Our Place in This Family | Pr Yvonne Chong

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We hope this message will light up your day.

So get ready to read the Bible versus. Okay, always

do this here so you can turn to your bibles

right now. And Isaiah chapter for the three, verse one.

We're gonna start with that first, and then I have

a second verse for us to read. Also Isaiah chapter

forty three, verse one. We will start from the back.

We can start from the back, Coco. I think she

said the last last row. Then she can pass it forward.

Isaiah forty three for one. Isaiah forty three, first one.

But now.

Does say the Lord who created you, old Jacob, and

he who formed you, O Israel, fear not, for I have

redeemed you.

I've called you by your name. You are mine. Thank you.

Next verse is from First Peter chapter two, verse nine.

First Peter Chapter two, verse nine.

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a

holy nation, his own special people, and you may proclaim

the praises of him older who called you out to

darkness in his marvelous light. Who wants we're not a people,

but are now the people of God who had not

obtained mercy, but have obtained mercy.

Thank you all right. The next verse will be Ephicients

chapter one, verse four to five. Ephesians chapter one, verse

four to five.

Just as He chose us in him before the foundation

of the world, that we should be holy and without

blame before him in love, having predestined us to adoption

as sons by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the

good pleasure of his will.

Thank you, Thank you so much for reading. So you

can see from these three portions of scriptures, right, I

would like to draw a few main points. You Isaiah,

You know God says that we are his, you are mine,

all right? And then in First Peter two, verse nine,

the NIV version actually says that we are God's special possession,

and that in efficients one right it says here that

he we have been adopted into His family. So the

foundation of who we are comes from our identity and

our worth in God. You know that we first belong

to him, you know, and and and you know when

God says that we are his, he has adopted us.

So for us long to him. Uh, you know we

are first adopted into the family. What does that mean?

You know that adoption itself. You know, when we become

and accepted Jesus as a Lord and Savior, we are

saying that God, you know, I forsake my other faith

and other belief that I feel belong there, but now

I want to be accepted into this new family of

faith and I acknowledge that you are my God, that

you are the one that created me.

Uh.

And and you know it takes the acceptance, all right.

So first and foremosts know that for us to healthily

find a family here our place, we need to first

find God, and we need to first acknowledge our worth

is in the Lord, all right, because why do I? Uh,

there's a lot of times, you know, some people generally

or generally human beings will find our worth in human beings.

Uh.

If the person accepts you a lot, and then you

feel like, okay, my value has gone up. And what

if one day, you know, this person disappoints you or

starts rejecting you. A lot of people go through that

sometimes friendship, thank you, So a lot of people go

through that in friendship when we find accept we if

we just want to find our value and our worth

in another human being. Ah, I have not so good

news for your Humans can disappoint all right. People can

disappoint us because we're all imperfect. We can disappoint you

because sometimes we may not also live up to your expectations.

But first and foremost, you know, the very core foundation

itself is that we are God's chosen people. Uh. And

we are his all right? Okay, so you know when

God calls, you know that God knows every single one us,

one of us by name, right and and like how

a parent will call a child by name, uh, it

speaks about intimacy.

Uh.

And I'm sure sometimes you will understand what I mean.

Sometimes you meet someone that you have not met the

person for the longest time, and you forget the person's

name right, Well, what do you do at the start?

It's like a long time not se uh? You know

sometimes I because yeah, I need to increase my memories.

But sometimes you're like, oh no, what's this person's name?

Now?

Getting in mind, I'll start with a say, long time,

how are you doing? Hey, brouh Uh you know his

this I don't know so and and and we do

that because when we are intimate someone, when we are

close to someone, we don't even have to see the

persons faced by the person's footsteps or buttons. I don't

know your or cough, you already know that, oh it's

but Stephen in the house. And because you know him that, well,

there's an intimacy. So like every parent, even even the

child doesn't make a noise, the baron will already know

that the child is already present there. So how is

that possible? Because there is a relationship, and then with

that relationship, the person will know us. So like whise,

we've got that. So he called us by name, and

it shows of who he is, uh and and how

intimate he is actually with us. It's sometimes we don't

really want to acknowledge him acknowledge him, right, We're just like, okay, God,

you are this compartment. My life is this compartment. So

I will only enter this compartment when I come to church,

like the compartment where God is, you know, I'll just

enter that. But you know, God is in the totality

of our life, and he's in a relationship with us,

and we are with him as well. Okay, So second

point that I want to bring us to, I'm going

to turn us to the verse verse from First Corinthians,

Chapter two, Chapter twelve, verse twelve to fourteen. Next person

can read it first. Corinthians, chapter twelve, verse twelve to fourteen.

