my brain and my schedule has been so ridiculously packed lately. its nuts. but its been amazing.
Rec team's been pretty tight. =) both in good times and keeping each other accountable... like when our jokes get outta hand. haha... every moment spent together, whether in person or the crazy 14 person msn chat (oh gosh), totally worth it. love you guys and girls! =)
TC... been keeping up with some TC kids (high schoolers). just to see how they're doing post-tc. also been talking to some coaches still. so =) its great. takes up more time and brain thinking space, but once again, totally worth it.
CC08!! website / registration is UP AND RUNNING at www.campus-challenge.com/2008 (YEAH!!!). we've had 1 person sign up already. :D its at Tyndale this year. (save that $5-$10 on gas money). save yourself some long weekend rush hour traffic on the 401. it also costs less (due to location change) so save yourself another like $50 compared to last year. COME COME COME.
so last ACF this past friday. banquet coming up this friday. frosh cell was last night. many things were taking place last night. still to do... banquet video. send pictures asap to uwoacf.av@gmail.com. yayyy!! ive been told that the banquet video is the highlight of the night. uh ohh... pressure's on! haha... a few sleepless nights, more brain space taken up. attempting to sum up this past year's ACF and bring back all the memories? totally worth it!
scac... softball. wow. i dont know where to begin. blessed with so many more players than expected. which will mean changes and decisions will need to be made ASAP. which only means more meeting times (probs multi-ppl msn chats) and more brain usage. but once again.. totally worth it!
more scac opportunities. including the summer intern position. things have changed. i just MIGHT apply. ive got less than a week to decide. yikes... not much time. pretty busy. but i gotta decide soon. need to pray about it more.
school... who cares. not like i dont care. but rather im not gunna spend my time thinking about it and trying to plan my life down to the last detail. stats say that ppl will change their career like 3-4 times in their life. whatever ppl study in univ, its kinda rare that they will actually stick with a career that they studied... unless its something super specific and they're high marks achievers. so my only goal now is to stay in univ and get a degree (i dont care what). i honestly cant wait to start working. cus im not a studying person. but rather, every single job ive had, the employer likes me and wants me back. according to my dad, ive got a logical sense of thinking / planning / problem solving. i do well in the work field.
im definitely lost at what i should study. applied to ryerson (back in gr12) and york (this past school year) and rejected by both. (what the crap. rejected by ryerson AND york but still going at western? makes no sense whatsoever. =P) but doors to the media industry have been slamming shut in my face. i think its God's way of telling me its not where i should be headed. and if keep trying to open a closed, locked door, then im just being stupid. so im not gunna. instead, i'll go wherever He leads me. i have no clue where that's going, but i know He's going, so im going. =)
so i dont think a 'reflective' post of TC is gunna come. but if you wanna know, feel free to contact me about it. ive already sent out a few emails about it to ppl... many aspects to it and each email only covers 1 aspect. i can always dig them up and send them all to you. haha...
ok. back to busy-ness. i still need to slot in softball somewhere... just in case the weather cooperates that one day. :D ive already tossed around once (easter sunday) but its been so cold ever since. that was sucha teaser. =( melt snow.. MELT!!!
3.30.2008
3.15.2008
so that was TC...
thoughts on TC to come later. (maybe...)
we'll. i'll probs write up something when im bored in astro in my monday night class or something.
but now that TC's over.. whats next?
- softball sign ups.
- ACF year end banquet :D
- CC08! (need to get crackin' on this)
- let softball begin!!!!
hmm... still on the lookout for a summer job...
but yeah. softball? haha...
we'll. i'll probs write up something when im bored in astro in my monday night class or something.
but now that TC's over.. whats next?
- softball sign ups.
- ACF year end banquet :D
- CC08! (need to get crackin' on this)
- let softball begin!!!!
hmm... still on the lookout for a summer job...
but yeah. softball? haha...
