“Mentoring is a relational experience through which one person empowers another by sharing God-given resources.” – Tim Elmore

Over the course of the past 6 months God has blessed me mentor and friend in the person of Michael Anderson. He came with his family late July in 2004.. and has been working in a ‘consultative’ role in ForeRunner. He’s not only help us sharpen our Mission, Vision & Values.. but has also spent a fair bit of time with me to help me grow as a leader.

I’m grateful to the Lord for His timely provision.. and for opportunities for me to learn and grow from someone who has years of ministry experience.

Also, over the past 1/2 year… I was able to spend time and invest life in 2 guys who are studying at NUS. Both Sam and Joel.. i first met through ForeRunner music missions project. I’ve grown to love them a lot… and have been carving out time to hang out and build into their lives. Each of them are leaders in their own right, and continually desires to grow and be meaningfully used by the Lord.

Again, I’m thankful for how the Lord has blessed me with these meaningful relationships.

Happy Birthday Josh!!

It was fun, crazy time with games and all for the kids at Josh’s first ever McFun party at MacDonald’s. It was a really convenient no mess, no clean-up party.. esp. for the adults.

Sigh.. my car broke down.. again! it seems like all the cars I’ve own always had some kind of mechanical problems that cost a lotta of $ to repair.

It was Tuesday, Lil was so excited to be able to come into the office with me that afternoon… We had ‘packed’ both Emily and Zach nicely in the car, plus I had 2 other passengers. I started the car and began to drive off… it started to jerk..and jerk and jerk!! Aaaahh!!

Anyway, long story short.. it was finally towed to the car ‘hospital’. Sigh!

And today.. 2 days later…I finally picked up the car. The ignition coil and module was broken. On top of that several other things were ‘broken’ and had to be fixed. Then the regular servicing was also due.. and the timing belt had to be replaced. Suffice to say.. it burned a BIG hole in my pocket.

I just finished teaching a class in our Communication package called “The ‘God-factor'”…. Phew! I stayed up till 230am.. preparing it, fine-tuning it.

For some reason, I was feeling really phlegmatic about the whole preparation process.. I first looked at this session, which I was assigned to teach, and the notes didn’t quite click with me.. and I ended up ‘not ‘wanting to work on it, so kept procastinating it.. though I actually had about a month to work on it. =(

Anyway, it went quite well.. thank God!

I learned along the way… and I’m thankful for it. God is good!

Allo… happy Chinese New Year!

This used to be the oh-so-happy-time when u get enriched with goodies & snacks and ‘bombarded’ with ang-pows (red-packets w $ inside).. it was a favourite time of year when I was growing up.

For some reason… it’s fascination got lost on me as i grew older…

But this year has been a rather fun one. We went on a cruise (kindly sponsored by my parents) to Langkawi, Malaysia… had some good family times.. and then did a fair bit of visitations with relatives we haven’t seen in ages.

Joshua & Emily was particularly happy.. munching away at tons & tons of candy and snacks and sweet drinks!

Meanwhile, I had the joy of enjoying some good ol’ buah keluak…
For those not so familiar.. this is the unique Nonya dish, cooked with plenty of spices. It’s some kind of seed, and you eat the insides.. it’s mushy, looks like slushy mud.. but ooooh, it tastes so good. Oh course, it’s acquired taste.

Our church, Covenant Evangelical Free Church is trusting God to plant a new church in Woodlands that will reach the northern corridor of Singapore.

There are about 400 churches in Singapore, but only 18 found in the Northern Corridor. The Woodlands region is targeted by the government to be on e of the 5 biggest regional centers in Singapore!

Lil and I feel excited that God has led us to this church for such a time as this.. and we’re trusting God to give whole-heartedly to the building of this church.

In the next 90 days, the church needs to put down a deposit of 6.35million dollars. Would you pray for us as we trust God to claim this land for His name’s sake!

I have been ill since I came back from Thailand… a team mate joked that maybe some of us caught the bird flu.. whoooaa!

So this congested feeling.. coupled with a yucky sounding voice is making me feel rather down. And Lil has got the same thing too… sigh!

And our kids are also ill on and off.. taking turns.

Just few days ago… we had a family outing… to the the CLINIC!! ha ha!