Aspirers' 25th Anniversary

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The Aspirers is 25 years old!
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Over the years, many young people have come ... and gone (grown old, actually) and this is the 4th generation of youths in Agape. God has been good and blessed us with talented young people.

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The Anniversary, a 3-hour event which was celebrated 2 days ago, was mostly organised by youths ages 13-17. The place was decorated according to their tribal theme. Aaron and Joel Chong were the Emcees for the event and they did a fantastic job. Pastor Ben preached a short and meaningful message.

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Worship was a blast, though us "slightly older" folks found it a little too loud. After that, we were told to break up into groups according to the animal picture of the small sticker in the gift pack we received at the entrance. There were a few games played throughout the event and I'm proud to say that my team, the Owls, won. :)

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The Tribal Dance

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The drama team, headed by Jenny Woon, did a skit on "Lonely". This simple skit tells us how lonely we can feel, even in the company of friends and how we can bridge the gap and reach out to others.

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There were two performances by the Aspirers. The first one, "Watch the Lamb" was a mime. This mime got the runners-up position when it was performed a few weeks ago for one of the Aspirers' programmes called "Take the Stage" where a few formed groups to perform and compete.
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The Js were Champion. I take my hat off this group and I think they REALLY deserved to win this competition because they practised terribly hard for months. Jeremy Tay and Joel Chong learned to play the drums and organ respectively just for this performance. Prior to that, they didn't know nuts about music. Jian, too, was singing solo for the first time - and he's not even in the choir! Jonathan and Joel Tay play the guitar for cell.

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The Food was simply yummy. Nothing extravagant, but very delicious!

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On the overall basis, the whole event went surprisingly (Szet Anne's words) well and there were no hiccups at all (at least none that I could tell).

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Aspirers, keep up the good work! You guys rock!