3.09.2008
just a tad bit too excited!
its currently 4:42am. you can call it late late saturday night. or bright and early sunday morning.
basically ive got to be up in about 4hrs to get to church. yet i havent been able to fall asleep. technically, its only 3:42 but its the 'daylight savings'. blah! so i lost an hour of staying up/sleeping. whatever you wanna call it.
so ive spent nearly 12hrs with TC REC today. and i can only say im SUPER excited for TC. as i laid in bed, trying to fall asleep, TC just kept flowing thru my mind. thinking back to this 'TC season'. haha! basically, its never winter (jan-march) if im not TC prepping. cus thats how its been since 2003/2004. sometimes it starts as early as August, other times as late as the January before TC. but the only reason i keep coming back to TC is because at TC2002, thats where i first encountered God, and that there IS more to being a Christian than just attending church every sunday, fellowship every friday, and answering all the sunday school questions. i will NEVER forget TC2002's worship sessions in that T3C sanctuary with 1000 others. (yes, it was the year when senior/junior conference was joint.) it was also the first time i did NOT zone out during the message but hung on to every single word! i still remember the friday-sunday before TC was 7-up's winter camp. i came home on the Sunday afternoon with the worst stomach ache possible. and it lasted for the LONGEST time. even when i got into bed in the early evening, i was still in pain. it was crazy! i thought i wasnt gunna be able to make it to TC. but as you know, i DID make it. haha... and it definitely was a milestone in my life. (milestone. tc2003's theme. 7 miles!) cus i got baptized 2 weeks after (Easter was in late March. just like how it is this year).
but ANYWAYS, back to the original reason for this post.... im excited because i cant wait to see what's God's gunna do at TC. this year, both junior and senior conferences have maxed out! thats OVER 1000 high schoolers who're gunna go! also, this year, they didnt have any difficulty getting their 'goal' number of TC captains! cus usually, by late january/early february, the TC co-ordinators are scrambling, trying to find more captains. but this year, before 2008, they already had all those spots filled! amazing or what? and with maxed out registration, that only means more captains (if the location can hold so many!).
so during the loooooong TC REC meeting today, we ended off (before dinner) with a time of prayer. and the song, God of this City just came to me.
greater things have yet to come
greater things are still to be donein this city at TC!!
and thru TC, great things will happen to this city as well!
i pray that teens who have never met God, or had a false perception of Him will meet Him this weekend.
that teens who have always known of God but never personally met God to meet Him. (like me back then!)
that teens who have met God, but have distanced themselves, will find Him again and remember why He is so great!
i also pray for the volunteers to be humbled. because a lot of us think that we will be there to make an impact. that we are "TC alumni". but God may just turn that around and we'll be impacted instead. either way, we will also leave TC with a great reminder of how He is in control and we're not.
im totally stoked for TC. God's gunna move in amazing ways. its gunna be awesome! i just know it!
Sunday: Concert of Prayer @ 7pm @ RHCCC
Monday-Thursday: TEENS CONFERENCE 2008 Jr/Sr entire day @ RHCCC
basically ive got to be up in about 4hrs to get to church. yet i havent been able to fall asleep. technically, its only 3:42 but its the 'daylight savings'. blah! so i lost an hour of staying up/sleeping. whatever you wanna call it.
so ive spent nearly 12hrs with TC REC today. and i can only say im SUPER excited for TC. as i laid in bed, trying to fall asleep, TC just kept flowing thru my mind. thinking back to this 'TC season'. haha! basically, its never winter (jan-march) if im not TC prepping. cus thats how its been since 2003/2004. sometimes it starts as early as August, other times as late as the January before TC. but the only reason i keep coming back to TC is because at TC2002, thats where i first encountered God, and that there IS more to being a Christian than just attending church every sunday, fellowship every friday, and answering all the sunday school questions. i will NEVER forget TC2002's worship sessions in that T3C sanctuary with 1000 others. (yes, it was the year when senior/junior conference was joint.) it was also the first time i did NOT zone out during the message but hung on to every single word! i still remember the friday-sunday before TC was 7-up's winter camp. i came home on the Sunday afternoon with the worst stomach ache possible. and it lasted for the LONGEST time. even when i got into bed in the early evening, i was still in pain. it was crazy! i thought i wasnt gunna be able to make it to TC. but as you know, i DID make it. haha... and it definitely was a milestone in my life. (milestone. tc2003's theme. 7 miles!) cus i got baptized 2 weeks after (Easter was in late March. just like how it is this year).
