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SUNDAY, 7.30AM: Tammi's alarm rings. Tammi shuts off alarm and decides to snooze it until 8am.

- but she forgets to reset the alarm!!! -

SUNDAY, 10.28AM: Justin SMSes Tammi to ask where she is. SMS alert tone wakes Tammi up and Tammi is shocked when she sees what time it is. Tammi apologizes to Justin and says that she will go to the second service which is at 12.30pm (cuz she obviously cannot make it to the 10.30am service anymore).

SUNDAY, 12.30PM: Tammi reaches church (yep, at that exact time). Church service starts.

SUNDAY, forgot-exactly-what-time PM: Singapore YWAM boss/head/whatever.. leader? A Mr. Joseph Chean is the speaker for today. He tells his story of how, before he accepted Christ at the age of 18, he was an Orchard road lepak-er, until a friend (who, ironically, was the same friend who had taught him every bad thing he knew) brought him to Christ.

Bah. I'm tired of the timeline thing. Hahahaha. Anyway, his sermon was great and very touching, his story amazing. I didn't get to make notes cuz I forgot to bring a pen and notebook, so yeah, I'll just roughly try and tell everything by memory. *ahem* Here goes...

So yeah, so he (the speaker guy..) went to church, and then he said that during worship a slide that quoted John 3:16 (if you don't know verse, then... hahaha, I don't know xD) but instead of "the world", the words were replaced with the speaker's name. Yeah. Something like that. Hahaha. So well, he accepted Christ, even though his mom didn't allow him to. But he went ahead anyway.

Then his mom found out about him going to church, but she let him, but this time the condition was that he was not allowed to be baptized. But guess what? He got baptized anyway, but without telling his mom, of course.

And so yeah, he went home after being baptized, and he found out that his mom knew. He was surprised, and asked her how she knew.

His mom said that earlier on she had went to visit his uncle, who is some Buddhist priest thing, to try and convert his spirit (the speaker) from Christianity back to Buddhism.
She then said his uncle said he couldn't do it, because the spirit that was inside Joseph was something that couldn't be touched. Then his mom was like "All these gods in front of you and you can't touch it??" and the priest guy was like "Because the Spirit is that of the most High God."

Yeah. I'm so afraid I might have gotten the story wrong (Justin, he was your speaker at first service also right? Did he tell the same story?)

So yeah. Uhm. Then blah blah, he was called to full-time mission trips, went to visit slums in India, and saw the extreme poverty they were living in, and it prompted him to this question: Who are we to live the way we are living now, instead of like those in poverty? What did we do to deserve the clothes we wear, the food we eat etc.? That one was, yeah. It got me.

He then referred to Ezekiel 43:1-2. *grabs Bible* - Then the man brought me to the gate facing east, and I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east...

Gah. How I wish I had taken notes. Now my post is like all over the place -_- He said something about how revivals have been everywhere since Paul started sharing the gospel from Rome onwards. It then went on to transform Europe, Africa, America, Canada, New Zealand, Australia... but then there hasn't been like a full gospel revival in Asia. Yeppers, our beloved continent. See why I bolded all the "easts" in the verse above? Lol.

Man! *makes mental note to remember to always bring a pen and notebook to church next time*

He told us some things that were amazing, that really reflected God's glory. My favourite was one of which a woman was told by God to collect used clothes to donate them to a group of missionaries who were specifically going to Cambodia. So she found them, and they brought it to the orphanage in Cambodia, and they counted out the clothes and there were not enough. So they didn't dare to give them out, but in the end they did (after praying over the clothes... like the story of the 2 fish and 5 bread? Or was it 2 bread and 5 fish.. I think it was 2 fish.. hahahaha xD) and they gave out the clothes one by one, and at the end, each and every kid had three sets of clothing each. AMAZING RIGHT!!!???

Sigh. I felt really touched to reach out to my friends. None of my friends are Christians as far as I know. But I'm really scared to, honestly, especially since we're all not that close yet. Sigh.

Hope my story wasn't weird and messy, haha.. I promise to make proper notes next time especially if I intend to blog about it xD

Have a great week, everybody!