I haven’t shared the story of how I ended up being a full-time staff in my church, and with the main portfolio of being the ‘work plan secretary’ (the SAF term) of implementing the Roadmap vision across the various departments and communities in the parish. About 10 days ago, my mother saw an advert in […]
Author: Ann Yeong
First Day at Work
I love my new job! It’s so cool that my boss would sit down with me to chat and listen to the ways I think I can help him with his plans for the church. At the end of the chat, I ended up with a completely new and different portfolio than the one I […]
Put to work
It’s official… starting tomorrow I’m going to be a full-time staff in my parish of St. Mary of the Angels. I’ve been recruited into the Catechist Office to help plan and implement the curriculum and program (from Pr 1 to Sec 4) and how to integrate it into the spiritual development of the parish at […]
animann to go public
My dear friends, I have decided that the time has come for my blog to go public. Through the last few years, this private space has been a nursery and haven for me to explore and grow in my writing and sharing, and it has been wonderful. As you can probably tell from the last […]
Now this is living
I remember sometime last year feeling envious of Ivy because she was so busy. Well, not because she was just busy – but because I felt she was busy with so much purpose. She is of course not the only one I know who is busy with work – but she stood out in that […]
Surpassing expectations
Today I had a lunch appointment with Assoc. Prof Ng Pak Tee (NIE), another one of my thesis committee members. The purpose was to tell him that I have decided to take a leave of absence from my PhD studies. I was not apprehensive at all as I knew that as a Christian himself, he […]
The Paul Team
Last night was the first general meeting of the Paul the Musical committee that I attended. It went on from 8p.m. to practically 11p.m. and when I left, the creative team and publicity team were still there. But I had a blast! I haven’t realized how much I missed working in a team. And such […]
DC Talk's "My Will"
It’s a little embarrassing to think back on the time when I was so infatuated with Zibin (early courtship days) that I’d be game to try whatever he liked, even against my own tastes. Chilli, coffee, raw fish, Stephen Chow, C-pop, and… Christian Rock. I have always generally preferred worship music of the more soothing […]
The need to withdraw
In the morning, long before dawn, he got up and left the house and went off to a lonely place and prayed there. – Mk. 1:35 Understanding the need for solitude and prayer is important if we are to live centered lives. In order to find ourselves, we will almost always experience the need to […]
Best Valentine's Day EVER!
Zibin and I agree – yesterday was the best Valentine’s Day we ever had, bar none. And we’re the kind of people who never celebrate V-Day cos, well… why wait for Feb 14 to do something special together? But yesterday, we spent our V-Day evening at our first Parish Assembly ever, at our parish of […]
Journey of the Heart 