Hi Zone!

You wanna know why you do not go to Raven High? Well, get excited because you’ll find out when FALLEN, the very first Zone evangelistic musical production, opens on 27th August!

The musical is set in Raven High School, a school where the students don’t have any other place to go. When you’re enrolled in Raven High, it’s as good as being on a dead-end road to nowhere. Damien, the leader of the gangs that hold the school in their sway, rules with fear and ruthlessness. He has a hold over them that they cannot break out of.

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Submitted by Trishna Goklani (Level 4, A2J)

A dear friend had brought me to church one day and I accepted Christ on that day itself. It was really the best decision I’ve ever made in my entire life. However, the rest of my family members were not saved.

There were times when my faith in God was questioned due to some family matters at home and there were many huge arguments that made my mum doubt my beliefs. But I thought to myself, “There are so many people saved out there, my God can definitely get my family saved too!” I just trusted God that one day, my mother and sister would get to know Him!

I would always tell my mother and sister about the revelations received during church service but they did not seem to care. But I held on to the hope that one day, they would come to know Jesus! One of my New Year wishes for 2010 was to get them saved, and I knew that Daddy God would fulfill that wish!

My sister then started to have an interest to join Rock Kidz when she saw the brochure at home. She asked me to bring her along to church. However, my mother said she did not want her to get involved in too many things as she had to sit for her Primary School Leaving Examinations that year.

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Text by Ruthe Kee
Photo courtesy of Andrew Ong

I was at the wedding of Pastor Joe Purcell and Coach Joscelin Yeo. As the night went on, the crowd cooed over how beautiful the speeches had been and how much lurrrvvveee they were feeling in the air.

When I got home, I decided to spend some time worshipping the Lord when a revelation dropped into my heart. I began to sing and the first line in the lyrics of the song captured my heart: “You hold my world, in the palm of Your hands.”

It was then that I recalled the words of Leonard, Coach Jos’ brother, in his speech (referring to Pastor Joe): “He wanted to enter her world. He read up on sports, current affairs, and even went to the beach with her when he preferred the cold of Russia. All because he loves her.”

At that point in time, the warm fuzzy feeling came all over me. I knew then, that God was never content knowing us from afar; He was after our hearts, mine and yours, and He chose to leave the beauty of Heaven for rags on earth, just so He could be close to us. Not only that, He came in human flesh, so that He could understand the sufferings we go through as humans, so that He can enter our world —YOUR WORLD. Why? Because He wants a relationship with you. Because He loves you. And because He loves you, He wants to spend eternity with you, pursuing you to make you His bride.

So pray tell me this, which bridegroom does not desire his bride? Beloved, Jesus desires YOU, which is why you are His bride in the first place. When you learn of how much He went through just so He can enter your world and win your hand, it only fuels the fire in your heart to want to know Him more. Love is moved in your heart for Him because it responds to His love for you.
And it doesn’t stop here.

As you come to realise how much your bridegroom Jesus desires and longs for you, you begin to attune your heart to His Word, which says that His bride (you!) is all beautiful: spotless and without blemish (Song of Solomon 4:7). This is Jesus telling you that right now, you are perfect in conduct, beautiful indeed in every way. Oh, how much this does to your heart! With this consciousness of His love, the bride (you, yes YOU!) can only glow with increasing radiance as she draws closer and closer to her Lover.

That is exactly how simple the love of Christ is. A Bridegroom and His bride. Two hearts. One Love. One sacrifice. For all eternity.

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Anonymous

I want to share how the History Maker 2010 camp has impacted my life. I started smoking since 2002 when I was 15 years old. I tried many ways to stop but I couldn’t, I eventually gave up because I am so afraid of failure. Thank you Pastor Benjamin and Pastor Joe for revealing that we are Sons of God, and that sons do not work but freely receive what Jesus has accomplished on the Cross. Praise God that ever since camp, I haven’t been smoking. Thank you Pastors for revealing the power of praying in tongues. Whenever I feel the urge to smoke, I will just pray in tongues and I could feel the strong power inside me greater than my addiction. I know that this is definitely not by my will power but Jesus working in me and through me.

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