Thursday, February 28, 2008Â Â 2:29 AM

hello ppl! (:

really want to share to you people how God has blessed the Springfield team so far.
yupp, when we started out pionnering Springfield when CG08 was first launched, the students' hearts were super hardened and there were rarely any responsive contacts every time we head down to the school to evax. We continued to perserver even when there was no fruits all the way till end of phase 1 of pioneering.

however, a new Springfield pioneering team was formed somewhere at the beginning of 2008. With a renewed vision, a stronger burden to win the school and a bigger heart for God and His people, we marched forth believing that God WILL definitely use every single one of us to plant a CG in Springfield Secondary once and for all! woo~

We started out from evaxing outside the school gate every day. most of the people literally ran away from us when we approached them. -.- HAHA! Worst of all, we got caught by the Discipline Master a few times and was warned not to approach the students. Well, indeed.. when there's a will,there's a way! hehes. We went to evax at the other gate of the school and the DM never appeared there! yay!~ Slowly and steadily, we got more responsive lower secondary contacts day by day.

though it was a good start, we knew that we had to move faster as the number of contacts we got each day were rather few. So we picked up courage, trusted in God's covering (camouflage =x) and entered the school to evax. Surely, God's faithfulness never fails. Day by day as we enter the school, our influence in the school grew. Not only were they always so excited to see us when we stepped into their canteen, they even invited us to their classroom to help them with their class decor! They also asked us along to hang around before their cca starts.And that was also how from one group of people, we got to know another group of new friends and their friends. :D

We also fast and pray for those responsive contacts that God will open doors for us to bring the Good News across to them. R-esponsive, A-vailable, I-nfluential, N-on-graduating seeds! And i must really testify, fasting and praying will bring about fruits and victories! ^^ yea, on one of the friday, i was making my way to meet one of the St. Hilda's contact to SOW on her. however, it was raining cats and dogs while i was on the bus and she didn't reply my smses. So i was wondering if i should still go and meet her.. and guess what? A sms came and it was from my sec 1 springfield contact (Michelle)! She asked if i want to meet her up at the playground and have lunch together after that. And you know what? i was fasting and praying for fruits at that time! ((: Though it was raining super heavily (roads flooding and all), she came with another friend with an umbrella to fetch me to Macdonalds. so touched luh! =P After lunch, they insisted on coming over to my place to take a look. so... MUAHAHAHA, i decided to "pop" the golden question... "Are you free tomorrow?"
THEY SAID YES and they were so excited that they met up together at 9am in the morning to go for service together. (FYI, i was having choir in the morning) hees. thank God they didn't pangseh man..

i was quite troubled at first when they didn't want to stand or even clap during praise and worship as they said " we are buddhist so cannot worship other gods." =\ i tried to encourage them to keep an open heart to sit thru' the service. And God greatly moved in them. i guess it was THE service for them, as halfway during the sermon, they turned to me and said " woah, Christians so good one have gatherings and they organise events, unlike buddhist lor.. don't have such things." i was super encourage upon those words. then they said HweeJin suddenly voiced out " i think i want change to Christian leh, you leh?" as she asked Michelle. and Michelle smiled and nodded. At that moment. i tell you, i almost wanted to fly out of my chair man! they are such a divine blessing from God! ^^ though they didn't dare to go down for altar call, i believe they are truely sincere in receiving Jesus into their lives that very day. (:

After dinner, we went to Bugis with Jingjing to take neoprints.
And asked them if they remember the 3 things DK and Joyce(west) has brief the new believers about, and guess what not only did they remember.. they even asked me where to get bible and what is caregroup. cool eh? what's more? when they reached home, they called to ask me to conference and ask how if their parents object.
Hwee jin's mum found out that she went to church that day and was quite bu shuang then called Michelle to find out if it's true. then Michelle was like quite pissed as she told me over msn that " why can't parents allow us to choose what we want to believe in? we want to be Christians cannot meh?" HAHA, from that i know that she's really sincere in wanting to know God. then i asked her what was she doing and she said "reading the Gospel of John." i almost scream infront of the computer but it was late at night so... shhh. =P haha.

Anyhow, testing came soon after their conversion.
The teacher of Springfield called me one day and asked me how am i related to HweeJing, am i from church and where am i bringing Hweejing to on that day. Later then i found out that actually it was because Hwee Jing wanted to come for CG and skipped her cca. but thank God that the teacher herself is a Christian and tried to help to talk to HweeJing's mum. praise God! even though Hweejing's mum knew that it was something got to do with church, she gave permission for HweeJing to go for CG! whee~

so you think the testimony ends here?
read on man! ^^
The following week or the week before their conversion, we had 7 Springfield girls plus guys who came down for CG! woots! Michelle also blogged about how God answered her prayer and expressed her love for God on her own blog! And soon after, we witness another sec 1 Springfield convert during Hello,Love part 1! (Adrelia) ((: Adrelia is also one of the other super new believer man! Though only barely one month old spiritually, she is regular for CGs and services and furthermore,she even initiate to talk to one of the visitors during our recent MCG! With God's blessings, we also want to be faithful harvesters of the land we're given yea? SPRINGFIELD WILL BE COMPLETED!!! ^^

Wanna encourage those schools that have yet to see fruits, continue to perserver under God's guidance to the promised land! God'll never shortchage the faith and hardwork each and every one of us has invested in our pioneering schools! ^^ Also to those schools that are near completion or already completed, continue to grow and multiply! For God is never stingy in pouring down His blessings! jiayou East schools! :D