10 Reasons why EY ROCK

Someone spammed that question/challenge on the blog and the entire blog went silent. You can literally hear the cyberspace needle drop. Come people, surely we can give the ten reasons or failing that we can at least have the honesty to say "Sorry, dude, EY does not rock". Then Wan Li stepped up to bat, and she hit a home run. Suddenly, the blog is alive again. You can literally hear the cyberspace sigh of relief and we can move on. Before we move on, let's us ask ourselves, does EY rock?

Does EY rock? Is it really happening to the extent that we can say that EY rock? What image comes to mind if we say a certain place or event rock? Does that particular image pops into mind when we think about EY? Well, if that image does not pop into mind, then strictly speaking EY does not rock. So, in an honest self evaluation, does EY rock? Then again, some smart aleck will ask: how do you quantify the 'rockness' of EY? Do we quantify it by the events we organize; the people that attend; the no of people that attends; the speakers; our spiritual maturity; our worship; our activities or a combination of issues? Does pose a sticky problem, doesn't it? For the older folks, we are pretty rocking in terms of our worship and activities but for others we are quite bland. So let us look at this issue in terms of relative. Relative to the EY that we have always known and loved. Because, let's face it, there are some other more rocking youths around. Think back to a year or two ago. Remember the EY then and the EY now, does it rock? Let's start:

The ten reasons why EY rock:

• We are now numbering about high 20s. Something to look forward to. Keep it up and we need to build our very own EYC (Elim Youth Center, remember MYC, the Ipoh Wesley youth center)
• For a long time, we only sing for the sake of singing. How often did we actually worship God with the songs that we sing? Now and lately, I have noticed some of us worship God, lifting hands (albeit shy) and from the expression, we know that there is real worship going on. The first time, I saw it, I got misty eye. (yeah, the great cry baby)
  
• We are going to have 16 going to for a baptism class and from there; at least 7 are committed to go for the waters of baptism. Another misty eye affair.
  
• We recently had an activity where there was 71 people attending. From that number, we are only about 20 plus. The rest were people whom EY invited. WOW
  
• We have good group of taikos and taichehs involved in the ministry work. The working rapport among them is also superb. Man, you should see their makan fellowship.
  
• Our older EYs are now grown up and taking much more responsibility. (Wadefish taking more teaching lessons~ this Saturday, he is sharing on the BGR: the big picture J something to look forward to, maybe we should tape it; Andrew doing a lot of chauffeuring work ~ Thanks dudes)
  
• Our EYs are now also maturing (previous blog) with so many of you serving in so many activities.
  
• Our activities, boy oh boy do we have activities (Trips, EY programs, Night Worship, BUG, other churches youth fellowship). We need to cut down some as we barely have time to have our weekly meetings.
  
• We now have our very own EY room (though if we continue to add numbers, we may need to build a new one) where we could hang and chill (but not kick football).
  
• We now have our very own blog.
  
• Those are the ten items which makes EY rock (in my opinion, of course). Now, this really had to be said even if it is known, it is GOD that makes EY rocks. So people in your prayers do remember to praise and thank Him. To HIM be all glory and praise!!!
  

"How great is our God; Sing with me how great is Our God,…" Chris Tomlin

Katan