Between Coffee Breaks

A Light Hearted Talk cum Discussion on Serious Subjects

This talk is aimed at the youth with a view of imparting the speaker’s knowledge & experience and opening their minds to a world of career options, ideas, and other opportunities.

The young of today are exposed to a whole new world of choices, where traditional way of life and doing business have changed, largely influenced by technology and the internet. Does this mean that conventional lifestyle, careers and business models are no longer relevant and profitable?

How do we prepare ourselves for a better future, securing a job that will be rewarding and satisfying? How do we balance our expectation of profits & wealth with living a godly and contented life? How do we serve God and still advance in our careers and grow our business?

Join us for a simple and down to earth discussion, as the speaker takes you through a variety of subjects. You will be invited to ask questions which the speaker will try to offer some perspectives and ideas. The seniors in the audience will also be invited to share their thoughts.

And of course, as the title suggests, there will be coffee served before and after the talk.

Here are the relevant details:

Date : 26th November 2011

Time : 3.00pm to 5.00pm

Venue : Kota Kemuning Church of Christ, 48 Jalan Anggerik Vanilla 31W/W

Cost : NIL, Free, Zero

Subjects to be discussed:

• What’s in a career.

• Career options and what to expect from a job.

• Writing a good resume.

• Preparing for the interview.

• During the interview, getting that job.

• Body language and answering questions confidently.

• Advancing in career and getting that promotion / pay raise.

• Handling difficult bosses.

• Handling conflicts and disputes in office.

• Changing jobs and companies. How frequent?

• Questions and Answers.

To assist us in planning for refreshments, kindly register for the talk in advance, reply by email. Email: kkchurchofchrist@gmail.com Website: www.kota-kemuningchurchofchrist.org

Hope to see you there! :)

Update On A Wonderful Date!

Shout out to youths young and young at heart!

The 24th Annual Youth Development Programme is back!!

The venue of the camp is at Adeline's Rest House, Gopeng, Perak!

It will be held on the 19th to 22nd of December.

The fees will be RM240 per person.

Think you can't afford it? No problem!

You could always ask for a subsidy!

For more detailed details, feel free to contact:

Mr. Khoo Kay Yeow @ khooky@gmail.com

The theme for this years camp is 7 Habits! [Oooo mysterious~]

Christians and Non-Christians are allowed to join this camp!

So sign up and invite your friends as soon as possible(RIGHT NOW!) to find out what the mysterious 7 Habits are!

Inter-Congregational Young Ladies Camp 2011

Calling all girls ages 12 to 24!

The Kota Kemuning and Klang Churches of Christ are joint- organizing the first ever Inter-congregational Young Ladies Camp. The details are as shown below:

Dates : 20 - 21st November 2011

Time : Sunday 3pm - Monday 3 pm.

Venue : Kota Kemuning Church of Christ building.

Cost : RM 20 per person.

Theme: Everyday Princess (Daughter of the King)

The aim of this camp is to help our young ladies build their faith, make new Christian friends, strengthen existing friendships, and have lots of fun. We hope you will participate in these activities that promise to be spiritually uplifting!

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact;

Shirley (KK) : 013-3nine22five8five.

or

Lily (Klang) : 016-six3six8222.

Here are the Directions to the Kota Kemuning Church of Christ Building:

Young ladies who cannot attend on Monday are encouraged to come for the Sunday activities.

Hope to see you there!

:D

Special Meeting With Bro. Ron Gilbert

The Klang Church of Christ is organising a Special Meeting with Bro. Ron Gilbert this weekend.

All are invited to attend.

The details are as follows:

Dates : 28 - 30th October 2011

Theme : Moral Values for the 21st Century

Time : 8.00 pm (28th; Friday and 29th; Saturday), 9.30 am (30th; Sunday)

Venue : Klang Church of Christ Building (map below)

Lessons:

1) Standards of Morals (Friday)

2) Sexual Morals (Saturday)

3) Social Impact on Morals (Sunday- 9.30am)

4) Personal Moral (Sunday - 10.30 am)

We've got a list of interesting topics that Bro. Ron will be speaking on, so join us! and bring your friends too! :)

Directions To the Church Building

Address: 11, Jalan Teluk Pulai,

41100, Klang

Gospel Meeting with Bro Kwan Tai Choom

Be comforted by Jesus who came to save mankind from sin and promised eternal life to all who obey. Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own thing.

You are invited to our Gospel Meeting in September with bro. Kwan Tai Choom! The details are as follows.

