Tuesday, January 05, 2010
*pardon any bad english. no time to read and check thru. I'm alr late! hahaha
*pardon any bad english. no time to read and check thru. I'm alr late! hahaha
thought this might be a good summary of what we've been though. this is just stuff from my perspective. tried to look at it from a community pov but i only have 1 pair of eyes! if i was a camera im not a wideangled one.
ok enough with strange analogies.
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I've been meaning to write a post about log.
we're gonna be 5 next year and man that is long!
being with community has been exciting and fulfilling so let me just recap.
2004 Secondary 3.
We were 15 and new to all this community or group stuff.
Many of us wanted to do something, anything just because we fell in love with God and didn't want to ever let go so we set up a community to be our glue.
2005 Secondary 4.
Olevel year.
Some more joined(liver, rice,mark) and some left due to other commitments.
We gathered in church religiously to study and go for mass or ado afterward.
It was tiring but being in church was one of the best feelings on earth especially since studying felt like such a chore.
To look at the cross and see how much Jesus went through would comfort me straight away. (that is if we weren't too tired from studying and thus nodding off in church)
The simple act of coming to church just brought me peace knowing that I can always turn to God.
I didn't need much reason anymore, I started to live in God.
As a community we were growing socially and spiritually, learning about one another and about how to live our faith.
It was also the year of random LoG scandals since we were all so close and happy in each others company but that time is over and i think that time sorta bonded us in a strange way. (:
2006 J1/poly1
It was a difficult time because everyone was thrown into a new environment.
School no longer ended at 3/4 but past 5 or 6 even!
CCA commitments meant that we could no longer go for mass as often.
New friends, schools further away and tons of work tore quite a number of us away from our routines.
I rmb looking at how excited soo and liver was in vj (according to soo there were too many chiobus) and felt like vj was pulling them away from church. That's one reason why I felt a little glad that I went to AJ instead because it's a lot nearer and not so hyper.
Some of us went to secular schools, some with to SA or CJ. Either the new environment helped to strengthen our faith, though sometimes faith lost it's meaning.
I distinctly rmb coming to mass one day and sitting alone. It was sad but I liked it because I could concentrate better.
But we had a mini (damn camwhore) retreat and that brought us back a little
2007 J2/ poly2
Somehow I don't rmb much from 2007
I looked at 2007 LoGblog archives and didn't see much either. My entries were rather sad though, I think people were disappearing and i was emo about it ):
Alevels really took away a lot of church time for most of us.
But we made it through with flying colours (:
at the end of the year there was mission trip and that pulled us all back.
I rmb doing canteen once and almost breaking down because there were so few pple.
2008 freetime,uni1/ poly3/ army1
We were scared.
the guys were armyfied. army angst due to the shorter hair, the annoying sun, the tough regime, and a very very different lifestyle surrounded by unfamiliar people. melvyn joined us too.
the girls were working and we had days out and did confi camp and most of us started uni/school and that was also pretty challenging (staying in hall and missing serangoon ): )
we looked for new blood because manpower was severely lacking.
as the year drew to a close, the guys were coming back.
we ended with christmas parties and hat parties and preparing those younger for army.
it was difficult to commit but we were fine. (:
2009 uni1, 2/ army2
we were sustaining a momentum and participating or helping out at more events.
easter, pnws, combined sessions, camps, retreats, 50th anniversary, confi, sharings, caroling and christmas.
It was the year we really stepped up at the older ones in the youth ministry, leading more and connecting with those younger than us.
we had new members, zhane and kenneth and newly confirmed sec3s. and we sorta lost some and it was a tough hurdle to cross because it affected us quite badly.
God had his plan and did it in his time (:
This was also the year that sfx youth minstry came together as one and supporting each other and functioning as one and not separate communities with only the leaders talking.
2010 uni3 / free time & uni1
what will the year be like?
judging from all the activities i think it'll be like 2009 but even more awesome. it's a combination of all the years that have passed (getting to know each other, formation, time commitment and sfx youth working together)
it'll be exciting and i'm sad i won't be hear to capture it in pictures and in experiences but im glad to see where we have come and all I really want to say is that LoG has been here for me for a really long time and there hasn't been a period of time I wasn't near or around log so being away will really be quite different. hope all the sessions and stuff are super good. must share with me k! please put stuff online (input and reflections) so that i could read and follow and send me nice long emails on whatever is happening k!
I can't stay away from LoG so please keep in touch.
I actually intended to do an individual kinda affirmation thing. but that shall came another time.
toodles. (:
time to buy stuff for the trip. (:
jes