YAF!!!

RESTART!

That's my motto for the year 2009, personally and for the CG as well!

I believe all of us have received much from YAF Camp, and I believe this time round it is definitely not based on "feeling" and "high", but a real conviction of God in everyone of us. It is time to let go of the past and enter into the Promised Land. A new place of hope and joy and riches.

I really hope to see this CG grow to become Christ-centered. I hope that we will grow such that all our actions, speech, intentions, thoughts and behaviour will be directed by Jesus, and He will be enthroned in our lives and the CG. Let's grow in spiritual knowledge and depth, so that we can truly understand what it means to be a disciple of Christ and not have a shallow faith, but rather, a faith that is deeply rooted in the Word of God.

Let's press on regardless of the seasons in life and the circumstances around us. Let's support one another and really BE brothers and sisters in Christ - ohana.

And let's shed our old inward perspective but begin to look outwards in building relations with people from the other CG and even new friends that enter the YF. Let's grow into a CG that genuinely loves PEOPLE - no matter how unlovable they may be in human's eyes - and begin to want to make friends with everyone that steps into the YF.

Lastly, let's go help those who want yet struggle to come back, and reach out to those that have slipped far away and bring them back.

The mission of Christ is not to see perfect lives, but rather to see lives CHANGED. That is what I hope our CG will capture and live out. Firstly to see our own lives changed by Christ, and then to go out and spread the love of Christ in hopes to see the lives around us being changed too by the gospel of Jesus Christ.

My dears, let's get serious and real about Christ. Through thick and thin, sadness and happiness, sunshine or rain, joy or pain, let's support one another! COME ON COME ON COME ON! ALALALALALALALA! =D

with love and humility,

xev.