2010.07.10 TGIS Blog

2010.07.10 TGIS Blog (Posted by Colin)

Aloha everyone!  I had fun again at this past Saturday's TGIS service with 15 other members who attended.  Ronnie asked me to write this week's blog (my first time!) so here's what happened:

ICEBREAKER

Wayne always comes up with interesting games to start us off.  We divided into two teams, and then one member from each team went up to the board to answer one of Wayne's "yes" or "no" questions.  We only had two seconds to answer each question!  After answering the question, the two people then walked over to a chair with a plastic container filled with 30 marbles suspended by a bunch of plastic sticks under them.  Each person pulled a stick out hoping not to drop any of the marbles.  Well, my team dropped the most marbles so we lost.  But the game was totally fun and filled with lots of suspense and laughter!

WORSHIP

I led worship again this week using Hillsong's totally powerful and cool DVD.  Mahalo (thank you) to Maru for operating the laptop.  Here are the songs we sang to praise and worship God:

              For Who You Are

              More To See

              You Alone Are God

              At The Cross

TESTIMONY

Yue shared how she received Jesus as her Lord and Saviour.  Yes, God is full of love and has overflowing grace and an abundance of mercy for ALL of us.  Thanks to Yue for sharing!

MESSAGE

Wayne shared another powerful message from the Bible using the scripture from 1 Corinthians 1:10 in which the apostle, Paul, urged the Corinthian church to agree with one another and be perfectly united in mind and thought so as to not have any divisions among them.  He also shared from Romans 8:6-7 which encourages us to be filled with the mind controlled by the Spirit which is life and peace instead of being filled with the mind of sinful man which is death and hostile to God.  And thanks to Kumi for doing a great job of interpreting again.  Mahalo and otsukaresama, Wayne and Kumi!

FELLOWSHIP

I think I need to go on a diet.  The snacks during fellowship time were delicious as usual, and I especially enjoyed the ginger snap cookies.  (Whoever brought them, please bring more this Saturday!)

SHARING

Also during our fellowship time, Kumi shared her experiences from her trip to Korea last week.  She had a really blessed time visiting several churches to include Yoido Full Gospel Church which has the world's largest congregation with something like over 800,000 members!

I'm looking forward to attending this Saturday's TGIS service.  If you haven't visited yet, please stop by.  We look forward to seeing you and having lots of fellowship and fun together!