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少年团让我改观。。。 The Youth Fellowship changed my thinking…

近一两年来,我一直跟少团高团长说少年团灵命似乎没什么成长,每一次来少团聚会观察总觉得他们很多方面不够认真、不积极,很不成熟等等。。。

我也常跟伟宏讨论少团问题到底出在哪里,说我们一定要有什么样的调整和改善等等。。。我几次跟伟宏说我可能要来个“大变动”试试看。。。

伟宏也倍感压力、无奈、无助。。。该做的都尽量做,祷告也祷告过了,可是就没看到情形有所改善。。。
他“求”我再给他机会和时间试试看。。。别误会,我可没要开除他哦!只是当时想要来个大变动。。。

我基于忙碌,也看到高团长的诚恳,就“耽搁”我的计划没行动。。。结果。。。感谢主!神的时间到了!

从参加了这一次刚过的12月的少年营会和前一个星期五(1月1号)的少年“四季”团契聚会,我改观了!我看到少年人的认真、积极、摆上。。。感觉上他们长大了。。。我很感动!

所以,少年人,要珍惜此刻,继续向上、向前进,愿神继续膏抹和与你们同在,阿们!

For the past recent one or two years, I have been telling our Youth leader David Koh that the Youth Fellowships’s spiritual life did not seem to be growing, each time I came to observe their meeting, I would always notice that the youths did not seem serious, were not motivated and seemed very immature etc…

I often discussed with David what actually the problem with the Youth Fellowship was, and said we must have some kind of adjustment and improvement and so on… a few times I told him I am going to have a “big shaking” to try out…

David also felt the tremendous pressure, frustration, helplessness too… he did what he ought, he prayed, but the situation did not seem to be improving…
He “pleaded” with me to give him another chance and some time to try again… Don’t misunderstand me, I wasn’t going to fire him! Was just planning on a big shake-up…

Due to my busy-ness, and also seeing David’s sincerity, I delayed activating my “project”… the result… Praise the Lord! The timing of God has come!

After joining the recent Youth Camp in December and the Youth meeting on Jan 1st with the theme “Four Seasons”, I have changed my thinking! I saw the seriousness, motivation, sacrifice of the youths… I feel that they have grown… I’m very touched!

So youths, treasure the moment, keep moving up and moving forward, may God continue to anoint and be with you, Amen!

以下是几张“四季”聚会所拍摄的照片。。。
The following are some photos from their “Four Seasons” meeting…

1月1日,2010年第一个少团聚会,他们以四季为主题,每个组长带着一些组员把教会“打扮”成春、夏、秋、冬。。。
Jan 1st, the first Youth meeting of the year 2010, they had the theme “Four Seasons” for their meeting, every leader together with some members decorated the church into spring, summer, autumn and winter…
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少年人被吩咐按自己选择穿其中一个季节的服装来教会。。。
The youths were instructed to choose to wear the attire of one of the seasons to come to church…
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他们还真的很认真哦,有好些还穿冬装哦!走在街上不知会不会给人抓去精神病院。。。
And they were very serious about it, some even had winter wear on! Wonder whether they would be taken to the mental hospital if they were wearing that in the street…
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当晚其中一个节目是交换礼物。。。最怕换到自己不喜欢的东西,而且这种情形还蛮平常的。。。
One of the programmes was exchanging of gifts… most afraid of getting what you don’t like, yet that seems to be quite often the case…
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当然没忘了一定要赞美敬拜主。。。
Of course must not forget to praise and worship the Lord…
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当晚的气氛很温馨、喜乐和感人。。。
The atmosphere was cosy, joyful and touching that night…
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老实说,我一走进来,看到他们的设计时,还真被他们的创意吓了一跳。。。心里顿时想,不知青年团做得到这么好吗?
Honestly, as I stepped in and saw their designs, I was really “shocked” by their creativity… and I immediately thought whether the Young Adults’ Fellowship could do as good…
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我就马上联络一些青年人,叫他们一定要来看。。。咦?左边两个明明是少团的,干嘛挤进来跟我们拍照?
I immediately contacted some young adults to come and have a look… Huh? The two on the left are obviously from the Youths, why did you squeeze into this photo?
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把少年人带领的那么好,我当然要谢谢和鼓励我们忠心的高团长啦。。。嗯。。。伟宏啊,您的造型。。。还有身材真的有待改善啊。。。要不然,搞不好人家还以为少团团长是我耶。。。
And of course I must thank and encourage our faithful Youth leader for leading the youths so well… Err… David, as for your image… and your physique… I think they can certainly be improved… otherwise some might misunderstand that I’m the Youth leader…
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那晚我们去吃火锅。。。 We went for steam-boat that night…

