December Activities

Its the end of the year time for Christmas and New Year Celebrations. The following are the RCIA activities for December. On 2nd Dec and every first Tuesday of the month the Sponsors will meet to pray for the RCIA participants.

3 Dec 2009 – Group Sharing on the 3 Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and the Eucharist.

10 Dec 2009 – Fr Sim will give a talk on Reconciliation.

17 Dec 2009 – A Christmas Celebration for all RCIA participants. Clare has kindly volunteered to help organise this event. There will be food and carols and lots of other fun stuff. Events start at 7pm. All to come early.

24 Dec & 31 Dec 2009 – We will break for Christmas and New Year. Meet again on 7th Jan 2010.

 

SEE YA ALL NEXT YEAR

November Speakers and Activites

For November the following activites are lined up. There is a change to the sequence of the talks as we will have praise and worship at 7.30pm followed by some light snacks.

5 Nov 2009 – Fr Loiseau will talk on Baptism.

12 Nov 2009 – Fr Loiseau will give another talk on Confirmation.

19 Nov 2009 – Fr Stanley will start on the Eucharist.

26 Nov 2009 – Fr Stanley will continue with the Eucharist.

October Speakers and Topics

For October 2009 the following topics have been lined up for the month.

1 Oct 2009 – Fr. Stanley will give a talk on the 10 commandments. The first part.

8 Oct 2009 – Fr. Stanley will continue with the 10 commandments.

15 Oct 2009 – We will be having a group discussion and reflection on the previous 2 weeks teachings on the 10 commandments.

22 Oct 2009 – Fr Sim will give a talk on the Creed.

29 Oct 2009 – Fr. Loiseau will start on the Sacraments, the first of which will be Baptism.

RCIA – Core Team

 

RCIA CORE TEAM

Front Row (L to R) :- Christine Chew, Irene Koh (Secretary), Jennifer Tan, Pauline Chong (Coordinator), Fr. John Sim (Spiritual Director)

Back Row (L to R) :- Wilfred Tang (Assistant Coordinator), Simon Tan (Treasurer), Frederick Ang

Mary and the Rosary

Bro. Emmanual has completed his talk on Mary and the Rosary today. There were some notes handed out for both sessions. If you missed gettign them do remember to collect them next week. There are a few spares.

September RCIA Talks

September Time Table for RCIA talks. All held on Thursday’s 7.30pm at the Risen Christ Church Canteen. See you there.

17 September 2009 – Bro Emmanual – Rosary

24 September 2009 – Fr Stan - Sin

RCIA Fun Raising (Canteen)

 

We had our RCIA Fun Raising on the 30th of August 2009, Sunday. There were lots of preparation that was needed and that was done on Saturday. Come Sunday early morning we were all gathered at the Church Canteen to start the final preparation of the food. Since this deals with food I’ll not write up too much and just show the pictures :)

So first up what did we have well LOTS if I do say so myself, here’s the foodie list.

a look at some of the food ……….

 

one of our specialty dishes was the Chang (both Nonya and Kim Choo varieties) and the home made Sambal which was shiok !! some say best in Singapore and JB and some even say Batam.

We had a revolutionary system, they key was HAD, it practically fell apart after the first wave of hungry parishioners descended on us. I guess just like Leonardo Da Vinci and Einstein the system was just too radical for our time. Anyways here’s how it goes.

First you place an order. Here’s the order table manned (or womanned) by Edith and Cristina with the help of Shiang Boon. Look at how ready they were all the neat paper order forms and calculator even. (that did not last long)

You place your order and you take the slip to payment and wait in line for your food. (theoretically speaking) Here’s an example of a very satisfied customer.

Now payment and to get your Kueh Kueh was manned by these 2 beautiful ladies, Marie and Maggi

You then went on to get your drinks, which was manned by Fred and his bevy of beauties made up of Delphina, Maggi and Doris. You notice that Delphina’s hair’s a little messy and the worrying thing was that WE HAD NOT STARTED YET !!!

You then went to sit down and enjoy your food. Of course we had people walking around clearing tables as well, John’s an example, I guess he forgot that white towel you sling over your shoulder.

So what about the Kitchen, here’s the calm before the storm everyone sitting back relaxing.

and who can forget our hard working Chief cook Jennifer (more on her later) and Sally. Hopefully not too many ‘secret ingredients’ were used.

The first wave was quite ok, but the second wave after the chinese mass threw everything into chaos but I guess that is good since that means that we were in BUSINESS. The cash registers were ringing non-stop, friend noodles ran out, extra utensils had to be catered for, boiled water for the drinks were running low. plates were not cleared fast enough nor washed fast enough. The rain did wonders selling out the Bah Chang which was so popular that not only were people buying them but they were asking where to get it. The Sambal flew off the shelves once people had a sample of it everyone wanted to bring a bottle home.

The shot above of everyone enjoying themselves and below some of the sales going on.

and here is the moment where Plan B was executed. or was it plan C, maybe it was Plan D by then :)

 

Some of the helpers in action.

 

Some of the ‘resting’ volunteers …. (hey look Sonny and Cher were there.)

Take Five

 

Not forgetting out Jumble Sale which was happening outside the Canteen area, it was doing brisk business as well. Here were some of the left overs I heard everything was snapped up in the first hour or so.

 

The goodies on sale and some of the RCIA members helping out, Lydia, Osmond, Jasmine and Spencer.

 

Last but not least, we had a Birthday Celebration for one of our members. Can you guess who. Our very own hard working Chief Cook.

All in a very tired but enjoyable day. In the end we managed to raised almost $1000 for the RCIA fund.

WELL DONE EVERYONE

and a big THANK YOU to all those who came to help or volunteered in one way or another.

 

* my apologise if I spelt anyone’s name wrongly or got the pictures mixed up :)

Fun Raising

The RCIA fun raising Canteen cum Garage Sale will be held on 30 August 2009. Do come to support.

Retreat Briefing - 6th Aug 2009

The retreat briefing will be on Thurs 6th Aug 2009, 7.30pm at the Church Canteen. If you are going for the retreat remember to come for the briefing on what to expect and what to bring.

RCIA Retreat 8/9 August 2009

The next event will be the Retreat held on 8th and 9th August 2009. It’s an overnight retreat, do attend and left your facilitators know that you are going. Come down on 6th August – Thurs for the briefing on what to bring. Transportation will be provided.

Botanical Gardens Outing – 4 July 2009

The First RCIA Outing was held on Saturday 4th July 2009 at the Botanical Gardens. Praise the Lord that we had GREAT weather that day. A bus took most of the participants from Risen Christ Church to the Botanical Gardens, a few others came on their own, all in about 30 people attended the event.

After meeting up in the morning we all went in and found a cool shady spot in an open area to setup the ground sheets.

More close up photo’s of the group.

Our “Ringmaster” for the day was John, here he is, more on the mee siam later on. He had lots of “clowns” to aid him in the forfeit that you had to do.

It started with ice breaking games, where everyone basically had a lot of fun. Here’s some of the more memorable games and the forfeit that we all had to do ….. oh we learn a new word along the way as well. If you were there you would know what a ZONKEY is.

We relive the P. Ramlee days with Lydia and John, doing their version of his hit movies.

The most famous word of the day “ZONKEY” if you don’t know what it is look it up in the Collins Dictionary if you don’t find it there ask Irene then.

 

The luckiest pair around Jeremiah and Cindy, and his forfeit for being caught with the Parcel, they had to share a Strawberry without their hands.

Other items that were done but sorry did not have time to take the photo’s as I was laughing too much … There was a Proposal, An Impersonation and even James Bond or should I say Fred Bond paid a visit.

So did we all had fun, DEFINATELY and how much fun did we have, well see for yourself :

 

 

and more Kodak Moments of many many many happy faces ……

 

So what is the most important thing at a gathering in a park ? FOOD of course and we had lots of food, even the Kopi O and Tea See were all supplied. Here’s a question for you, how do you boil water for the coffee and tea in a middle of a field ? Ah you will know if you had attended.

 

And above is the much much talked about Mee Siam. there were actually 2 types there made by Shasa and another from John. BOTH were equally OUTSTANDING. I had 2 helpings each. If the missus is reading this they were small helpings just teeny ones.

Just a quick before snap shot of the fruits and the after of it notice all the Strawberries disappeared, they were nice and as big as tennis balls !

So after all the games were over it was MAKAN TIME !

All in an enjoyable day at the Botanical Gardens. But since we are at the Botanical Gardens what better way to end this with some pictures of the flowers all around us. Here’s a little sampling of the “blooms” there were there.

 

 

Till the next Gathering.