Definition of Team : Streetlights
Saturday, May 23, 2009
hey everyone !!!! Below is something tat Hsuan want to share !!!!!
Hey yo everyone!! Im here to share about what the name Streetlights mean to our team!! Haha!! Hmm… so I believe everyone also knows what’s the meaning of streetlight (haha!! If dunno then must retake English!!), but nevertheless I still explain what is the meaning of streetlight. Streetlight means the lampposts that we are seeing beside the road, beside the pavement etc… but to God, streetlight has another meaning. Streetlight means that it is like a lamppost guiding us to our destination, which is God (of course!! XD). So….now comes our 2 main reasons why we are called Team Streetlights. The 1st reason is because: our team is just like “tour guides” guiding our friends towards the truth, which is Jesus. We are being evangelistic guides as we get to know more of our friends through basketball and we can meet their needs as we get to know them more as our motto says: Win people, not games. Why is this our motto?? Because we are using our basketball team as an evangelistic team so that we can bring more people to God and let them feel the love and glory of God just like how we ourselves felt the first time we went to church!
Now comes the 2nd reason... to say the truth, I only saw the 2nd reason just these few days when I got the sudden urge to watch Slam Dunk (which is a famous basketball animation series) and God showed me this 2nd reason. I was watching the part when the main team, Shohoku High School travels to Hiroshima for the Inter-High Competition for the first time, and their team was also just built up during that year, and the media graded them as D and commented on them that they might not even survive the 1st round as they entered the competition for the first time. But they proved the media wrong by knocking out their 1st round opponents which is an A graded Toyotama High School, and during the match, they were taunted upside down, they were being provoked by their opponents and even one of their players, Rukawa Kaede was injured due to an intentional foul by the opponent. But they never gave up, even Rukawa himself continued playing with a swollen eye(all those who played basketball will know how hard it is to shoot with an eye) and managed to get more points then what he got in the first half and they finally won their opponent 91-87 when they were losing in the first half.
Through this part, I actually felt what God wants me to see from there. Even though they are looked down upon, but they never gave up. They were even problem children when they just joined the team, always fighting against each other but imagined they played so well during the match that people cheered for them. Imagine a bunch of problem kids at the start can now work so well with each other that they produced a breathtaking performance after a few months! God is just telling us that we need to be determined to shape ourselves! Basketball teaches us discipline, team spirit, team co-operation and also determination. These are actually factors that we must have when we are in the outside world or even if we are walking with God! God is showing us that he is also shaping and moulding us as we are learning these few factors through basketball. God is just like our coach, coaching us the correct things and bringing us outside there to prove to the others that He can shape us, who have unpleasant pasts and mould us into a team which has strong bonds and brotherhood and going out there to win people’s hearts! I was really touched that God showed His love for us even when we are playing basketball, He is actually moulding us into better people and using us as His examples when we are going out to win people’s heart using Team Streetlights as our emblem! So let us continue to run together with him and win more people’s heart using ourselves as the light of the world and salt of the earth!! And people, let us open our hearts and let God mould us into vessels of love and spread the love in our friend’s life!!
“Come follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” Matthew 4:19 (NIV)
Hey yo everyone!! Im here to share about what the name Streetlights mean to our team!! Haha!! Hmm… so I believe everyone also knows what’s the meaning of streetlight (haha!! If dunno then must retake English!!), but nevertheless I still explain what is the meaning of streetlight. Streetlight means the lampposts that we are seeing beside the road, beside the pavement etc… but to God, streetlight has another meaning. Streetlight means that it is like a lamppost guiding us to our destination, which is God (of course!! XD). So….now comes our 2 main reasons why we are called Team Streetlights. The 1st reason is because: our team is just like “tour guides” guiding our friends towards the truth, which is Jesus. We are being evangelistic guides as we get to know more of our friends through basketball and we can meet their needs as we get to know them more as our motto says: Win people, not games. Why is this our motto?? Because we are using our basketball team as an evangelistic team so that we can bring more people to God and let them feel the love and glory of God just like how we ourselves felt the first time we went to church!
