Wonderful to be able to get together with the community as we celebrate Mid Autumn Festival early.




Ultraman boy with his ultraman!


A crash course on origami for the facilitators...


minutes before they start teaching it to the kids :) Here is our Alvin!


And then the Lantern Parade that we are in charge of! Thank God for great weather and it went well!






Cell group photo :)

We had a great time k-ing songs! Everyone sang well :-)

(Can't manage to copy the photo, so take a look at the link!)

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20090911/tts-israel-archaeology-religion-c1b2fc3.html

JERUSALEM (AFP) - - The remains of a 2,000-year-old synagogue where Jesus may have preached were found on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, archaeologists said on Friday.


The synagogue, one of the oldest ever found, was unearthed at Migdal, which Christians believe to be the birthplace of Mary Magdalene, a leading follower of Jesus.

"It is possible that Jesus had preached in this synagogue since Migdal was an important Jewish city at the time," excavations director Dina Abshalom-Gorni, who led the dig, told AFP.

Jesus did much of his preaching on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, also known as Lake Kinneret, where Christians believe he performed several miracles.

Archaeologists were particularly excited by the discovery of an imprint depicting the menorah -- a seven-branched candelabrum -- from the Jewish Second Temple destroyed in 70 AD during the Roman siege of Jerusalem.

Abshalom-Gorni said the imprint was one of only four such reproductions known to exist.

"The artist apparently went to Jerusalem to see with his own eyes this sacred candelabra," she said.

The synagogue built sometime between 50 BC and 100 AD is one of only seven known to date back to the Second Temple period.

Its 120-square-metre (143-square-yard) main hall has a mosaic floor and a square stone adorned with the menorah set atop a pedestal with a triangular base, which is flanked on either side by amphoras, the antiquities department said.

Farmer