Urban Street Outreach (USO) outing for the month of September 2008

Our CG involved in Urban Street Outreach (USO) last friday night. It has been an awesome experience especially for me. However, it started with a little havoc whereby I forgotten my camera's battery. Well, I went back and grab it.

Picture here taken when Benji went back and drive his car out. Jon is patiently waiting and Pik Yee started calling :)

Eric looking forward to the outing. Poor guy carrying two bags.

Daniel and Pik Yee crack jokes while waiting.. A long wait.. haha.

Finally Benji (our beloved CG leader) arrived in style. I can't remember what is their conversation about. From the picture, it seems like they are ready for a fight :)

USO person in-charge giving us (most of us are first timers) briefing on what we should and shouldn't do during the outing. I only remembered one thing he said, which is "let the lord lead you on the talking and conversation with the homeless people".

Jireh unlimited CG members focusing to the leader's words. 100% concentration.
We are loading the mineral water, fried rice, biscuits and toilet rolls into the van for distribution.

Benji, Alex and USO leader chatting to a homeless person. From the picture it seems like we are picking a fight.

I can't take many of these pictures as I am afraid they will get offended. Our intention for the outing is to help and talk to them. Hence when we are doing the actual work, I kept my camera in the bag.

Some of us standing against the van especially the girls in this picture because there is a drunk homeless person at the other side. For safety purpose, the girls were told to stay close to the van.

Our contributors of the USO outing, Mr plastic bag man (Jon) and Benji.

Contributors from Jireh Unlimited, from left to right. Eric, Phooi Theng, Pik Yee, Jon, Benji, Damien (myself) and Alex.

Benji likes this picture of him. Snapped after we completed out task near Komtar. He said want to put this on facebook. Let me see whether the hands behind can be erased :)

A candid shot and just fast enough to catch Eric yawn. It is ~2am. Everyone was tired and sleepy after the outing. But I am sure everyone was glad that we did something good and contributed to the community. I am glad and I am proud to be a member of Jireh Unlimited CG.

WorkOut Session

On Friday's CG, (BIG) Daniel suggested to have some sports session, after some small discussion, we have decided to go for badminton + gym session in one of the MNCs in Bayan Lepas, since the employees are allowed to bring some friends in.

7 of us turned up. 4 guys were playing badminton, with 2 girls + 1 guy (strong one :P) went for the gym upstair. It was a good environment with good facilities.

The guys' game

They said Eric is too good so after a few games no one wants to play with him anymore :P

The strong guy showing off his muscles in gym

See how much weight he's carrying?! :D

OK he did successfully fascinate the two girls :P

Mary on her favorite treadmill, while watching Eric playing through the window :D

We had a mix double before we all left the place. I somehow forgot who won the game. I don't think it's me & EG since our teamwork wasn't not very good. But anyhow, we had a good time playing.

It was a very good workout session. I bet everyone had very good sleep on that night after the heavy sweating. Doing sport is good for health since it helps to release stress and detoxifying our bodies, as well as improving the bonding among us. One stone two birds, or maybe more birds. :P. We should do more of this in the future so that all of us will be more fit.

BJ Hill Hiking

While we're having our breakfast together at Plus Two restaurant on last Sunday before going for Sunday Service, Benji suggested for hiking during the evening. And since most of us want to keep fit (add on with Jon's & Benji's persuasion skills), so a few of us went together.

We are supposed to start at 5pm, but Mary and Eric was late. (Wonder who's Mary? Read on :P). We waited till 6pm, and there we off up to the top!

There's some mis-communication and our photographer (big Daniel) flew us aeroplane and hence, I snapped a few pics using my humble handphone. So, do excuse me for the poor quality of the pictures below.

Few stops that we took so that I don't black out

The strong guys trying to carry their own weight.
Mary tried very hard too.

So now, you should be able to find out who's Mary in our CG. It was a fun outing and obviously I did it better comparing to the first time last year! At least this round we could reach the top within 30 minutes - rather than 45 minutes or 1 hour previously. Let's hope that next time I can reach the top in 15 minutes - just like Benji.