iBridge Camp 2011 !!!!

Camp Theme: Uncertain Times, Unchanging Passion, Unwavering Conviction
Venue : Seminari Theoloji Malaysia, Seremban.
Date : 15-18 September 2011 (Thursday - Sunday)
Camp Fee : RM180.00

Registration Closing Date : 12th September 2011

Website : http://ibridgecamp2011.blogspot.com/search/label/Camp%20Details

To register : http://ibridgecamp2011.blogspot.com/search/label/Registration%20Form

Workshop 1 – Transition to work
by Tak Ming
- Meaning of Work
- How to make an impact and marketplace outreach
- Common struggles faced by fresh graduates and how to overcome it
- Sabbath

Workshop 2 – Social Relief work
by Steve
- What is CREST?

- Why social relief work is important?

- How graduates can get involve/response?

Workshop 3 – Biblical Financial Management

by Erik Lai
- Biblical perspective on financial management

- Professional advise on purchasing car, house, investment, saving, generous giving for mission, retirement, etc
- Trusting-God-to-Provide vs Financial security

Workshop 4 – National Issues

by Keat Peng

- Sharing on current and yet to come national issues

- How to make right judgement/discernment based on exploded media information that we read

- Awareness of basic constitution right

- How should Christian respond to Bersih and future rallies.

Workshop 5 – Discernment

by Dr Choon Khing

- What is discernment?

- How to practise discernment?

- Practical discernment (Choosing job, ministries, finding life partner, response to certain opinions etc)

Workshop 6 - Talent migration

by Seng Gee

- What is migration?

- What is the deciding point to migrate or not to migrate?

- How should I respond to my friends who want to migrate?

Workshop 7 – Relationship

by 2 Pre-Marital Counseling Couples

Workshop 8 – Science and Faith (God)

by Dr Living Lee

"Welcome to the world!"

*laughters*

Isn't that a familiar phrase that our seniors told us when we first started work?

Being a young adult in the working world comes with a new set of challenges.

When we were still students, it was easy to see the path that we would be going. After graduating from university or college, the transition to be in the workforce can be quite daunting. The uncertainties that loom in. The process of adapting to a new environment. The responsibilities that come with adulthood. Trust us, this process doesn't stop there.

After working for a few years, you might find yourself at the crossroads again. It's like going back to the days when you once faced the fresh graduates' dilemma. The only difference this time is you carry more skills and work experiences with you. You also have more things and commitments to care about: family, relationships, finance, church involvement etc.

We face transitions at different points of our lives. That is a fact we constantly remind ourselves to face it whether we like it or not. The process is indeed challenging and uncomfortable. It can be exhausting. Somehow we need to move on in order to move forward. Sigh... We understand you.

Let's take a break from all these worries! Come join us for camp and be refreshed again!

Just Graduated? Looking for a group of Christian friends to grow together in your walk with God??

Just graduated?

So you have collected your hard earned certificate, thrown your mortar board in the air, taken countless photographs with your family and friends, returned your graduation robe, packed up your valuables and memories into boxes and finally returned home.

What next?

Apply for a job, your mother and your logical mind tells you.

Target the best companies - especially those who offer you the highest pay.

You start off with your very first “real” job in the “real” world. After some initial struggle, you finally settle into the routine battling through traffic jams, working hard, submitting to your boss, striving to be excellent and trying to be the “salt and light” that the bible talks about.

You are overwhelmed. You start having doubts about your faith and how you can make a difference. You feel insignificant. You wonder if you are the only one.

You need wisdom, help and support to transition through this new phase of life…

Do not fret. You need not go through this alone. We are here for you. GCF (Graduates Christian Fellowship) would like to invite you to a Graduates Commissioning Service. This is a reflective service so come and join us..

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"GRADUATION COMMISSIONING SERVICE & DINNER"

Date : 13th August 2011 (Saturday)

Time : 4.00 pm – 5.30pm (Graduation Commissioning Service)

: 5.30 pm – 7.00pm (GCF 42nd AGM)

: 7.00 pm – 9.00pm (Dinner at Royal Selangor Club - RM40 per pax)

(*RM20 for fresh graduates below 3 working years)

Venue: St Mary’s Anglican Cathedral . Jalan Raja (Dataran Merdeka) KL

: Map as attached http://maps.google.com.my/maps q=st+mary+cathedral+kl&hl=en&ll=3.150404,101.692511&spn=0.006128,0.013733&z=17

Speaker: Mr Goh Keat Peng

Goh Keat Peng has been blessed with opportunities to minister to churches in and out of the country, school and university students, poor communities in East Timor, and Malaysian politicians across the parliamentary divide. Through the Christian Federation of Malaysia and the Malaysian Consultative council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism, he has also been engaged in efforts to encourage Christian unity and also the resolution of religious conflicts through genuine dialogue and to safeguard the status of religious freedom in Malaysia. Believing that there must be a Christian voice in Malaysia, he has set up a personal blog at http://ongohing.wordpress.com/ as well as a web portal athttp://www.themicahmandate.org/ where his perspectives and reflections on issues of national importance are regularly published.