Date: 23rd - 25th September 2011
Venue: Klang Church of Christ building (Map below)
Time: 23rd and 24th – 8pm; 25th – 9.15am
Theme: Seek and Set Your Mind On Things Above

Lessons:

1. Friday, 23 September – Set Your Mind on the Power of God
2. Saturday, 24 September – Set Your Mind and seek the Promises of God
3. Sunday, 25 September, 9.15am – Christ, Our Life
4. Sunday, 25 September, 10.30am– Set Your Mind and seek the Nature of God

About the speaker:

Bro. Kwan holds a Master of Post-Graduate Studies awarded by Four Seas College of Bible and Missions in 1981. He is a capable proclaimer of the gospel and has been preaching God’s word for the past 30 years. He travels extensively around S.E. Asia to preach the gospel in such places as Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia and Thailand.

Directions to Klang Church of Christ buliding.

Address: 11, Jalan Teluk Pulai,

41100, Klang

All are encouraged to come!

Remember to bring yourselves and if possible, bring your friends too!

:)

Youth Group Picture

Hey guys! It's high time we took a new youth group picture!

So we're taking it this Sunday, 4th September 2011. Wear whatever you want to be seen in for the next decade or so. (If the last picture is any indication of how often we take a group photograph)

We will take the picture after Worship service tomorrow. Be there or be prepared to be photoshopped in. :)

In His service,

Justin

Baptism

On the 12th of June 2011, yet another soul was added to the Lord's church.

After years of studying the Bible, attending church services and being actively involved in various youth activities.. Ong Jae Wen finally made the decision to become a Christian.

Bro. John taking Jae Wen's confession

Welcome to the family of God, Bro. Jae Wen! :)

Youth Enrichment Seminar write-up

by Khoo Tze Wei
19 June 2011

If memory serves me well, this is the 10^th year that the Youth Enrichment Seminar (Y.E.S) has been held. A brief check of the schedule of past seminars (and in fact any camp organized by the church) reveals common terms – lessons, games, devotion, singing and the like. The instinctive thought then, is to presume every seminar (or camp) will be the same as the preceding or subsequent one, hence – dull and boring. However, to judge the Y.E.S based on its schedule would no doubt be unreasonable.

For one, it is the people who participate that matter. Different people participate every year, first timers and veterans alike. And it is the people who make every Y.E.S a whole new experience of learning, fellowship and fun. Moreover, every year different ideas are concocted and implemented to ensure there is some form of variation to the Y.E.S. However, there is one commonality to all the 10 Youth Enrichment Seminars. That is – the youths have come away encouraged, enriched and edified. You do not have to take my word for it. Read for yourself the comments* given by some of the young people who participated in the Y.E.S:

Khoo Tze Ren (Klang): It was a great camp; learnt a lot about the book of James especially chapter 3. The games were fun. I am looking forward to a more fun camp next year!

Calvin Soo (Ipoh): It was a great seminar because we got to learn how the book of James teaches us on how we should live as Christians and also having fellowship with one another with other brethren from other congregations.

Edwin Rao (Malacca): I am very happy and really enjoyed the Y.E.S. I really enjoyed all the games and I studied a lot about God’s Word there. Now, I can really understand the book of James.

Ong Ee Gene (Klang): fun fun FUN FUN!!!!!

Edward Rao (Klang): Good times. When is the next Y.E.S? I want to go again. Sooooo fun.

Tan Hui Yi (Ipoh): It was a great camp and I really gained a lot from the few lessons, understanding more about the book of James. All the games were fun. Indeed a great experience. Thumbs up to the organizing committee and the campers!

Aevyn Quek (Klang): Nice camp. Wish we could organize more activities like this. Thanks to the organizers too.

Simon Wong (KL): It’s my 2nd time joining the Y.E.S and I really enjoyed it. Other than just learning about the Bible in lecture style, we also had some discussions, Q&A and understood more by presenting skits based on lessons from the book of James. It was very creative and also helps rediscover the joy of learning. It was a privilege to meet some youths from various congregations to discuss and learn from each other; meeting them other than just at the YDP.

Sean Lim (Klang): For the past few Y.E.S’s, I’ve been encouraged by the fact that youths from various congregations have an opportunity like this to come together and to strengthen our bonds, which certainly bids well for the future of the church since we always hear the adults saying the youth are the future leaders of the church. In this recent Y.E.S, what we saw was that the younger youth participating have been nothing but energetic and enthusiastic all the way. Furthermore their desire to want to study God’s word has been personally very encouraging and it is certainly my (and probably others as well) hope that they will continue to be an example to all of us, in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith and in purity.

