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9 August 2008 Saturday
3rd Gathering @ Hall 8.00 pm – 9.30 pm
Uncle
Valentine 012-808 3336, Uncle John 016-853 9549, Uncle Michael 019-887 7336.
At
Uncle, I knt make it 2 youth gathering 2molo. I hav mock exam on
Monday, mum don allow. Sorry. Hope dat de youth gathering is a success. =)
So sorry u can’t make it Cindy, but obedient to parents is more
important, anyway you can read about it here !
Gathering
in the Dark
Finally the day has arrived, in the morning
I asked Uncle V, you sure anybody coming tonight for
the gathering or not? They are having exams.. Well, the date was chosen
by the children, some will come, some may not come. (few days earlier, Uncle
Harry already told me that some children will not come as exams are on…)
7pm
I was about to take shower before going to
the gathering, and suddenly, it turned dark, pitch dark, really dark,
everywhere there is darkness…
Moses what is happening? Don’t know… I
think SESCO, as neighbours also no light, we looked out the windows, the whole
town is dark…
Oh well, without power I cannot take a
shower, so I turned on my notebook (powered by battery, it can last for another
hour)…
I
called Uncle V:
M: Valentine
V: Yes Michael, no light here!
M: Where are you?
V: In the Church.
M: Oh, like that ka, how to
gather without lights? Hmmm… we can
always tell jokes in the dark! I come over now to have a look, but wait, I
cannot get out of the house as the autogate is not functioning.
V: My wife also called me, how to get out of
the house as the autogate is not working.
M: Open the door manually loh.
Ok
Grab my camera… find a box of matches and 100 candles… put the candles on the
car boot… unlock the autogate…. Open the gate…. Reverse the car… close the
gate… off we go… after driving 300 meters, hold on, where
are the candles?... oh no, not on the boot… drove home to look for them…
not there… must be dropped on the way… drove slowly alone the way to look for
them… Ah! there they were, dropped on the road side… Ok picked them up, and go!
Arrived,
all dark... Hello anybody in?
In the dark I saw Faith and Uncle V, Raphael
I think and Jennifer…
Come, let’s light up the hall
with these candles…
Children slowly arriving, the hall also lit
up with candles, Uncle V brought down the Crucifix, 2 big candles and the Bible
and set up the altar.
One parent sent his daughter
on the bike…
Come on children, let’s take some photos, this is a romantic
gathering that we will never forget.
Faith
and Reuben set up their music centre, played the guitars, we started of the
gathering with songs... in the dark, surrounded by the lights from 100 candles.
Let’s
hear our Lord speaks:
The epileptic demoniac
17:15 'Lord,' he said 'take pity on my son: he is a lunatic and in a wretched state; he is always falling into the fire or into the water.
17:16 I took him to your disciples and they were unable to cure him.'
17:19 Then the disciples came privately to Jesus. 'Why were we unable to cast it out? they asked.
17:20 He answered, 'Because you have little faith. I tell you solemnly, if your faith were the size of a mustard seed you could say to this mountain, "Move from here to there", and it would move; nothing would be impossible for you.'
Let’s reflect on the message…
The father’s love…what is epileptic… FIT…how
big is a mustard seed…the mountain that moves…what is it…
Hey! we saw some new faces.
For the first time, we have boys joining our
gathering. Aaron Chen, William Macclay, both brought by Sebastian Macclay.
How about we tell some jokes?
Ruben’s
Holy Joke
There was a football match her in
Kuching, 3 nuns went to watch.
Beside them sat 3 man who didn’t
like the nuns.
1st man said: let’s go to Sabah,
there is no nun there.
2nd man said: let’s go to Taiwan,
there is no nun there.
3rd man said: let’s go to
Indonesia, there is no nun there.
The nuns got angry with them and
said: Why don’t you go to Hell?
…..
(There is no nun
there!)
This
one was told by Uncle V
One man died and went up, met St
Peter’s at the gate of heaven.
St Peter’s told him he can have a
choice whether to go to Heaven or Hell, he can spend 24 hours in each and then
decide where he wanted to go.
Ok, so he spent the first 24 hours
in heaven… peaceful, angels, beautiful girls…
Next he took a lift down to Hell.
When the door opened… he saw a beautiful golf course, many of his friends were
there, playing goft, playing mahjong, drink wine, really enjoy life, big
houses, big cars, big feasts, many maids, Satan was well dressed and
friendly….24 hours out.
He took the lift up, met Peter,
decided to go to Hell.
When he reached Hell, the door
opened, what he saw was nothing like before, it was H-E-L-L, fire burning,
people grilled, pierced by forks, tortured… He couldn’t believe it, asked Satan
what happened? Why not the same as yesterday?
…..
(Satan replied
it was all a trick.)
(Satan is the father of lies, remember?)
Here
is one told by Uncle Michael
There was a man, he died and went
upstairs.
Jesus welcomesw him and showed him
around, big rooms, small rooms and finally they entered a big hall, he saw a
lot of clocks hanging on the wall.
He asked Jesus what are all these
clocks for?
Jesus said every human beings on
earth are give a certain number of time to live, if he lives normally the time
will pass at a normal speed, but if he sins or tell lies, the clock moves
faster and when the time is up, he dies… then he saw a fan hanging on the
ceiling and asked Jesus about the fan.
Oh, that’s the clock of Bill
Clinton, it moves so fast that we used it as a fan!
…..
(Remember Monica Lewinsky affairs? Oh, never
mind)
Let us
know each other a little more. How about our ambition? What do we want to
become?
Here are some interesting dreams of the
children…
I
want to be a secretary, no I don’t want to be a secretary,
I want to be Marine Biologist! Ha? What is
that? And Why?
Because I want to protect marine life…
like that we may not have any
fish to eat soon, hahaha
I want to be a musician, because I love
music, I want to cut records…
I want to be a financial controller, wow,
plenty of money.
I want to be a Doctor!
What kind of Doctor? A Human Doctor, an Animal Doctor, or a dentist
Doctor???
A Human Doctor! Why? Because my aunty is a
doctor.
I want to be an Animal Doctor. That is called a Vet.
I want to be an accountant.
I don’t know what I want, pass.
I am
too embarrassed to tell what I want to be, pass!
I
want to be a father!
WHAT? I want to be a FATHER! You mean like Fr Chin?
No, father of my children!!!
Sounds great.
Uncle
John: Does anyone of you thinking of becoming a
priest?
NO! (in unison)
Uncle John: No harm
to try if you have the call, I was in the seminary for 3 years…
Ok,
the lights are coming back and it is time to
go home, let us sing some songs and say the final prayers before we go home.
I think you can smell our sweet 3 miles
away…
Now
uncle can take a shower.
Good
night.
Faith
brought a
Can I borrow it?
Sure.
I will return tomorrow.
Uncle
Michael
9/8/08
P.S.
So you see
Cindy, the fire of LSS is burning strong, the Gathering is a
success even without electricity, and exams are near...
Throughout the evening, Clarissa sent SMS to Faith, she’s not allowed to come because of the Blackout.
Uncle Harry called, unable to come.
Aunty Faith won’t dare to come in the dark!
P.P.S
Oh! No! Faith!
Your Thumb
got a Horse!
I mean,
your
Actually 2
of them, one is caught and healed, the other deleted!
Dear Lord, please protect my computer – it has just been reformatted not so long ago… Amen.
Responses
|
Wow.
The gathering so romantic ah. Haha.. Sadly i couldnt be there, lack of transport,
blackout and exams. hectic lah. |
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