Corinthians, Chapter twelve, verse twelve. For just as the body

is one and has many members, and all the members

of the body, though many, are one body, so it

is with Christ. For in one spirit we were all

baptized into one body. Jews or Greeks slaves are free,

and all were made to drink of one's spirit. For

the body does not consist one member, but of many,

all right.

And then the next verse Romans, chapter Child, verse five,

Romans chapter Sorry, Roman Child, verse five. Yeah, you can spirit.

I think the mic is on. It's on. You can

put it close to your mouth. Yeah.

Go in Christ, we who are many from one and

each member belongs to all the others.

All right, coach, thank you so much for reading. So

we are one body, and each members belong to each other.

So we all belong to each other, and and and

because we belong English but each other, and we are

a body, all of us, we have an active role

to play, all right. So we may say that, okay,

what's what's in it for me?

You know?

In examine, what do they have to offer me. But

you know, and sometimes when we want to feel belong

we always expect another person to lie on us. What

is the English entertainers to entertain our our whims and

our fancies. But you know when we say in God

right here has a different uh way of operating. You know,

first he recognizes that the church is his body. And

as a body, right, each one of us we have

an active role to play. Right. If any part of

our body is to play its active role, uh, it

will start decaying. Right. That's how you know sometimes I

think those of you who are at homes. This week

we talk about the disease called leprosy, right, and it's

the bacteria that starts eating on the nerve events. In

the case it or dies, it actually falls off. That's

why a lot of lepards they don't have their leaves,

they don't have their ear and stuff like that, because

it's just decays and drop off. So if we are

not actively involved with each other healthily and participative in

this body, right, then you know it may not be

a family, a functional family.

Uh uh.

And and and to be a function functional family, you

know a lot of us you're like, okay, I want

to be part of a functional family. Then we have

to play our role as well to contribute to the

functionality of the family. All right, So you know, first,

you know, I started with God. And second is to

recognize that this is the body of Christ. And I

belong here, all right, belonging to the body of Christ.

And you know when we belong here?

Do know?

And I'm very very very certain and confident that the

family here will support you, uh in your outs and

your downs.

Uh.

You know, this family here will support you, but we

will need to choose to belong uh. And this family

here is is here to stay.

Uh.

You know, sometimes we try to find belongingness in different

groups of people. Uh that's out there. But family that

has Godly counsel it will be able to continue to

help you grow in your spiritual journey as well. So

encouragement to you is what is your place here in

this family? Okay, that's my encouragement. Third point John Chapter thirteen,

verse thirty four to thirty five. The next person can

read it.

And now I give you a new commandment, love one

another as I have loved you. So you must love

one another. If you have loved for one another, then

everyone will know that you are My disciples.

All right, Thank you. Then the next verse is from

Hebrews Chapter ten, verse twenty four to twenty five.

Hebrews ten, twenty four to twenty five. And let us

consider how we mayspower one another going toward love and

good deeds, now giving up meeting together as sam marrying

the habit of doing, but encouraging one another, and all

the more as you see the day approaching.

All right, thank you so much for reading. So you

know the third point is belonging, true love and community.

All right. You know, just now I talk about our

active involvement as a body of Christ, and the active

involvement will automatically, you know, I need us to actively

love each other, you know, as what this is what

the word of God is right to love one another

to s and that from Hebrews. Right it says he

to spur one another towards love and good deeds. Uh,

to spur someone next active involvement, so and and and

not just to love, you know, and good deeds, and

also to spur each other on, not to give up

meeting together as some are in the habit of doing it.

