Watch Night Service

It's our custom to attend the church's Watch Night service every New Year's eve. Service starts at 9pm and we were encouraged to fast on that day which was suppose to be our church's quaterly fast and pray day. Usually we'd go for supper after the service but now with 3 kids on-tow, we'd rather go home and eat instant noodle(our very first meal of the New Year, haha!) after tucking the children up, by then it was 2am in the wee hours of the new day! :)

We have thanksgiving time opened to the floor after worship. Anybody can go on stage to thank God for the year that was about to end. Some may also give a song special. There were no fireworks when we count down into the New Year but glorious Praise and Worship unto God for the brand New Year! After which we entered into covenants with God. Very meaningful and very nice. I like the idea of being in the House of God at the dawn of the new year :)

Not many attended...but the presence of God is so wonderful!

Daddy wrote the following and intended to go on stage to share but he didn't get a chance to do it. He was able to thank God still on the first Sunday of the New Year during testimony time in the service. I'm gonna copy and paste it here for memory and for the glory of God :)

A thanksgiving for the year 2008 by Daddy, Philip.

Thank God for...

• Thaddea. She is an unexpected gift from God. God is Sovereign.


• Lydia(mommy truly =D) who is still with us and healthy.


• Surgery I had that taught me to take care of my body, the temple of the Holy Spirit.


• Providence which teach us to learn faith.


• Humility to accept help and gifts from others.


• Lesson learnt to be thankful and to appreciate what we have when we are in need.


• Mountain and valley in spiritual life. God is faithful.


• Music Ministry. Thank God that I can return to serve in this ministry after a long period.


• All the people who have been a great help and encouragement to us.


• Timely word when I felt so directionless and had achieve nothing all these time: "To be successful in God’s kingdom is to be faithful in where God has placed me."


• Year(2009), though there is much uncertainty, God is faithful and we trust that He is holding our tomorrow.

Praise the Lord. Amen.

Yes! Thank You Lord!!

他們哭了

I was reading James 1 this morning and verse 27 stood up...

James 1:27
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."

Every baby deserved a loving parents. If not a loving parents, then at least a caring nanny, or a doting adoptive parents. To love, cuddle and take good care of them. I cannot imagine us without our baby Thaddea, or worse, Thaddea without us...

I always wish that I have more money to sponsor a child or two in an orphanage or fostercare. Right now, I can only pray for them. May God brings every orphan into a forever family who will love and care for them forever~ Amen!

These children sang of the invisible Hands of Jesus. Though they cannot see Him nor touch Him, they knew that He is always there, wispering ever so softly to them. O, they knew deep in their hearts that their Lord Jesus is always there with them.

It was the nail-pierced Hands of Jesus that have touched and comforted their broken hearts. It was the soft gentle words of Jesus that once again filled the hunger and thirst of their hearts.

Praise the Lord!



雖不見祢，觸不到祢，
但是我知，祢正在對我低語。
哦！主耶穌，哦！主耶穌，
我深知道祢一直就在這裏。
　
是祢的手，釘痕的手，
重新撫慰我那破碎的心田。
是祢聲音，溫柔話語，
再度填滿我心靈中的飢渴。

记得初信主时，我也哭了。是主的大爱感动了我，叫我的眼泪一直流，一直流。主啊，谢谢祢救我灵魂，赐我永恒的生命。谢谢祢为我被钉十架，流宝血洗净我。

詩 篇 103:1-2
我的心哪，你要称颂耶和华！凡在我里面的，也要称颂他的圣名！我的心哪，你要称颂耶和华！不可忘记他的一切恩惠！

寶貴十架 ~ Precious Cross

On the first Sunday of the new year 2009, a Communion Sunday, I was deeply touched by the love of my Lord, Jesus Christ.

Throughout the service, as I prepared myself to participate in the Holy Communion, even though Thaddea was quite a handful, she always is, :P, in my mind I kept thinking of Jesus dying on the cross for me.

I must have been on Jesus' mind when He braved the cross. His love for me was so great that He bore with the pain when the nails were being hammered into His hands and feet.

Lord, thank You for bearing the cross for me. The punishment that I deserved, You took it upon Yourself. This is too much for me to grasp... I'm overwhelmed!

When I think of the cross, I see Your great love for me. I see the blood You shed on the cross, so precious and so powerful! Your blood washed away my sins and gave me life everlasting!

You are God's perfect sacrifice, once for all, to reconcile me to God. Thank You Jesus, my Lord, my Saviour!




1 Peter 3:18
"For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit."