Dear Brethren:

            Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!  Our invitation has no specific title.  We turn our activity night into a challenging and yet touching program.  A total of thirteen brothers attended this monthly meeting on time in Newton Campus

            Hosted by Ben Gee and Gary Lee, we collectively turned a pleasant cool day into a heart-warmed night.  Lead by Ben Gee, several brothers literally spilled their guts out about their relationship, both spousal and multi-generational, into first-time mano-a-mano open-hearted sharing.  After a grueling long moment of absolute silence our meeting started with a courageous brother who dared to first open his heart with his personal family issue; we in turn all took our first steps toward a closer relationship with each brother by tearing down our walls and be vulnerable at the same time.  Some brothers shared their long-time struggles with their spouses; some had resolved specific issues and ready to move on a better stage of marriage, other had been exposed with fresh perspective with spouses and children, other shared their experience with female at large, and other showed their personal weaknesses in anticipation of future relationship improvement with spouses and/or children.  We certainly need prayer and supporting prayer for all of us.

            In any cases, we did these sharing to urge our brothers to pray for each other and not to judge our brothers.   We also reiterated the importance to keep all sharing in private and confidential manner.  We vowed not even to mention to our dearest other halves.  (Sorry, guys, if you missed this meeting you certainly missed an unprecedented male-bonding session of the year.)  We certainly missed all those brothers who could not attend this meeting.  However, with the guidance of the Holy Spirits, we pray we may share the manly feelings amongst the brothers inside this purpose-driven fellowship in the not some distant future.

            After our sharing session, we did what a man got to do.  (Of course, men are men.  What can a man do without his stomach filled?)  We went to a local restaurant to enjoy dinner in the absence of our dear chairman who travels with his family.  After dinner, we shared our expectation for Peter Fellowship.  We probably witnessed a historical and meaningful moment of Peter Fellowship.  By far, this was the first and best time for every brother to “raise the bar” and started expressing their inner manly feelings.  For those who were hesitant to share before dinner, did freely admit their feelings with open-heart.  Slowly and surely, we are building trust and confidence with our own band of brothers.

            At the end, Terry promise to detail the naming of Peter Fellowship for Connections in the coming edition.

                                                                        Written by Terry Yip on behalf of and in the absence of Billy Ng.