You know.

The NIV version for Hebrews, the passage of Hebrow says

that but to encourage by encouraging one another, and all

the more as you see the day approaching, so right,

you know, you know sometimes when I first came as Salvach,

I'm going to go to the story a little bit

further later. But you have your leaders here. Sometimes they'll

ask your hey, man, how come I didn't see you

in homes today?

One?

Then you're like, are really offender? Why this person always

asks me to come to homes? And why Paster Steven

always you know, ask me when I'm not in church?

What's going on? You know, you know, is being like

why why is always asking, you know, encouraging me to

go for missions? He already sign up to go to

jagatar and one for me for example. Okay that wasn't

his narrative for example. But we are here to spur

each other on and why do we do this as

a church?

Right?

Why does your leaders here continue to check on you,

you know, to encourage you, to encourage you to come

for the twenty fifth anniversary? Because this is family and

this is what the but not just family, you know,

this is what the Word of God says that we

need to continue to spur each other to love, to

do good deeds, not to give up meeting each other.

Because God is God wrote it like a long time ago,

two thousand years ago. Because it's our habit to skip church,

it's our habit to skip homes. So it's our habit

to avoid Christian contacts.

Uh.

Sometimes you hang out more with It's good, Okay. I'm

not saying that, you know, from today onwards to just

hang out with ex so many people, because that's not

healthy as well, which I will come to that later.

Why I say that's not healthy?

Uh?

But who is your first emergency contact and all that

you can actually really rely on?

Uh?

And I hope that we'll be each other here all right.

So and love itself. You know, it's not like I

love you. You love maybe a happy family, uh not what Barny,

just things, but love what actually requires us to sacrifice

and and and you know what does the scripture say?

You know, it says love is kind let that's not envy.

And it goes on from there. And for us to

be able to love our neighbors as ourselves, I think

the best place for us to start with is the

practice in church that is a very very safe environment

for us to do that here. And then you know, God,

when God sends us out into the world to love

the world, we already know how to demonstrate it. Okay,

So next point point four from Ephicients, chapter two, verse nineteen,

Ephicients two nineteen. Where's the mic.

Oh?

Okay, can read it?

Ephicients, chapter two, verse nineteen. So now you gentles, are

no longer strangers and foreigners. You're as citizens along with

all of God's holy holy people. You are members of

God's family.

Amen. Thank you. The next verse Romans chapter eight, verse

fifteen to sixteen.

Romans eight fifteen to sixteen. The spiritue received does not

make you slave so that you live in fear again. Rather,

the spiritual received brought about your adoption to sonship. And

by him we cry up a father. The spirit himself

testifies with our spirit that we are God's judent.

All right, thank you so much for reading. So the

first point, you know, it says about us belonging to God, second,

belonging in the body of Christ, the belonging true love

and community. And this fourth point is belonging to God's family.

All right. So we well, let me say we are

adopted in God's family. Uh, we will have to check

ourselves and ask ourselves. You know, do I feel a

deep sense of belongingness here?

Uh?

For me to find a family here, to find my

place in this family? Here? Have I started having this

sense of belonging?

Uh?

And not just sense, you know, it's a deep sense

of belonging, a deep sense of identity. Because for any

citizens it all we were once. It says here we

were once foreigners and strangers. Uh, we have become citizens

with God's family. So that itself speaks of a very

very deep sense of connection. All right, So and and

and and you know Romans aid as well, it says

that you know the spirit you receive I'm reading from

the NIV version. Uh, the spirit you see, it does

not make you slaves so that you can actually live

in fear again. But the spirit of God that God

has given to us will bring us to a place

of adoption, to sonship, you know, when we are adopted

the family. But now we are recognized as sons and

daughters in God. And not just that, you know, it

says the portion of scripture says that we are heir

to His throne. Okay he heh e I rs or

her heirs to his shrone. Okay. So the last point

that I bring us to it will be from John

chapter fourteen, verse two to.

Three Juhne fourteen two to three. In my father's house

are many mansions. If it were not so, I would

have told you I go to prepare a place for you,

vers three. And if I go and prepare a place

for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself,

so that where I am there, you may also be.

