IGNYTED!
I’ll have to admit that God has been good to IGNYTE! :)We prayed for a good weather, and then He gave us a HUGE sun, so that the committee needn’t worry about wet weather programmes! Hehe! Of course, my face was burnt too. I hate to peel! Unlike P Dar, I couldn’t get aloe vera gel in time, so I had to make do with my usual Garnier face moisturizer. >.<
I believe we all had fun on Sunday. Be it being involved in the sports, or taking part in the ‘Record-Breaking’ segments. In my case, it was the chance to host the event. It was the first time that I hosted an IGNYTE event, so I was a bundle of nerves before the actual event began. But thank God that everyone enjoyed themselves and actively participated in the segments in the programme, and in turn, made me feel comfortable during my hosting stint. You guys are great! *^^*
Want to share about something that happened during CNY. I don’t really visit my relatives, except only during the CNY period. And I’ve always deemed it hard to talk to my baby cousins, as we lived in a different era. I tried to reach out to them during my days in the youth ministry, when they were in primary school. I brought them to DL, but unfortunately, they stopped attending DL after some time, and I thought that I couldn’t really reach out to them since. So I was surprised to see my baby cousins being all grown-up, in secondary school and all when I visited them. The elder one is Sec 3 this yr, and she either spends her time sleeping, or MSN-ing, or talking on the phone. The younger one is Pri 6, and loves Maple-ing. He frequents the neighborhood gaming centre after school in the afternoons and comes back only in the evenings.
It suddenly dawned upon me that the elder one is the same age as my folks in IGNYTE! And I thought to myself, if I can easily chat up a Sec 3 Ignytian, why can’t I try to reach out to her again? So I chatted her up, did some catching up and added each other on Friendster. I got her number and constantly smsed her and leave her Friendster testimonials cos apparently she prefers to communicate thru Friendster testis.
One day, as watSUP?! was nearing, I decided to sms her and leave her more testis to invite her for watSUP?!. To my surprise, she readily agreed to come, but eventually she didn’t make it cos she couldn’t wake up in time. From then on, I invited her for Timeless, an Easter production that I was involved in. She agreed to come and promised to make it for my performance! It was so different from the time I tried to persuade her to go DL. And I want to thank God for breaking my stubborn mindset that I couldn’t reach out to my cousins cos they were ‘too young’.
I learnt a ‘heart’ lesson. It’s the heart and the sense of urgency for my unsaved loved ones, which will motivate me to make the first step to reach out to them. And most importantly, being genuinely interested in their lives, and not only interested in making converts, is the key to allow me to be more involved and engaged in building a relationship that lasts.
.:pauline
posted by IGNYTE, Trinity@PL @ 1:45 PM
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