Thursday, June 26, 2008

BATS1 deep in thought

Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them,
for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Matthew 19:14

Welcome to the BATS1 community where we approach the word like little children
by sitting on miniature chairs and huddling around kid-sized tables :)


Wednesday, June 25, 2008

YA update on 29th July08 bulletin

www.bayaexpress.blogspot.com

As you might already have guessed from the above title, the young adults now have their very own blog-site. This blog-site is specifically designed for Bukit Arang Young Adults (BAYA) which include Community Care Groups BAYA, BATS1 & BATS2 (alias ATBA) to express themselves and checkout church events pertaining to young adults at anytime, anywhere. In the site, you’ll be able to search out useful info like the calendar of events for the young adults or interesting updates on their recent activities. You can even enjoy the Church Camp’08 theme song, ‘There is a Higher Throne’ on the site. This site is technically, a great way to be up to speed with the happenings of this dynamic fellowship. And thanks to Timo for helping to spruce up the site, you can now download sermon slides from the website to review the message at your own time. My recent sermon slides on Hebrews 5:11-6:20 is the first one to be up and ready for downloads. Anyone with ideas on how to further enhance the blog-site is most welcome to email me at changloong@bcba.com.sg

Contributors for the blog-site include Daniel Loh, representing BAYA; Graham Choo, representing BATS1 and myself who’ll represent BATS2. Ivan Chow and Lincoln Mao are also included in the list of contributors so they can update us on their overseas ventures and adventures. And not to worry, we are all mindful that this is a public domain and so sensitive and confidential info will not see the light of day on the blog-pages.

Now let’s talk about Bible study. Ai Cheng and myself have recently taken over the leading of BATS2 to allow Lincoln and Grace more room to adapt to parenthood and to prepare for their overseas transition. Thankfully, the adjustments needed for the BATS2 community are pretty minimal since Lincoln stays only a block away from me. If you shift your eyes to the right, you’ll see BATS2 having CCG meeting at my place on a Saturday night. And yes, that would be Ai Cheng leading the group towards greater familiarity of 1 Corinthians 10. Basically, the three young adult CCGs are nearing the ending chapters of first Corinthians, and thereafter, they will be embarking on a new journey: the book of Isaiah.

Right now, we are all gearing up for the upcoming young adults combined social/ counsellors training on the 19th of July and praying for pre-believing friends to invite for the Evangelism Sunday on the 27th of July where Lincoln will be speaking on the topic: Is Christianity A Psychological Crutch? See you there!