PYD or YPD?

Written by: John

Hello-o-o-o

Well It was a good parent-youth day yesterday and I was truly surprised by the turn out, many of them which their children is still very far ahead from being a teenager. But I guess they were curious of what we did in Youth

Glad we showed them that we are actually not bad people MUAHAHAHAHA... haha for those parents who came, I believed that they felt how "packed" our schedule is and usually they'll say.. Why you spend so much time in church la, this la, that la. But in the end I guess they felt that time past that fast too right parents? HAHA

I can see most of them enjoyed being a youth.. A special Thanks too to Uncle Oliver, Aunty Linda and Uncle Micheal for the "promotion" today at church about the youth service, much of what we want to get across today are being said. THANK YOU

Well, I will upload the 'games' video pretty soon I hope >.<

But while we are at the joyous mood, why don't you check out some top ten trivia about GRYP
thesurrealist.co.uk/trivia.

John sign-off

OPEN-DAY

Hey guys,

Don't forget to invite your parents for our open day, as some of you know that sometimes it is hard to explain to our parents why we serve so much in church and etc, why spend so much time in church etc, invite them to come alright?

=)


If not this planning is wasted and it is not good to waste plans... besides, PN is preaching!!

Parents day
Date: 27/01/07
Time: Same time

Great Start

written by:-Cassie

hey hey hey!Happy New Year to everyone!well,today was the first week of YA in 2007,and it was a really great start =) amen?

today we had the YES (Youth Enriching School) people with us...they were visiting and i dare say,we were truly blessed with their visit..

oh man,why am i blogging so formally?sorry..i'm just over-excited about the butt ball...i'm here to just tell you about butt ball (yea right..) okay for games,today we had butt ball,it's like captain ball,but the only difference is we can't move around because we're all seated and our butt is stuck to the ground...you see there's two teams,team one and team two..at first team 2 scored,and the team 1,was a bit disappointed..(well,i was!and i'm team 1..so yea)...but i thought we'll have a chance...mana tau,the team 2 kept scoring and scoring till it was 4-0...and i almost want to sub to team 2!(call me traitor...) then quan wei,the game master,said that the next goal will be worth 4 points...and guess who scored?that's right...team ONE!!!and man...suddenly the sun shine so brightly..haha...nah..then the next goal will determine the winner...and you know what?!team ONE won!!!...we won,we won!!!...see,i always believe that each team have a fair share of winning if the game is still on =)

on a serious note,today's sharing was great...we had 2 testimonies from the YES ppl...sau yip and david...and yes,wake up in the morn,and see His face,think of Him and sing His songs..that's a good point...and bro john did some sharing today on resolutions...the thing is ppl have resolutions but don't get them done...so john told us to write this down before listing our resolutions,which is "i will not resolute this resolutions next year"...there's 3 type of resolutions,physical resolutions,professional resolutions and spiritual resolutions...he told us to always have God in all our resolutions,because at the end of the day,man can plan,but only God will strategize our steps...and we should all write down our resolutions and not just have ideas in our mind (*cough cough*)...because habakkuk 2:2 says "write my answers plainly on tablets,so that a runner can carry the correct message to others" (NLT)

though YA got off to a great start,it is always good to end the race for the year 2007 well too...no point starting strong and then wiggle off to a corner,right my frens?i hope that GRYP would grow,not only in numbers,but for each of us to grow spiritually stronger in the Lord,that we would continue to persevere and stay united always,not forgetting to have a passion for Christ,and to reach out...and to...okay,i'll sum it up..to be God's Radical Young People!=p

oh yea...i would like to end by telling you one of my resolutions...but don't go tell anyone,k?shhh...which is to blog more for GRYP

p/s:-thanks bro john for "re-decorating" this blog and for adding a chat box (yay!)

Goodbye

Text: John Tan
Photo: Chin Hoe



January 01 2007 saw the leaving of one of the greatest friend, shepherd, pastor, father, etc... And the person is of course non other than Pastor Nirhal Philips. It is definitely a great lost to Hosanna Praise Assembly, and more so a great lost to GRYP.

Although this youth group started by the other founders, but he build it up with strong foundations and the youth group became what it is that you see today, 9 years of continuous training and drilling has what made this youth group strong and able to stand on both feets.

After this long 9 years, God has decided to call him to move on to another challenging ministry and another phase of life that he should get exposed to and it is always good to keep ourselves refresh every time before we rot at one place eh?

Thank you for all the years of teaching myself and the others about principles in life and spiritual principle and getting our own foundation and thinking pattern fixed. Really appreciate that and we will do our best to run the youth as good as you did and maybe even better than what you did. Afterall it is your vision that we'll run it better than you did.

Thanks and once again, we'll greatly miss your ministry here.