All right, thank you so much. Fifth point is eternal belonging.

This okay, eternal belonging. And and and why why this?

Because all of us, when we run a race, and

and this race of faith, we have an end, all right? Uh?

And and let me break it down a little bit more.

For all of you who have started your course and

your study in noting here uni, your end is. You know,

upon completion you right your thesis, summit, and then all

those well you have your graduation. Right. So having that

end in mind, and for us human beings, you know,

created by God, we have an end. You know our

days are actually numbered, and none of us would know

how many days we have, but it is numbered, so

it should cause us to start living with that ending

in mind, to count our days, and it's says here,

you know, and I will bring us to that, you know,

and and eternally, so that our end in mind as

believers is our eternity with the lot. Okay, that's why

the eternal belonging. Uh day, when we physically pass away

from this earth, we know that I will be in

God's presence. So that's our end in mind. And and

having that eternity in mind right should cause us to

be having the right perspectives to live today. You know,

how are we living our lives today?

Uh?

Do we see that we are just temporal here on earth?

All right?

Uh?

And and and with this temporal place on earth, what

are we doing with it? All right? So I started,

you know, with belonging to God and and and I'm

and then ending the fifth point with eternal belonging to

us because when we see that, okay, my days are numbered?

How usually as to the next question, uh? And and

you know sometimes human beings, right, if some some people

have you know, your bucket list? All right, I'm not

I'm not trying to bring the amoshere down. But it's true.

And and you know, we have a bucket list that

we want to fulfill. But very very uh, seldom I

hear Christians, you know, asking like, hey, my days are numbered.

How can I make a difference? How can I help

another person who do not know Jesus yet to know

him as a personal lot and savior? So our eternity?

Right?

You know, God says, right, his house has many rooms.

We will see him, uh, you know. And and but

you know, are we just gonna be the only one

that's going to see him without involving others?

Uh?

And and you know, I you know, God has in

my early days, as as I think my teenage years

secondary school, a revival happened in my school and and

God did challenge me, are you just going to keep

your faith to yourself? Because if you do that, you're

being very selfish. That's why it's very real to me,

is right? Ouch? Because I was happily minding my own

church thing, you know, going to church, happily serving by

God asked me that question. I repented, uh, And a

dead sense of convision came. And you know, around from

three from three to fifteen, right, fourteen fifteen onwards.

Uh.

I started gathering my Christian friends and we have prayer

every day after school. And and you know, by the

end when I finished studying in my from five which

I was seventeen, at least half of my batch mates,

not not my class on, at least half of my

batch mates have heard of the gospel. Almost half of

my classmates became Christians.

Uh.

And I have friends of the majority faith and experiencing God.

So and it has caused a huge hour because you know,

the you have the stars are in school. You know,

they started having spot checks and like, okay, we heard

some Muslim students going through this. You know we're gonna check.

So they actually said old school. But thank God, they

didn't find anything. But the spirit of God moved. I'm

not saying that it's just because of me, but it's

what God wants to do in and through my life.

And if God didn't cause that awakening, I think I

wouldn't be who I am today. So so having the

eternality in my eternity in my so you can see,

it's actually a circle. We start knowing that I belong

to God and acknowledging Okay, God, you know I want

to be adopted. I want to be your sons and

your daughters, and then having the certainity in mind so

that we can actually continue to share the gospel to others. Right,

and then you see it's going in a loop. So today,

you know, I want to ask you. I'm going to

go into some photos soon, but what are you longing for? Today?

Right?

That will be my question, why are you longing for?

Because what we long for, we will become it. So

if we keep very A related example is an example,

if we keep longing and being hungry for fright food, Okay, Uh,

fried chicken every day, French fries every day, and everything

fright every day, go and be sung every day. Uh,

you will become what you eat.

Right.

Yeah, if your actually is built up, your BMI is

going to shoot off the roof. You become it. And

and you so and and you know every time you

can see a fried chicken stall, you'll see the person

that the person is, you know, intentionally found there, you know,

buying all the fried chicken and consuming all the fried

chicken the person can find. So you know, and and

it's very true. You know, the word here belongs right.

