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Time really flies. 4 days of Emerge just passed so quickly. All that I could remember is that these 4 days of mine, I really spent it so fulfilling. Every single day at Emerge is so worth it.

Now lets get back to the 4th day, the finale of Emerge conference 2007. Before that, I want to tell you friends that this is like the best service ever, I enjoyed it for the whole day. And it is a waste that you guys couldn't join me. Alright, so the Sunday morning kicked off with 2 services, one at 10a.m. to 12p.m and the other at 12.30p.m. to 2.30p.m. Both services were the same actually. It is made so such that more people can actually come and listen to it. Because due to capacity limitations, one service the maximum amount of people is around 10k+.

The morning service started with a drama presented by the drama ministry titled, "PVC rocks". (PVC is their short-form for Pandan Valley College) It is a really good musical drama that is similar to 'High School Musical', and I think that is where they actually got the inspiration from. The dance, music, songs and the script of the drama is collaborated and written by themselves. The play is amazing and I really like drama lots as well. One day I would like to be in the drama ministry and well my cell group leader encouraged me to.

After the drama, pastor Kong came up and teach us about the word of God, telling us that each one of us is a light, that we are to shine out in the darkness because the light does not hide itself. You do not cover your light nor candle right? Light gives us life, plants make food for animals to eat which in turn gives us food. Light gives vision, where without light we can't see. Light dispels darkness, because light is so much stronger as light eats darkness and not darkness eat the light. Darkness cannot exist whenever there is light.

So to be precise, I went for both service, watch the drama twice (which in the 2nd time they improved and made it funnier), and listened to the word twice. It is really better because repetition makes us able to absorb it better, and understand it better.

The 2nd service ended at 2.30pm and the finale session would start at 5 in the night. We took lunch and spent some time at hall7 before we went to queue up. The response is really good because I can see the queue being so long and so many people queuing up and anxiously wanting to get in. Quite a few of our cell group members were sitting with their cluster due to prize presentation that night. Therefore only 6 of us were sitting together and praise the Lord that in the end, even though there are so many people, we managed to get a seat in the middle. Which is already difficult for normal service yet during the grand finale we are able to get.

4.50p.m. we started with 'Winning Eleven' finals which the 2 finalist compete using the projector, so it is really like watching a football match together. Final score AC Milan 2 - 1 (err. some other team, I've forgotten the name). And the event started at 5p.m. with a count down just like Thursday's service.

For the finale service, we had lots of prize presentation for the 60+ competitions held in the past few weeks. And also the announcement for the winning cluster, which for secondary cluster, the South won and for tertiary cluster, Junior College and CI.

Also the announcement for the winners for Spelling bee, word power and Goodness I tell you, the group that won the word power, they came up on stage and they showed that they are worthy to win because they had to play again. However just once one, they choose the question by random numbers and they had to recite out the verse with full punctuations. This time, its more fancinating because each of the 3 member take turn to say one word each! Which basically means 1st person says "we" then 2nd "won" and 3rd goes "!" but the verse is really long and with many punctuations.

And also the winners for talentime, with the different categories of drama, hosting, vocal, group, dance. Winners of the Parade of School, for secondary cluster and tertiary. But only the winner for tertiary came up to perform once more.

After the prize presentation, we sang songs, had so much fun and the atmosphere is really high as I can really feel that people are really getting so hyped up, including me. And then the word which is About the trumpets being pass down since long long time, which is for us to spread the gospel. As many of us Christian knows that there would be a 2nd coming of Jesus Christ, which is coming really soon in this generation. Which basically means that we are the last generation to impact, to save the people already. This is already the last calling for those that wish to repent for their sins.

After which we all sang songs, talked to God, really everyone brought up to God. Repenting for our sins, we clearly admit and realise that God sent his son Jesus to die so that our sins can be forgiven. Pastor Kong shared touching stories and interview the Lady entrepreneur of 77th Street which is from City Harvest Church. The stories really touched my heart and I could feel God and I just wept. So many years of my life, I have not cried in public already.

And really the last last part, we got worship song (Great is our God) in 3 languages English, Chinese and Japanese! So we sang lots of time with the 3 language. And wow really the atmosphere is so amazing. We go:

No I won't deny it./Uchi Kaesanai
No I won't deny it./Uchi Kaesanai

Great is our God./Idainashu (and all go: HEY HEY HEY)
Great is our God./Idainashu (HEY HEY HEY)
Make his praise loud,/Sanbiga
Make it loud, make it loud!/Hibiku, Hibiku.

And hand in hand, shoulder and shoulder, everyone together as one as we sway and sing the song (something about friendship). The balloons came down from the top at the end and confetti blew out from the back. Everyone having so much fun. And thats the end of Emerge 2007 and I'm so looking forward to it next year!

I know it may sound boring to you as you read my entry here, but I tell you, it is for you to experience it in order to feel and understand what I am really talking about. 4 full days of being in God's presence, I tell you, it is so worthy of your time.

Take good care of yourself people, God bless ya' and I hope to see all of ya soon!


signed.
jUNYONGK.

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wow.

one word to describe yesterday's EMERGE conference:

OVERWHELMING!

Wow. really a great performance and sermon.


