Just people in the church: LEONG TZIN YUEN

Leong? Who? Leong - the guy that did the "two two" at the TOT video! OH...oooohhhh....

Leong joined Eaglepoint two years ago, in Nov 2007. His classmate, Doris, invited him to attend Track of Talents and Creative Life and since then he'd plugged in to church and had been one of the faithful and consistent servant in the House!

Leong came from a Catholic background and had always felt that it was such a boring thing going to 'church'. But when he came to visit Eaglepoint, he felt that we were different and realised that he can actually have a relationship with God, not to mention getting to know a crazy new bunch of friends in Creative Life as part of the package.

It was through this journey that he finally received Christ into his life and got saved some time in Jan 2008 and was later baptised at the make shift pool at Mark's house in the same year.

"I'm a 100% Eaglepoint product, " he proudly declared as he stood here in my office.

Honestly, when he first came, I thought that he's quiet and possibly cos he's shy but once you get to know him, he's actually funny in his own way. Not to mention that he's a good brother. Just the other night, when Ching and I was working late in the office, he actually quietly waited for us at the cafeteria so that he can 'escort' us when we lock up in the dark when we go home around midnight. Not many guys had actually offered that kind of help... ahem...

Although he's currently at his final semester in Bachelor of Information Technology and Science at Monash University (Sunway), he is still one of the faithful cameraman and/or video editor for 1a.m. Shoot! In the short two years here, he'd started serving by helping to shoot the Track of Talents (TOT) performances and after attending Kareem's class on Basic Video Shooting, he learned the tricks of being a cameraman and from there, he was introduced to be an editor and a cameraman in PointCast. Now, he's the senior in all the areas!

When asked to describe some of the memorable moments about serving, his list started, "Watching the first PointCast episode that I edited, cringing every time I see the bad shots that I took, even getting the hosts' names wrong in credits once, working together with the video team on the Crooked music video shoot, getting lost to the location every day, doing live-cam on-stage shoot with Relent for Change Your World Kluang and recently at Bukit Jalil Golf & Country Resort for the the Easter Service."

For me, reading that list was kinda inspiring. Who would have thought that THAT quiet guy had so much to say?! I guess it could only mean that he really does enjoy serving together and enjoy serving in all those areas! Now, THAT's call a Doulos (love-slave). Not just serving without complain but enjoying serving together!

And to top it all off, the 'challenge' that he felt he had in serving is "Not being able to give more time due to studies." Now, that's call a reasonable excuse - of all the people that say that they do not want to serve because it's taking up too much of their time, here's someone that's already giving much and desire to be able to give more! What an inspiring spirit!

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Let's discover people from other zones! Every now and then, I'll feature someone that's serving in this house to you. This will not serve to replace getting to know them personally but i do hope that through this segment you'll also be inspired to serve and to serve together with these people! More coming up...

Just people in the church: ELAINE ONG

Consistently every month, I’m sure to receive an email from ELAINE asking all the people involve in PointCast for our availability dates. If you’re in the team, you would know that she’s THE woman behind the scheduling of PointCast. And if you see PointCast happening week after week, it didn’t just ‘happened’ to be. Elaine Ong is one of the main person that ensure it will ‘happen’ – she’s the PointCast Executive Producer cum scheduler!

Elaine was invited to Eaglepoint almost 12 years ago by her friend and she can still vividly account her first experience in Eaglepoint.

She described, “When I first came to church, Charlene Liang was the song leader that day. I remember clearly that she was rallying the people to come back to God. In my heart, it feels like God was saying to me, ‘welcome home, my daughter’ and I cried so much that day. Since then, I know that Eaglepoint is my home.”

Elaine was first roped in by Kevin Lau to help start and build a Multimedia team together. At first, when Kevin said that Kareem was going to join them, she was a little hesitant (cos she thought ‘Kazo’ is weird…) but then once she got to know Kareem, she found that he’s a great guy and a most generous friend. Now, they are BFFs!!

That's Kaz and Elaine!

“I remember the time when Kevin, Kareem and I had to superimpose Kareem’s head onto Stephen Chow’s body from Kungfu Hustle clips for the Breakout Awards video; we had so much fun working together even though we laboured continuously for about 3 days on the project. I enjoyed those times tremendously,” she said as she recalls from memory.

Serving together has given her a platform to get to know more people, especially those in the 1a.m. ministry as well as those that go to other weekend services but the team has their challenges as well. There are never enough volunteers chipping into the big effort of a production and it often falls back to the same few editors. She hopes that more committed volunteers will join the team and stick with it.

Sad to say but Elaine will be leaving us soon as she’s moving back to her hometown in Muar in anticipation of a new job as the Advertising & Promotions Manager for Dataran Pahlawan Melaka Megamall. She felt that it’s time she return home to care for her parents and this job came timely for it. With the peace from God, she accepted the job offer and will be starting first thing next month.

“I want to thank Pastor Tim, Teresa and PC for being there for me all these years. The great family of Eaglepoint have definitely left a mark in my life and I would like to honour all of you by leaving your mark of legacy in my hometown as well. Thank you, to all of you, brothers and sisters who’d impacted my life. I’ll come back to visit!” she stated.

Although we will miss her, we will also wish the best for her in this new direction in her life.
Laine, we pray that in this new journey, you will discover more of God in your life, in every step you take and we pray for the grace and the blessing to be upon you! Muar is just a few hours, please come back for all the birthdays, special days and normal days too! =)

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Let's discover people from other zones! Every now and then, I'll feature someone that's serving in this house to you. This will not serve to replace getting to know them personally but i do hope that through this segment you'll also be inspired to serve and to serve together with these people! More coming up...