See You Guys Soon!

Hey Glowers!

Hope you guys are having a great time when you're reading this. As most of you know, I'll be / I'm away to Hainan for work purpose.

Although this is my second trip, but this time I definitely feel harder to leave this place compare to the first time due to many reasons, but one of them are you people!

You all have been such a great people in cell, and you have no idea how much joy I have everytime I see all of you. Reason being is because you college people, willing to spend your Friday night in cell to learn the Word of God rather than other places where usually college students will be on Friday night :)

It's a joy to see also - that all of you have grown in character. I've seen you guys rising up, taking up responsibility, and also making cell like a family! I believe one day you guys will rise up as leader to lead the next generation!

You people has made GLOW United such a joyful place to be! That is why I feel harder to leave this time ahhaha. So you people take care ya! I'll see you all when I'm back, and I'll be waiting for the 'winning' sms :)

See ya !!!

- JW

Dodgeball - postponed

Thanks everyone for coming and I hope everyone enjoyed the mini-session, and really sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Don't worry we're planning 2nd round and we'll keep you updated, hope you guys had fun that nite coz I did hahaha.

-jw

Dodgeball Team (UPDATED 12/08/09)

Hi all, sorry for keeping everyone waiting, here's the updated team :)

UPDATE: hey GLOWers please take note of the new team list, (only slight change), updated on 12/08/09)

Cow Economics X)

TRADITIONAL ECONOMICS
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies and the economy grows.
You retire on the income.

INDIAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows. You worship them.

PAKISTAN ECONOMICS
You dont have any cows.
You claim that the Indian cows belong to you.
You ask the US for financial aid,
China for military aid,
British for Warplanes,
Italy for machines,
Germany for technology,
French for submarines,
Switzerland for loans,
Russia for drugs,
Japan for equipment.
You buy the cows with all this and claim exploitation by the world.

AMERICAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You sell one and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
You profess surprise when the cow drops dead.
You put the blame on some nation with cows and naturally that nation will be a danger to mankind.
You wage a war to save the world and grab the cows.

FRENCH ECONOMICS
You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.

GERMAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You reengineer them so that they live for 100 years, eat once a month and milk themselves.

BRITISH ECONOMICS
You have two cows. They are both mad cows.

ITALIAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You don't know where they are.
You break for lunch.

SWISS ECONOMICS
You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you.
You charge others for storing them.

JAPANESE ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You redesign them so that they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
You then create cute cartoon cow images called Cowkimon and market them worldwide.

RUSSIAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
You count them again and learn you have 17 cows.
You give up counting and open another bottle of vodka.

CHINESE ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim full employment, high bovine productivity and arrest anyone reporting the actual numbers.

DODGEBALL! RWARR !

As you all can see in the schedule, the Dodgeball has been brought forward earlier by a week, so next week (14/08/09) instead of having usual cell in church, we'll be meeting at Lindy's condo (Tropicana) for an extreme-ly ganas dodgeball session. In summary:

Date: 14/08/09
Time: 8 - 10pm
Venue: Lindy's place , will provide map later

More info will be announce in this week's cell, so do come ya, see ya guys!

Cell Schedule (Aug09 - Dec09)

Hi all, attached here is the cell schedule for the last quarter of 2009, take note of the changes ya, see u guys in cell :)
UPDATED (05/10/09)


-jw

Why Did Jesus Fold the Napkin?

Got this from an email long ago, thought i might share it with you guys!

Why did Jesus fold the linen burial cloth after His resurrection? I never noticed this... .

The Gospel of John (20:7) tells us that the napkin, which was placed over the face of Jesus, was not just thrown aside like the grave clothes. The Bible takes an entire verse to tell us that the napkin was neatly folded, and was placed at the head of that stony coffin.

Early Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, 'They have taken the Lord's body out of the tomb, and I don't know where they have put him!' Peter and the other disciple ran to the tomb to see.. The other disciple outran Peter and got there first. He stooped and looked in and saw the linen cloth lying there, but he didn't go in. Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there, while the cloth that had covered Jesus' head was folded up and lying to the side.

Was that important? Absolutely! Is it really significant? Yes!

In order to understand the significance of the folded napkin, you have to understand a little bit about Hebrew tradition of that day. The folded napkin had to do with the Master and Servant, and every Jewish boy knew this tradition.When the servant set the dinner table for the master, he made sure that it was exactly the way the master wanted it. The table was furnished perfectly, and then the servant would wait, just out of sight, until the master had finished eating, and the servant would not dare touch that table, until the master was finished.

Now if the master were done eating, he would rise from the table, wipe his fingers, his mouth, and clean his beard, and would wad up that napkin and toss it onto the table.The servant would then know to clear the table. For in those days, the wadded napkin meant, 'I'm done'.

But if the master got up from the table, and folded his napkin, and laid it beside his plate, the servant would not dare touch the table, because..... .....

The folded napkin meant, 'I'm coming back!'

He is Coming Back!! Be Blessed!

Ten most unique churches

Harajuku: Japanese Futuristic Church
This futuristic non Catholic church is located in Tokyo and it was first unveiled by the design firm of Ciel Rouge Creation in 2005. The ceiling is specially made to reverberate natural sound for 2 seconds to provide a unique listening experience for worshipers and tourists.

