Upcoming events and other updates!

The month of April has been a busy month for everyone with exams, elections and what not, so the YAM comm has decided to take a short break and postpone our events to May. To help relieve us from all the stress that the past month has brought, and to celebrate the end of exams (for those of us who are schooling), we've decided to have a really fun social event for May...LASER TAG!!! We have engaged an external vendor to come down to church (the Clementi Woods Park actually) and bring their laser guns and equipment for us to play. It'll be awesome fun!! If you're interested, do note down the date (21st May; meet at 4pm in church) and make yourself available!

Our 2nd event is a sequel to the YAM small group workshop we had several weeks ago. The purpose of this YAM small group workshop is for CG members to come and share the struggles that their CG has faced/is currently facing so that we can all learn from one another and through our sharings, help to encourage and support one another. We've received favorable feedback from the first workshop and we hope that through this workshop, more members and their CGs will be blessed. If you did not attend the 1st workshop which was held several weeks back, we'll like to encourage you to take time to pray about coming. For those who attended the first workshop, this 2nd workshop is not a repeat workshop. More information about the agenda of the workshop will be posted soon. In the meantime, do jot down the dates in your diary; it's the 28th May, from 11am-1pm. Lunch is provided!!!

For registration for the above 2 events, please register through your CG leader. Your CG leader will then let us know via email. Please note that the deadline of registration is the 15th of May for Laser Tag and the 22nd of May for the small group CG workshop. For those who do not belong to any CG, if you're interested in any of the events, you may register via email at mountcarmel.yam@gmail.com :)

Now for other updates! The CG committee would like some feedback from CGs as well as their members on mentorship. There are 2 forms that we would like everyone to help fill in. The first is an online form for EVERYONE to fill in regarding individual mentorship. CG leaders, please help to inform your members that they need to complete this form. The second is a Word document for CGLs to Print and discuss during CG, regarding mentorship for the whole care group. For this, each CG should only submit one form. CG leaders, you should have received the word document in your email. Please take time to go through the care group mentorship form with your entire CG so that everyone gets a say in the matter. Please transfer all your CG's answers into the softcopy word document and email it back to the yam email address. ALL FORMS ARE TO BE COMPLETED BY END APRIL AND SUBMITTED IN SOFT COPY!

Individual Mentorship Form: https://spreadsheets0.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en&hl=en&formkey=dHBNLWJDOGlvbG5SMmdkbXRDcWJod1E6MQ#gid=0

And for those who have yet to fill in our YAM registration form please do so here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dERqVjJJYU5OV3VjSWVyVkRmbFVmMGc6MQ#gid=0

As the YAM Comm will be planning programs with the information provided in all survey/registration forms, please fill them in as quickly and accurately as possible. Help us to help you. :)

Have a great week ahead!

Gospel Coalition 2011 Conference

The Gospel Coalition is an organization made up of evangelical churches that are deeply concerned with the world's influence on the church today and how churches can continue to remain rooted in Christ and his Word (the bible). Every year, the Gospel Coalition will conduct a conference to promote gospel advocacy, encouragement and education so that church leaders (young and old) can be better equipped to lead their ministries with principles and practices that will glorify God and benefit those that God has died for.

This year's conference, which was held in Chicago, covered a wide range of topics including business leadership, counseling and sharing the gospel with Muslims. Many of these workshops were conducted by renowned speakers such as John Piper, Don Carson, Tim Keller, Matt Chandler and so on.

Even though the conference was held overseas and thus many of us were not able to attend, the Gospel Coalition has kindly uploaded the audio clips of these sessions onto their website for us to listen and be blessed by the message of the speakers. To listen to all the plenary sessions and workshops of the conference, do visit http://thegospelcoalition.org/conferences/2011-media. Even if you're not a church leader, I'm sure God can use these messages to benefit you in some way.

All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work - 2 Timothy 3:16-17

 

Psalm 119

Did you perhaps pick up the Bible this morning to read a chapter or two (or flicked through a couple of pages on your phone as the case may be)? Did you, in reading that bit of Scripture come across words which conveyed truth in a way they hadn't previously, or words which convicted you of sin, uplifted your spirit, showed you more of who God is, stirred you to praise?

God's word is living, we know it, we give thanks for it! But I wonder how many of us, with Bibles so widely available in English, have ever felt what the people in this video felt, receiving the New Testament in their own language for the very first time?

Have a look at this amazing video of the Kimyal tribe, living in the Eastern Highlands of West Papua in Indonesia (not so far away from where we are really). Their joy, their tears, their gratitude.... May these scenes of brothers and sisters' great rejoicing move us to love and treasure God's Word more!