HELLOOOOOOOO CG :D

this blog is dead! haha so i shall revive it (:
yeah & cos i have something to share too..
it's kind of about the christmas outreach but i guess it all started from camp so yep.

during one of the camp sermons, Pastor Carl Butler shared about how we should just take God at His Word & see what we dare to ask of Him.
yeah & so i was rather inspired by that, so i decided to just pray to God about asking my friends down & all.
you see, recently, like for this year, i've barely tried to ask my friends down cos they never seem to come, so i guess i got kind of discouraged.
but during camp, i just felt like God did SO MUCH for us, & the least i can do is try to share with my friends right?
so yeah, i decided to ask my friends down for christmas outreach.

at first their replies weren't promising (some didn't even reply haha) like always.
but i called one of my friends - Shili - to invite her down & at first she wasn't really interested.
until i told her i was acting & she suddenly sounded quite interested.
so i got kinda excited & she said she'll ask her mother.
but i guess a few days, when she hadn't replied yet, i started to like get ready that none of my friends would be coming, because it's not the first time she wanted to come before.
you see, i've been asking her down since last year but even though at times she DID want to come, it was because her mother didn't allow her, so yeah, she never got to come down.
but i guess i really underestimated God, cos He really surprised me.

i had to go away overseas to China on sunday, & by then, Shili had already told me she could come, so i was super duper happy :D
she wanted our other mutual friend to come too, so i asked her to invite my other friend since i was going away.
so yeah, i went away, & i really put everything out of my mind.
i even kind of forgot about all my other friends i'd invited since i didn't think they were coming.
i guess i just decided to leave everything to God, because things started to get really busy then, what with being away but still having to prepare christmas things for everyone, the drama etc.

but you see, God works in really cool amazing & awesome ways, which is kinda what i just discovered.
when i got home, two days before the outreach, i contacted my other friend, Ellie, who said that she MIGHT come & amazingly, she said she'd be coming!
yeah i've asked this friend several times too, but yeah, nothing ever really happened.
so anyway, i was really happy already, because i had two friends coming & usually i have none! :D

the day of the outreach itself, i didn't even think about my friends cos i was busy trying not to get nervous about the drama.
but like just before i was supposed to meet Shili, Ellie smsed to say that she was bringing her friend along too.
i guess i was kinda scared, since i didn't know her other friend, but i just thought well, this is all the more better cos someone else has another chance to hear about the good news, so i just prayed that i wouldn't be scared, then i just put it out of my mind.
just after that, Shili smsed me to say that they were going to be late.
it was only then that i realised that two of my other friends were coming too, cos i knew she wasn't coming with Ellie.
yeah & i started to get really scared, cos i've never had a non-Christian come to church with me before, & suddenly they come in this whole hoard.
so maybe you could understand why i was scared.
but i just thought, never mind, because it was really so very amazing that all of them came!
you see, i kind of have an invitation "history" with all of them.

Shili - I've been asking her down since sec 1 but she could never come because her mother wouldn't allow her. & i was starting to get desperate cos i just couldn't see a way that she could come.

Ellie - Yeah I've said earlier; i've asked her down a few times but nothing ever happened, & she also said once that she didn't think her mother would allow. i guess she wasn't that keen that time too since she never really asked her mother.

Yufang - I've asked her so many times too, since last year, but even though she can, she never wanted to come alone. & there was once she almost came, but because nobody else could come, she decided she didn't want to come.

Alicia - The best part in this whole thing is that i didn't even ASK her to come down. i didn't even invite her, & that was because her whole family are rather devoted Buddhists & she isn't allowed to come to church.

The thing is that, i really should have just trusted God in this, because He can really do it.
He can do ANYTHING.
It's so amazing the way He planned it so that the once in a blue moon christmas outreach that fell on my birthday, is the one that i happen to be in the christmas drama.
Because those are the two reasons that all my friends could come!
Shili's mother decided to allow her to come bcause it was my birthday, & Shili herself wanted to come cos i was acting.
Yufang & Alicia sort of came cos it was my birthday.
Ellie decided that since it was my birthday, & i wanted her to come, she'd come.

"Everything is possible for him who believes." - Mark 9:23

i hope that i have sufficiently revived the blog (:
i'm so sorry my post is so super long (maybe it's just that i'm naggy D:) haha
& thanks you guys for the wonderful cake!
you people are so sweet & nice!

i love you people,
nichola :D

changeme.
5:47 AM

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