Nuwav E Youth Ministry

happy birthday!

2009-10-20T05:12:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday to all October babies!!

Alyna Yong - 2 Oct
Alex Lee - 4 Oct
Roy Chew - 10 Oct
Corrine Young - 11 Oct

Your birth is not a coincidence. Each one of you are special & God have a purpose for you.
Keep on trusting Him each day, strengthen your faith day by day..
You'll have a wonderful jouney walking with Him.^^

Mission Convention

2009-10-20T05:00:00.000-07:00

God made you for a MISSION!

Acts 1:8 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem , and in all Judea and Samaria , and to the ends of the earth”

Matthew 28:19-20 “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age”

As our mission is a continuation of Jesus' mission on earth, let us come together as we emphasize on Missions this coming weekend and be empowered:

Friday Night (23 Oct)
Time: 7:45pm
Venue: Sanctuary Hall
Speaker: Rev Dr Fred Seaward

Saturday Afternoon (24 Oct)
(1) Youth Missions Service (2:00pm)
Venue: Sanctuary Hall
Speaker: Sis Pauline Lok

(2) Children Missions Service (4:00pm)
Venue: Solomon Hall
Speaker: Rev Irene Dalseno

Sunday Morning (25 Oct)
Venue: Sanctuary Hall (11:15am)
Speaker: Rev Dr Fred Seaward
*A Mandarin & English combined service

There's a service to challenge and empower you kids, your teens and yourself.

Let's come and expect great things from the Lord this coming weekend - are you prepared?

Youth Prayer Sunday (YPS)

2009-10-19T06:55:00.000-07:00

Youth Prayer Sunday (YPS)

Venue: Church library
(if there's any changes, we'll inform you & proceed to another place)
Time: 10.30am every Sunday
Aim & Purpose:
1) To cultivate a prayer habit
2) To practice our gifting of praying in tongues
3) To build up the confidence in voicing out our prayers
4) To build up a strong bond & maintain a close fellowship between the youths & teens

Main facilitator: Wai Chi, Pauline, Wai Han & Alex

We welcome all of you to join us in prayer..
It is just a short prayer time but we believe in the power it can bring~
Bring along at least one prayer item so that we could pray for & with one another.. =)

"…The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective" (James 5:16).

"And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints" (Ephesians 6:18).

"In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express" (Romans 8:26).

Youth Camp 2009

2009-10-19T06:41:00.000-07:00

You are invited!
A joint Youth Camp by First Assembly & New Covenant Assembly..

Theme: Ethusiastic for God, His Son & His Word
Speaker: Rev Victor Gonzalez
Date: 14-17 December 2009
Venue: Methodist Center, Port Dickson
Camp Fee: RM150
(includes accommodation, transportation & meals - breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner & supper)

Do try your best to make it for this camp..block your dates if you can!
I believe that this camp will benefit you..
Go with a heart of expectation, expect to receive something from the Lord..^^
Then as you come back, you'll bring home a testimony! =D

What are you waiting for?
Register today!

Visit the blog at
http://youthcamp-enthusiasm.blogspot.com/

or follow us on facebook by clicking
here

Youth Prayer Retreat

2009-08-05T07:44:00.000-07:00

Youth Prayer Retreat 2009

When?
31 August 2009 @ 9:00am to 5:00pm

Where?
Sungai Long AOL Community Center

Why?
Come together to put aside your daily distraction and set aside time to learn that prayer is not that hard & boring.

How?
There will be great time of fun and learning together as you share (that’s right! You need to talk) with others about the Word of God (guided by some others lar)

What I need to do?
Register today and remind your parents to fetch you there!
Bring along a workable pen, a readable Bible and some cash for lunch

Let's come together & learn more on prayer..^^

Youth Outing - Bowling Competition

2009-08-05T07:34:00.000-07:00

YOU ARE INVITED to this great outing regardless whether you know how to bowl or not. Let’s come together for a day of great fun, fellowship and surprises!

When is the big day?
22 August (Saturday)

What time to arrive?
10:00 morning

Where to assemble?
Ampang Superbowl Bowling Centre
Lot 05-90 & 96, 5th Floor, East Wing
Berjaya Times Square

How much?
One Game: RM6.50
Shoe: RM2.00 per pair

Rules & Regulation:
• All the standard bowling rules apply
• Simply sign up, pay at the counter and play for 2 games
• Total score of both game will be the final score for each person

Category:
Category A - Girl under 28 years old
Category B - Guy under 28 years old

Prize:
Category A – RM20 voucher
Category B – RM20 voucher

Sub-competition (just for fun – no prizes)
(1) Foosball
(2) Snooker

*special note: there is plan to go for a swim & visit Vicky Lee’s place. It depends on whether Vicky’s place is available and how many youth are interested

Prayer Box

2009-07-19T08:25:00.000-07:00

I've add a "chat box" at the bottom of the page of this blog...
Just simple scroll down & down & down to the max!