but ANYWAYS, back to the original reason for this post.... im excited because i cant wait to see what's God's gunna do at TC. this year, both junior and senior conferences have maxed out! thats OVER 1000 high schoolers who're gunna go! also, this year, they didnt have any difficulty getting their 'goal' number of TC captains! cus usually, by late january/early february, the TC co-ordinators are scrambling, trying to find more captains. but this year, before 2008, they already had all those spots filled! amazing or what? and with maxed out registration, that only means more captains (if the location can hold so many!).
so during the loooooong TC REC meeting today, we ended off (before dinner) with a time of prayer. and the song, God of this City just came to me.
greater things have yet to come
greater things are still to be done
and thru TC, great things will happen to this city as well!
i pray that teens who have never met God, or had a false perception of Him will meet Him this weekend.
that teens who have always known of God but never personally met God to meet Him. (like me back then!)
that teens who have met God, but have distanced themselves, will find Him again and remember why He is so great!
i also pray for the volunteers to be humbled. because a lot of us think that we will be there to make an impact. that we are "TC alumni". but God may just turn that around and we'll be impacted instead. either way, we will also leave TC with a great reminder of how He is in control and we're not.
im totally stoked for TC. God's gunna move in amazing ways. its gunna be awesome! i just know it!
Sunday: Concert of Prayer @ 7pm @ RHCCC
Monday-Thursday: TEENS CONFERENCE 2008 Jr/Sr entire day @ RHCCC
3.03.2008
I WILL SING SING SING
a week and one day ago, i was down in DC with 3000 other college/univ students in the Patriot Center @ George Mason University praising and worshiping God. i think its safe to say that none of us wanted to leave that atmosphere. we just wanted to keep going thru the night and worship thru song (and dance... or bounce :D). i couldnt care less if it was chris tomlin, matt redman, charlie hall, or anyone else from the crowd could've jumped on stage and led the worship. or even acappella! i just wanted to keep singing! SING SING SING! and no, it wasnt just the last 'send off' session, but for all 4 sessions. we didnt want the praising and worshiping to stop.
Day and night they never stop saying: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come." Revelations 4:8
1 week and 1 day after that, i was back in SCAC's sanctuary for sunday service. ok! lets get the worshiping thru singing started!
Pure and Holy Passion as call to worship... ok... they picked it. why not. lets go with it.
second song, Nothing But the Blood. communion sunday. appropriate enough. ok. next song.
"please be seated."
what? thats it? i was just getting started!
on to the sermon. Matthew 5:27-30. on purity. Pastor Tim's a great preacher if you want to study the Bible. not too sure about applicable. but definitely awesome for learning from the Word.
songs of response... Worthy is the Lamb. i was worshiping. didnt notice much about it. lyrics alone are powerful enough.
next song of response. The Stand. too fast. didn't build up enough. wrong chords. oh nos.. im being super picky about worship again! wrong chords? i dont think thats being picky. im a drummer and i dont do notes. but i noticed wrong chords. cant really call that picky now can you?
and then 3rd song. i dont remember. was too distracted by The Stand. something they did with a repeated acapella chorus. i only remember this because i usually spend at least one or two lines not singing if its acapella so i can hear the voices around me praising God. but i dont think i heard much. =(
"please be seated".
why is there such a drastic difference?
i dont get it. we all believe in the same God. i see the same ppl at hillsongconcert worship night, at TC, etc and they worship differently. WHY? its not the worship team. how do i know this? at scac's english church retreat, we invited Tyndale's worship band to lead us in worship and the response from the congregation was the same as any given sunday.
and NO its not because scac is super conservative. because a few years back, we didnt 'look like the most boring person on the earth' as Chris Tomlin would put it (haha.. yes. he actually said that at Passion07! proof? click here! at about 30sec.). i know im not supposed to judge others cus for all i know, they ARE worshiping in their hearts. but really... i honestly cant retain it! and i cant be the only one who physically displays it when i get excited to worship... or can i?
maybe its not about being a fruitcake around non christians only. afterall, Ashley was forced to go to church when she was younger. she just simply didnt get it. until her Fruitcake roommate came along in her senior year and second semester. and thru a transformation over 14 days, she understood it! she finally got the message and thats when she was changed for the rest of her life. maybe this is where i need to be a Fruitcake. at SCAC. just being myself. being weird in the right ways. because I GET IT!! i understand!
when it was time for communion, pastor tim got up there and read out Psalm 22. i have no clue how that relates to communion. other than the first line from the first verse, which is what Jesus said when He was on the cross. but the moment he started reading, i was like 'whatttt... thats kinda how im feeling!' you know.. when you read something and force it to apply to your situation just because. so im like "yeah.. i kinda feel like that. ok.. maybe not to the extreme of lions tearing their prey.. but maybe a watered down version?"
then Psalm 22:22 just stuck out to me!