那晚勇豪阿彬带领的青团细心小组去吃火锅。。。我也跟着去。。。
会不会觉得在我左边的祖和我背后的阿彬真的过瘦了?。。。因为他们真的减肥到过火,什么都不敢吃;哪像我,那晚吃了好多冰淇淋!
That night the Young-adults “Meticulous” cell-group led by Alvin went for a steam-boat dinner… and I tagged along…
Don’t you feel that Jaydon on my left and Alvin at my back are really too thin?… that’s because both of them are rather “obsessed” about losing weight, not daring to eat anything; so unlike me who ate so much ice-cream that night!

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以上照片中有一个是我外甥,我三姐的儿子,可以猜一猜是哪位吗?(早已知道的人请不要浪费你的力气“猜”。。。)
One of the guys in the above photo is my nephew, son of my 3rd sister, can you tell which one? (those who already know please don’t waste your energy “guessing”…)

其实阿彬不应该减肥,因为他小组里有好多大汉要照顾。。。
咦?左边那个脸怎么那么红?那晚谁偷偷带酒来啊?
Actually Alvin doesn’t need to lose weight ‘cos he has many big guys to handle in his group…
Hey, why was the face of the guy on the left so red? Who sneaked some liquor in that night?
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阿彬的小组有好些护士,以下有一位是男护士耶!猜猜是哪位。。。(猜不到的真的要看医生!)
Alvin’s group has quite a few nurses, and there is a male nurse below, see whether you can guess which one… ( Those who don’t know the answer must really see a doctor!)
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这几位绝对不是男护士,他们比较像是把尸体抬走的。。。
These few are definitely not male nurses, they look more like those who would carry away the corpses…
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那一段留胡须的日子。。。 Those bearded days…

到底受了什么刺激?到底被什么影响?
What provoked this? What was the influence?
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其实都没有,偶尔觉得无聊,会尝试一些新“造型”。。。( 这算是造型吗?还是根本没造型?)
Actually, nope, no provocation, no influence, nothing… just feeling bored at times, so tried new “style”… ( Style? You call that a style, or no style? )
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怎么?我的胡须哪里惹到你?你那么不爽?
Why? How has my “beard” offended you? Why are you so upset?
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没有?你没有不爽?只是觉得看起来有点凶?。。。那就给你一个美丽的笑容吧。。。
No? You are not upset? Just feel that it looks rather fierce?… then let me give you a sweet smile…
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嗯。。。也觉得有点脏。。。
“喂!什么脏?这是自然生长的,又不是自己种或套上去的!自然就是美。。。”
Err… it looks a bit dirty too…
“Hey! What dirty? It grows naturally, not as though it is planted or fixed artificially! Natural equals beauty…”
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唉,事实是,有时候真的会觉得有点懒惰每天要剃胡须,有时候又赶时间,所以有时候就干脆不剃咯。。。这是女人(和脸滑滑的男生)无法了解的啦!。。。你看我那副还没完全睡醒的脸,谁还说我很在乎外貌?哈哈!
Sigh! The truth is, sometimes I do feel lazy having to shave everyday, and sometimes I’m rushing for time, so I wouldn’t be bothered to shave during those times… This is something ladies ( and some smooth-skin guys ) can never understand!… See that still-not-really-awake face of mine, so who says I’m very concerned about looks? Haha!
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