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Name: Michelle Ruth Tong

Birthday: 3rd March

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To be a testimony of Christ and set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity (1 Tim. 4:12). Do whatever is true, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, whatever is excellent and praiseworthy to God (Phili 4:8).



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Monday 20 February 2006
*.* Nehemiah 4 cell shall end it's chapter here... The ending is better than the beginning! *.*

Nehemiah 4 cell in Yishun Methodist Mission started in August 2004.

In fact, we actually started in June as a Bible Study group with the BB Primers of 62nd. In August, we were officially part of the church forming a cell. It started of (If I didn't remember wrongly) with 8 people. James (Cell Leader), Daryl, Eugene, Rachel, Daphne, Irene, Ada and myself.

During the first half of 2005, Jonathan, Wee Kuang, Priscilla, Eunice, Wendy, Leon joined us. We had cell every Friday at Rachel's place and by March, cell was at my place.

By the end of 2005, we had Leslie, Sherman and Jeriel with us. The cell grew from 8 to 16.

Up to now, Feb 2006, we have 14 cell members. Along the way Eugene left us, Wee Kuang went to another church and Priscilla went to adult cell.




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2nd - 4th Dec 2004, James, Daryl, Jeffery, Rachel, Daphne, Irene, Ada and myself, additional members of Victor and Simon. It was the first time that the cell went so far out. We went to Dompak for mission trip. 3 days 2 nights.

I remembered all of us had to share the load and carry instant noodles, mass tins, canned foods, each of our own sleeping bag and our own stuffs. We all had to walk a long distance and all we could do was to sing songs along the way, encouraging each other. We took turns to carry water because we were running out of supply of water and by the last day we had so much water that we had to share the load of waters.

We played the game 'polar bear' outside the house until it was dark and slept in that house on the first night. The girls in a room and the guys had to sleep outside. They really snored very loud. We couldn't sleep!

Second night, we slept in a 'all star hotel'. We had so much laughter and fun. We had lots of fun playing with the kids there and among ourselves too. Not forgetting the shower at the well and we really were so 'no skill' as we kept dropping the pail into the well and had to use manpower and brains to pull it up.

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6th - 8th May 2005 Cell Retreat at Port Dickson. James, Jonathan, Daryl, Eunice, Rachel, Daphne, Wendy and myself, with Pastor Gordon leading us there.

We had so much fun and encountering God. We had lots of fun and all the exploring and eating. It was during the cell retreat that we set our goals and vision for this cell and later called ourselves Nehemiah 4 because it was about rebuilding the wall. We are building lives. I dare say we really had the mountain top experience. After that we each had our own spiritual partners. We were told to pray and find for ourselves.

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Out of the 14 of us, there are 5 youth interns - Eunice, Rachel, Daphne, Jonathan and myself. Among the 5 of us, 3 of us were called one day to talk about something very serious. Never did I expect that we were told that there will be re-shuffering of our cell. We were told to be prepared for this big change and not to spread the word around.

17 Feb 2006, all the youth cells had our cell meeting at 102. We were told the importance of cell division and why we should multiply. Cell division is always painful but it's necessary if not all of us can't grow and the worse case will be the cell dies off.

I have seen the ups and downs of this cell. At times when we were at the highest point of time and we could worship God for an hour plus. The downest part of time where everyone simply couldn't carry on for cell that day because there were misunderstandings, there were unhappiness among us.

Everyone has changed and grown over these 1 and a half years. It's painful to say goodbye to this cell. We all have to go and take up the challenges ahead. We all need to get out of our own comfort zone and build up more lives. We are still the bricks of Nehemiah 4 cell and our mission is still to build lives.




Till 24 March 2006 comes, I just want to say, Thank you each and every cell member of your time and effort for making up this cell. Without you, there won't be Nehemiah 4. Thank God for you and your every little effort and every lesson you gave me. I guess the most significant thing that we did was our beloved banner when we did it in April 2005. It's really the hard work of all of us. It really bond us all together. We gone through so much together. Events after events, enounter retreat, attending Youth Service together, BYG camp, seeing each other grow. I really can't bear to leave all of you.

I really want to thank God for all of you. I love you Nehemiah 4!

Nehemiah 4 cell shall end it's chapter here... The ending is better than the beginning!

What is the first thing that comes to my mind when you mention cell?
God, worship, Word, cell agenda, birthday cakes and birthday sabotage and all of you...

posted by Michelle at 00:22:00

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