I started off by attending the 1st session in the morning at 10a.m. There was worship, praise and prayer just like normal service and also the brainest youth finals. After that session, there was a long break inbetween where people can go and see some other activities in another hall (7) like, 3-3 basketball, soccer, arm wrestling. There were also backdrops for people to take photograph with and also many stalls selling a variety of food.

2p.m. later in the afternoon, my cellgroup mates and I went back to the hall to see the word power finals. I am so amazed by the 6 groups up on the stage, which are categorize by their campuses like, NTU, SIM/SMU and NUS. They are suppose to memorize 40 different verses, after which they are tested by given with a short phase (around 3 - 4 word) and they have to recite out the full verse WITH the punctuations, the chapter and verse number.

It ended at 4p.m. which we had to leave the hall. When we got outside, the queue for the 6p.m session is already super long. So yeah we queue for 2hrs before we finally got in. The bad part is friends whom we've invited are unable to join us because they came slightly later, and the response is so overwhelming that we have NO SPACE !! no space inside, super bad and they were waiting outside.

A few friend of mine, feeling hot and naturally frustrated, decided to leave. And here's something i wanna state it out. Dear friends, if you came with a wrong purpose and there's no point coming if you are really expecting something to happen but yet you close your heart. How do you receive when you do not reach out? How can anything come in when the door is closed? I hope this setback, this disappoint have not made u close your heart on God.

We really have to grow up, being matured. Not just physically matured, but mentally and spiritually matured. No point being big on the outside and small on the inside.

But thank God, I have another group of friends whom stayed and actually made it to watch the service in hall 7 where they have projectors. Praise the Lord that they stayed till the Parade of Schools ended. However it was a waste they went off before the word. But Im really glad that at least they really turned up. Thank God for that.

My sincere apologies that I am unable to play a good host to all of you in my father's house. I'll praying for all of you, hoping that you'll be able to be like US, understanding what made the change in our life.

God bless all of you.

The service was really enjoyable, we all went so high with all the dances, parade of schools, and even the taiwanese singer, TANK came and sang two songs for us. SUN came back secretly to visit us, and Faye from F.I.R was present too. However Faye could not sing here because she was seriously too expensive to hire. Best of all, our service was broadcast LIVE all over the world, in places like the United States on Christian TV. Normally government would charge around $3k for the broadcast, but praise the Lord, we got it for FREE!.

Shuttle Bus was provided for us to reach various location in Singapore. And thank God there is a one which leads straight back to my home.

I'm so looking forward to the Emerge today. Although I am working currently, and unable to attend the morning session, I definitely would not miss the night session.


God bless everyone out there. And may everyone find their way home soon...
Take good care, cya!

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Hey can you hear it? The cheering in the background..
What else can it be?

well. its the EMERGE conference 2007!

are you ready to partayye~?!

An once a year event, held by City Harvert Church which is a must not miss event. This event aims to promote youth to compete and display (in order to find out) the talents they have in them. It also aims to build salvation in campus, school and workplace.

It is a 4-day event from 31May(Thurs) - 3June(Sun) with fun filled exciting programs and competition like, Word Power finals, Parade of Schools (POS, cheer leading), Debate finals, Beauty pageant and man hunt competition and more!

To add on to your list of benefits, there would be FREE FOOD provided! kidding actually..

Here is the schedule for emerge 2007:

***for the morning session, you must have a emerge wristband in order to enter***


THURSDAY (31 MAY)

10 a.m. - 1 p.m. SESSION 1
2 p.m. - 4p.m. Word Power Finals
Personal Testimony Finals
Math Olympiad Finals
2 p.m. - 3 p.m. Brainiest Youth Finals
3 p.m. - 5 p.m. Spelling Bee Finals
6 p.m. - 10 p.m. SESSION 2
Parade of Schools

FRIDAY (1 JUNE)
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. SESSION 3
2 p.m. - 4 p.m. Debate Finals
Preaching Challenge Finals
3 p.m. - 5 p.m. Beauty Pageant & Manhunt Finals
7 p.m. - 11 p.m. SESSION 4
Beauty Pageant & Manhunt Grand Finals
Spelling Bee Finals (3rd & 4th placing)

SATURDAY (2 JUNE)
12 p.m. - 3 p.m. Talentime Finals
4.30 p.m. - 5 p.m. Make-up, Costume, Jeans & T-Shirt Design Finals
5 p.m. - 9 p.m. SESSION 5
"Who Wants to be a Missionary" Finals

SUNDAY (3 JUNE)
10 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. SESSION 6 (Big Day)
12.30 p.m. - 2 p.m. SESSION 7 (Big Day)
4.45 p.m. - 5 p.m. Winning Eleven Grand Finals
5 p.m. - 9 p.m. SESSION 8 (Grand Finale)
Spelling Bee Grand Finals (1st & 2nd placing)
Arm Wrestling Grand Finals (1st & 2nd placing)
Prize Presentation


Pastor Kong Hee would also be giving short sermons/speech as seen in the schedule above. *sessions*. Be sure not to miss this great event as it would be broadcast LIVE in many other countries like the U.S.

So come on down now with your friends and family now, dress up in vibrant colors and stay hype and cool! Hope to see you there!

(for more information, please visit www.emerge.sg )


God bless,
-jUNYONGK.

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