A Gathering Of Love

The next MSF will be here again... each time I look forward to going to this fellowship and I must confess that it is also Food-old-Ship that keep me going.  Besides the fellowship with one another, it is wonderful to be in the presence of the Lord, to worship Him with all our hearts.  While at times our stomachs are sort of "rumbling".. nevertheless, getting together and praising Him in songs have a wonderful effect on us after that.  One can feel the love and the bonding with another... the joy and contentment is always written on the faces of many who come...

Lighthouse Ministry

I was in the Lighthouse for the first time last couple of weeks. Lighthouse was founded by my church a couple of years ago and since then, it has become a success.. From the donations received, the Lighthouse is now giving out free meals to homeless people. It also serves as a house for them to have their showers, medical attention at times and to be served balanced meals....

We had a good time singing a few worship songs and it was truly a great experience... Praise The Lord for His continuous Love and Mercy upon our lives....

Words

It runs in the family... out of six siblings including me, five of us simply loves singing!  I wonder whether we got our genes from our mom or our pa...  well, whoever we got it from, it does not matter... music is definitely in our blood!  I remember my father loves to dance and my mom loves to sing, I guess both are in the music stream!  LOL...
Well, the best thing that happens to me is that I love to worship and sing my heart out to my Lord.. Words that touch my heart, words that speak on behalf of how I feel and wanting my Lord to know... that is the most important of it all...

A Night Of Worship And Songs

It was a night of fun and joy worshiping and praising our Lord God... Finally I am enrolled into the Methodist Senior Fellowship because now I have reached my 50s "landmark."  :)

From now on, whenever there are any activities in MSF, I will get to join in the fun.  Every now and then, they go for day trips, organized by a few of the members.  I heard it is great fun, going as  a group.  I hope one day I will be able to join in the excursion... now that I am still working, I might not be able to join as often as I want to.... but when the day of retirement comes for me, there will not be a problem anymore...

Worship Practice

The third worship training will be on the 29th June...i am looking forward to the training session with Juwita who comes all the way from KL. she and her few musicians will be coming to Ipoh to "train" us for the worship services held every Saturday and Sunday.  They are really great, we can learn a few tips here and there to improve our vocals and not only that, the guitarists, organists and drummers also have their talents improved to a higher level.  I wanted to take up guitar lessons again and will get a fulltone ocd before I sign up for the lessons.  Well, music is indeed in my blood and I hope that I will be able to catch up the musical instruments within a few months.  I am looking forward to taking up guitar lessons and piano and of course vocal lessons as well.

My prayer

I learn a lesson.... Never promise anyone anything if you cannot promise yourself.  Do I make sense here?  I made a promise and I had broken it ... Tis had led to restlessness and some discomfort... Anywy, i have asked for orgiveness and i really feel sorry for what I have done.

"Please forgive me...Continue to nurture and discipline me... I surrender myself unto you and whatever I do, lead me on...."

This is my prayer...and I hope that in days to come, the sence of peacefulness will be present in my heart and mine...till then, only I will know that I am forgiven...

Thank you... And all praise unto You....Amen..

MSF Dinner And Entertainment

This blog has been sort of stranded in a way... I thought of deleting this blog and start another new one when I have the time.. Meanwhile before I finally decide to, I will continue to post up pictures whenever I can...

during MSF dinner

it was somewhere in early October....

worshiping before the dinner...

"hey, there's places over there"

fried chicken

a dish of  varieties

entertainment...

and last and not least, Pastor rendering a mandarin song!

Don't Take For Granted...

When it comes to music and entertainment, it fires up the interest in my heart.  My deep passion for music is always there, each time I hold the microphone, I don't feel like putting it down again... music is part of my life, especially worship songs.

It was disheartening when I heard that the lead worship singer broke down into tears recently.  I can understand how she felt when things went wrong, when in a state of panic, one does not know how to "enter" into the song... and it is worse when the "co-worshipers" are not helping either.

One thing to learn from this... during practice time, do not always depend on the leader to start or when to "go in"... as co-worshipers, one must also learn the song well enough, to know where to back her/him up during worship time.  Don't take for granted.....

A Miracle To Me

You are so real that I fear from now on....
Never have I ask for a miracle to happen....
I thought there is no more chance... but You make it come true....

It was written that she was not qualified to go for the Educamp.... my heart sank... I was so sad... I didn't show it out for I didn't want her to be upset too...

