The finishing of The Heavenly Gift!

We ran the race and finished 20-day "The Heavenly Gift" project strong and happy.

this is Jackee tearing the wings apart! hahaha... the gang staybed back and helped me clear up the new wing. old wing was handled by someone else. and the most right is jamie. she's the hands behind majority of the ribbons and can wrap all the odd sizes gifts! hahaha... amazing funny person... she likes my eyelid! (told ya she's funny)

and yesterday we went ditributing food at the community hall. many who were not in our list came hoping to get something too. this pic was taken after most of the food was distributed..
and many of the community ppl (shoppers who'd contributed) came and helped out to distribute and chat with the families and some even help to carry it up to their apartments. when the heavy rain broke out, they were soaked wet!

Christmas time!!

Church office Gift exchange day! yeah!

each of us picked a name a couple weeks ago to bring a meaningful gift for the name we picked and do a surprise gift giving. so today is the day. we all gathered around the table at the cafe. we had so much fun and laughter and simply taking time off the busyness to enjoy the fellowship of the office. each of us also receive gifts from pc/kel and steven.

i picked max's name. for me, it was a tough one cos the standard is so much higher to get something meaningful for creative ppl cos they are fussy-er! but i got this inspiration to bless him with the word of God as he uses every part of him to honor God. His hands, his head, his feet, his eyes, his ears and his body. glad he liked it though. i purposely did not make one with his full face cos he can always see that in a mirror! hahahah...

and this is what i get from Jude! i wonder whether is it cos i'm always scolding (fighting) with ppl but actually i'm just a tofu inside! hahahaha.... but i do love it!

ok. this year's christmas present... ta da! bahulu... we are in the midst of packing 700 packs of bahulu for Christmas day!! need more volunteers! come help!

The Heavenly Gift PURCHASING DAY!!

my assistant purchaser! hehehe... got carried away... (this was during round 6 or 7 at giant hypermart)

my 3 faithful "wrappers" that wrapped most of the gifts.

isnt it cute? swimming trunk n goggles! hehehe... soooo cute!

"i would love a toy"

all the things lay out in the kids room.

4 purchasers (plus me) 'pregnant' with 17 copies of dictionaries and 4 copies of hard cover pictorial storybooks! hahahah...

"can i have a remote control car?"

we jammed up the counter! they had to direct all the other ppl to the other counters. haahah... see all the happy faces? i think we enjoyed shopping without having to pay for the it!!

this is how agape's trolley is 'sorted'.

this is how mine is sorted. folded neatly according to the profile number orders in sets of two items per number. (the front stack is mine. the stack at the back is nailin's doing. she took over while i go for lunch and end up buying a pair of shoes for herself) ahhahahhaha...

5 full trolleys all in all! about 12pm to 5pm (then we proceed to tesco til 9pm!!)

The Heavenly Gift Carolling

we were having dinner at Next Stop Restaurant and here came the carollers! but one thing i realised was that the shoppers don't clap or cheer for them. it can be rather discouraging singing there but no worries, the few of us that was there were trained from SNL! so we cheered and clapped and thank them... LOUDLY! hahahaha...

Community at Heart Board

just now we went to setup the place. but i am now too tired to describe. so... just photos lah.. ahhaha..

Raining outside and... in Youth Room!

Agape came running, "Sharon! Sharon! Banjir! banjir!"
*later i did question her... there were so many ppl in church, why lah shout my name... should have shouted jude jude flood flood or charlene charlene flood or even JIE JIE (bee sean) chan sui chan sui!!! hahahahahhaha.... when i reach youth room i was shocked to see the raining in the room! and we were already wading in about 2-3cm of water pool in the room. it was overflowing from youth room out to steven's space, pc's space, pastor's room and kel's room.

it was just water every where. and thank God some of the chinese church ppl were here. they all helped to take the things out from youth room to the cafe. every one were careful in walking cos some slipped and fell hard on the floor and got themselves all wet. dont know how best to describe it but it was raining (literally) from 4 ceiling boards from the door to the piano in youth room! then i strated calling the contractor and yelling "help! help!"
hahhaha.....
later when he came, he went up to the roof to check and then found that the 'runway' for the water to flow from the roof off to the side and down the building wall was blocked with a big piece of plastic and water was already 2 feet high up there. once he pulled out the plastic, all the water whooooshhed down the drain! just a simple solution but caused us all the hassle.

but then when the contractor went down to the sanctuary to take the tall stairs, they informed me that sanctuary is also leaking water from youth room! i rushed down and quickly put two big pail there. after dinner when i went to check on it, it became heavier and i had to put two more pails there. seeing everyone helping to shift things, i told them, "this is the non-profit organisation where we all join hands to make a positive change in Eaglepoint" hahahaaha.... and Agape said, "This is Station 4!!" ahahahah....

see that? that's bern wiping the floor. bern n brian came to pick bsean to dinner for his mom's bday and end up helping!

see the base of the paper box? that's how 'high' the water was in the room.

it'd been an eventful day, first, in the morning, the electricity wiring had some burning smell and we had to shut off upstairs electricity for a while for testing then the flood. After that we all went for a hearty dinner together.

during dinner when Charlene mentioned that leaking is really one of the worse, i told her "yeah! it's in my category of "i hate it". along in the same cateogory are 'renovation' and 'no money'." and everyone else agreed to the i-hate-it-no-money part. hahahaaha..

think about shifting all the things back into place is already a headache to me! jorr....
why lah... why??

A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO HELPED!

The Heavenly Gift 2009 @ IOI MALL

It's bigger than last year! Come and support us - sponsor a family or an orphan or even join us in volunteering. else u can also buy us snacks as encouragement?! hahaha...

ok. why this poster? i am proud to say that i contributed to the poster. i kind of wrote the copy!! yahoo! and i suggest for the idea of the layout to be like that. ok... yes. i'm proud of myself! a little achievement