YAF's First Service Up There...

Up there... where? Haha... we need to name our new place. Ideas, anybody? I mean, we have the chapel, sanctuary, gym, conference room, etc. Calling it the third floor is not cool. -_-

 

So after the cleaning madness on Saturday, we had our first YAF service at our new place... RIGHT AFTER our 3 hours of Sunday service which was... RIGHT AFTER our morning bible study.. which was RIGHT AFTER the praise & worship rehearsal in my case!!!

Talk about being on fire.... I literally burned out when I got home. ZZZZZZZZZZZ

 

Saya Lone Wah preached a stabbing message about Christ but the constant outburts of laughter from his quirky preaching style embedded with such relevant examples from our actual lives kept the meeting lively and broke the monotony. Hopefully, future YAF meetings can be spontaneous, fun, and just .. young!!! In no way will we downplay the importance of our salvation but we want to be creative and provide a comfortable atmosphere for young adults to be themselves and open up their hearts.

Oh yes it was TMZ's birthday so we also sang him a bday song! Previously he had treated THE ENTIRE bunch of us to indian buffet dinner at Bombay! Happy Birthday, bro! And thank you!

YAF Now Has A Place

If you been reading my posts diligently, you must have seen me spazzing over this new place YAF has just gotten!!! WOOHOO!!! Check it out! I'm delivering pictures as promised!!!

Above all things, (happy father's day) but thanks be to OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN for providing us with things we couldn't even imagine at first. This place is like a gift from heaven... 

We are growing so big and so fast (I didn't even notice!) that we really need a place to fellowship, worship and study the bible... now we do!

Excuse my jillion exclamation marks but I'm so emo now! So many of us showed up to clean and prep the place. It's wonderful. T_T

See for yourselves. I'm very tired now. :P

 

^Lu Aung <3

 

^Kwee Kwee, Myo, Emily, TMZ, Naing Kee, Kelly, Lu Aung

 

^Tang (new friend), Ngwar Wu, Tang Naung, TMZ, Lia Lian

 

^Sang Lian, Mang Pi, Naing Kee, Toe Toe, Tang, TMZ, etc! LOL can't see!

 

^Ashlee, Emily, Bay Bay (Nway Nway)

 

^Christian & Amanda (siblings)

 

^Danielle (Juniors' President)

(Even our juniors showed up! Aren't they adorable!!!??? They're so cute. Love them. <333)

 

^Ngwar Wu, Naing Kee, Toe Toe

 

^TMZ, Sang Lian... It was TMZ's birthday so he treated ALL OF US (O_O;) dinner at bombay, indian buffet, after the cleaning!

 

^Sang Lian.. he was cleaning that thing... forever.

 

^Almost at the end... end results, haha... 

 

^Naing Kee & Tang... carrying chairs that we're not going to use to the attic upstairs

 

^Kelly... YAF president. She was sick for a long time... but came!

 

 

Susan & Aw Lay :)

 

^Emily, Susan, Bay Bay, Kelly

They laughing about something... I was totally left out.

 

^Good job, Naing Kee and Mang Pi!

 

^Toe Toe, the kalay bo, hahahaha... 

 

^Mang Pi & Lia Lian... our precious praise & worship team members..

 

^Kelly & Myo showing some love

 

^DONE!!!

I'm sorry the pictures are all over the place. BUT BONUS! SUMMARY VIDEO! butwatwatwa

GOD BLESS!

Naing Kee's Birthday & Updates

This is one week overdue; forgive me. :D

But did you all even know it was Naing Kee's birthday last Friday!!!??? Hmmmm... surprise surprise~~~

 

 

 

 

We celebrated for him during last Friday's prayer meeting! Yay~

Just want to take this opportunity to testify what a great blessing this brother is to us.

He is a great addition to YAF and in many ways he gives me strength and encouragement. At first, I thought he's just another visitor but he actually stayed. Experiencing his faith in God together is an edification to myself.

Let's keep going from strength to strength.... :)

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And also to share a little bit about THIS WEEK's prayer meeting, which was only a couple of hours ago, was FANTASTIC. It just keeps getting better. 

I'm happiest when my spiritual needs (?) are met. Well, I don't know what else to call it. I had burning questions from just this week alone, reserved for when I meet Saya Lone Wah and Sayama Aye Thaw, and the elders really guided me today and I was super blessed. We shared much laughter and learned so many things today.

Going to bible college,
warnings about misguided doctrines,
to be led by the Holy Spirit,
the truth about Jesus's 2nd coming,
Kaya refugees/new arrivals,
ETC!

Of course, we prayed for many things as well and I felt satisfied.

Concord's search for a new church, 
Saya Myo Sett (?) wife's liver cancer,
Karen Fellowship,
Kaya new comers,
Ko Lawrence's hand surgery,
Upcoming BCANA Youth/Young Adult Meeting,
ETC!

Between Sunday and Friday is only five days but I feel like it's forever. I can't wait to get to church and be around my brothers and sisters. Enduring temptations and testings through the week is really tough when I'm by myself. But when I see them, I feel like I can conquer everything. Haha... Especially when I learn the truth in God's word, I am fully recharged and ready for the next battle.

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And also another unofficial announcement BUT WE ARE FINALLY GETTING OUR OWN LITTLE PLACE WOOHOOOOO~~~~!!! Excuse me but I can't contain the excitement. We're gonna meet tomorrow, Saturday, 4p.m. to clean it up. It's the abandoned and the quite-scary-3rd-floor of the church. LOL!!! Sorry, but it's super eerie!