But I seek You in my prayers that night... I remember what I said, something like this..... "Father, I am asking for a favour from You, I want to believe that You are real... can You show me that You listen to my prayers?  Can you answer my prayers asking You for a miracle?  You know that her application has been rejected and our hearts were saddened... Can you reverse that rejection to acceptance?  It is my heart's desire as well as her desire to enroll into this Uni... all I want is a chance for her to attend this Educamp.... it would be a miracle if You allow this to happen... I will glorify Your name..... "

After my petition, I nearly forgot about it until .... one day my girl told me, "Hey Mi, my friend told me that my application for Educamp has been approved!!"  "What??? I thought it was rejected??"  No... that rejection was for another issue... but what is real is that my girl has been approved to attend the Educamp.... what I ASKED from My Father, He answered!!

Oh..oh... so He is making it happen....When I thought there was no more hope, He shows me that He is the Hope.... When I thought I was asking for the Impossible, He made it Possible... that is scary, right!

My Father God answers.... He knows Best... He not only allows my girl to go for the Educamp interview, He even allows my girl to get Accepted in the university and I pray that He will continue to guide and protect her all the way.....

 Thank You Father God.... You are really Awesome!

Methodist Senior Fellowship Night

My sister made a request to help her play the guitar during the Methodist Senior Fellowship night last Monday. I really would love to... for one thing, I love to sing... secondly, I love to eat! LOL..

I hope no one in MSF reads this... they might think I come for the "Food" only... seriously... those food are really something... they are mostly home-cooked food where you cannot get them even if you pay... lol...

Getting ready to worship....

 

Everyone is almost ready... 

 

After the worship.... love the next itinerary... 

Torn Between Two

Oh dear, it has been a long while since I last posted in this blog... it will become "mouldy" and "mossy" if I keep neglecting this blog.  This reminds me of one verse in the Bible... it says...we can never serve two masters...
True in a way, one will get more attention than the other... the servant cannot treat them equally good and fine...
Just like this blog and my caring one.... I seem to neglect this and paying more attention to the other...
Our lives are also like that.... if we pay too much attention to our earthly stuff, we will tend to neglect our Lord...
I must remind myself to focus to the more Important One...

Methodist Senior Fellowship

These pictures were taken some time ago... I am putting them up here today because there will be another gathering in a couple of hours time.
This time it will be a BIG gathering including the young, the adults and the seniors... *me*...
There will be hundreds of us in Methodist Church and of course, I will be taking lots of pictures to be put up the next day.. hopefully tomorrow... hehehee...

Right now I am still full ... but with the exotic food displayed, I hope to get back my appetite fast!! hahahaa... so much for praising the Lord for His abundant food upon us!!

MSF Worship And Brunch Buffet

I didn't expect there were so many present for the Methodist Senior Fellowship Brunch Buffet, in fact, I have cold feet after seeing so many people... later I got to to know there were around 260 or so....

I was thinking, "Gosh.. pastor is around... so were other professional musicians among those present for the buffet... sure embarrassing.... " Quickly I said a word of prayer to ask God for help.. "Let me be oblivious of the crowd, lets just sing to You alone.. help me to play good music for You alone, Lord, help me to overcome my self consciousness fears........."

before the brunch....

Let my heart be calm....

getting ready....

Let's get started... serious concentration...

Let's worship our Lord with our hearts...

Warming up...

someone mentioned why I was so serious..

part of the crowd...

at the Concord in Methodist church

Two Events

I have two events coming up in church, Saturday and Monday. Practice for worshipers is on at 5pm tomorrow and my throat is still so itchy. I have to pray harder for the healing of my throat and running nose. My voice will definitely be hoarse but that does not matter, as long as I do not have to cough in the midst of a song sung, then it is fine. On Monday, it is not so bad, I just have to play the guitar for my sister during the MSF, I do not have to sing. But I pray that on Sunday service, my voice will be healed.
Amen...

Dream Centre, DUMC

I have been to Dream Centre, Damansara Utama for a few times, I love the place, big, serene, peaceful and the best thing is, the sanctuary is for worship....



Recently published in the papers was a raid by JAIS and it sort of shocked many of us. From the papers it said that the dinner was "disturbed" by a group of 20 or more officers from the department accompanied by police as well... if I were there, I could be taken aback by the "shock."



Lets not take the law into our own hands, pray for intervention from our Lord and everything will be at a peace understanding...



Praise The Lord..