Facing Your Giants

I just came back from our UNITE Outing, 'Feed Your Souls', hot, sweaty, itchy, and exhausted. I switched on my laptop and found an email from my lecturer chasing for my paper abstract to be presented at an international conference.

Immediately, I was pulled back to reality--one which was full of the 'giants' of stress. Here are just some of my thoughts from the movie we watched during our outing. :) The other outing photos will be up once I have them--we had a fun time at Taman Pertanian!

Facing the Giants is about a Christian Academy football team. We get a peek into the life of a coach who is facing challenges in his life, career, and marriage despite being a strong Christian. We witness how his desperation does not drive him into bottomless despair, but instead brings him to his knees, seeking God's will and trusting God to work all things for good in his life.

We learn about courage. About perseverance. About focusing on the journey ahead and ignoring the voices inside us and around us that tell us we cannot do it.

Are you facing the giants in your life?

As I begin to play a bigger role in building UNITE, I realize that giving my time and serving does not come naturally to me. As I begin to drown in assignments and other commitments, is so easy to give up serving. To back down. To lose faith in building disciples of Christ which will change the world.

But we can choose to face our giants. As the tagline says, never give up, never back down, never lose faith. Are you willing to take this journey?

FEED YOUR SOULS

Yes, it has been a stretching, tiring and challenging semester for everyone. Feel like it's time to take a break and do something exciting? Here's your chance!

Close your eyes for a minute (well, obviously after you read it..XD) and reflect...

Have you been growing healthily, or have you been starving and undernourished from all the spiritual junk food you have been stuffing your soul with?

Have you been at rest, knowing that your rest comes from God despite the chaos around you, or have you grown tired lately?

Perhaps it is time for all of us to feed our souls...

We will be having a one day outing on Friday, 1st May 2009 (Labour Day - A Day to REST) to Taman Pertanian. There will be a picnic breakfast, fun games, a time of meaningful sharing, kayaking, and a great movie. It will be a beautiful place for us to breathe in the fresh air and recharge again!

So mark this down on your planner:

• Be ready at your house at 7.30am


• In accordance with our theme, prepare your favourite breakfast food or a snack together with a verse to feed each other physically and spiritually


• Wear sporty outfit and bring slippers, towel, and a spare change of clothes for the kayaking session


• The whole outing will cost RM17 including lunch, tickets, and transportation
  

You are important to us and the outing won't be complete without you.

See you there!

Unite OMG Sunway University

OMG!!! Oh My God!! There's 20+ of us shouting out OMG using our own way.
Well, tonight, we have new comer and there's total of 21 ppls!! we used out all the chairs in the room!! That's great!!
Start with introducing ourselves, the person who got the little orange ball will have to start introducing and throw it to someone else until everyone know everyone, with names, college/uni/working(we hv 3 working adults here) and then who u wish u are. We heard of different kind of funny answers which my memory couldn't recall, anyone still remember, drop a comment pls.. hehee..

Wao.. Everyone is listening to Jasmine!! the only white in this photo

Kros got the orange ball^^

One of the twins got it!! I still cant differ 2 of them@@ they are just alike

another one of the twins, Racheal

Random Pics

Later, we were seperate into 3 groups and draw Jesus, it's time for creativity
hmm.. First group

Second Group (Muscle type)

Third Group (cartoon type)

While progressing

Well, at the end of the night, here we had our interesting group photos..

Serious look, except 1 person.. hahaa...

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Guys act as girls and vise versa, hmm.. not really ^^

randomly shoot by Max
Not prepare yet!!!
One

Two

Three

what a peaceful place to be

OMG is BACK!

Oh My WHO? Who really is this Person whose name we use everyday? Is He real? Does He even exist? Does He know my name? What does He gotta do in my life? Feel a sudden rush of questions flooding your mind? YES,OMG IS BACK! this is the perfect place to discuss all those questions you have in mind! Let others hear you and listen to what they think! Come discover the truth for yourself. Oh, and admission is FREE!!!

See you there~

A Fresh New Start

Sorry for being M.I.A. for so long guys. Things have been busy since our Christmas community project, and we kinda had a little break when everyone went back for their holidays in Jan. Now that college life is kicking in again, I guess it's time for an update.

This week, we are gonna have.......TWO FRESHIE PARTIES!!! One at Taylor's, and one at Monash. The purpose of these parties are to connect with the new students there, help them ease into college life, and to simply be their friends. Each freshie party is going to be spearheaded by UNITE members in those colleges.

I will leave you with a few thoughts:

1. How do you want to live your life this year?

2. Are you going to live a life that is purposeless, pleasurable, or a life that is large enough to bless the community around you?

Have a good week!

Happy birthday to TOT

Hey guys, guess what's happening for UNITE this Friday?

It is Track of Talents' 1st Aniversary!!! There are gonna be loads of great performances you don't want to miss out on. If you've ever been to TOT and you've enjoyed it, you MUST come back because most of our artists of the month are coming back.

So remember to be at ECF at 7.30pm this Friday, 31st October!

Check out http://www.trackoftalents.blogspot.com/ and you'll realize, food will be served too. ;)

See ya!

OH MY GOD!

Oh My WHO? Who really is this Person whose name we use everyday? Is He real? Does He even exist? Does He know my name? What does He gotta do in my life? Feel a sudden rush of questions flooding your mind? Excellent, because this is the perfect place to discuss them! Let others hear you and listen to what they think! Come discover the truth for yourself Oh, and admission is free!!!

Memories on the Moon

Childhood dreams fulfilled. =)

During the 3 Moonites...

Highest number of mooncakes consumed at one event:
TWENTY
(excluding those given out!)

Number of lanterns lighted up:
70-80

We appreciate...
The people who prepared the food and games
Our friends who came and enjoyed themselves

We hope you learnt about many valued Chinese traditions, but more than that, we hope you took away the message that freedom and wholeness can be found in Christ.

MOONITE delight

Remember when you were young, how you had so much fun playing with lanterns, showing off to your neighbourhood friends while parading down the streets?

You know, if you're feeling stressed and long for some fun this semester, fret not, for the mid-autumn festival is here!We are going to have MOONITE at 3 different locations on 11, 12, and 19 September as you can see in the image above. MOONITE will be an incredibly fun celebration with "moon" games, "moon" quizes, "moon" draw, and mooncakes (of course!). UNITErs, ask your friends to come along!

If you're interested in joining us, please drop your email in the chatbox on the right, and we'll contact you for further details.

We Miss Sufes Perak!

We had loads of fun at our UNITE outing at Sufes Perak! Although the place was hot and the hot spring was closed, we still enjoyed ourselves tremendously. In just 2 days,

1. We noticed each other's funny habits and we laughed until we had stomachaches when Zhi Wei tried to mimick us!

2. Max and Faith shared about 3 Ps: Purpose, Passion, and Priority. Reminded and encouraged us to live a larger life! (Remember to hand up your 6 months goal chart this Saturday!!)

3. We talked to each other and got to know each other so much better, including how some guys *ahem* will JUMP IN FRIGHT at the smallest insects!

We continue to look forward to building UNITE together!