Sunday was Hope Singapore day. I was really excited at the prospect of visiting another church in the movement, particularly one that was 4000 strong. I've been to Hope Bangkok, Hope Kuching, Hope KLCC, Hope Adelaide, Hope Newcastle, Hope Hobart, Hope Melbourne City Centre and now Hope Singapore.
I took a 50 minute MRT ride to Somerset and asked around to get to Maccas. Hope Singapore members flooded the Maccas! They all do their Sunday morning devotion there before 2nd service starts at 11.45pm. I met new ppl in the Jedi units [transitionary and international ppl]: Grace, Sally [ex-brissy], Jasmine[ex-brissy], Chris, Henry etc. They were all doing their connect journal together. I was very blessed by each and everyone's sincere heart to grow and to serve God. It was a very good time of sharing and learning about each other's walks with God.
Service was very much like Brisbane in structure. I saw Joan Cher, Kelly, and Tien Tien again. Of course, Sean, Alvin and Jayce etc were back for their holidays as well.
The preacher was very Singaporean :) He preached from Psalms 23, and gave many great insights that I will share later.
Lunch time was catch up time with Sean, Jabez and Kelly. I marvel at how God seems to be arranging for me to form many friendships with ex-brisbanites, or current afternoon service ppl that I rarely get to meet. Miranda, Kelly, Sean, Lemuel, Diana etc.
I had a good fat chat with Kelly and got to know her a lot better. We went shopping later and I actually bought something. Hehe. After wandering around the malls, Kelly and I joined Lemuel, his bro, Cedric and Joyce at a Japanese 'food court' of sorts for dinner. Lots of laughter. And we found a bridge of connection via ROYAL RANGERS of all things. Royal Rangers is a Christian Scout organization founded in the Assemblies of God. My home church is AOG, and I had been through Royal Rangers. Joyce is serving in RR and we were laughing over some of the different things we'd been through.
So ended Day 2.
Day 3
Liz and I slept in. Sean kindly offered to bring us around, so we zipped off on the bus and met him at the MRT station. He brought us to China town. We had the greatest time shopping. Everything was very cheap, even for Malaysian standards. I even found cheap, original CDs.
This was our general conversation throughout the day
Me: Wow. So cheap, let's take a look
Liz: Yea. I think I'll get 2 of these, one for Ma, one for myself.
Me: Mom would like that thing. Yay, let's take a look at this shop. Ok?
Sean: yes, of course of course...
Poor Sean followed us around and gave appropriate comments.
We ended up buying clothes, jewelry and Cd's, and spending very little money. How nice it felt!
Food was also cheap and good. I had my fill of my favourite sesame rice balls and peanut soup. it was half the price of Sunnybank, with lots of rice balls as well. Mmmm....
Day 3 was satisfyingly relaxed, full of cheap bargains, good food, good company. Chinatown was quite clean, but full of Chinese New Year decorations. Not too many people. My impression of Singapore improved.
Dinner was also good. My long-haired, funny male cousin number 3 met up with us at Fish and Co. The salmon and rice meal was surprisingly superb, but pricey. And then, we went to the bus station and the Singaporean story ends...
I wouldn't mind going again if I had a couple of friends to hang out with there.
I took a 50 minute MRT ride to Somerset and asked around to get to Maccas. Hope Singapore members flooded the Maccas! They all do their Sunday morning devotion there before 2nd service starts at 11.45pm. I met new ppl in the Jedi units [transitionary and international ppl]: Grace, Sally [ex-brissy], Jasmine[ex-brissy], Chris, Henry etc. They were all doing their connect journal together. I was very blessed by each and everyone's sincere heart to grow and to serve God. It was a very good time of sharing and learning about each other's walks with God.
Service was very much like Brisbane in structure. I saw Joan Cher, Kelly, and Tien Tien again. Of course, Sean, Alvin and Jayce etc were back for their holidays as well.
The preacher was very Singaporean :) He preached from Psalms 23, and gave many great insights that I will share later.
Lunch time was catch up time with Sean, Jabez and Kelly. I marvel at how God seems to be arranging for me to form many friendships with ex-brisbanites, or current afternoon service ppl that I rarely get to meet. Miranda, Kelly, Sean, Lemuel, Diana etc.
I had a good fat chat with Kelly and got to know her a lot better. We went shopping later and I actually bought something. Hehe. After wandering around the malls, Kelly and I joined Lemuel, his bro, Cedric and Joyce at a Japanese 'food court' of sorts for dinner. Lots of laughter. And we found a bridge of connection via ROYAL RANGERS of all things. Royal Rangers is a Christian Scout organization founded in the Assemblies of God. My home church is AOG, and I had been through Royal Rangers. Joyce is serving in RR and we were laughing over some of the different things we'd been through.
So ended Day 2.
Day 3
Liz and I slept in. Sean kindly offered to bring us around, so we zipped off on the bus and met him at the MRT station. He brought us to China town. We had the greatest time shopping. Everything was very cheap, even for Malaysian standards. I even found cheap, original CDs.
This was our general conversation throughout the day
Me: Wow. So cheap, let's take a look
Liz: Yea. I think I'll get 2 of these, one for Ma, one for myself.
Me: Mom would like that thing. Yay, let's take a look at this shop. Ok?
Sean: yes, of course of course...
Poor Sean followed us around and gave appropriate comments.
We ended up buying clothes, jewelry and Cd's, and spending very little money. How nice it felt!
Food was also cheap and good. I had my fill of my favourite sesame rice balls and peanut soup. it was half the price of Sunnybank, with lots of rice balls as well. Mmmm....
Day 3 was satisfyingly relaxed, full of cheap bargains, good food, good company. Chinatown was quite clean, but full of Chinese New Year decorations. Not too many people. My impression of Singapore improved.
Dinner was also good. My long-haired, funny male cousin number 3 met up with us at Fish and Co. The salmon and rice meal was surprisingly superb, but pricey. And then, we went to the bus station and the Singaporean story ends...
I wouldn't mind going again if I had a couple of friends to hang out with there.
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