The Life and Stories of Dee8!

Announcements!

2009-07-21T11:00:00.000-07:00

hey Guys! I've got some CG announcements!

1. The next rostering for our CG to be down for BMI (Building maintenance and Improvement) which basically just means cleaning our church! is 28th July (Tues) 5.30pm.

2. Connect Group! It will be on 22 July and 29 July (Wednesdays) from 6.30-8pm in church!

3. Our CG growth target by the end of July is to be 28! :) Last weekend we were 27! So we're almost there!

Why do the leaders set growth targets?? cos we need to have a clear vision of what we want to achieve!

Dr David Yonggi Cho, who pastors the world's largest church says of his church's remarkable growth "The #1 requirement for having real church growth - unlimited church growth - is to set goals"

4. Quite alot of us are falling ill, down with fever and all, so everyone please get ample rest, drink enough water and get some Vit C!

Let's keep our CG and the people within the CG in prayer during our QT!!

loves,
Shuyi!

AR Bernard in HOGC 10th July(Fri) and 12th July(Sun)!

2009-07-07T21:00:00.001-07:00

DO NOT MISS THIS FOR THE WORLD!
A.R. Bernard, one of the most influential and dynamic speakers in the world is coming to Heart of God Church this Fri and Sun!

About A.R. Bernard

In November, of 1979 A. R. Bernard left a 10 year career with a major New York banking institution to go into full time ministry. What started as a small storefront church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn has now blossomed into a 30,000+ member church that sits on an 11.5 acre campus in the Spring Creek section of Brooklyn, New York. He is founder and CEO of Christian Cultural Center.

A. R. Bernard Sr. is also the President of the Council of Churches of the City of New York representing 1.5 million Protestants, Anglicans and Orthodox Christians.

Bernard sits on the NYC Economic Development Corporation Board; NYC School Chancellor’s Advisory Cabinet and served on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s 2001 Transition Team.

Recognized as a New Influential – 25 Leaders Reshaping New York (Crain’s New York Business, September 2008); Most Influential NY Clergyman (NY Daily News, February 2008); Most Influential African American New Yorker (NY Post, February 2008); New York’s Most Influential (NY Magazine, 2006); Bernard was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Consulate General of Israel in NY in conjunction with the Jewish Community Relations Council and, Jewish National Fund. He has been personally cited in the Congressional Records.

In 1993, Bernard founded Brooklyn Preparatory School, a premiere early childhood education institution. He continues to revitalize communities; recently partnering with Common Ground to build and develop affordable housing in the East New York/Canarsie section of Brooklyn and leading a transformational team to purchase one of the nation’s largest Mitchell Lama Programs (Starrett City, Brooklyn, NY).

In addition to establishing Christian Cultural Center's Food Pantry, Prison Ministry, Domestic Violence Initiative and Family Life Center, Bernard organized a rapidly growing male mentoring program with more than 1000 male mentors.

Bernard has a Master of Urban Studies and a Master of Divinity from Alliance Theological Seminary. In May of 2009, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Nyack College/Alliance Theological Seminary.

(Taken from http://cccinfo.org/pages/page.asp?page_id=50481)

But more than anything, it is a milestone for Heart of God Church because Pastor A.R. Bernard is an international speaker and He speaks to large crowds.

He usually comes for Asia Conference or CHC services with at least tens of thousands in the congregation. Yet, he's coming to our church of about 1400. More than anything, Pastor Kong is also coming with him to Heart of God Church.!!

Don't MISS THIS for anything else! It's an opportunity of a lifetime!
Also, go out there and invite your friends for these services this weekend! :)

AR Bernard Fri 7.30-10pm/10.30pm
Sun 3-5pm
Pastor How Sat 1.30-3.30pm Zone F (about Academic Excellence)
Sat 5-7pm

Check this out !!!

2009-07-02T11:47:00.001-07:00

We're featured in FIFI's BLOG! Check it out yo!

http://www.livinginaworldofdreams.blogspot.com/

administrative issues!

2009-06-25T22:12:00.000-07:00

hello everyone!

haha, as some of you would have noticed, i have granted author rights so you can use whatever Blogger accounts you all use now to update the D8 blog! here is the list of people who currently (as of 26 jun 1:14pm) who can do that!

Julian - spotreme@hotmail.com

Shuyi - pshuyi@gmail.com

Ying Xuan - ninetydegreex@gmail.com

Yu Ting - beingagirl2000@hotmail.com

and myself!

yvonne! do check your mail for a HoGC D8 mail sent from Blogger.. Just follow the link and you'll be done!

for the rest of you who want to post in the blog (like daniel!!!) and so on, just sms or email me the google account you use with your current blog, or any other email which you want to be used to link with the blog and i'll add you in asap! :D

MORE EXCITINGLY... PASTOR JOAKIM WILL BE HERE THIS WEEK!!!