I will declare your name to my brothers;
in the congregation I will praise you.
BAM! theres the confirmation for me to be a Fruitcake at SCAC.
OH.. i remember now. one of the songs we sang was Beautiful One by Tim Hughes. i dont remember when we sang it now that i think about it. i definitely have the song orders mixed up. haha... maybe Nothing but the Blood was part of the response set.. which would make sense to flow into communion. and it was a part of The Stand that was sung acapella? i dont know... lol!
OHH and another thing. if you want the full story of Fruitcake (or at least good enough of a story to understand all this Fruitcake business, lemme know. i'll send it to you)
OHHH if you havent realized, i've been using "OH" instead of "PS" in this blog entry. haha...
Day and night they never stop saying: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come." Revelations 4:8
1 week and 1 day after that, i was back in SCAC's sanctuary for sunday service. ok! lets get the worshiping thru singing started!
Pure and Holy Passion as call to worship... ok... they picked it. why not. lets go with it.
second song, Nothing But the Blood. communion sunday. appropriate enough. ok. next song.
"please be seated."
what? thats it? i was just getting started!
on to the sermon. Matthew 5:27-30. on purity. Pastor Tim's a great preacher if you want to study the Bible. not too sure about applicable. but definitely awesome for learning from the Word.
songs of response... Worthy is the Lamb. i was worshiping. didnt notice much about it. lyrics alone are powerful enough.
next song of response. The Stand. too fast. didn't build up enough. wrong chords. oh nos.. im being super picky about worship again! wrong chords? i dont think thats being picky. im a drummer and i dont do notes. but i noticed wrong chords. cant really call that picky now can you?
and then 3rd song. i dont remember. was too distracted by The Stand. something they did with a repeated acapella chorus. i only remember this because i usually spend at least one or two lines not singing if its acapella so i can hear the voices around me praising God. but i dont think i heard much. =(
"please be seated".
why is there such a drastic difference?
i dont get it. we all believe in the same God. i see the same ppl at hillsong
and NO its not because scac is super conservative. because a few years back, we didnt 'look like the most boring person on the earth' as Chris Tomlin would put it (haha.. yes. he actually said that at Passion07! proof? click here! at about 30sec.). i know im not supposed to judge others cus for all i know, they ARE worshiping in their hearts. but really... i honestly cant retain it! and i cant be the only one who physically displays it when i get excited to worship... or can i?
maybe its not about being a fruitcake around non christians only. afterall, Ashley was forced to go to church when she was younger. she just simply didnt get it. until her Fruitcake roommate came along in her senior year and second semester. and thru a transformation over 14 days, she understood it! she finally got the message and thats when she was changed for the rest of her life. maybe this is where i need to be a Fruitcake. at SCAC. just being myself. being weird in the right ways. because I GET IT!! i understand!
when it was time for communion, pastor tim got up there and read out Psalm 22. i have no clue how that relates to communion. other than the first line from the first verse, which is what Jesus said when He was on the cross. but the moment he started reading, i was like 'whatttt... thats kinda how im feeling!' you know.. when you read something and force it to apply to your situation just because. so im like "yeah.. i kinda feel like that. ok.. maybe not to the extreme of lions tearing their prey.. but maybe a watered down version?"
then Psalm 22:22 just stuck out to me!
I will declare your name to my brothers;
in the congregation I will praise you.
BAM! theres the confirmation for me to be a Fruitcake at SCAC.
OH.. i remember now. one of the songs we sang was Beautiful One by Tim Hughes. i dont remember when we sang it now that i think about it. i definitely have the song orders mixed up. haha... maybe Nothing but the Blood was part of the response set.. which would make sense to flow into communion. and it was a part of The Stand that was sung acapella? i dont know... lol!
OHH and another thing. if you want the full story of Fruitcake (or at least good enough of a story to understand all this Fruitcake business, lemme know. i'll send it to you)
OHHH if you havent realized, i've been using "OH" instead of "PS" in this blog entry. haha...
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