Haha.. NO! By the grace of God, we shall transform it to be a place burning with God's passion, presence, love and power for the Young Adults and even our juniors. 

There's already a piano there.. TN has brought in his drum sets... so we're gonna make it a place of worship, fellowship, and all the other goodship! ^__^

I have to sleep.... need energy for tomorrow. PRAISE GOD! BECAUSE HE IS GOOOOOD!

Camp

Back From the Camp

Feel free to edit this post with your pictures and videos!

I really loved the family camp... SURPRISING - because I was afraid we were not well prepared and etc etc, but God moves in His ways and His ways are always higher than our ways and His thoughts are not like my stupid thoughts. Haha... kidding. I mean, I should always have faith in God.

In many ways, we were able to achieve the theme "One Lord, One Faith, and One Baptism." I was able to know the members better... Hearing the word of God and testimonies make me stronger. Working together with such a big group in a short time to put up a skit about "unity in diversity" was challenging and gratifying when we were able to come up with fun-filled versions of what it means to be one body in Christ. Only about 70 of us and we speak 3 languages at least and we can hear people translating back and forth the small hall in enthusiasm during the entire camp.

Overall, I was really blessed. It was super tiring but it's the good kind of tiring.

Praise God! Because He is good!

~hello~

Hi all, i hvnt been able to visit this site for a while (embarrased LOL)...eveytime i visit, it touches me alot by ur testimonies..n felt the LOVE of GOD through u...

Church Worship Leader won American Idol !!!

Yayyyyyy i just read in the news that Kris Allen who won 2009 American Idol is a worship leader and 3rd runner up Danny Gokey is a church music director! I pray that God will keep using them as before. Next year i want to see Phyu Phyu, Ko Aung Shwe, Tang Naung and Lai Lai. :)

-Khawnbu

Happy Mothers Day!!!!

Here is a song from Doh, Kwee, & Wyne for all the loving mothers. Nang Kee gave testimony and sang a song. We, the YAFers, cooked for the mothers and everyone. Fathers were too busy preparing gifts for mothers, so we just cooked since this week is also our turn to cook. Thanks God for sending new YAFers to OBMBC… yayyyyy more men powers..lol. We were happy cooking, serving, and cleaning together. We missed Lia Lian and Mung cuz they went to Chin Community Church. Some other YAFers were also missing for some other reasons ;p. At the end of the day, we all were tired but had a great time.

Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

P.S. We had B. Day Cakes for Doh and Kwee. PPl love ice-cream cakes…. so yummy….

Sunday, May 3rd

Here are some testimony and praise from last Sunday for those who missed them.

I didn't get Wyne Wyne's testimony.

P.S. You need to pause the Music Player to listen these clips.

Holy Friday Good Friday

I wondered how I can prepare for Easter...

How should I feel.. ?
What should I do.. ?
Can I meditate on something?

I don't know what to do. I am very busy and I have a lot of things to do but I want to do something for the Lord. I ended up writing this entry. 

We were so tired from the actual events that we really don't have the energy or time to sit down and write to reflect. Thank God for this job that pays me to sit in the office. I can make use of it to catch up on our blog.

 

Actually, so many things are happening in our church. The most recent one being our drama production. Words are inadequate. I was so happy to be a part of it. 

This is our first drama production and a lot of hard work has been put into it. God took the little from us to make something big. How amazing it is to experience it not just by myself but with my beloved brothers and sisters. I felt like a team. I guess the most gratifying moment was hearing the very excited testimonies of the audience who came to church the next day to stand up and share how it touched them so deeply and how it was great to see the unity in diversity since our actors were Karen, Kachin, Chin, Burmese, Chinese, and Indian (?)! One of my friends, Johnny, a Buddhist, came 10 minutes before the play ended and he said he cried because Jesus was being crucified at that moment. I personally did not see the impact of this production going to this extent until they said it. I just followed and came to a great place. I really praise God for His grace.

The dialogues between characters were funny because one would speak in Burmese and the other would reply in Karen. It’s apparent that they don’t understand each other but they somehow do.

Hopefully,  next year would be better. I hope God will continue to bless this ministry and develop it more by the year.  All for the sake of preaching His  gospel and sharing what we know is truth. It will be our blessing if we are the ones to carry out His will. The theme of our church this year is "Cross Bearers" so I think we are really stepping up to become one.

There were some heated moments as well because it was really difficult to work with so many limits. First, people are busy. We don’t have enough people to begin with and the few people we had are extremely busy. Young people have exams, school and extra-curriculum activities which they sacrificed to make it to the rehearsals and the actual show itself. Adults have work they skipped. I know my pastor and his wife lost a lot of sleep because they spent nights painting the background, creating props, editing music files to fit the scenes, etc. In fact, I think my pastor did 10 men’s work. He was the painter, the stage manager, the director, the script writer, the coordinator, the everything. I told the young ones in my church, the difference between a leader and a follower is that the leader can see the future. He or she has a vision that we cannot see. And I think my pastor is one such leader. But in the end, the best thing I like about my pastor is that he is not in it for his glory; he is in it for God’s glory. 

I feel so weird praising my pastor since I don’t like making anyone’s head big and we are not the very affectionate type. Haha.. But even if nobody knows, God knows how we love Him and serve Him. He knows it all. But I think sometimes I need to testify to edify and set facts straight.

“And they overcame him [the devil] by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.” (Revelation 12:11)

by Pan Phyu Phyu