2010 Autumn(2)
Hello there.
How are you? How is your spiritual climate? You can find something at GIS.
［Ice Break］
Mamiko led us in a fantastic activity. We described ourselves each other on the card. Someone is talented. Someone is warmhearted. Someone is han-d-some.
We all embraced everyone's uniqueness.(AMEN!)
［Worship］
Maru led the worship time and we sang these lovely songs.
1. One way
2. Lord I Give My Heart to you
3. How Great is our God
4. Mighty to save
［Testimony by Go］
Go shared his encouraging story this week. He showed us that trong belief goes beyond any difficulties like communication gap, overwork, and unemployment. It was so inspiring to hear that his old watch battery had run out just when he recovered his faith. Thank you, Go!
［Message］
Wayn talked about spiritual climate today.
He started with this unbelievable story. A hotel lost its beach and almost went bankrupt once. But the beach came back after praying, and the hotel recovered financially.
And we looked up the script of Luke.
Luke 12:2-12
But whatever house you
enter, first say, 'Peace to this house'
Bible is telling that we should bless people before telling them about God.In other words, we should first face their needs rather than judging whether they are mean and awful.
("Peace to this house"... I like it. Let me use it.)
We had a fellowship time after the service while we're happy to welcome new people. Happy Christian Anniversary to Kumi and Yumi!
This is all what happened today.
Autumn is over, and the Christmas season is coming, eh? Peace to YOUR house. (o^_^)v v(^_^o)
2010.11.20 TGIS Blog (Posted by Mamiko)
Hallelujah! Thank God, It's Saturday!!
This was what happened in today's TGIS service
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Icebreak:
Yumi led the icebreak. We play the "Q. and A. plus Bingo!"game. We were very excited and laughed a lot.Thank you, Yumi. By the way, Akiko-saaan,I love natto, too! But I don't like it when the chopsticks get all sticky from the natto...I recommend the natto furikake,LOL.
Worship:
Today Akiko and Pastor Elmer led the worship and here are the songs we sang;
1.Take It All
2.Running With The Giants (City Harvest Church, Singapore)
3.Here I'm To Worship
4.Here Comes The Rain (City Harvest Church, Singapore)
...and we did "JESUS SHOUT"after the 2nd song.
Testimony:
This week Keiju gave his testimony about the
miraculous occurrence happened in his life.His touching speech reassured us
that Jesus helps us when we are at bay. Keiju's testimony was concluded with
his words "I love Him, because He helps us." Yes, Jesus loves Keiju
with His amazing grace!
Message:
Judges 7:18 "When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, then from all around the camp blow yours and shout"
Judges 7:2-6 "You have too many men for me to deliver Midian into their hands... "
Today Wayne shared the message. The theme was "Blow our trumpets and shout".When we look Judges as our models, we can learn how we become wise and brave warriors of God at the marcket place ministry.Thank you Wayne and Maru.
Fellowship:
After we praise the 4th song, we enjoyed talking, drinking soda and munching snacks.
PS There were two newcomers. Thank you for coming us today, Ken and Ryo! A---nd, Dione came today! Let's pray for them and their baby!
2010.11.06 TGIS Blog (Posted by Yuyu)
Hello, everyone out there. I'm happy to meet you again. (^^)/
This is what happened today.
［Ice Break］
Mamiko led ice break time with a game called Shiritori - word association game using
alphabet letters. We tried to write as many words as much as we can. But trickily, NG
words were not to be counted. For example, edible ones like egg, deer, or ostrich.
So... how come my team lost twice? I could eat an elephant.
[Testimony]
Ronnie gave us his testimony today. His close ex-colleague unexpectedly passed away,
even though he was a young seeker and had his own family. He must be in heaven now,
because he believed in God. (Sorry, I skip Ronnie's Omiai story here.)
Life is short. We're supposed to be thankful for every single day.
[Worship]
- I Believe
- From Inside Out
- At the cross
- Mighty to save
Tomoko, Yumi, thank you for your operation!
[Message]
Psalms82:3-4
1Corinthians
Judges3:18
He referred to our availability as Marketplace ministers. We can help people even if we are
not strong enough. I'd take it that we should support one another, because no one is perfect.
Also, he talked about the strength and weakness of Samson who was powerful but didn't
act with integrity. Then we learned to have a faith and follow the Lord way.
We also had a fellowship time with a lot of sweets. It was very nice to talk to you!
hank God it's Saturday. See you next week.
Hi Everyone,
We said goodbye to our dear brothers Colin and Kei and hope they will return soon!
TGIS Blog for Oct 23
Posted by Colin
ICEBREAKER
Ronnie led today's icebreaker with a game called "Wuzzle". The name of the game is made from two words: "word" and "puzzle". We had to guess a word or phrase by studying a picture. See if you can guess the phrase for the following wuzzle.
STAND
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I
The letter "I" is placed under the word "stand" to create the phrase, "I understand." Did you figure it out? Do you understand?! :p
WORSHIP
Maru led us in another great time of worship to our God. Here are the songs we sang this week:
Here I Am To Worship
Lord I Give You My Heart
Awesome God
SPECIAL WORSHIP
I played a worship song using the ukulele today. Did you know that the word "ukulele" means "jumping flea" (uku = flea, lele = jumping)? Did you also know that the instrument originally came from Portugal and not Hawai'i?
I sang the song Kanaka Waiwai which comes from the scriptures in Matthew 19:16-24. It talks about the young, rich man who asked Jesus how to enter Heaven. Jesus told the young man to give away all his possessions and to follow Him, but the young man turned away sad because he couldn't let go of his riches. Are you willing to follow Jesus at all costs?
I also taught everyone the Hawaiian phrase "Aloha Ke Akua" which means "God is Love!"
MESSAGE
Wayne used the following scriptures to share about his relationship with his identical twin brother:
John 11:23-26
Philemon 13-14
Proverbs 18
Wayne and his brother were very close and did everything together - go to school, eat, sleep, play, and even fight. They both believed in Jesus at a very young age but eventually fell away from the faith. Wayne rededicated his life to Jesus in high school, but his brother did not. His brother later came back to Jesus and is now married to a Christian woman, attends church services regularly, and even opens his home to bible studies.
LAST WORSHIP SONG
Mamiko closed us with the song "One Way". Yes, Jesus is the only way!
Come visit us. I hope to see you at TGIS soon!