I named it "Prayer Box"..
The purpose of it is for all of you *nuwav e youths* to drop by any prayer requests..
Let us pray for one another. =)

Oh ya,
No chatting there other than prayer requests ya. =)
Thanks..^^

Let us lift each other up in prayer..

Prayer

2009-07-19T05:17:00.000-07:00

Hello..this is the video that I would like to share..
It's about prayer.
A video by Ps Jaeson Ma..
Remember the CASTS or ACTS?

Do spend a few minutes to watch..=)

Hope you guys & girls learnt fromthe past "growing to know God" lesson..
Do take effort in spending some quiet time everyday ya..
God bless!

P.S: From now onwards, if there's any information or extra materials that I would like to share regarding to the teen class lesson, I'll post them here..

Nuwav 5th Anniversary

2009-07-19T05:00:00.000-07:00

It was a blast! *cool~xD*
I've blog before in my edryanne's story..
Here's the post link.

I only blog mainly about the dance *since I'm one of them*
I don't have pictures of the event. sorry..
But I know facebook got a lot.
Many people uploaded about that event & now I've got know idea where are the pictures..
*drowned in the cyber space?*
hehe.
Will try to search for the pictures & post the link here.

Again, for those who missed out watching the dance video,
Walaa~ there you are. ^^

Original dance : korean team
Songs : September+ Lord You are Good + Rejoice

Nuwav 5th Anniversary!

2009-05-18T06:46:00.000-07:00

Beyond Limit 2009!

Date:
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Time:
6:30pm - 9:30pm

A great celebration event for celebrate 5th anniversary of Nuwav, a youth ministry which fully organized by First Assembly of God Church, Pudu K. L.

Event Programmes:-
Sharing
Singing
Cocktail
Skit
Games
Dance

Special Speaker:
Ps. Joeann Chong

Dress Code:
Blue

Please request the invitation pass from your friend those are from First Assembly of God Church.

Here's the facebook link.^^

come & celebrate with us!^^

To Heaven and Back : a real life story

2009-05-18T06:45:00.000-07:00

from the The Star Online newspaper,

Thursday April 17, 2008

To heaven and back

By SARAH CHEW

A grave accident leaves a young boy paralysed and in a coma. When he awakens, he displays extraordinary abilities. His mother documents their story in a book.

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Retha McPherson is a striking woman with piercing eyes and she wears four-inch heels, as can be expected of a former beauty queen.

But those eyes tear up when she speaks about her experiences in 2004, which she writes about in her book, A Message from God, that was launched in Kuala Lumpur recently.

It began on June 19, 2004, the same year Retha, a Christian and an image consultant, was chosen as Mrs South Africa.

“My life was so perfect,” Retha wrote in her book. “I had a wonderful loving marriage, two beautiful healthy children and a successful business.”

Against all odds: Aldo McPherson and his mother, Retha.

All that was to change when the family had a car accident on a highway in Free State, South Africa. In an attempt to avoid a stationary car, her husband, Tinus, swerved onto a watercourse and their vehicle rolled over several times. When Retha came to, her children Aldo, 12, and Josh, three, were gone.

“My children flew out of the car,” recalls Retha at the launch.

“When we found Josh, he only had minor cuts but I found Aldo on the other side of the highway. I could feel his cracked skull and blood gushing out. I couldn’t feel a pulse.”

The paramedics arrived on the scene by helicopter, revived Aldo and punctured his collapsed lungs to insert respiratory tubes.

Aldo had a four-hour operation in Union Hospital, Alberton, Johannesburg, and doctors informed Retha he had serious brain injuries.

Tinus, in an e-mail interview, remembers having to deal with the trauma and guilt that followed the accident since Aldo was the one who bore the brunt of it.

“I felt so responsible for the accident and the first few weeks after were the lowest points of my life, seeing him on the bed and not responding to anything,” he says.

“I stayed with him in the intensive care unit for a week and doctors told me to say goodbye to him,” Retha says.

“On day 12, they told me, ‘Mrs McPherson, you have no medical funds left and we cannot detect any brain function. So we are going to take Aldo off the life-support machines. Either he lives and becomes a vegetable, or he dies’.”

That day was a defining one for Retha and her family, because as she prayed in a room by herself, she felt as if God was talking to her.

“Despite my son’s condition, it was the best day of my life,” she says. “I felt peace, love and acceptance all at one go. I even forgot about my son, everything just disappeared.”

It was then that she decided to take her son home.

