Synod Youth Games Day 2007

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What a wonderful day of fellowship and games last Sat, 26 May 2007, at Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Sec. School. On paper, we have close to 280 youths from 11 churches participating in this year's Synod Youth Games Day 2007. Praise God that it all went smoothly as planned and the rain clouds came and went very quickly too. Thank you all for participation and we look forward to next year's challenge. Many thanks to Pastor Kien Seng and his team of helpers from True Way PC! You guys were simply amazing! Thank you all!

It's our third year running this friendly competition. In our first year in 2005, we did not even had a trophy and we played football and basketball. In the following year, we added two trophies for football (guys) and capt's ball (girls). This year, we divided the age group further (13-18, 19-25) for both games, soccer for boys and mixed gender for capt's ball (only girls can score though) and added two more trophies to our tally. The winners this year for the following category are:

Boys Soccer 13-18: Amazing Grace PC (first time participants!!!)
Boys Soccer 19-25: Ang Mo Kio PC (defending champs for the last three years, but count as two because first year no trophy. Next year, if they win again, they can keep the trophy)

Mixed Capt's Ball 13-18: Covenant PC (I think Covenant youths play Capt's Ball every week issit? A clean sweep of top honors for Capt's Ball)
Mixed Capt's Ball 19-25: Covenant PC (also defending champs for the last two years, as the first year we did not have capt's ball. Next year, if they win, they can keep the trophy)

The Runners' Up are:
Boys Soccer 13-18: Glory PC English
Boys Soccer 19-25: Glory PC Chinese

Mixed Capt's Ball 13-18: Glory PC English
Mixed Capt's Ball 19-25: Glory PC English

Glory PC combined English and Chinese wins the most overall runner's up prize! Amazing! Hopefully next year they can win the top honors!

See ya next year!

TTC Public Lecture: The Peace that Surpasses All Understanding: A New Testament Theological Reflection' by Dr John Yieh

Dear Alumni,

INVITATION TO A PUBLIC LECTURE

I bring you warm greetings from Trinity Theological College.

I would like to invite you to a public lecture on Wednesday 30 May at 8pm at the TTC Chapel. The speaker is Dr John Yieh. Dr Yieh is Associate Professor in New Testament at Virginia Theological Seminary and obtained his PhD from Yale University. He will speak on 'The Peace that Surpasses All Understanding: A New Testament Theological Reflection'.

Dr Yieh researched on the Dead Sea Scrolls at the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. He also compiled a Concise Greek-Chinese Dictionary of the New Testament (1989), commissioned and published by the United Bible Societies and contributed to the drafting and editing of a study edition of the Chinese Bible.

He has published essays, articles, and reviews in the area of Gospels studies and cross-cultural hermeneutics and his most recent book is entitled "One Teacher: Jesus’ Teaching Role in Matthew’s Gospel Report ". He is now writing a book tentatively entitled: The Sermon on the Mount: a history-of-effects inquiry.

This public lecture is part of the programme of the Second International Congress of Ethnic Chinese Biblical Scholars (ECBC) to be held at TTC from 29 May – 1 June 2007, the first being held in Hong Kong's Chung Chi College in 2004. The theme for the Congress 2007 is Shalom: Biblical and Chinese Perspectives.

The public lecture is open to all and we encourage you to invite other interested persons to attend as well.

Yours in His Service,

Ngoei Foong Nghian

Principal

What is Intellectual Pride?

We are supposed to be praying against intellectual pride on 19th May. This sermon by Phillips Brooks should be of great help to us. The relevant section begins with the paragraph "I would speak again on what is called intellectual life..."

Creative Youth Ideas

Do check out this amazing youth resources website. It's absolutely free!

http://blog.creativeyouthideas.com/

Who was greater, Thomas A. Edison or his mother?

When he was a young lad his teacher sent him home with a note which said, 'Your child is dumb. We can't do anything for him.' Mrs. Edison wrote back, 'You do not understand my boy. I will teach him myself'. And she did, with results that are well known.

Hee! Hee! Quite funny!

"Bringing Significance Back Into Leadership" by Pamela Simpson

Leadership is a common word. We hear it used in business, church, politics, and everywhere else imaginable. So what? What's the big deal? Why is this word so common...and the real question is, how many times is it used with virtually no significance?

It's time to change that. "Leadership is influence...nothing more, nothing less." This phrase, used by many and coined across the globe by Dr. John C. Maxwell, really brings this word into focus. Leadership = Influence. Seems simple, right? And yet so many of us feel like we fail as leaders so often...or, even worse, feel like we've never even gotten to the point of being a leader.

But if this is true--that leadership is influence, then neither of these statements is really truth. No matter if we fail or not, we are still influencing. No matter if we have a leadership position or not, we are still influencing. Therefore, its no longer a question of success or position and this one truth becomes clear--everyone is a leader!

Everyone will influence someone in their lives and chances are that they will influence a whole lot more than that. In fact, some studies have shown that even the shyest of people will influence 10,000 people in their lifetime! Did you hear me? 10,000 PEOPLE! That's a whole lot! So, the question is no longer IF we will influence, but HOW we will influence.

I don't know about you, but I want to influence for good, not evil. I want to influence on the positive side, not the negative one. And even more than this, I want to influence those that will then influence even more...so that my 10,000 becomes not just 20,000 but multiplies into 100,000 and more! And even more than this...I want to influence the next generation of leaders, our youth, so that their influence will go beyond my lifetime. That's leadership. Let's make this word significant. Are you ready?

Pamela Simpson is the Project Coordinator for Equipping Leaders for Asia. She is currently coordinating 3 local events here in Singapore that will being the process of youth leadership training, with author and speaker of leadership, Dr. Tim Elmore. Check out the events! www.equippingleadersasia.org.