*comments were not coerced nor edited to portray only positive aspects of the Y.E.S.

It was a joy to see young Christians gathered together, sharing a common faith and belief, learning together, exhorting one another, bonding over laughter, chit chat and singing. And it is by observing these young people that I comprehend the relevance of that which is written in Hebrews 10:24, 25:

“And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.”

May our young Christians continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.

YOUTH CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

The Youth Christian Fellowship is BACK!

It will be the first one held this year after a long hiatus!

23rd July is the date to mark on your calenders people!

It will start in the afternoon after..

*DRUMROLLS*

THE INTERCONGREGATION FUTSAL FRIENDLY!!

So to those who are planning to join in the fun in the IFF, please do stay back at the church building for some awesome fellowship!

And did i mention LUNCH will be provided too after the IFF!?

you are most welcome to enjoy the lunch with us too.

So make it a point to be with us on that Saturday afternoon and you won't regret it!

"come join us you shall"

IFF 2011

CALLING EVERYBODY FROM EVERY PART OF THE WORRRLLDD!

THE 2ND ANNUAL INTERCONGREGATION FUTSAL FRIENDLY IS HERE!

HELD ON THE 23RD OF JULY AT A NEW FUTSAL COURT AT BANDAR BARU, KLANG!

IF THOU ARE INTERESTED, PLEASE DO VISIT THE EVENT PAGE ON FACEBOOK >>HERE!!<<

Y.E.S

Its that time of the year again...

FORRRRR......

*drumrolls*

YOUTH ENRICHMENT SEMINAR!!

YAYYYY!!

Date: 6^th – 8^th June 2011

Venue: Klang Church of Christ Building

Theme: “Faith in Action” – Lessons from the book of James

Facilitator/teacher: bro. Christopher Lopez

Fee: RM20 (food and lodging)

For more information please feel free to contact :

Khoo Tze Wei @ 0172023352

Do invite your friends or family or both to join us!

I-Camp

The youths from the Klang Church Of Christ have just finished their I-Camp which was held in Pantai Hills, Seremban.

March 13

All the youths who were participating packed all their things into the cars and departed at 2:45p.m.The journey took us about 2 hours before we finally reached Uncle Charlie's place. The 1st activity we had was of course the clean up where everyone played a part in cleaning up the house.It took us about 1 hour+ and then some of the youths get ready the dinner while others continued the clean up. Then after all our hard work ,we had our 1st wonderful and deeply satisfying dinner which is Steamboat, everyone gather to have meals together and fellowship with each other. After the dinner, we had singing where Bro.Randall taught us the notes that some of the youths were unfamiliar with.After that ,all the male youths were to lead one or two of their favourite chorus song. Our last activity of the night was the night walk where all of us get ready one extra shirt. Everyone had to use their extra shirt to blindfold themselves and we line up one line for guys and one line for girls and start the journey down and up? (i was blindfolded too) the hills. On the way thru the journey, some youths were to stop and wait with the blindfold on while the others continued their walk until everyone was station at a different place. Then each one were to walk back Uncle Charlie's place while enjoying the night's sky. After that we had somemore fellowship and a good night sleep.

March 14
Everyone woke up around 8.00a.m. and we were divided into groups and we had one game that which the organizers asked question to everyone and those who couldn't answer were given the task to prepare breakfast for everyone with one organizer helping us. After the breakfast, we start our game which ''Who want to be a millionaire''. Next, we presented a token of appreciation for Uncle Charlie .After that, all of us cooked their own lunch (awesome maggi mee) together. Next, we all were to get ready with our shoes and get ready for treasure hunt and station games at about 2p.m.. All the groups have to go down hill to the pond and fish,but unfortunately none of the groups caught any. After that, we all had 3 stations games to play which was guessing game (Charades, guess who is this , guess who sang this song) fear-factor (onions , wassabi , cili padi) and a game which involve our thinking ( rubics cube, sudoku , word puzzles and calculation) .After completing all this games ,we were to search for the treasure box,and figure out wheres the key. Group 2 managed to win received the prices contained in the treasure box. The game ended around 5.30p.m., others play games and while some prepare food for dinner. Our dinner was bbq which was handled by Bro.Joel and some had steamboat again.All of us had a wonderful dinner together and also great fellowship. After the dinner, some of us went for night walk and some of the youths stay in the hall play games.

