Cell Advance!

It started off with some playing tennis, some sleeping away (haha..u know who u are), and some playing the guitar.. We had a good time with the Space Shuttle game planned by Ivan and Xian Jie too! Wished we took pics :P Anyway, had pizza by the pool with some nice live music by a group of Phillipinos at the other side of the bushes…

Time for worship! Here are the pictures and words released during that time:

- God being the Judge. Do not box God in. He is bigger than anything!
- Shackles binding our hands and feet, but Jesus can free us because He holds the key.
- A key and a lock with chains. Jesus is the key. The key is a choice that can set us free. Don’t lock yourself in by disbelief.
- Chains are of disappointment, expectation, baggages…
- Spirit of fear/disappointment. God sees and knows the love in our heart. Hand the keys of our locked doors to the master
- God is stronger than anyone else. He’ll bring us through and it is the best path.
- Psalms 68:19-20, 35
- Drink from Jesus, all who are heavy laden. Take my yolk which is light and easy.
- Surrender. Are we really surrendering? He is good and we can surrender to Him freely.
- John 3:16

Franco then showed a video of a news broadcast of a mission team from COOS to Ruicheng, China. (Franco, Su fern, and Kai Jie were the superstars in the video :P)

Sharing by Henry and Joe

Henry shared about his health situation (his knees were weak and it was so bad that he could not go to school for a few months). He was a high-profiled trouble-maker and smoker in the past and ran away from home with only very little $$ with him. He could not get a proper job and had thoughts of robbing other people due to the intense hunger at times. After some time, he returned home for Spring Festival and his dad forced him to go back to school in order to save the family’s face (mien zi) as his father is a teacher. Henry refused and said that he wanted to work in Beijing. His dad refused to let Henry go to Beijing, grabbed him and traveled with him to Shaanxi, where his sister lived. Henry found a job there miraculously as a bookstore keeper. His father kept persisting for Henry to go back to school and finally forced his sister to quite the job Henry had at the bookstore. Although the process of going back to school was difficult, Henry’s dad persisted and took bank loans just to pay his fees as his income was barely enough to support the family.

While Henry was studying at the school in Ruicheng, the team from COOS went there. Henry shared how touched they were by the love the people from Singapore showed while they were there. When Moses heard that Henry had family problems, he prayed for Henry. And after they left, Henry didn’t know why but all of the students were crying. It never crossed his mind that he and Joe would one day go to Singapore although they had jokingly said that they would one day come here. Coming to Singapore was a miracle for both of them. In China, he said, the environment of getting close to God is difficult as everything needs to be done secretly. The Three ? Movement in China doesn’t allow them to do much in the churches there as well and most of the people attending the churches are older people. He is now trying to walk in the way God wants him to and he becoming closer and closer to God.

Joe shared about God giving the opportunity to them to come to Singapore. He became a Christian when Ps Daren and the team were there at RC. He said that God is in Shaanxi, He is a worldwide God. Wherever God is, there is a way, truth and life.


Sharing by Franco

It is important to walk in obedience with God in His specific will and plan, to do things God way instead of our own way. We should not be people who are frustrated and burdened but ppl who serve and support one another. Matt 28:16-20 and Acts 16:6-10. How to be in lined with God: be filled with the Spirit and see what God is doing through the body of Christ.

Due to lack of time, we will continue to press on and seek God for the direction of our cell and to share of our cell expectations this coming Friday. Anyone has anything else to share? Post it here!