T-shirt Design Competition

The T-shirt design competition is the first activity for blessed young adult in the year of 2009. We had a fun and amusing T-Shirt Competition on this Thursday night in our Church.

This is our group’s T-shirt.

Our group- The Truthful, The Favoured.

I intensely feel that most of the young adults in Blessed Church are just like typical Singaporean/Malaysian as we are all experts in ‘last minute work’ & the most important is we are all kiasu. Yeah! We candidly admit it.

Our Pastor was very kind of giving us something like 3 months to prepare for it as he considered we need time for brainstorming, designing, choosing the t-shirt material, find the printing factory, printing, choosing models, practicing the catwalks etc, moreover we only manage to meet each other once a week during the cell group gathering. However, along these 3 months, apparently we were more concerned of celebrating Christmas, New Year, Chinese New Year, Valentine’s Day & other activities, we almost forgot we have a T-shirt competition until it was reminded by Pastor 2 weeks before the competition. We were certainly practicing the last minute creativeness and it only took us less than 10 days to complete everything. Yup, everything from brainstorming till performing in the event, it was all last minute works yet it turned up with a lot of surprises. Thanks God!

How kiasu we were? Well… When come to any competition, we will keep our mouths zipped; nobody is allowed to spread any single detail to other group members no matter how close you are with that fellow. Everybody will kill their brain cells to come up with outstanding ideas and hoping to win the judge’s heart.

Here are some pictures to share. Pictures are curi-ed from Jackie & Alan.

Did we win any prizes? We were not the best, we only grabbed the 2nd prize for male model and 2nd prize of group performance.

Anybody interested in buying our T-shirt? We use different languages to indicate the word of ‘Truthful/Honest’ which is our group’s name. I think it is very appropriate to wear to work if your company doesn’t require you to wear formal attire. I think your boss will like you very much as you are telling him/her you are an honest person in 26 different languages. Sound cool, right?

平安夜

Yeah… this is a season of giving again. We do not have chance to experience a white Christmas in Malaysia, however we did experience a rainy, gloomy but yet still a warm Christmas this year.

During this season, I think the most enjoyable thing I anticipate is the feeling of unwrap the gift and find out what is enclosed.

I just celebrated my Christmas Eve with around 50 of my church mates in Siaw Hui’s place. We sang, we played games, we exchanged gift, we ate a lot of foodsss… can you imagine that… 50 ppl went and everybody brought 1 type of food, so the consequence was we really couldn’t finish all the food although we had tried our very best. However, the Japanese Tofu I prepared was very ‘laku’ and it was finished. Yummy…!!

Should I say we celebrated Christmas Eve together yet we ended the party before 12 midnight? Haha!!

Oppss... I forgot to bring my camera, so no pictures to share, very sorry.

This is the Christmas gift I got… I simply like it.

Merry Christmas to everyone… may God bless you with the gift of His perfect peace this Christmas and a sense of His presence in your heart everyday. Cheers!!

感人肺腑的生命见证

我带着百感交集的心情赴了和Nick Vujicic的盛大约会。一连三场的演说，我也足足去了三场，第一场和第二场我是招待员，负责接待宾客。第三场我是带人一起感受上帝给Nick的生命神迹。

当我第一次亲眼看见没手没脚的Nick出现在我眼前时，我的心里有种酸酸的感觉。然而，他帅气的脸孔和阳光般的笑容很快地感染了我，他的意愿就是要带给大家喜乐和希望。

机场接机情况——牧师和领袖们热烈欢迎Nick来到古晋。

Nick没有双手，却可以用爱来拥抱千万的听众；他没有双脚，却可以走遍世界各地。到场的观众得悉他不但拥有大学双学位，还有影片播放他学会了游泳、骑马、驾车。。。时，大家都不约而同露出惊讶的表情，个个拍案叫绝，打从心里佩服这位没有四肢的Nick。我的心中更是弥漫着波涛汹涌的感动。

在演说中，Nick幽默地分享了很多他的生活趣事，也示范了他如何‘自己跌倒自己爬’，感动了几乎所有在场的观众。他也分享了他如何在生命的低潮期，在想要放弃自己的生命时，神是如何带领他一步步走向希望。