Pastor Joakim during a service last year!

for some of you who don't know who Pastor Joakim is ~~and seriously can't understand why the whole church cheers so much whenever we see him, or his picture~~, you've definitely GOTTA COME for this weekend's 3 services man!! he's such a cool Pastor, and every time he comes to our church, we will always learn so much from him! more than that, he has a ministry called Ny Generations, and it's main focus is YOUTHS in SCHOOLS! he'll bring amazing stories of different people going the extra mile to bring the love of Christ into their schools, and amazing testimonies of how people are touched by what they do!

now for the REALLY important part, the service timings!
Sat: 1.30pm to 3.30pm, 5pm to 7pm
Sun: 3pm to 5pm

DON'T MISS THIS WEEK'S SERVICE FOR ANYTHING IN THE WORLD MAN!

last but not least..

Shuyi worshipping God during one of Pastor Joakim's services last year!

let's all come for Pastor Joakim's services and experience God man! :D

we wanna soak up the sun

2009-06-11T07:51:00.001-07:00

woke up this morning
and the sky was blue again
winter is over now
spring is in the air
flowers are blooming now
summer's coming

indeed after the winter of midyr exams, uni exams and the final lap for poly project presentations ... summer is coming. since the people of d8 who are schooling are having our summer holiday now and the army guys just POP-ed, we headed down to singapore's island resort ...

SENTOSA!!

blue skies and long hot summer days
white sands and surfing in the bays
great mountains top where we can play
God made for us in seven days

the Son is coming
it's the season to prepare
gotta work out our salvation
cos eternity is near

people who gathered at vivo before heading to sentosa!

warming up for volleyball. :)

sihui, shuyi and myself on the monorail.

snapping away on the camera while waiting for the tram!

after the monorail ride and very hot tram ride, we finally arrive at the end of siloso beach!! :D

SILOSO BEACH! :D

upon arrival, some people started getting in the water. even people who weren't prepared to get into the water decided to linger along the shores also got dragged in ... there was however a lot of difficulty getting cheong jing into the water despite having shuyi and myself drag her into the water.

shuyi in action dunking the poor innocent yuting.

in action. LOL.

see the tired faces we're wearing, we're really really tired!!

daniel chew soaked.

the sweet jen hugging a palm tree.

ding jie!

no idea what ben and ding jie were trying to do.

uncle calvin arrived late and got sand man-ed!

we then divided into teams for a volleyball game which didn't last long ... on one side was shuyi, cheong jing, calvin, ding jie, julian and myself and on the other team was benedict, daniel, sihui, jen, lijun and cavin!

ding jie in the middle of a serve!

never a moment not camera-ready!

pardon the zi-lian-ness but i like the candidness of this photo!! :D

calvin beautifully captured this photo! the sun that burnt our skin BADLY! do not be alarmed by lobster-coloured people of d8 during service this weekend. LOL.

we started packing up at abt 5pm to shower and head back to the main land for a good and cheap dinner at harbourfront food centre. similarly, the lazy bum bums took the tram back to the monorail station. ;p

cheong jing, sihui and shuyi!

daniel, lijun and myself!

d8 on the tram!!

after having multiple servings at the food centre (due to severe starving before that), we went to toys r us to find another fellow cg mate WAN CHIN who was working there! we then continued to wreck havoc around toy r us ... the photos prove it all. LOL.

yes, they started stacking soft toys all over me!

this photo serves as a tribute to YVONNE NG!

jen is a tree hugger!

once upon a time, there was a fairy godmother ...

... who tried to turn the annoying and lame daniel chew into a prince ...

... but failed terribly. so kids, morale of the story is that as powerful as fairy godmothers can be, some people are just beyond redemption. HAHAHAHA.

whatever it is, one whole day spent as a cg was indeed great fun! although we all ended up looking like we came out of a pre-heated oven at 200 degrees, well ... at least we'll have a cg identity this weekend - the sunburnt cg!

this yuting, blogging for d8 ... signing off!! :D

DEEEEE EIGHT!!!

We Are FAMILY!

2009-04-25T12:25:00.000-07:00

Hey D8!

wooo! This is our BLOGGGGGGGGG! hahaha! Many thanks to BENEDICT for starting it with his html expertise!

So... Feel free to post anything here! From things about church, to some take-aways of our daily lives, to how we are feeling, or simply thanking someone here in the CG, & sharing our stories with one another!

hahaha... Let's LIVE life and SHARE life together! ;)

We. Are. FAMILY!
Shuyi ;)

first post in our new blog!!

2009-04-25T09:17:00.001-07:00

woohoo!!! d8's blog is finally up! haha, it's so cool and amazing! :D managed to do a bit of editing for the layout, but still loads to do! haha.. many many ideas in my head now, just need the time and energy to develop it into fruition! please do give ideas too! :P:P

- benedict