an exciting weekend has just gone by. i hope both the reflective good friday service and the joyous combined easter sunday service have encouraged you in your walk. from the various presentations to the messages by leonard and rev george lim, i'm sure that at least one of them would have spoken to you. i pray that you will continue to allow what has touched you to work in you.

as a quick recap, here is a summary of the weekend gone by.

good friday service

we caught a glimpse of the life of Christ through the eyes of 3 ordinary people in the events leading up to His arrest and crucifixion. Misha, the baker, who was captivated by Jesus' gentleness and calm; Hobab, the gardener, who was moved by the loneliness and pain of His earnest prayer; and a nameless face in the crowd watching Jesus being tortured and mocked as He carried His cross all the way to Golgotha.

that is why the symbol of the cross is so significant for us today, and leonard reminded us to keep ourselves near the cross.

combined easter service

the service opened with a beautiful mandarin song, precious cross, by a vocal quartet from macedonia [i have to get the score for this]. although it was easter, the song was appropriately meditative and helped to prepare our hearts to worship our Lord with thanksgiving.

our youths then put on a beautiful mime expressing the all-compassing love of God in 'Redeemer, Savior, Friend'. Man turned away from God and all that God had prepared for him, and got himself entrenched in sin before long. But God willingly bore the payment of those sins and rose again to defeat the power of darkness forever. and He once again offers His hand of friendship to us, this time with forgiveness and acceptance.

we also had presentations from the macedonia choir and our children choir, both of whom proclaimed the victory of our risen Lord and Savior.

rev george lim spoke on the meaning and hope of the resurrection; and reminded us to look ahead beyond the present life because we have been promised an eternal future.

a big thanks goes out to everyone who has made this past weekend possible, and for all the meaningful presentations. i pray that you have been richly blessed and may it spur you to do more for our Lord and our community here.

our next presentation will be parents' day in july, but before that, we have a gathering planned on 4 april [friday] so stay tuned for more info coming up!