Come and join us at GCF, a growing community of Christians, comprising of young professionals graduates in Malaysia. We are here to help you in your transition from campus life to the working world.

(A) THANKSGIVING : To bring together just graduated Christians to give thanks to God collectively for their successful graduation and for God’s protection, provisions, guidance, encouragement and counsel during their time as students and to seek His guidance and counsel and to depend on God continuously in their lives ahead;

(B) FELLOWSHIP : To encourage Christian graduates to identify with each other as members of the Body with shared responsibilities as individuals who have been called by God to be members of His Church;

(C) EQUIPPING : To remind Christian graduates that they have the privilege to be chosen to be God’s adopted children for a divine purpose and to challenge the individual fresh graduate to seek for God’s divine purpose in their lives in our nation especially in the face of the various challenges facing our nation; and

(D) COMMISIONING : To assert in the spirit and soul of every Christian graduate that the source of true success and blessings in life comes from the knowledge of God and total obedience to his word and absolute dependence on Him throughout their lives.

Come and be encouraged!

Please RSVP before 5th August 2011 or contact Jimmy Lee at gcf.msia@gmail.com for more details.

HeadStart Introduction Dinner (June Intake)

What is Headstart?

Ever wondered what is God's calling for your life? Do you struggle to give God your best in every area of your life? Come and join the HEADSTART program. HEADSTART is a one-year program that helps graduates to work through transitional issues from campus to the market place. It is a small group that meets together to discuss transition from a student life to the working world. It also enforces community living whose objective is to create lifelong disciples, to help transition from campus to the marketplace, to deal with work pressure, office politics, work culture, relating to parents, adapting back to church life, being salt and light in the marketplace. Perhaps the most important part of the HeadStart ministry lies in the friendship that is built amongst the group members which lasts way after the HeadStart is over. Prayer and accountability is an integral part of the group also. The book, Following Jesus in the "Real World" by Richard Lamb will be used as the syllabus & guide.

Please join us on.....

Date:	25th June 2011 (Saturday)	Time: 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Venue:	Mr & Mrs Tan Joon Chee’s home No.5, Lorong Kemaris 1,Bukit Bandaraya,59100 Kuala Lumpur.

Note: Dinner will be provided for fellowship purposes and an opportunity encourage one another.

Please RSVP and contact Jimmy Lee for more details: (016-4532275) at ibridge.email@gmail.com

An Invitation to ICM Public Lectures 2011 - Taking Your Soul to Work

For more information & details of the lectures, check out the ICM link at www.trac.org.my or this link http://www.trac.org.my/index.cfm?&menuid=93&parentid=22

If you would like to hear a recent radio-interview by Freda Liu with Alvin Ung on his book, Taking Your Soul to Work, check out BFM89.9 or http://www.bfm.my//raise-your-game-alvin-ung-taking-your-soul-to-work.html

Registration with CGMC office (05-546 2023) : RM20 per person (incl. of tea & lunch) by 6th of March 2011! Hurry!

Blessings,

Ng Wai Ling

Director

Institute for Christian Ministry (ICM)

TRAC

Tel:03-7954 2836

www.trac.org.my

International Migrants Day 2010 (18th Dec 2010)

GCF iBridge Inter-church Sport ministry

Hello sportsmen and women of our generation,

We hereby propose to have an inter-church sports ministry. It's a good opportunity to start to reactivate your dormant sporting cells and bring it to the next level! Here are some reasons why you should join us:

1) Networking/Making friends with other church young adults- We are the next generation of church leaders, let's start breaking down the denomination barrier and be united!
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2) Nation Building - A unified church in Malaysia will bring about possibilities of many nation building projects that can be collaborated between churches (and potentially your non-Christian friends as well!).

3) "Release tension, Love the games!" - Dr Living mentioned that the Sabbath will be more complete if we know how to chill and PLAY! I hope some of this year's iBridge campers still remember their lessons from this years camp, eh? :-)

Our target sport/games day is bi-monthly or every 3 months on a Saturday morning or evening (Public Holidays will also be considered). With the first sport day venue at Metro Tabernacle (Kepong) on 27th November, 8:30AM - 1:00PM.

So, in order to kick start the event, we would need your feedback - which sport would you join? Your feedback is much appreciated for this event to be a success. To fill in your sports and games preference *click here*.

GCF EXCO 2010

(Back) Joon Chee, Hwok Lok, Seng Gee, Living Lee, Jimmy Lee (Staff Worker) , Chai Yee

(Front) Evangel Ong, Peter Yee, Esther Tan, Josephine Lim, Christopher Lim, Anna Tan