I shall draft the first encouraging email for the ALLSTARS here (haha and hopefully you can be encouraged too! *grins*)
Hi ALLSTARS! [I see all of you SHINING FOR CHRIST((:]
This email will be the first of... many (about 22) emails I will be sending out to you, like a fortnightly Christian publication. And I do hope that these emails will encourage/uplift you and speak to you and spur you on in your walk with God!
Well since this is the first email, I shall write about myself. Not with myself as the focus though, but with the God that we serve at the very centre of this whole story. And the reason why I am sharing this? Simple. When I was Sec 1 and went for my first FUEL, I really looked up to the Sec 2s in their faith. Out of curiosity, I searched for blogs. I found one belonging to a Sec 2 girl in my buzz group and was surprised to find out that when she was Sec 1, she was different. Reading into her archives, one could see the spiritual growth that she went through and how much she had matured spiritually, her consciousness of the spiritual realm increasing along the way. And I realised that if God could do that for her, God could that for me. From then on, I became very intentional in wanting to grow in God.
Back to my story. I was born in a Christian family, brought up with Christian values and all, but I never had a relationship with God. God seemed distant and I didn't see the point of reading the Bible (so I obviously didn't pick up any Biblical truths.) I started to learn from my classmates at school and became really vulgar. I felt an emptiness in my life but tried to fill it by rising to positions of 'power', getting good grades and doing things to be popular with both girls and guys. But during the moments when I didn't have these things that I so longed for, the emptiness would emerge. Sometimes at church when I saw people engage in worship, I would act-cool but secretly admire these people for their love and passion for God. And I guess this is what led me to discover that what I needed was God.
