All the recent posts are about the negative side of church, being PK and so on, but I think I need to talk about the other side too.

Although it's tough at times and that I sometimes feel like I am in a battlefield at church, it's not all bad.

I do enjoy fellowship, hanging out with my brothers and sisters at church, joking around, eating, Bible study, serving with my fellow brothers and sisters in different ministries (children fellowship, being part of youth ministry by playing basketball with high schoolers, choir, leading Bible studies, planning camp for fellowship and etc). I enjoy spending time with my brothers and sisters, talking with them young and old. I actually forget about all the negative things going on Friday night as I was talking and joking a bit with my brothers and sisters at church. That's why it suppose to be like at church. And in serving, althought there are arguments and different points of view sometimes, they help us improve the ministries and comradeship is formed.

The difficulties that we go throught together make us stronger. We don't diss one another, we sharpen one another by serving, discussing different topics and etc.

Many months ago, a bunch of us went to play soccer together with another church and afterward we had hotpot at Sha Kok Village. We had a great time, we were able to talk about our future, the things we are facing and afterward we had a nice stroll walking back to the railway station next to the Shen Mun River. We often talked about and wish to do that again sometimes.

Can we all be like that?

There aer a lot of people going and coming recently. I am not sure if it is related to the financial crisis or not but 2 from the Chinese section just left last week and one of them didn't even offer the traditional farewell cake. It actually all started with the Chinese section, usually, those who passed probation would buy all the editoral stuff "tea sets." I did that with my colleagues when we passed our probation. It stopped somehow and now the farewell cake is gone too. It's just sad. I don't know what is happening.

It seems that one of my co-workers is hinting that I might be leaving. I see that some people have distanced themselves from me, actually just one or two people. And I can somewhat tell that maybe people are really warning me. My boss told me to work faster and stop going over the deadline and forgetting my magnetic card. My superior has been giving some of my work to other editors. The graphic design manager has been saying unrespecting things in a joking manner. But he has been going a bit far and crossing the line lately.

I had to ask for work today and my superior gave me some assignment from my colleague. Very weird.