March 15
Everyone woke up around 9a.m. to have their breakfast and Everyone start cleaning up the house and packed all their stuff into the cars. We leaft Pantai Hills around 11a.m.. and then most of us went to Kota Kemuning's MacDonald to have our lunch there. After that, everyone go back their respective home and have a good rest after having fun at the camp.

We would like to thanks Uncle Charlie for providing accommodation, facilities and also being there for us through out the most of the time in the camp. We also want to thanks Aunty Lily borrow her MPV and also Uncle Yeow Kong who brings us up to the hills and stay with us and also Uncle Eng Boon who fetch the late comers and stay with us.

In Christ We Serve ,
Jae Wen

The I-CAMP IS HERE!

Integration Camp

13th-15th March
Pantai Hills

-Participation Fee at only Rm30
-All youths from Klang are invited and feel free to invite your Friends as well
-It is of the utmost Important that the youths from Klang participate in this Camp

Details
-Meet back at the church building on sunday at 1.30p.m.
-Please bring enough clothes for 3 days
-Bring your own toiletries (toothbrush toothpaste etc etc)
-Pillow cases and bedsheet
-Blankets and Sleeping Bag (highly recommended)
-Torch Light

For More Details Contact:
Khoo Tze Wei
017-2023352
ktzewei@hotmail.com

Ern Shern
016-3879116
tanernshern@hotmail.com

This post will be updated again with more details if needed

SO BE THERE

SOMETHING AWESOME THIS WAY COMES

SOMETHING GREAT AWAITS THE MASSES IN THE COMING MONTH OF MARCH!

MORE INFO TO COME SOON!

anticipate it.

get pumped up for it.

get all excited about it.

be afraid.

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be very afraid.

and no its not a new Harry Potter book.

Went away~

Our dear sister Ashley Quek has just left us to continue her studies in Adelaide,Australia.

She will be there for one year to complete her studies.

We wish her all the best in everything that she does.

And may she continue to stay steadfast in the faith.

Do keep her and her family in your prayers.

More Saved!

Praise the Lord for the addition of 4 more young souls to the Lord!

Khoo Tze Ren, Aevyn Quek, Leow Huey Jean and Lim Chia Ye all got baptized in Klang today.

Welcome to the family of God!

We hope that we will all help each other to run this Christian race together for we know that the way that leads to eternal life is not easy. But we must be faithful until death, and God will give us the crown of life. :)

And at the end, hopefully we will be able to say;

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith. :)

Rejoice!

Philippians 4: 4; Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!

On the 30th of December 2010, our very own preacher's son; Ong Ee Gene decided to render obedience to the Gospel and was baptized into the church. Then, the following Sunday, (2 January) 4 young people decided to do likewise and begin their new year as new converts.

Jiao Faye, Jyven, Jaylyn and Joelyn Chan were baptized in the Klang Church Building into the family of God.

We rejoice with the angels in heaven for the addition of 5 new Christians to the Church. :)

We hope they they will grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

And may we all continue to be steadfast in the faith and grounded in the truth.

Year End Gathering 2010

December 31st 2010

It's the end of the year again , and as usual, we gather together to celebrate the new year and reflect back on the things we have done in 2010.
This year was a little bit different though, instead of having dinner first, we had HEAVY SUPPER instead. So at 8pm on Friday ,the place was packed and we had to add more chairs for people to sit. We then started it off by singing hymns and an opening prayer.
After that we had our first devotion or rather, end of the year message by our Elder; Bro. Koay . He, of course, led hymn 75 (Lord I Believe) first and his message was about the God of heaven and how we should always be prepared no matter what happens. And after that we all headed to building B for our HEAVY SUPPER. Awesome Indian food =D
There were also stations there with fun activities such as solving riddles and guessing the correct number ,votes for categories i.e. best dressed and best smile, activites for the kids and also The Flying Paper Aeroplane station! There was also the gift corner where we were extremely generous in giving out gifts.
After our supper and lots of fun, we headed back to building A for more singing and then we had our 2nd devotion/year end message of the night by our Elder; Bro.Steven. Then we had the Sunday School presentation by the kids and also the Sunday School award thingie.. hehe
After that we had the singing presentation by the youths =D
video here
=D

(click the smiley face)

We then had some games conducted by Bro. Joel and then gifts to be given to the winners of the riddles, quiz and also the guess the weight, number and price.
We also gave awards for Best Dressed (male and female) Best Hairstyle (male and female), best smile, best hugs and so on.. and then we also gave a bottle of sparkling juice to the Elders and Deacons, preacher, church secretary and Uncle Raymond! to show our appreciation for the work that they have done throughout the year.
We then formed a circle to countdown to the new year and also to watch the video that the Chans have made for us in Klang..