Now comes the 2nd reason... to say the truth, I only saw the 2nd reason just these few days when I got the sudden urge to watch Slam Dunk (which is a famous basketball animation series) and God showed me this 2nd reason. I was watching the part when the main team, Shohoku High School travels to Hiroshima for the Inter-High Competition for the first time, and their team was also just built up during that year, and the media graded them as D and commented on them that they might not even survive the 1st round as they entered the competition for the first time. But they proved the media wrong by knocking out their 1st round opponents which is an A graded Toyotama High School, and during the match, they were taunted upside down, they were being provoked by their opponents and even one of their players, Rukawa Kaede was injured due to an intentional foul by the opponent. But they never gave up, even Rukawa himself continued playing with a swollen eye(all those who played basketball will know how hard it is to shoot with an eye) and managed to get more points then what he got in the first half and they finally won their opponent 91-87 when they were losing in the first half.
Through this part, I actually felt what God wants me to see from there. Even though they are looked down upon, but they never gave up. They were even problem children when they just joined the team, always fighting against each other but imagined they played so well during the match that people cheered for them. Imagine a bunch of problem kids at the start can now work so well with each other that they produced a breathtaking performance after a few months! God is just telling us that we need to be determined to shape ourselves! Basketball teaches us discipline, team spirit, team co-operation and also determination. These are actually factors that we must have when we are in the outside world or even if we are walking with God! God is showing us that he is also shaping and moulding us as we are learning these few factors through basketball. God is just like our coach, coaching us the correct things and bringing us outside there to prove to the others that He can shape us, who have unpleasant pasts and mould us into a team which has strong bonds and brotherhood and going out there to win people’s hearts! I was really touched that God showed His love for us even when we are playing basketball, He is actually moulding us into better people and using us as His examples when we are going out to win people’s heart using Team Streetlights as our emblem! So let us continue to run together with him and win more people’s heart using ourselves as the light of the world and salt of the earth!! And people, let us open our hearts and let God mould us into vessels of love and spread the love in our friend’s life!!
“Come follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” Matthew 4:19 (NIV)
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JING
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CHARMAINE
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CINDY KWOH
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LIPING
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+Family salvation
KENNETH
MIKE
+Financial breakthrough
+Better relatiionship with work-friends
WAYNE
WEI LIANG
+Family salvation
+Financial breakthrough
+Grp increment
YI WEI
+Wisdom for studies
+good health
+Great capacity in all areas
+for breakthrough in cg
JING
+W495 to grow
+Cindy Teng to be blessed !!!
CHARMAINE
+wisom to study
+God's strengtj throughout this 1 month
CINDY KWOH
+wisdom in studies
+strength
LIPING
+Wisdom over her studies
+Motivation in her studies
+Financial breakthrough
+Family salvation
+Spiritual growth
+Spiritual breakthrough
NICOLE
+Financial blessings
+Good health due to work stress
QIN YAN
SHI MIN
+Pray for good health
SOO JIA
+prayers in O level
+wisdom in studies
ZI YUN
DAN
+Family salvation
+Ability to thrive and shine in NS!
DEXTER
CHEE YONG
+Family salvation
+Spiritual breaktrough
+Strength
+Financial breakthrough
+Wisdom in career
CLARENCE
+Wisdom at new work place
ELIJAH
GUO YANG
HSUAN
+wisdom to bring Team Streetlights to a higher level!!
+pray for brother's salvation
+cg growth
+spiritual growth
IRVIN
JOEL
JON
+Greater hunger for the presence of the holy spirit
+Favor in camp while serving NS
+more anointing of God & wisdom over life
+Divine health & protection despite hectic schedule
+Able to have open doors & areas to reach out & invite more new blood toknow God
+Family salvation
KENNETH
MIKE
+Financial breakthrough
+Better relatiionship with work-friends
WAYNE
WEI LIANG
+Family salvation
+Financial breakthrough
+Grp increment
YI WEI
+Wisdom for studies
+good health
+Great capacity in all areas
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APRIL
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