Month: October 2009

Great Adventure update…

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Dear friends,

I’m writing with a very quick Great Adventure update…
MinistryNet-PPT-MainWe’re in Turkey right now. Yep, I did write ‘We’. Lillian has joined me on this trip to Antalya, Turkey where we’re part of an Campus Crusade Internet Conference, called MinistryNet Conference. I personally so glad Lil is here with me. I’ve had the privilege, over the past 1/2 year to be part of this global program team that put this conference together, and it’s been exciting the past few days to see all the pieces coming together! I’ve also been doing the MC-ing the past few days, and that’s been fun too. Tomorrow is our last day! =)

Lil has been glad to be part of this trip too. To participate in, and witness all that God is doing in and through the Internet Ministry across the globe. In total, 166 people from 37 countries are represented here.

This has been quite a ‘wild’ season for our ministry. Within the span of these past 1-2 weeks, we’ve had our short film/media team in Egypt training & equipping future film-makers, one of our music teams doing a recce trip in Kolkata, India (to prep for a December concert tour), several of our bands performing at schools, cafes, campus meetings etc. Meanwhile, our Internet Ministry team, CLiCK! is here in Turkey for this conference. I invite to visit our facebook group (and be a fan too!) to find out all that’s been happening.

I’ll hope to write more when I return, and share some exciting things God is doing through your prayers..
Meanwhile, may I request for your prayer support?

Two things are happening concurrently tomorrow evening at two very different venues…
One in Singapore, one in Turkey

1. Alternation (our worship band) leading worship at NUS-Arts LM tmr evening   Read more…

2. CLiCK! (particularly Victor and Simon) presenting a Seminar on “Organizing Local Ministry Around An Online Event…”     Read more…

Please keep our teams in prayer.
May the Lord use us for His glory, always!

Simon & Lillian
serving in Creative Communications, Singapore Campus Crusade for Christ.

Now certified… =)

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Birkman bannerJust completed a 3-day Birkman Consultants Certification Training. It was not as grueling as the 5-day training I did some 8 years ago, but still quite mentally challenging! We had Bruce E. Gordon, a wonderful man with lots of experience from Mentor Matrix was our trainer. He’s also a good friend of the ministry. He patiently walked us through quite how we can coach a person through the Birkman Method. Thankful I made it. For sure, it made more sense this time round. This tool has helped me many times to understand myself, and how to interact and work more effectively with others. So I’m glad to have a chance to gain a deeper insight into how it works, and how it can help others.

One of the key things I’m reminded again as we started off this training was the emphasis that “No one is made better than another person; all of us are made to be unique & different by God.” My good friend, Pat had commented on my Facebook saying ‘that’s very mildly put… author of Myers-Briggs said: “Not one is better than the other, there are jerks in all types.” Hahaha… But very true!!

Anyways, I looking forward to meet with the first person I’ll be officially coaching on 1st week of November. But first, tomorrow I’ll be getting some practice by coaching my wife through her Birkman profile. =)

Welcome (myself) to WordPress!

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wordpress Finally… after thinking and hesitating, considering and procastinating for a long time… I’m finally here at WordPress! Phew…

From Blogspot & Blogger (2004-2007) to Multiply (2007-2009)  … I’m here at last!
At the place where I think has the greatest potential for a ‘lifelong’ blog home  =)

Lookin’ forward to learn how to work it well. So far, I’ve imported my old posts fr Blogger.. but it doesn’t seem to display too good. Oh well…