History of CYYAM

Disclaimer:
This post is in correspondence to tml's zone reshuffling and a reply to one of weien's blog post... ...

ladies and gentlemen, presenting... ... ...

THE HISTORY OF CYYAM

as true as jayson can make it...

let's see, how should the story begin? hmmm... how about long long time ago?

this is the year 1999

long long ago, in the dusty roads of 17 mattar road, there was timothy youth fellowship, led by uncle yong seng... it combined with young adult ministry to form CYYAM, Chinese Youth and Young Adult Ministry... CYYAM den was led by the 2 Graces, Grace Ooi and grace Wong, our vision then, ''Arise and Grow''... Fiana, Sonya, Pei Xian and Justin came over(from the english side) to help out in a introduced system of Core leader(ZL) and Youth Leader(GL) system... Bible study was started with the material, Master Life by Avery T.Willis JR.

facts...

• 1st ever activity attended by CYYAM was the gospel Serve meant for Christian organised by SYFC
• 1st evangelistic eent organised by CYYAM was a telematch
• 1st ever camp attended by CYYAM, organised by the China Fellowship in Singapore was the TMI(the millienniun impact)

this is the year 2000

Both Graces left us and CYYAM was left in the care of our Core Leaders and Deacon Chee Seng... we had Xxion Force on 13th June that faithful year, which was the biggest evangelistic event ever to be held by us.. we also attended the CO-Camp(organised by Uncle James) which was a camp to train leaders... formally going-to-be pastor James was invited to our church to give a BGR talk...

facts

• 1st ever self organised camp, ''i think i am a christian, so what?'' camp... sentosa campsite...

it was the year 2001

Prayer system was set up, every sunday, all members are encouraged to write prayer request and asked to pray for each other, uncle James officially started serving in GBC full time as youth pastor on 8th May... Young adult fellowship was officially started in July at the Chinese Tea House and we hitched on SYFC for Channel Youth, an evangelistic concert... we had our first ever retreat held in september and it was tru this retreat that the zone system and 5 dept systems was officially set-up.

fact...

• 1st ever self organised gospel camp, ''knowing u is so good'' camp, BB campsite...

( i lost my lagguage in this camp if u must know, THE WHOLE FREAKING THING!!!)

and ladies and gentlemen, come year 2002,

THE ZONE SYSTEM WAS OFFICIALLY IMPLEMENTED!!!

introducing to u, the zones...

1. christian out winning souls (cows - led by pei fen)
2. fisherman in saviours harvest (fish - led by ailing)
3. Jesus ambassadors reaching souls (jars - led by fiana)
4. reign of christ's kingdom (rock - led by ying rou and justin)

and the 5 depts... from the BLESS system...

1. BUILD - education
2. LIVE - worship
3. EVANGELISE - evangelism
4. SHARE - fellowship
5. SERVE - service

and we came out with our mission...

''to win true worshipper from the changing world with the unchanging truth of Christ through discipleship making.''

this is the year 2003-2007

memory has been failing mi, cant remmeber in which yr all the events take place le... =D

we have had a nemorous number of zone reshuffling since then... from animals(cows and fishes) and materials(jars and rock), we turned to intengible items...

1. PEACE (people evangelising and conquering eststes - led by ailing)
2. PASSION (purity and salvation, saviour in our nation - led by Vinc)
3. LIGHT (living in God's holy truth - led by Fiana)
4. MATRIX ( make asset to resurrection in extreme- led by Pei Fern)

then the next reshuffling brought about the combination of passion light and matrix, so then, there was 2, peace and passion left... CYYAM adopted the people group system where we had different ministries... secondary school ministry, NS ministry, poly ministry, uni ministry and working adults ministry, still within the 2 zones...

further down the years, we changed into

• CLAY - Christ's light among you (led by ailing)
• DEW - discipling eternal warriors(led by pei fen)

with CLAY focusing mainly on NS and UNI and DEW mainly focusing on SS and POLY...

tml, there is once again going to be changes, sad leaving(awww) and happy welcoming(=DDDD) CYYAM has been tru much, have u been part of it? let us do our best in the following years, be it where our focus or ministry lies, we are still in the same camp, fighting the same war, against the same old enemy... jia you brothers and sisters, let the change not be a fruitile one... it is for the future... =D Gambate Ne! すべてのベスト

ps, sorry if i left anything out or had any parts wrongly described... pls contact mi if u notice any discrepencies... ty... much appreciated... =D