I found a dictionary and I really like the third

meaning to eat of a thing, be rightly placed in

a specific position. When we say that I want to

belong in God, I want to belong to him. We

found position at the right place.

Uh.

Or we found and I was like, God, I want

to belong to you. That and found every other night,

you know, clubbing and pubbing somewhere. Uh and Sunday in

the morning, you know, I found hangover in the room.

And then I'm like, Okay, I belong to the Lord.

I think it's contradicting. But when me say that, you know,

I belong I long to be with the Lord, then

we have to specifically position ourself in the right place.

I'm going to go into the picture soon. Uh soon.

Actually now it can flash out the first picture x TV.

So when I first came to Climb Valley to study

sort of faces in my you know, looking familiar to

you in year two thousand and six, I knew that

if I don't pluck myself into the Christian community, I

would be distracted number one. But I also determ myself

at that part of time. I'm going to be here

for three years, uh and then I'm gonna go Okay.

Uh So I although, you know, it was just really

funny of me, But I'll talk to that. So first came,

I remember I stepped into ast church. We were still

in the second floor in summit, so for the second

floor we moved the fourth floor. And now, yeah, we're

all spread across different locations. So when I came the

first person after the service, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna

find a small group to be long. So at the

point of time that was at home set I think

it was called pot or something like that power of

three or something like that. So we will at that

point in time, no homes. So after the service, right,

different people will break into different small groups in church.

Uh.

So we didn't have like week day meetings. Okay. Uh

small girl in church number one and the second one.

Uh it was broken into all guys and all girls.

That was a mixed one at a point of time. Okay.

So so I saw a lot of different pockets of

small groups of people and I'm like, okay, I don't

know where, don't know who to join. So I went

out to the counter to ask, and behind a counter,

so it was selling CDs at that point of time.

How many of you know what CDs. All right, okay,

good uh we're sharing. I shared this in it. They

were like the last time they saw CD was like

a long long long time ago, okay, when they were

in kindergarten. So because you have a lot of pre

you students in it, like some of that fifteen years

old only fifteen fifteen and a half in pre you

sorry in degree. Actually it's not even pre your program

in degree. So CDs and behind the counter was bastarnsed

So I think that time he was still a new believer.

But I remember I went told him. I'm like, okay,

you know, it's that a small group here that I

can be part of. And then I got connected to

Basta Michelle that she's in the one in the middle

our first row, second picture. Okays Michelle. Currently she is

assisting Buster Benji in eggs Osaka. Okay, there's our missionaries

in Japan, all right. So bas Michelle got connected with

me and then she started, you know, messaging me, is like, hey,

well you're gonna hang out this week, You're gonna come,

You're gonna do this with us? Are you coming to

church this wee? I'm like, oh my goodness, what did

I get myself into why is she asking me all

these questions and bugging me to be in church? Uh so?

And and I started avoiding her. And because I got

I was too overwhelmed with like, why is this person

following up with me so closely? Uh I never had

that before growing up? Uh So, I was overwhelm. So

I'm like, okay, I'm gonna just step aside. Funny, right,

I first came, I'm like, okay, I want to feel

belong asked Basta ronson whish girl. And then now with

her response, I'm like, okay, don't touch me. I'm just

going to be here for three years. Okay, don't ask

me and hang out so often with you. I'll just

come and fulfill my Sunday and my homes once a

week and then I'm done. And so I then found

a part time job at a part of time, so

I started drifting away from church. Probably I came like

once a month, only if I was around a bit

more on the weekends, I will tie myself a comus

at so many stats at ninety, I'll come at nine

thirty five, so the hosts their attention will be on worship.

They won't, you know, ask me a lot of questions.

I quietly go to a chair and then you know,

when eleven fifteen, the speaker said, I'm gay, I'm ending

with my last point. I'll get ready my bible and

went back and you know, like the PC time, okay,

five minutes left. I get ready and then immediately child

from church. Uh, you know, zooma or church because I

wanted to avoid any contexts.

