6.30pm, Wednesday, 7th of March 2012 at the college's DK A. That's when The Greatest Love Story unfolded.
About 120 people turned up for the event. We did pray and hope for more. But it rained and rained. God always has His greater plan though, and we were reminded once again that it's not always about the numbers.
Anyway, Easter Nite 2012 started off with a Bollywood dance number between the two emcees of the night - Justin Ooi and Axton Chong. They even had a tree (a willing tall person) to dance and skip around. Then there was an awesome time of praise and worship led by Tricia Lim and Daniel Tong to lead everyone in the hall into God's presence.
On that night were a couple of performances, and three different individuals were also invited on stage to share their life story of how God has saved them and let them experience His love for them in their lives. The first to go was Axton, who shared to us in Mandarin about his bad boy background and free-thinker outlook on life before he came to know Christ during his teen years.
Among many other things, Mr. Edwin Chien, an SSH lecturer, shared about the many times God had saved him from near-death experiences. Joel Tan shared about how his past relationships had drawn him away from God, and how realization of his mother's and God's love for him has literally saved his life. His personal story was probably the most dramatic of the night. It was such an emotional one too, that a few people even cried.
Later into the evening, Pastor Andy Yeoh took over the stage. His message was a simple message to sum up everything that had been said that evening. People couldn't stop laughing. But Pastor Andy gave more than just a funny sermon. He gave a very meaningful one that didn't want to dwell on explaining who God is - because, God and His love are something to be experienced, not explained.
No one could have agreed with him on that more than the five persons who decided on that night to accept Christ into their lives, to experience God and His love instead of waiting for more explanations. And we praise God for that!
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| Setting up and pre-event briefing time |
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| Emcees Justin Ooi and Axton Chong make announcements |
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| Praise and worship time led by Tricia Lim and Daniel Tong |
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| Emcee/CF President Justin invites the next performers onstage |
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| Esther Chan smile for the camera before she and Edwin Chiew perform a piano (or in this case, a keyboard) duet |
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| The Daniels (Tong and Lee) perform the song Hero by Abandon |
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| School of Social Science and Humanities lecturer, Mr. Edwin Chien, shares his life testimony of God's love and grace constantly covering his life |
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| Pastor Andy Yeoh of Acts Church gives a funny but very meaningful sermon after the performers and testimony sharers have done their parts |
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| The crowd being captivated by the charismatic speakers presenting their story with God. |
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| Cheese. :) |
