First Time Chair-mei-ing

Went to Irving's house right after I knock off. Very apprehensive today cos today is the first time I'm chair-ing for the CG! I had prepared notes on what to say, what's the sequence of events, etc. I was informed abt chair-ing on wed, when I met up with Irving.

He had told me before the meeting that he's going to run me through the things to do, which I assume is how he plans the CG and what he intends to do for the workshop. Then he started telling me the sequence of the CG, how to go about it in the view of the chairman. Halfway through, I started to suspect something is not right.. haha.. but I didn't say anything. When we had finished through the sequence of CG, I asked him why is he telling me all these, sound like I'm chairing for the CG. Its then he revealed to me that I'm chairing for this coming CG. He said,"You mean I didn't tell you? oh.. You're chair-ing for the CG this week!" I was like.. huh???? hahaha.. But I was also thinking, after going through the sequence, it seems easy enough. We (or rather he) also brain-stormed the things to do for the workshop on evangelizing.

Ok, back to present... After much waiting to start the CG, we finally started, and I tried to help people relax by asking them to talk abt their past week. Pris and Grace talked abt their respective trips (Pris came back on thur, Grace today). Pris talk abt her holidays in Europe while Grace talk abt her experiences in Dubai. After everyone has settled down, its time for P&W. Reina took over and started with a prayer to prepare our hearts and go into the Praise songs. Zhiyi then took over the Worship songs and I had a good time feeling the presence of God amongst us, with our prayers and singing.

With our hearts prepared, Ink start his workshop on evangelizing. This is a continuation of what Elaine did last week. We were split into groups, given different scenarios and were asked to evangelize to the "non-believer" in our group in 10 minutes. I was assigned to merv's group together with Yixi. Our scenario is doing volunteer work. Me and Yixi are supposed to evangelise to Merv. Me and Yixi were at a lost on what to do, and keep asking Merv for advice. Though we didn't really thought of how to evangelize to him, we did agree with assumptions of the scenario, and Merv is called Ah Beng, me Ah Seng, and Yixi Ah Lian.. hahaha.

All of us were then called to give feedback. We realise that its difficult to evangelise and different people used different methods to do it. Even different scenarios for the same people may have different methods. Ink, then start his teaching. I learned that there are methods to evangelising, and its suited to different characters whether is the believer or the non-believer. I think I'm suited for a mixture of the methods.

We ended with announcements and prayer. Then Pris, Grace and Kaidy brought out the goodies from their respective sources. Pris from Europe, Grace from Dubai, Kaidy from Australia. But first, Me and Pris went to Macs to get fries for the sauces that she brought. With the fries, we started our Food Fest.. I never had so many different snacks in one day before man!! yummy!! Thanks so much to Pris, Grace and Kaidy!!