ok, on Sunday, Cheryl got WATER BAPTISED!!~~~~ HALLELUYAH! (hehe, taby's creative spelling). Anyway, we gathered after service outside Agapeland (which is closing down soon *soBs* like, i grew up there, and if only i had been born 3 years ago, i would have gotten my degree in Early childhood and would been able to save it) to celebrate it and pray for her. Faith made her a "cereaL box" card, branded with "Cheryl's Cereal" and the face of our star on the front; which opens up to all our notes stuck inside. Cheryl's friends were there too, and they gave her a bouquet of flowers and a huge Elmo balloon, which, "unfortunately" became the victim of a series of impromptu performances by Odi, Bro Andrew and Brandon (see videos ;) Faith and Odi were not feeling too good, so I was encouraging them to take Barley beans, because it is scientifically proven to bring up one's immune system; and guess what?!? Elieen and Odi repaid me by teasing me about Barley for the rest of the day! Man, talk about gratitude~~ but i'll still advice anyone who's sick to take Barley because it is SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN. Anyway we gathered round to lay our hands and pray for Cheryl, this really fervant for God sister who has just reached the hallmark of her relationship with God by being baptised. Wanna hear the story of how she reached this stage? its really cool, trust me:

Long long ago, way way before your time.... (ok, hehe, just kidding)

A few months ago, this would have been something which Cheryl would have never have possibly dreamt of; partially because her Dad was a non Christian, and he didn't appove of it one bit. Sure, in this society, we have a generation of teens who rebell against their parents, but Cheryl wasn't like them; her father mattered to her; and that's important too, because God calls us to honor our parents. Anyway, she prayed for very long over this, as God continued to honor her faithfulness by speaking into her life and using her abilities to bless our cell (she became closer and more accountable to Net, her SP, baked cupcakes for all of us to encourage us the other day; and was the initiator of our cell time table and a few other dinners (became the cell "rah-raher"; and she lead our cell in prayer; after joining PTF (Prayer Task Force) where God moved in her and taught her to claim His promises for Him in prayer) This was really big for Cheryl, because she was quite quiet when she first came in; so this was like, woah: God's ultra obvious hand in someone's life; played out for the rest of our cell to see. Then came water baptism; when she decided to make that stand for God and started asking her Dad. Now the first few tries were really rough; despite all the prayer and so on. Several times, Net had to sms our entire cell to keep her in prayer; just before she asked her Dad. The odds were pretty much against us back then; only that we had God on our side, so we prayed and believed as a cell.
Finally, after a pretty long period of time (not sure how long, because people like me have little or no sense of time; hehe) Cheryl annouced in cell that she was able to go for WATER BAPTISM! Man was our cell excited with her, especially Net, because that was her Spiritual Baby, and as a parent you're like: MY BABY DID IT~~~~ The rest, of course, was history, but that marks the kick start of Cheryl's relationship with God on a whole new level. Last I heard, was that she's going for SP course in the next few months!

Matt9:29
"According to your faith, it will be done to you."
~~~taby~~~

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