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Letting Our Light Shine
By Ng Geok Chye
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It’s not everyday we get to co-organise an event to bless our immediate community. So when the opportunity came, our church was happy to join Joo Chiat CC and New Hope Community Services to host a full-house Christmas extravaganza called SHINE on the evening of Saturday 21 December, 2019. It was a fitting way to soft-launch Kampong Siglap to the community too.
Apart from contributing towards the budget, BFEC and BKK wholeheartedly volunteered in organizing the stage programme, serving as Nativity characters and helping out in various ways to make everyone feel at home and be well-fed. The Lord blessed us with excellent weather as the rains stopped at precisely the right time (after pouring for a week). The strains of favourite carols rang clearly in the air during the unforgettable mass candlelight caroling as MP for Joo Chiat (also Senior Minister of State for Law and for Health) Mr Edwin Tong and the 1,500 guests and Frankelites present declared in song the reason for the season.
It was a new way to think about serving the community - bringing people together to hear about God’s love at Christmas and to experience that love through each one of us..
From top to bottom: 1. Registration booth helpers 2. Welcoming the guests 3. SHINE at the newly renovated Kampung Siglap premises
From top to bottom, left to right: 1. Candlelight finale 2. Food trucks galore 3. The joint committee 4. The community coming together 5. Song by our BKK children 6. Our home-grown MCs at the Concert, Avelina (foreground), Derek (left) and Daren 6. Maestro Alvaro sharing his life and music