Uh.

And then I met up with a friend. So she

asked me, and so how is extra? She knew who

extra she is?

Uh?

And then I was like, oh no, that question so

a close friend, she asked me. Then I gave a

lot of excuses. You know, you know, I think this

church is not really right from me, you know this girl,

but Michelle, she's so so so irritating, you know, asking

me to join that for everything. You know, I still

have to study. You know, my priority came here is

to be a student. My parents paid for my school fees.

At the graduate the paper to you know, make that

feel proud. So I give a lot of excuses. I

don't know what excuses you gave, but I gave her

the excuse and she challenged me, like Yvonne, you do

know that X is the place for you, right, Why

are you being stubborn? And why I so proud because

I gave the excuse me I saying, oh this church

is not really right for me, but actually I was

running away. So because our question, you can go to

the next picture. So I have different ones that connected

with me. Uh and uh this, yeah, why did I

put here? Okay, now I'll go with this. Uh So

this was my first so I decided to get routed

because of our first question. It led me getting rooted

in X till now. And this is my first job assignment.

I'm currently and still working with EX Church or a

y A. And this was when EX Singapore was first adopted.

Buster sent a team to Singapore and my first job

assignment as a media person I started as XTV. I

did my degree in accounts and finance. Uh so my

my my career was as a media person. I was

sent to cover so this was in Singapore. But next

picture so the first dream team. So I told you

right after my friends challenged me, I decided to sign

up to serve in a dream team. And XTV was

my first dream team and that time we were the

pioneering Badge and I think a few weeks or a

month later, I was scheduled to serve. My first serving

was in the stadium in book jalil Uh and we

had a YA festival. Okay, going back history, you do

not know, it's okay, you gotta ask your leaders. A

YA festival and was my first side serving. And the

guy in the middle there is part of the American

band Sonic Flood, so we have yeah them opening our

a A festival. So I was serving as the camera

person and I remember because we were lack of cruise

of your x TV when we have multi camera production

in it quite a huge tame. It was a full

day event in bok Jalo number one, number two. First

side serving on camera and they put me on cam one,

so the main camera, the first camera where she's in

the middle. The third one is they put me on

a scaffolding the one that you used for constructions, a

bubb nine nine feet higher time feet high. So standing

on that platform with a camera and every slight movement

because the platform is not so stable, any side movement

you can see the camera vibrating on the screen, so

it's like, oh my goodness. So for hours at the standstill,

by the end. What happened was I had soolent angles.

But that was the start of my journey and and

getting rooted in church. Uh it started with U x

TV Next Picture. So from a camera person, I got

wanted to be a director now of a different multi

camera production. You can go next uh and and that's more.

And you know x TV or even x SH A

lot of times we have two star budget, but we

always have five star outcome. So our two start budget

as x TV rights just this, you know, with d

I y our own studio, green screen, blue screen. Uh

And we did a lot, a lot of different shoots

and with a small little camcorder uh and and and

God caused us to be one of the churches, one

of the first churches in Malaysia to be on the

cutting edge ministry as a media team with a small

camera all right. And then uh so Joanne is one

of the persons on the right side, one of the

persons that was close with in x TV the next picture.

Uh this is one of the team members as well.

So you know, I when I started choosing to settle

in Acts, I started serving in Dream Team. And this

activates at the part of time we were really really

tight and I first found my community. I first found

a place through this dream team. Okay, next picture, and

then you know, this is another event that we had

in Stadium Medicar. That's where your Medica one one eight

building is at right now. So this is the inn

A stadium next to it. So it was our reunion.

So basically we used to have revel tours in Malaysia

UH in different different cities and then it will end.