It has been a great year and we hope and pray that we will be able to do our best again this year.
We thank God for his continual guidance for us all and for the success of the youth blog.

In Christ We Serve,
Ern Shern

PS: Thanks to Joel for the photos made available at this link here

YDP 2010

20th December 2010
Monday

The Klang brethren, and youths from all over Malaysia as well as 2 from Taiwan, gathered at the church building at 8.30am. (but Malaysian timing of course..) We left later than planned but still reached there on time! However, we couldn't beat the Singaporeans who woke up at 5am and reached there earlier than all us Malaysians.. *malunya* (Kiasu Singaporeans. pfft. haha.) We got there and checked into our respective rooms and dominations.. oops. I mean dormitories. heehehe. Then we had lunch and briefing by our YDP organiser, Bro. Kay Yeow. We had some free time where we mixed around, got to know the youths from other congregations and introduced visitors. Then we had tea and then icebreakers which were organized by the Klang Youth.. We had fun whilst getting to know each other and having fellowship with one another. After that we had more free time before dinner. Then we met in the hall for a devotion#1 by Bro.Bryant on the topic of Moses and then a theme message by Bro. Albert Koay (from Ipoh).Some youths arrived at night. We then had Supper and then it was sleep time.


Tuesday.
Rise and shine at about 7 , some of us had special bagpipes alarm tone to wake us up .As usual , we all wash up and go eat breakfast. We then started the day off with singing and then we had devotion #2 by brother Jonah on the topic of King Solomon. And then we had our learnshop which was conducted by Bro.Kay Yeow , we did some personality test thingies and it ended up quite accurate. After that we had lunch and then devotion#3 by brother Patrick. and then we continued with learnshop#2. Then some of us had tea and then we headed for the games at about 4pm. The games were conducted by the LAP youths, the games were really creative and we thank them for the fun! and ofcourse after-game water splashing .. hehe.
After bathing , we had our dinner at about 6.30pm , oh and btw the food were quite good for ydp standards! After that we headed the to main hall and then we had devotion#4 by brother Alvin on the topic of Joseph. After that we had treasure hunt at night! We were given a map and coordinates to find wooden or zinc plates with names of fruit on it , and we were also suppose to dress up 1 guy and 1 girl as indian tribes chief and chief's wife.. and each group were suppose to perform their indian tribal dance! =D
After that we had Supper and then lights out..

Wednesday
Rise and Shine again!! as usual we had breakfast and then we had devotion#5 by Bro.Dexter.
After that we had another learnshop where each group were suppose to present the 10 ideal characteristics that a Christian should have. =D
After lunch, we gathered back at the hall for devotion#6 by Bro.Jia meng. After that we had another learnshop and each group were to split their members to perform certain roles which they might be good at .. example , the groups were to assign their some of their members to do memory verses, drawings , tongue twisters and they were also to assign "devils" to "kacau" other groups. After that we had tea and then we had games again conducted by the Ipoh youth, the games were really interesting and the best part was when the youths painted calvin's face with lipstick =D Thanks to the ipoh youth for the games!
After all that , it was time to get ready for the Gala dinner and Youth Got talent!
At gala dinner , we had really good food and we were all suppose to dress formal.
The best dress Male and Female were none other then Jonathan Ong! and Stephanie Khoo!
After that we all gathered at the Main hall again for Youth Got Talent. We had Skits by the Jurong youth .. We had beat boxing by bro jia meng and of course harmonious singing by the Jurong Ladies. Then we had another skit by the younger youth of LAP , really entertaining =D
And last but not least , the Combined effort by the Klang,Ipoh, Malacca , Subang , Kota Kemuning youths . The Youth Got Talent was a success and now we know that youth, really got talent.. xD
And then the remainder of the night till the morning was full of fun and fellowship.

Thursday
Had our closing remarks by Brother Kay Yeow at about 11 and then we had our Closing prayer for the camp..
Once again Ydp 2010 has come to an end.

We thank God for the safe journey and also for the Success of the camp.
We also thank the Bro.Kay Yeow for organizing the camp and also we thank those who did their devotions and also the youths who organized the games..
Last but not least, we thank every single youth who came and helped make YDP a success once again.
Join us again next year =D

Ps: Thanks to Krys for the helping me write up about the first day (and for correcting my numerous grammatical errors and spelling mistakes. =P)