This weekend is going to be a busy one for all of us at City Harvest, as not only are we involved in the Festival of Praise, but we are also celebrating our 20th Anniversary.

It will be a great milestone for us…and we are all anticipating a great celebration!

In the last few years, we have gone through so many different trials, adventures and events …that it will be great to take a breather and see how God has blessed us in the last 2 decades.

Our last major event was the Celebrity weekend, where we celebrated the talents that we had in our midst.

It was great to see how celebrities could be used to give a voice to the gospel, and be a mouthpiece for God’s grace.

Here’s a video about the whole event:

 

Nicole also managed to get into the act as well.

She just loves being a princess, so I managed to let her take a photo with 1 of the Beauty Queens before we left Singapore Expo.

She was simply trilled to see the Beauty Queen in her tiara and her gown.

Thanks Celeste for the Kodak moment!

If you are free this weekend, join us at Singapore Indoor Stadium for the Nation’s Festival of Praise.

It will be on from Friday to Sunday at 730pm

Or

You can join us for our 20th Anniversary Service at Singapore Indoor Stadium on Sunday Morning at 9am or 1130am.

Seats are at a first come, first served basis.

It’s going to be really CROWDED!

I think that it’s great that Pastor Kong Hee is so high tech, and always trying out new things!

Since he got onto Twitter and Facebook, we have seen him communicating with the congregation via this medium as well.

It was just featured in The Straits Times.

Check out the article below:

Tweet! It’s your pastor

A few churches are using Twitter and Facebook to connect with their flocks

When City Harvest Church member Vanessa Sng needed spiritual advice, she did not just pray – she tweeted. Moments later, there it was: ‘It is the work of God!’ tweeted back her pastor Kong Hee (left). — PHOTO: CITY HARVEST CHURCH

WHEN City Harvest Church member Vanessa Sng needed spiritual advice, she did not just pray – she tweeted.

Moments later, there it was: ‘It is the work of God!’ tweeted back her pastor Kong Hee. Like most young Singaporeans today, the 20-year-old student uses Twitter, a micro-blogging service that sends short messages, or ‘tweets’, to other users online.

Followers tend to be friends and family, but these days, churches are taking to tweeting too.

The phenomenon has gained momentum especially in the United States, where during ‘Twitter Sundays’, congregation members are asked to tweet questions about the sermon for discussion afterwards.

But the online service is still in its infancy among churches here. A check on Twitter’s website found four with active accounts, set up as recently as two months ago. The churches – City Harvest Church, New Creation Church, Heart of God Church and Hope Church Singapore – use it to share short biblical quotations and activity listings once or twice a week.

And the online gospel is going further. A search on social networking site Facebook, which first introduced its popular ‘wall’, ‘poke’ and ‘tag’ features in 2004, turned up 67 profiles of Christian churches here. About a third were set up only this year.

The number of people following the churches’ Facebook and Twitter profiles online were a fraction of its real-life followers.

City Harvest Church, with 25,000 members, had 4,469 friends on Facebook and 1,359 followers on Twitter yesterday. Most were under 30 years old.

Pastor Seow How San of Heart of God Church in Eunos said Twitter enabled him to be a better caregiver to his congregation. Since the church began tweeting in May, nearly 800 of its 1,400 believers have signed up to listen – and tweet back.

‘It was a conscious effort to get people to use it,’ he said. ‘As pastor, I need to know how people are feeling. Now I know how they feel, how they think, even what they do, eat and drink. Having Twitter really helps if you have a big church.’

Read the full story in Friday’s edition of The Straits Times.

This June Holidays is going to be really exciting! The much anticipated Youth Camp is coming…..

Entitled “Castaway”, islanders will be “stuck” on St. John’s Island for 3 Days 2 Nights to battle their wits against each other.

From this 25-27th June 2009, prepare to be stretched, tested, encouraged and revitalized, as you make many new friends and new challenges in the Camp of the Century.

Check out the trailer done by Joshua below:

Recently, at one of the fairs held in Expo, we gave away Free Studio Photos to our friends and relatives. Many thanks to people like, Joseph, David, Joycelyn, Delphine, Santy, Sandy, Lester and many more (Sorry, if i did not get to mention everyone) for helping to run the booth.

U guys made the booth “Rock” and also special thanks to graphic designers like Edwin and Hong Xiang for designing the posters and really working through the night. Although it was a rush job… thanks for producing this poster in 24 hours.

Anyway, we took some family photos, and here are some of the shots!

As u can imagine, it takes ages to get a good shot of all the kids, as they are always looking all over the place!

There is no secret – just take as many shots as possible!

Weng our helper also took photos with them as well. We told her to take as many as possible, so that she can show her Canadian Employers what our family looks like!

We don’t know when she is leaving yet, as it takes ages to get approval from the Canadian Embassey.

Can Christians have Tattoos?

Check out Ps. Kong’s timely exposition on this topic in his blog.

I think it is a very balanced approach to the subject, and it gives us the “extra edge” when we need to handle questions surrounding this topic.