Nick的演说魅力和神采。

在第二场演说结束，Nick和牧师呼召观众接受主进入他们的生命时，我看见一位年老的妇人家，眼泪晃晃冲上前要接受主。回头望，也看见好多年轻的小女生泪眼湿湿在拭泪。好感人的一幕，我清楚知道那是上帝的爱。

我记得他很有意义的一句话：“若神没有赐给你一个你想要的神迹，其实是想要你成为别人的神迹”。如同Nick一样，他天生就是残缺，他没手没脚站在这里演说，他就是上帝的神迹。

由衷感激Nick给了我们如此精彩、感人且富生命力的演说。一切荣耀都归给上帝！

爆满的场地，挤到门外，坐在地板上的都有。

最后一场的演说，我由于有带人来，所以不能呆到太迟就先离开，而没有办法和Nick拥抱合照。

顽皮的Nick有很多滑稽的表情哦！

p/s:感谢Jackie提供照片，不过我是自己edit的。

没手没脚没烦恼——Nick Vujicic

很久以前就听闻他的故事，我没有想到，我即将可以亲眼看见他，亲耳听见他感人的生命见证。没有四肢的生命战士——Nick Vujicic。

Nick 每一次演说让很多人感动流泪，他办过无数次的演说，他的故事摸着了没有办法计算的灵魂。最近一次的香港演说，挤满了超过4万人的观众，可见他的魅力和旋风是何等不可一世。他第一次来马来西亚，却选择了古晋这个城市。欢迎在古晋的朋友来一睹他的风采！

日期：14/12/08
时间：9：00am(中/英）；2:00pm (英/马来文）；7:30pm (中/英）
地点：ACS building


关于Nick（力克）：

力克於1982年12月4日诞生在澳洲墨尔本一个基督教家庭，他的父亲是一位牧师。力克出生时无手无脚，只得左下肢有一个「小鼓槌（像两脚趾）」，连医生也无法解释这是怎样的病症。

虽然力克的父母都是虔诚的基督徒，但看着这无助脆弱的长子力克，也禁不住沈重的打击。长达几个月，力克的父母无语问上天，沮丧、绝望、埋怨、痛苦到终日只能以泪洗面。连力克父亲牧养的教会兄姊，也只能以哀悼的心情，为这个不幸的牧者家庭祷告。每个人都问：「主呀，若神是爱，为何让这麽糟糕的事发生在基督徒身上？」　　

过了一些日子，力克的父母终於靠神的话语渐渐释怀。凭着圣经雅各书一章2节：「我的弟兄们，你们落在百般试炼中，都要以为大喜乐。」的经文，他们互相勉励，并且开始在祷告中大声喊出：「赞美主！」　　

力克奇迹地进入主流学校就读。由於身体的缺憾，他在学校常常被人欺负，言语的奚落、耻笑已是家常便饭，有些孩子还会恶意捉弄他。他心中也曾因老是麻烦他人，而深觉自己是别人的累赘而自卑不已。　　「对身体残缺的状况，很多时候会觉得沮丧、愤怒，因为我无法改变现状，也无法怪罪别人。」力克就问神：「为什麽是我？为什麽不是路人甲还是路人乙？」

小时候，每当上儿童主日学，一听到老师说「人是照神的形象所造的」这句话时，力克心里就会冷冷的想：「哦？是吗？」因为既然是照「的形象」造人，「那为什麽我出生就是没手没脚的畸形儿？」一想到这里，他对上帝充满着无解的疑惑与莫名的愤怒。　　

力克渐渐长大，想到了更多人生的问题。例如「爸妈死後，谁来照顾他？」、「一定没有女生会喜欢我，想跟我结婚、生子」等。「那时我真的不晓得上帝要我活着的意义到底在哪里？」，力克觉得自己活着就是一个负累，於是一度想过要了结自己的生命。。。。

到底他是如何胜过一切的考验，直到可以拥有双学士大学文凭，到现在马不停蹄到世界各地办激励演说，让我们一起聆听来自他的真实故事。