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Youtubies Tribes

Posted on February 18, 2010 | Filed Under Discipleship, Evangelism, Ministries, News, People, Testimonies

“I’m a youth worker in this strange land where the young people of this land communicate with a strange tribal language…I struggle how to connect, how to communicate that I care and only want to help.They seem hopeless and lost…But I decided to try and try again. Many times I feel like a fool…but I’m not giving up! My reward is that if even one of them is saved it’s worth the effort.”

A digital story by Oliver Kelly, staff member, The NavTeens

What it’s like to be a homemaker?

Posted on November 1, 2009 | Filed Under Discipleship, Evangelism, News, People, Testimonies

My daughter En turned 11 last August this year. She invited a few of her classmates over. It was very tiring (by the end of her six-hour long celebration) but also highly enjoyable as my husband and I joined in the activities with all her friends. We even went knocking on some of our neighbours doors to pass them food and goodie bags for the children.

Birthday celebrations are great opportunities to bond with extended families, friends and even neighbours. It is also an excellent way to meet up with your children’s friends-to ‘check out’ who they are hanging out with. We know both our girls’ schoolmates pretty well, many of their parents too when we send and fetch them to and from school. As peer influence becomes greater as children grow older, we parents need to adapt as well. I do encourage En to invite friends over to visit (up to a certain timing during school days) or to do projects.

August also marks my 11th year as a ‘homemaker’. Quite a few young mothers have asked me what are some of my struggles as a stay home mum.

Unlike my early years when I struggled with issues like ‘restlessness’, ‘aimless-ness’, ’status-less’, ‘MC-less’, ‘leave-less’, ’salary-less’ and ‘appreciation-less’, these days I struggle more with boredom and routine-ness. Not that I have nothing to occupy my days with but doing the exact same things daily can be rather tedious and frankly, boring.

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Kingdom

Posted on December 4, 2007 | Filed Under News, Testimonies

One day a man I was talking to confessed how he was filling the emptiness in his life with all kinds of hobbies. Life loses its meaning when we are not living out God’s purposes for us.

The reverse is also true: that we can be so involved in the kingdom of God, in the King’s business that we forget the King.

What drew me to the Navigators some 40 years ago has the fact that they were people who knew God. They knew the Word, they knew God; and I wanted to know God. So I came around.

Together with knowing God, I was also so enthused with the vision and passion of the ministry. I became so involved with the kingdom that in a sense I forgot the King. Not that I forgot God, but I minored on the King and majored on the kingdom.

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Moments to Remember

Posted on September 23, 2007 | Filed Under Testimonies

Memories. They have a way of becoming very precious when one loses a loved one. My father died of end stage renal failure in 2003.

Coming to Singapore at a young age from the province of Swatow, China, life was far from easy for my father. His father died early from opium smoking, and as the eldest child, he took the responsibility of supporting his mother and three siblings, and subsequently, a wife and seven young children. Starting out as a fishmonger, he later became a fish merchant. “F”, as he is affectionately referred to by his three sons and four daughters, survived the Second World War, hiding in a large drain, and narrowly escaping being shot by Japanese soldiers.

Fond childhood memories include receiving a pair of black patent leather shoes (identical ones for my sisters too) from one of his business trips to Hong Kong. This non-verbal gesture of his thoughtfulness and care left an indelible mark on me, an eight-year-old girl then.

What were the best things F ever did for me? Two very significant ones - granting me permission to be baptized in April 1974, and, walking with me down the isle (the first time he stepped into a church!) and giving me away in marriage in May 1980. I am forever grateful to him for these precious moments in my life.

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