Saint Basil's Cathedral: The Red Square 's Colorful Church.
The St. Basil's Cathedral is located on the Red Square in Moscow , Russia .
A Russian Orthodox church, the Cathedral sports a series of colorful bulbous domes that taper to a point,
aptly named onion domes, that are part of Moscow 's Kremlin skyline.

The cathedral was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible to commemorate the capture of the Khanate of Kazan.
In 1588 Tsar Fedor Ivanovich had a chapel added on the eastern side above the grave of Basil Fool for Christ,
a Russian Orthodox saint after whom the cathedral was popularly named.

Hallgr mskirkja: Iceland 's Most Amazing Church
The Hallgrmskirkja (literally, the church of Hallgrmur ) is a Lutheran parish church located in Reykjavk , Iceland .
At 74.5 metres (244 ft), it is the fourth tallest architectural structure in Iceland .
The church is named after the Icelandic poet and clergyman Hallgrmur Ptursson (1614 to 1674), author of the Passion Hymns.
State Architect Gujn Samelsson's design of the church was commissioned in 1937; it took 38 years to build it.

Temppeliaukio Kirkko: The Rock Church
The Temppeliaukio Kirkko ( Rock Church ) is a thrilling work of modern architecture in Helsinki.
Completed in 1952, it is built entirely underground and has a ceiling made of copper wire.
It was designed by architect brothers Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen and completed in 1969.
They chose a rocky outcrop rising about 40 feet above street level, and blasted out the walls from the inside.
It is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Helsinki and frequently full of visitors.

Cathedral of Braslia: The Modern Church of architect Oscar Niemeyer
The Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida in the capital of Brazil is an expression of the architect Oscar Niemeyer.
This concrete-framed hyperboloid structure, seems with its glass roof to be reaching up,
open, to heaven. On 31 May 1970, the Cathedral's structure was finished,
and only the 70 m diameter of the circular area were visible.
Niemeyer's project of Cathedral of Braslia is based in the hyperboloid of revolution which sections are asymmetric.
The hyperboloid structure itself is a result of 16 identical assembled concrete columns.
These columns, having hyperbolic section and weighing 90 t, represent two hands moving upwards to heaven.
The Cathedral was dedicated on 31 May 1970.

Borgund Church: Best Preserved Stave ChurchThe Borgund Stave Church in Lrdal is the best preserved of Norway 's 28 extant stave churches.
This wooden church, probably built in the end of the 12th century, has not changed structure
or had a major reconstruction since the date it was built.

The church is also featured as a Wonder for the Viking civilization in the video game Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings.

Las Lajas Cathedral: A Gothic Church Worthy of a Fairy Tale
The Las Lajas Cathedral is located in southern Colombia and built in 1916 inside the canyon of the Guaitara River. According to the legend, this was the place where an indian woman named Mara Mueses de Quiones was carrying her deaf-mute daughter Rosa on her back near Las Lajas ("The Rocks"). Weary of the climb, the Mara sat down on a rock when Rosa spoke (for the first time) about an apparition in a cave.

Later on, a mysterious painting of the Virgin Mary carrying a baby was discovered on the wall of the cave. Supposedly, studies of the painting showed no proof of paint or pigments on the rock - instead, when a core sample was taken, it was found that the colors were impregnated in the rock itself to a depth of several feet. Whether true or not, the legend spurred the building of this amazing church.

St. Joseph Church: Known for its Thirteen Gold Domed Roof
The St. Joseph The Betrothed is an Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Chicago .
Built in 1956, it is most known for its ultra-modern thirteen gold domed roof symbolizing the twelve apostles and Jesus Christ as the largest center dome.
The interior of the church is completely adorned with byzantine style icons (frescoes).
Unfortunately the iconographer was deported back to his homeland before he was able to
write the names of all the saints as prescribed by iconographic traditions.

Ruica Church: Where Chandeliers are made of Bullet Shells
Located over the Kalemegdan Fortress in Belgrade, Serbia, the Ruica Church is a small chapel decorated with... with trench art! Its chandeliers are entirely made of spent bullet casing, swords, and cannon parts.

The space the church now occupies was used by the Turks as gunpowder storage for over 100 years and it had to be largely rebuilt in 1920 after WWI. Though damaged by bombings there was an upshot to the terrible carnage of The Great War. While fighting alongside England and the US , Serbian soldiers on the Thessaloniki front took the time to put together these amazing chandeliers. It is one of the world's finest examples of trench art.

Chapel of St-Gildas: Built into the base of a bare rocky cliff
The Chapel of St-Gildas sits upon the bank of the Canal du Blavet in Brittany, France . Built like a stone barn into the base of a bare rocky cliff, this was once a holy place of the Druids. Gildas appears to have travelled widely throughout the Celtic world of Corwall, Wales , Ireland and Scotland . He arrived in Brittany in about AD 540 and is said to have preached Christianity
to the people from a rough pulpit, now contained within the chapel.

GLOW UNITED AT COUZ CAMP!!!(we produce champions!)


ps. Photo stolen from DanLo =)