PDL West

We begin our first meeting on Purpose Driven Life last monday. I was a little worry because I have never lead a small group discussion before and especially knowing that beside Tommy and Andy, everyone else is still pretty new to me. I was scared, what if everybody stays silent and passive, what if everyone did not get what they should get out of this reading? So I let God take control on our group.

At 7pm, one by one people start to come to my house. And we started our group pretty much on time. I was very thankful for Annie, Andy, and Tommy because I was nervous and yet somehow they've helped me to ease my tension.

My group was awesome. About 10 people turning up and 2 said that they couldn't make it that night. The questions were alive, and the enthusiasm was there. I can feel God's works among each and everyone of us. There were sceptical questions, sharing and testimonies of new believer, and most importantly, the group was very open hearted to the book. I believe that as Rick Warren said, God has planned this group in mind and for all of us to be together, to meet and discover the purpose of our lifes. I hope the next 5 weeks to come will be a blessed week, and I also know the temptation will always be there but I am sure, God is the in the presence for us, and with that in mind, nothing is impossible.

(This article is taken from Yudiana's Blog)

First PDL home meeting @ Abraham's Place

Yesterday, April 20,2006 we did our first PDL home meeting at Abraham's place. There are 5 people in the list not coming, but... we still have 7 people yesterday because... there are people who are not on the list coming. Yay! They were Rio and Paulina with their little girl Caitlin. We have also Indah who has been coming to ICA for 4 months, Hartanto (unfortunatelly his wife Cindy was not coming because she was taking care of her sick kid), me(Teddy) and Effi, and Abraham as the host. There will be 1 more couple coming next week, Sujana and Sisi. They don't come to ICA but they are our friends.
It's quite interesting, we began with introducing each other (like our old habit in GoSolid, say name, work and hobbies lol).
The video was good, and the discussion was alive, everybody took part of it. We decided to take turn to lead every week, and also look for a new alternative place to meet to make it more interesting. We made agreement about the group and made commitment to do it consistantly. It was a good environment we had last night.
Finally we had our nice refreshments. Abraham did prepare many good things for us. We had noodle, fruit cocktail, and my favourite kacang ijo (green bean) :P

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Purpose Driven Life

Start from last Sunday, April 16th, 2006 (Easter Day) our church ICA Surabaya start a program called '40 Days of Purpose'. We, all the member of the church will read a book 'A Purpose Driven Life' 1 chapter a day at the same time. (If you don't have an idea what kind of book that is, I'll try to tell you later in another posting).
We as a church member will also meet in the small group once a week during the weekday, and on Sunday for 6 week in a row, the sermon will be talking about the Purpose Driven Life too!
Our Go Solid members will not be in one group. We are separated in few groups. My wife and I will join with Abraham's group in his house in Tenggilis while other members maybe go to Wijaya and Sjany's place.
My opinion, I'm so excited about this program and could't wait to involve in that highly supporting environment. You know, you can join too if you want. There are a lot of changing life testimony from people who have ever done this before. Then you can say : "I know my purpose. Do you?"

Worship With MP3

On our last meeting on April 12, we try to do something different. Actually it already started last week, but we're not well prepared about this idea. It's Sjany's idea to do worship using CD/MP3 instead of guitar. Because when we do it with guitar, often time the guitarist (me) have problem with the accord, too soon or too late when go to reff, or may be we don't know how to sing the song exectly. Especially Bu Elly who always pick songs which are too difficult that even she didn't know the song (ha ha ha).
So, that time we prepared MP3 player and our new song lyrics from ICA and worship God together with that. And the result? It was great! It brought new atmosphere in our worship time.

Many Things to Celebrate

Meeting at Sjany's place, Wednesday, April 5th 2006.
It was a regular meeting like we usually have, but that time I felt enthusiastic feelings among our group. May be because 2 days ago we have just had our 'Church annual business meeting'. It is a yearly meeting attended by our church member to present and discuss about church business.
We had many things to celebrate :
- Juddy Ang has elected as a new deacon.
- Jason has nominated also, but not elected (may be because he was in Singapore so he didn't come to the business meeting).
- Wijaya was appointed earlier to replace Ester as deacon.
- Cherry, our faithful member became member of ICA.

Let's Makan

On March 22nd we have dinner together at Dragon Restaurant on Jl. Jemursari. It was Wijaya, Sjany, Mei Ing, Elly, Jason, Cherry, Abraham, Judy Ang, Fivi, Teddy and Effi. Wow, 11 of us all came! What a big group.
The food was good and we had a good time chatting and joking around. I hope we have more like this in the future :)

Who We Are

GO Solid is a name of one of the cell groups we have in our church, ICA Surabaya. We meet once a week to fellowship. Well, there are tons of things related to the word 'fellowship'. The word 'fellowship' doesn't always related to 'churchy' things. It's a lot of fun there too. We share our life, encourage each others, play games, do project together or even hang out somewhere or have dinner together. Our activities has made us love each other and has built us in every aspect. Eventhough some of our friends stay far away, we have strong relationship in Spirit. (Right, Joey? :)