there's gotta be more to life!!!!!!!!!!

- RICE RALLY 2005 -

ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!

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We arrived at Town Hall Station at around 5:50pm, then we headed to Fujiya for dinner. The food was great, but the service was terrible!! So i suggest you don't go unless you look rich, otherwise the waitresses will ignore you...







We hurriedly gulped down dinner (finished at 6:55) and seriously raced/bolted/sprinted all the way back to Town Hall. i think we must've looked like real idiots running for our life's worth down George Street. BUT - we made it to Town Hall at about 7:03 huffing and puffing and almost collapsing from more exercise than we've done all week.

We were ushered into Town Hall, i was very impressed with all the "security" guards...especially Ed, i reckon he could've taken on any terrorists one on one! The atmosphere in the Hall was electric, over 1200 youth crammed in together, with the band going strong in the background, familiar faces everywhere - everyone was getting so pumped up for RICE!



Everything ran so smoothly it was fantastic - the games, the skits, the music, the testimonies... all leading up to the talk by Al Stewart. I really loved the theme this year: there's gotta be more to life. So true!! "there's more to life than trials and HSC" (Melody, CY, yr12) YOU GO GIRL!! that sentence made me want to chuck away my chem notes and go up and hug her!

You see in the end, everything we've ever achieved, our HSC marks, our uni grades, our successes at work - it all amounts to a nothing. absolutely nothing. when we die, only one thing will matter - our faith in Jesus. There's more to life than looking good, being rich, and being successful.

If we try to hold onto our life by rejecting God's way - we will lose our life in the end.
If we give our life to Jesus and live God's way again - we will have eternal life.

So what's holding us back from giving our lives to Jesus? If you have given your life to Jesus, how are you showing that through the way you live now, the way you talk, the decisions you make?



RICE was unforgettable. Not because so many youth went, not because of all the music, skits, games, and testimonies, not because it was so much fun, not because it was so well organised, not because of the youth groups expo...no. It was an unforgettable experience because Jesus Christ and the gospel of salvation was preached and proclaimed boldly. It was because people's lives were changed forever last night as they accepted Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. It was because God was at work, changing people's hearts, opening their eyes and ears to the truth.

"Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!" Rev 7:12