Two months after the accident, Aldo left the hospital. Still in a coma, he was hooked up to respiratory machines and a feeding tube.

When he was 12, Aldo was hospitalised and hooked to life support machines after an accident left him paralysed, comatose and severely damaged his brain.

One side of Aldo’s body was paralysed and the other, spastic. He was blind in one eye and could not open his mouth to eat.

But Retha refused to accept his condition and with depleting finances, set out to slowly help her son recover.

At the airport one day, she saw Aldo’s favourite candy called “sour worms” and bought four pieces. Every day, she would stick one in his mouth and on the fourth day, he opened his mouth. From then, she began feeding him soft food.

Six months after the accident, he ate his first hamburger.

At the book launch in KL, Retha showed photos of her family putting Aldo on an exercise bicycle to strengthen his legs although five people had to support him.

As Aldo’s limbs strengthened, Tinus would cycle with him on a tandem bicycle.

“I borrowed a tandem bicycle and put Aldo on the back,” Tinus recalls.

“Initially, we had to strap him in, even his hands were tied to the handle bar.

“We soon got the hang of things and three months later, we completed a 40km cycle race.”

Only eight months later could he speak and almost a year after the accident, he could see with both eyes. In April 2006, Aldo stood up for the first time in two years and a year later, he started to play football although he still falls down often.

Aldo’s story

Four months after Aldo’s accident, a therapist suggested putting a pencil in his spastic hand, which eventually relaxed, so that he could doodle.

“I held his hand and he started to write. I knew then that his brain was fine,” says Retha. “Even now in school, people still have to support his wrists when he writes because he has a twitch.”

Aldo communicated through writing and one day, he wrote that he had gone to heaven.

“In heaven, we played and sang for Jesus, the angels were all around us,” Aldo wrote. “No one is sick there.”

Aldo had also written that when Retha found him at the accident scene, his spirit was “taken up” and he could look down and see what had happened and describe the details.

Retha admits that she and Tinus kept all this a secret at first, not wanting people to think that they were mad.

During his recovery, Aldo communicated frequently by writing before he could speak. This is one of his notes in which the first few lines reads 'faith in God'.

Aldo, however, kept telling her about his heavenly experiences and once, kept making a circular motion with his hands over his head.

“Tinus and I asked him to stop it, but he wouldn’t and said it was about two boys, Dwane and Anton, whom he had met in heaven,” Retha reveals.

Aldo wrote letters to these boys’ parents telling them that their children were healed and happy, but were concerned about their parents. He put the letters in envelopes and gave Retha their addresses.

“I thought to myself, ‘This is too much, the medicine is too strong’,” Retha laughs. “I told Tinus that we had to get Aldo off the medicine somehow.”

But Aldo was adamant and in the end, the family made contact with these two families. They found that indeed they had had boys by those names who had died. When shown family photographs, Aldo could point out their faces. Anton had Down Syndrome, and the circular hand motions were Aldo’s way of describing it.

“Anton’s mother told my husband that she had beentaking pills for depression,” says Retha. “But she has gone off the pills since she received Aldo’s letter.”

That was not the only incident which stumped his parents and others around him. One time, he had a “vision” of water flooding housing areas in December 2006.

“He kept telling me to put sandbags around our house because water was coming. Then he wrote ‘Mum, you’re going to need rest because you’re going overseas’,” Retha recalls. “I told him, ‘I’m not going anywhere’, because I usually don’t travel in December.”

Two days later, the Dec 26 Asian tsunami struck and because Retha was Mrs South Africa, she was asked to go and help those affected in Aceh, Indonesia.

Apart from Aldo’s extraordinary ability to “see” difficult situations and people’s thoughts, Retha reveals that he is a normal boy who is struggling with his weaknesses.

One eyelid still droops, he has stitches and bruises due to falling every few steps, he speaks in a painfully slow monotone and has epileptic fits when he is tense.

“When he talks, he puts up his hands even in public, we don’t know why he does it,” she says. “Some people don’t react well to him, especially initially when he hung his head and drooled – people would stare at him and say ‘look at that freak’.”

Tinus describes the entire experience as a “very lonely road” and not many friends were willing to walk the journey with them.

But he and Retha have learnt to take things in their stride, because they have seen the big leaps in Aldo’s recovery.

“Aldo is now in a regular private school where he is the only ‘disabled’ child,” Tinus explains. “He has a private tutor who picks him up at the house in the morning, takes him to school, helps him there and then she will take him to speech and physiotherapy in the afternoon.”

Though Aldo, now 16, has come a long way since the accident and defied medical logic, some have asked Retha if she is disappointed that Aldo is not completely healed.

But Retha points out that people are more likely to believe their story when they see Aldo in his recovery stages. She is thankful for the journey that has made her family selfless.