Usually it will be a twelve, four or five months

and we will end with a reunion. So this is

the first time I both my sisters, so you know,

I started alone, but now you know my sisters and

I we are part of x church uh. And I'm

really really happy to do to say that. You know,

one of them is in XPJ and then the other

is in Exubana, so we are all in different church

plants being part of this family. Next and then you know,

I spoke about revel tour uh and and I think

this is one of the very significant ones as well

to saque uh. You know, like I said, you know

two star budget, and I did know the two star budget,

like this we were expecting. We actually booked a forty

four seater e con bus. And when we were at

our hotel in Cebou we care a hotel, were like, okay,

y's our forty four sitter buses. Suddenly we're looking for

actually some time and then we call again they're like, oh,

we are here, densudly we found a small little bus

at the corner no egg con uh and and to

the extent, because there's so many of us to see,

so they have to put uh in between the out

the seats, they put wood. Then we have to sit

on the wood all So one road we see five

people were really really cramped, but we toured uh and

you know we didn't back down. So why I'm sharing

this because this year we're going to restart our tours

around Malaysia and the Dream Malaysia. So it's no longer

Arrival tour, but it's gonna be Dream Malaysia. So do

look up for it, you know, if there are any

announcements as well to sign up and be part of it.

And so next picture, uh yeah, this is one of

the Bulls Power Tour. A y a is there next

so uh from So I came to Extra in two

thousand and six and then this is our homes in

the light in year two thousand and eight ish.

Uh.

Actually Live Star started officially as a church planning twenty ten,

but home started first in two thousand and eight. So

God led me to launch out to plant in Neli.

And a part of time I didn't know where any

light is. I thought Neili is still in kl Climb Valley.

But all the way to the corner homes started les picture.

So this is a seven hundred over square feet apartment,

uh in Neeli, And these was the homies. You can

see right, that's actually not much space. So there were

actually people sitting in the room says well, uh, and

people sitting all the way into the kitchen or so.

So that was homesos. You can go next picture. And

at one point of time, uh, this is like at

the early early days. Okay, but at one point in

time when we had to move out, this was we

had ninety over homies. So at the point in time

right when we have x X schach, we didn't have

like Okay, after homes having twelve people, we will multiply

and latch o black no, so you assist ninety over

people in one seven hundred square feet apartment. So those

of you who know space, you know that it's really cramped,

so we have to actually open the door. People are

standing along the hallway just for prayer service for homes

also next picture. And then this was one of the

early days of connecting initiatives with campus called kat T

next picture. And then you know a part of time

when homes was doing very well in the light, I

was still part of the subunk homes.

Uh.

So you a week, I had two homes that then

suba hons and this is my suberun homes. We were

growing a lot as so uh. And then when X

and bunks started, I helped start. I help pioneer example,

because we had students from Tar College and I was

connecting and discipling them so so ex and started with

our Tar College students. Uh somewhere from Tar right yeah,

yeah Tar people uh. And and we started with that.

It was Galilee Galile, it was our first student uh

in Tar. And then so three weeks okay, if you

had one host at attend and you're complaining, yeah, three homes,

three homes to attend in a week. And geographically is

I'm bank NELI and subang all right, ah, but God

grew the homies. Okay, next picture, and then you know

from then you know when I started. So when homes

in NELI started, I wasn't a leader yet.

Uh.

There were other leaders that were leading the homes uh.

And when I decided to be part of one of

the first few things that was also asked to me

was about huddle, about discipleship. And you know, without doubt,

I'm like, okay, I don't know what part of it.

I prayed and then God led me to Basta Sarah.

So she's my other leader. She's the ex kids pastor

of our church, all right, so led to her, and

what helped me ground more was also discipleship was also

a huddle. And this is, you know, our early days huddle.

We might see a familiar face. Let me show to you, Okay, Uh,

it might look familiar to you. It's like a feminine

version of pasta Ronson. You'll know who's sister, all right.

At point in time, she wasn't married yet, no family yet.

Now she's located in Australia with her husband already. So yeah,

so that's harder for us. And the next picture one

of our hardish TESSI. Uh, she got married, uh in

so this is test issue. She got married in Jakarta.

The next picture is actually a picture of us in

Jakarta attending her wedding. So do know, right when you

are part of this community here, this community will go

heights and lengths together with you there. Like I say,

you know, there with you in your arms and downs

in your wedding in Jakarta, we'll be there. But I

think his wedding is gonna be here right in Malaysia.

