So. This weekend was nice extended one, and I spent Friday with my dad and the animals at the zoo. Saturday night was spent at Maho's place, where we had an ushering gathering!!! (FIRST TIME LOR). Needless to say I felt ancient and stuff, but was still very delighted to see new blood!!! So I shall spend some time talking about this special ministry.

The Wesley YM Ushers was a community that I joined before any other in chuch, and at many a time was the one community where I could be myself, where I made some very close friendships and a community that was indeed bonded in love. I'll never forget the first ushering retreat I had at YMCA where well... you could say it was the starting point for a lot of things to come in my life. By then most of the older ushers were beginning to leave, and probably the oldest in the business remaining that I could still relate to and connect with was Fong. As I mentioned on Saturday, the group of sec 2 girls has grown up already!!! Aiyo no more cute little sec 2s with mango juice (they're j1 now...)

Since then the ministry has changed a fair bit I would say. While I am happy to see all the new people with hearts eager to serve God, I would be lying if I said that the community didn't feel as close and warm as it used to. That will take time to build, and even longer considering the size of our ministry now. I missed out on one ministry retreat in december 07, and last year we only had one retreat at Sarimbun. And for this past 1 and a half years in ushering I have missed Thong's underwear-forgetting antics and just all the stupid stuff that we used to do. Like Veggie eating competitions and stuff. Well expanding on that I miss just hanging out with Thong. JUNE HOLIDAYS COMING!!! not so soon. Ok back to the ministry aside from Thong. Ya, definitely the whole ushering scene has changed.

Change acknowledged, there are some things that I am very happy about and optimistic about. Firstly, you can't ask for a better leader in the ministry than Matthias. He is passionate, self-sacrificing and most importantly he is a friend to me first, before a "boss" as you could see it. When I first was in Ushers I think Matt was more involved in cross trainers and stuff so I didn't really get to know him well. But he would talk to me, commend me on my drumming and stuff (even though I wasn't very good haha) and not to forget all the cards and stuff every christmas. I hope that the whole ushering ministry can learn from our leader's example and try to really take an interest in each other's lives. All the best in tekong maho!

Secondly is well, the new blood. When the atmosphere has changed so much that as an old timer you feel a bit out of place, that is an awesome sign. Oh by the way Victoria Ashley Jong makes nice dips. Sry other ppl I didn't really try your homemade food, just stuffed myself with the other junk. And yesterday I saw eager faces, people who were really interested in being in the ministry, in building this community of love that I talked about. That is really an awesome sight.

So yup that ends the talk about ushering, or whatever came to my mind that my fingers typed out. There's a lot more but I didn't type it out...

Moving on, I have a Gp essay and essay plan I need to do, alongst with a lot of other homework mainly comprising of economics h2 and h3. And I ran out of things to talk about. So good bye!

Christ is risen, he is risen indeed!