“I tell my husband that nothing in this world impresses me anymore,” she reveals, adding that she realises that not even good works can make her happy.

She is on a mission to share Aldo’s story.

“Before this, I was an image consultant but today, I do workshops in church sometimes on total image – body, soul and spirit,” she says. “How can you tell women to dress up when they are hurting inside?”

So far, Retha has travelled to the United States, Indonesia and Singapore to promote her self-published book. A Message from God has reportedly sold 25,000 copies around the world.

Retha ended her book launch here on a light note about Aldo’s hope to marry someday.

“Aldo is praying for a woman who loves scars!”

"Have faith in God," Jesus answered.
"I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain,
'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer,
believe that you have received it,
and it will be yours.

~Mark 11:22-24~

to find out more details about this real life-touching story, please WATCH this VIDEO:-

"a message from God"

to read full testimony of Retha and Aldo, click "a message from God"

to read Aldo's letters, click here.

Love is Coming to Town!

2009-05-18T06:44:00.000-07:00

Don't know where to go this coming Christmas' Eve??
Come & join us for this
"Christmas Countdown Celebration"
at
Dewan Wawasan, Menara PGRM
(Taman Maluri)
an event by Act of Love(AOL)

We got
DANCES,
DRAMA,
FASHION SHOW
GIFT DRAW
&
many more!

What are you waiting for?
COME!
BRING YOUR FRIENDS
&
it's
FREE ADMISSION!!

See you there at 7.30pm!

Something about the drama...
What would you see when two TV broadcasters collide with a quarreling couple?
What would you see when they came across a puzzled granpa & grandson in the season of Christmas?
Everybody has an unsolved question in a town filled witjh despair. But..
you know you can always ask!

The drama actors & actresses..

Jet Chin - Jeff Chin (988's DJ)

&

Rosy - Yew Yan Teng (artist)

Grandpa Wong - Chow Hon Cher

&

Grandson Justin - Justin Lim

Albert Wong - Eric Chong

&

Sophia - Leong Wai Wai

*to read the character's description, click the pictures for a larger view*

The map

*MERRY CHRISTMAS!*
\(^,^)/

The Business of Finding Fault Is Very Easy And That Of Doing Better Is Difficult.

2009-05-18T06:43:00.000-07:00

Lyold John Ogilvie wrote in Let God Love You, "The hardest time to be gentle is when we know we are right and someone else is obviously dead wrong...But the greatest temptation for most of us is when someone has failed us and has admitted it, and their destiny and happiness is in our hands. We hold the power to forgive or refuse a blessing.

"Recently a dear friends hurt me in both word and action. Each time we met, I almost began to enjoy the leverage of being the offended one. His first overtures of restitution were resisted because of the gravity of the judgement I had made. He had taken a key idea I had shared with him in confidence and had developed it as his own before I had a chance to use it. The plagiarism of ideas had been coupled with the use of some of my written material, reproduced under his name...The most difficult thing was to surrender my indignation and work through my hurt..."

"Finally, the Lord got me where He wanted me...His word to me was clear and undeniable, "Lyoyd, why it is so important to you who gets the credit, just so My work gets done?" I gave up my right to be what only God could be as this man's judge and saviour. The gentle attitude began to flow."

When we withold forgiveness, it is not only hurts the person we don't want to forgive, it hurts us. Out creativity and joy in life are stifled. When we forgive, we release peace and restoration to the forgiven and to ourselves.

Therefore you are without excuse, every man of you who passes judgement, for in that you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. ~Romans 2:1~

Develop The Hunter's Attitude...Wherever You Go, There Are Ideas Waiting To Be Discovered.

2009-05-18T06:42:00.000-07:00

According to designe Judyth van Amringe author of Home Art: Creating Romance and Magic With Everyday Objects, " You don't need a lot of money - just a little imaginations - to do what i do."

Judyth often finds the materials she works with at flea markets. In one instance, she took an old frame, covered it with macaroni shells. hiding the frame's cracks and chips, and painted it in "seaside" colors. In another case, she covered the legs of a warped pine table - a junk shop find - with a plastic ivy and fruit to give it an exotic look.

Where does she get her ideas? "I have no idea," she says, "but I've always wanted to put my personal touch on things...Don't be afraid to experiment. The point is to customize things tp your own style, your own way of living, and in the process, make life more amusing."

Judyth began her business by designing scarves, jewelry and gloves and then went on to decorate homes. Today, she is able to devote herself full-time to her design work in New York City.

Look around today. How do you wish the world to look? It is out of your own vision that you can begin to brighten your world.

"For everyone who keeps asking receives; and he who keeps on seeking finds; and to him who keeps on knocking, [the door] will be opened."

~Matthew 7:8~