But you know, with them there, you can travel there

and visit them. You know, why not consider Jakata as

your holiday destination?

Yeah?

Yeah, right? Is that of Japan? Jakarta another Jay? Okay?

All right, next next picture, uh, and I'm gonna end

this picture because uh, this is what my community and

my family did for me.

Uh.

A few days before this picture was taken, it was

actually my birthday. I lost my car, so I went

for a flirt relief f flot relief help trip okay.

Uh.

It was Klanton that was flooded upon a time and

a y a. We actually went in together with World

Vision Malaysia UH to do a program uh to help

with the flood victim. So it was to day one night.

I came back the next day my car was gone.

So someone stole my car, and I was really really

really really really sad, angry, upset, and all those emotional

stuff because that car has really really helped me with ministry.

It was a I think there was a picture of it,

but it's black and white. It's a Saga without the boot.

They call it saga aeroback line. For those of you

who know I fit, don't please don't do this anywhere

else by fIF ten people in a car before uh

any like yes, in a boat, then backsitt people on laps.

Then the coal driver's seats got people sitting. So it's

about ten laha uh in a boot got two people inside.

So uh at a part time need line, not many

police blocks. But I'm not encouraging you guys to do so.

I'm just saying that the car has been maximized. Well

uh and it was a car that my dad, my

dad gave me. We got it at a very good price,

brand new car eighteen thousand, ringed only because Proton was

doing a stock clearance. U for you, actually manufacturers to

do stock clearance, you just have to find where they

are okay uh, and at a part time when the

car was stolen, the installment wasn't paid up yet. So

I was very very excited because my parents then were

I mean, my dad was retired. My mom basically you know,

retired when I was four five years old, so financially

it wasn't easy for them. So I'm like, God, why

so as I was sulking and all at home and

and you know, my housemaids and then close friends and

well she's like, hey, you wanna go out? Like, no,

I don't go out. I was just gonna eat MEGGI me.

I just didn't feel like moving around. And and although

I mean church elder actually lent me uh one of

church friends to use is our we call it our

wee event that that vent some of women know so.

And I was even feeling like so because I drove

the vent around and one day I wanted to go

to a mall to buy stuff. The guard refused to

let me enter the basement car part it's like loading bait,

like I'm a customer, said shopping shopping dire grocer. Then

dadda loading bassana. So I'm like, okay, this van really

has a face problem to get fine. So I part

by the roadside the NASA manamaio. So so I was like, God,

why is this happening to me? And this family came around,

so my friend forced me out. Was like, let's go out. Okay,

then uh okay number one, let's go out. Already was

dragging my feet. Then she's like, you need a dress up.

I'm like, dress up? You know, I just want to

go with my shorts and T shirts. She said, I know,

you need a dress up. So I went the restaurant

and then this bunch of people were there. So they

were both my Subang homies and my knee Light homies

as well. And and and you know, there was a

time of birthday celebrating. Uh and and I really you know,

as I look back, I'm going to close a ready.

As I look back, I do not know the different

ones of you, you know. And when I was searching

for photos to put right, I was I was just

smiling away. As I go to history, I'm like, Wow,

I didn't know I have so many photos with so

many different of people in X and and I'm like,

I don't know, I have so many memories, you know,

two thousand and six, uh until now it is about

eighteen years plus already with with with this community here,

and and and you know, I did ask myself if

I didn't intentionally position myself, Uh did intentionally uh you know,

allow myself to start serving an XTV until I have

stolen ankles from standing on the platform.

Uh.

If I didn't intentionally position myself that way, I wouldn't

have all these pictures to look at, all these memories

or call memories that I've created with different groups of people,

uh in church. So my my my challenge to us,

you know, what pictures do you have that with this

community here that you can look back and have call

memories of in the days to come?

All right?

So I'm gonna close to that. And you know, like

I said, you know, although I've shared a lot of this,

but that has a lot of the photos, but that

had to come out of place of first my relationship

with God. So that is definitely non negotiable. That's our

call foundation as believers. But what else after that to

help us grow, to help us ground further? All right?

So I can close us right now and I'm going

to pray for us.

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