Thanksgiving Thoughts for the year 2011

I have always prayed and asked God to establish the works of our hands for we are but His maiden servants and mere humans bound by the limitations of our human nature weaknesses and sinful nature of our selves !


2011 came as quickly as the years before it which have come and gone, almost at a blink of an eye ! We did not anticipate this year to be such a "Happening" year, we did not set off to plan this year as a Busy year ! But someone obviously did have this in mind and was not reviewing all until the time has come to pass to do so !


As a company, I have much to thank God for :-

1. The continuous spiritual growth of our pioneer girls who have left us in the middle of this year for their studies. We know that they are in transition time from secondary school to university. They miss us, we miss them, but we rejoice in their continuous search for more of God in their lives !
2. We have witnessed a series of baptism and confirmation of our pioneer girls who are now ready to declare their faith in Christ. We were thankful for the baptism of Katherine Chang and also the confirmation of  Jovie Voo Su Yiing and Amanda Chee. Note that all three of them were baptised and confirmed at different churches! 
3. Our church base girls have grown up, each in their ways and timings. This is the joy we have in serving through Girls' Brigade, we get to share with their parents the joy of their growth !
4. Our school base GB clubs continue to grow and gave us more challenges, we now have GB Clubs at :-
   a) SRJK (C) Lok Yuk Likas - 110 girls, 3 teachers
   b) SRJK Lok Yuk Likas - 25 girls, 2 teachers
   c) SM Lok Yuk Likas morning session - 39 girls, 1 teacher
   d) SM Lok Yuk Likas afternoon session - 24 girls, 1 teacher

Here are some Christmas and New Year thoughts to share with you :-

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. ~Oren Arnold

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? ~G.K. Chesterton

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself...
~Norman Wesley Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas," 1976

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Indeed, at the dawn of another new year, we would like to pray that God will be our Guiding Light and we all could follow Him fervently and He will bless us by establishing the works of our hands in GB ministry !