Annual dinner and vision casting for 2009

It was a wonderful evening.

5.50pm........
Grace, Milla, Ming Hui, Boon Fei & Angela already at Elim. While Fu Yau and his team was in Canaan for praise and worship rehearsal. Grace was there to prepare fruits and drinks, while the rest were chatting. slowly more and more people arrived. but not the food. So Yan quickly called Sin Loong (who was in KL for her best friend's wedding) and found out that the caterer will be late.

6.35pm........
Finally the food arrived and everyone quickly line up for food. well, the 'Usher' team served the food and the suppose everyone was hungry so the comment on the food was 'very delicious' dinner menu: friend chicken wing, nasi lemak, fried beehun, curry pork rib, mix veg, curry puff, popiah, fruits... few tables were formed and everyone seemed enjoying the food and the fellowship.

7.15pm........
All adjourn to Canaan Hall as Fu Yau and team led all of us into time of worship the musicians were almost all from Titus' group (wow, they can form one band) then Eric (from Thian Yean's group) shared his testimony. how God taught him to tithe and trusting in God. His tagline: Life without Jesus is dark & bleak.

Followed by Boon Fei's vision casting. the direction of TnT and plans for 2009. 1st of all, the strengths and weaknesses of the group. we are very hospitable and helpful but weak in evangelism, prayer life and personal relationship with God.
For 2009, TnT is going to focus on building up spiritfual life for each individual. in order to acheive, he'll restart the TTWG (time together with God) on Thurs morning. also, every TnT member will read a book together so that we all can learn the same truth together. there'll be 4 times of prayer drive, 2 times in big group, the other 2 times in smaller group.
plans for 2009:
TTWG (every Thurs),
Book reading (Secret of the vine)
Prayer drive
- 13 Mar (all CGs meet in church)
- 12 Jun (JJ side CGs meet in church, town CGs meet in town)
- 4 Sept (all CGs meet in church)
- 4 Dec (JJ side CGs meet in church, town CGs meet in town)
Health Talk (11 Apr), CSI (15 Feb),
Gospel Rally (TBC),
Market Place Alpha course (May – July)
TnT Camp : 20–22 Sept (during Hari Raya Holiday)
Boon Fei quoted Act 13:36 For when David had served God’s purpose in his generation, he fell asleep, he was buried with his fathers and his body decayed.And he encourage everyone to grow strong in the Lord and seek to serve God's purpose for our generation and trust God to use the TnT to impact the world.

8.50pm........
Benny was invited to give his 'last speech'. nothing emotional but in fact he was trying to encourage everyone to serve the Lord as the Lord showed him that God will continue to grow TnT. He ended with Galatians 6:9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. after his speech, we presented him a gift from the TnTs - water heater and memoirs of Benny. Then Christine led all of us to pray for Benny and Sara.

9.10pm........
almost all went over to Elim to finish up the food and fellowship with Benny & Sara. seemed like really gonna miss each other so much that everyone just tried their best to talk to them.

10.20pm........
Benny & Sara left for KL. and soon, everyone went home. it was a heartwarming annual dinner. it was quite different from the previous one. from dinner time to praise & worship & supper time, was so warm and nice. Probably because by now lots of us know each other better. looking forward to 2009!