Friday, December 31, 2010

Food for thought:


People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.
Give the fellowship the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the fellowship the best you've got anyway. Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God

There is nothing that can stop you from becoming who you are in Christ. For it is in you to become that and note that what lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

To God be the Glory and may his will be done in the existence of Good Shepherd Methodist Youth Fellowship. God bless us all


WE, ONE, WE, ONE.

SPEECH AT THE 2010 END-OF-YEAR DINNER NIGHT


Over the years, We have seen several change of leadership and the wonderful work done to ensure that this Fellowship maintains the slogan of being the "Backbone of the Church of Christ". GOOD SHEPHERD M.Y.F. has produced Ministers, an Evangelist, Local Preachers, Caterers, IT experts, Nurses, Human Resource Practitioners, Certified Accountants, Bankers; the list is endless. 

The M.Y.F. since its inception has been advocating against marginalizing the youth, but now the marginalization is now on the ascendency since the church now realizes the impact of the youth Fellowship in the promotion of church growth.

Today the story is different but the vision of Working, Witnessing and Worship is the same but more intense. The Current Executive since their induction in June 2008 had held the fort of the Fellowship by strengthening structures in building the human capabilities of members in meeting the global challenge.

Ladies are being empowered to discover God’s purpose for their lives and to pursue and fulfill that purpose against all odds, whereas the men are discovering themselves in becoming men of honour.

The various Wings which is Singing, Drama, Evangelism and Visitation is strengthen and performing extremely well and this have made the fellowship the family that it has to be.

Evangelistic outreach had been embarked on and leadership seminars held to strengthen the leadership base of the Fellowship and the nursery society.

The annual fund rising activities of the Fellowship had been exceptional over the years and talents have been discovered for the promotion of the Fellowship and the Church at large.

Our humanitarian ministry of ensuring education for the less privilege had started under the management of the committee members of the Support Scheme and currently about four is being taken through tertiary education and one is in apprenticeship.

On health, members have been educated on cervical cancer, prostate cancer and healthy living in ensuring that members are in good health even as their souls also proper with the word of God.

The Maturity School which is aimed at equipping new members with Christian, Methodist and the Fellowship's discipline and doctrines had also been strengthen with the update of the manual and making the study time flexible for member. New members continue to join the Fellowship every meeting day and since inception of office about fifty (50) new members have been initiated.

The group outing had also given rich counsel and feedback to the Executives. It is an informal socializing avenue where each group in the Fellowship takes turn with the Executive body. Members get the opportunity to know their Executives better and also criticize constructively and encourage as well.

In our quest to project the Fellowship to the world, a website was launched. Information about the Fellowship can be easily obtained from the site.

The communal spirit is still ongoing and the Lord has blessed us with marriages and children, need we say more, indeed the Lord has been good to us.

I must confess that the road has not been smooth. There were rocky places of frustration and meandering points of bewilderment. There were inevitable setbacks here and there and moments when the buoyancy of hope was transformed into fatigue and our dreams and ethereal hopes were sometimes shattered and blasted and our eyes were drenched in tears. Difficult and painful as it may be, we walked on ahead with an audacious faith into the future knowing that the hand of God that had started with us, that same hand will end well with us.

On this day as we gather to step in 2011, I want us to bear in mind that we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord. The time has come for us to reaffirm our enduring spirit to carry forward the noble idea of Working, Witnessing and Worshiping TOGETHER. The Fellowship calls for action and bold swift into 2011.

God wants us to be dependable even when it costs us.  This is what distinguishes godly faithfulness from the ordinary dependability of secular society.

Don't waste your time waiting and longing for large opportunities which may never come. But faithfully handle the little things that are always claiming your attention.

God does not ask about our ability, but our availability No man, however gifted and devoted, is indispensable to the work of the kingdom.

But the Lord Jesus bids you also to "occupy till He comes and because of this we are to work and lead consistent life. We are to be like the faithful servant, who knows not what hour his master may come home, but keeps all things in readiness, and is always prepared, brethren fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

2011 is going to be a decade of unprecedented harvest that the Fellowship has never seen. God says, "I have heard the groanings of creation for the manifestation of the sons of God, and I am about to cause a revival that will shake the heavens and the earth that no man can stop it for we are entering into a fresh, new season of harvest". I pray that the Holy Spirit will fall on our thirsty generation and be our fountain! And the oil of joy will come to fill us!

To God be the Glory and may his will be done in the existence of Good Shepherd Methodist Youth Fellowship. God bless us all


WE - ONE. WE SHALL CONTINUE TO LIVE !!!