I've found a friend who died for me, his name is JESUS.

Read this newspaper article today and got intrigue by it.

New Creation Pastor Earning $500k last year.

If you chance upon the straits times forum, you can see some people defending this pay(obviously from new creation) but lets hear from what my views are.

Why God told the israelites to give offering to the levites in the bible is because the levites do not sow on any land and they are fully responsibile of the ark (like maintaining it) and the offerings are to help the levites go by to day to day living and survival to ensure they are taken care of their needs.

The average big non-profit organisation ceo earns about 8 to 10k per month (even nkf and children society ceo earns about this), I dont understand why new creation has to remmuerate their pastor with such a high figure (500k per annum, 41.666K per month) Almost four times the amount.

There are new creation members talking about how well recieved was pastor prince in other countries like us,europe and even appeared on their tv but we are talking about doing God's work. So do us christians hope to earn more money by spreading the gospel? I believe most of us would not think like this? I believe the salary of the pastor should be capped and (people would say no motivation) but talking about God's kingdom, the motivation should not be from material holdings but by the prompting of the Holy Spirit. THAT SHOULD BE THE SOURCE OF MOTIVATION!

I do hope the new creation board can reflect wisely on this decision made as it definately not very accomodable with many christians.

I believe the money can be used more wisely like supporting church planters and also people living in poverty.

Its been about 2 months since I had blogged and this also indicates how busy I was really. The last two months has really been hectic for me as there are alot of work to do in camp and also in my pastoral ministry. Haha. Sometimes I just want to just sleep it through and don't do a thing but I realise I can't because there are still alot of sheeps waiting for me to feed them so I can't. Haha.

Really thank God for all the help these months because there are some issues that me sheep faces whereby I dont have the direct solution but God through his help gave me the answer so that I can help me sheeps!

I can started to see some fruits of my group growing as members in my group starting to have the same vision as I had which is also the same vision of the church. Really want to affirm Roy and Donovan as they are my core team members who supported me all the way and without their help, I dont think my group can be managed that well. Haha.

Last saturday, we had our first unit gathering of the year at jacob's place and it was so much fun! Because its been a long long long long time since our unit had gathered for such a programme and also really get to know people that I didint know that well like jin hui and ghim yong. Haha

We also celebrated Donovan's birthday, we blindfolded him through a decoy ice breaking game and surprised him.....(the pictures will tell you the story)