!


(we had 4 rooms!!! About 3-4 beds per room... one of the room includes the living room with the double decker bed!)

Some "ghostly" sightings....

(The headlesss MOOster!.........OH NO! The FLOATING HEAD of the MOOster!)

(The MOOster attacking us!!!!)


(steph reliving her child hood days playing her TAMAGUCHI! OH MY!)

SNACKS!!!
Headed to rail mall got some foooooooood in fact ALOTT of foood and rented 2 DVDs at Video-EZ and ANTONEMENT and BLADES OF GLORY!


(Vyan brought DURIANS From HOME! DELICIOUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!)

(our feasttttttttttttttttttttttt in the afternoon)

Later in evening till night!

(Half stayed behind to watch the AWESOME MOVIE ANTONEMENT... and called pizzas in!)

After dinner and wash up!

30 mins of silent retreat...

And like 15 of us squeeze inside a room for Worship!...

(mel leading us all in a time of worship!)

Night....
some veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyy honest sharing with one another abt what God has been revealing to them either during the 30 mins of silent or other things they felt the need to share... finsihg everything by 1am...

Some watch BLADES of glory!.. i slept after a while..was too tired!

DAY 2 (sunday)
MORNING!!!!!!!!

(GOD showed us this amazing RAINBOW in the MIDDLE of our final sharing and goal setting for our future!... It was like a PROMISE FROM GOD for our small grp! And how he had so many PROMISE for all of us and all we need is to claim that promise for us! ... my hp was flat that time..so cldnt take more pics of it... bcoz u know what... more into the sharing... that same RAINBOW... GREWWWWW veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy largeeee! It stretched across the room! It was a an amazing sight!!!! The peace of God just instilled in me as i saw that!)

-Ben Lau!