As a natural response of our love for God, service is not merely limited to just a few people, or a certain age limit before one can start serving. Service takes on many different forms too, giving anyone an opportunity to begin serving.

With new youths joining the various service areas in the youth ministry, the Project Noah team sets out to follow Miriam and Tze Hung as they begin serving in Creative Design (CD) and Welcome, Outreach and Hospitality (WOAH) respectively to explore about what it is like to serve.

I remember what attending my first MTM was like. It was really nerve-wracking and all 15-year-old me could think about was how awkward things were going to be. Yet, as I entered a zoom call to join one of the Creative Design team’s MTM, it was 13-year-old Miriam who was officially attending her first ever MTM!

Ryan started us off with a short word of prayer and everyone started to share about their week. As that happened, I got to know more about Miriam and asked her questions about how she ended up in the CD team.

Before joining, Miriam had always thought the CD team stood out to her and really wanted to be a part of it. She shared that she thoroughly enjoys art and, I proudly quote, “wanted to use this God-given skill in art to serve”.

She also mentioned how she had already taken on a task prior to the MTM. Do you remember the many cool YouTube thumbnails you stared at while waiting for Youth Service to start online? Well, she was tasked to design one of those on her own! You may think that it’s a simple task to come up with the calligraphy for a thumbnail but many of us may not realise how even the most subtle things can make things difficult when coming up with a design.

In the beginning, Miriam got the topic for the sermon that week and that was it. Of course, she was a little unsure how to approach it and go about doing the design from there, but that was when she took the initiative to look through the Teenacity page and observe past designs to draw inspiration from. Alongside being rushed, trying to come up with the design from scratch on her own was definitely not easy for her. Yet, Miriam managed to overcome the challenges she faced and now, one of her very own designs is somewhere up on Teenacity’s YouTube channel!

Already impressed with the way she strived to do her best when serving, I asked her how she felt as the youngest and newest member of the CD team. In that zoom call, the next youngest person after her was 2 years older than her and at 13, I was sure she felt intimidated. To my surprise, she said she was really not nervous at all and expressed her genuine excitement to be a member of the CD team and for future projects to come! Well, I hope that you carry that same excitement as you follow Miriam’s journey in the CD team because I know I am, and I can’t wait to see what’s to come for her. :)

Having the desire of taking the initiative to begin serving in church, Tze Hung, from the 07 guys, had recently joined the WOAH ministry. This is an essential ministry for welcoming newcomers into the church as well as organising events and connecting with youths to bring the community closer together.

A contrast to his shy character, Tze Hung joined the WOAH ministry because he wanted to be more proactive and outgoing, to engage with the youth community, which stems from his desire of being a good servant to God. To him, it only matters if he serves the Lord with all his heart.

Now that Tze Hung has been assigned to a group in WOAH, he would be serving every 3 weeks by welcoming those who come for service. He hopes to be welcoming to the youths and to show God's love to them. With many more opportunities and even WOAH events for Tze Hung to serve in the future, I look forward to finding out how God uses him in this ministry!

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