Children Day's service @ Agape Baptist Church

On 30 Sep 2007, we were invited by Agape Baptist Church to conduct a Children's day special service.

Our message was about "Transforming" and we used the Bible passage from Luke 19:1-9.

It was a challenge for us to use Balloon sculptures to illustrate the principles and values from the passage. Luke 19:1-9 talks about this man named Zacchaeus (whom I called him, Zac -the short and hairy man), a tax collector, who was not well recieved and being rejected by the community because his wealth came from collecting money from other people and giving it to the Roman government in the early days. Later, he came to know Jesus when Jesus wanted to visit his home. The amazing part of this story was that Jesus knew who Zacchaeus was even before Zac wanted to see Jesus from the tree. Zac's life was transformed and he gave half of his possessions to the poor, and return four times for those he had cheated in the past.

It was a simple but yet heart touching story to tell the children that they are accepted by God no matter who they were. We were encouraged by this event and we hope to bring more gospel through balloons to more churches out there.

Here are some of the highlights of our story with balloons:

Prepartion at back stage Building a balloon house

Zac - The short and hairy man Poor old lady that was heal by Jesus

Introduce to you our friendly Saviour, Lord Jesus Christ.

Ratatouille Balloon sculptures showcase @ SHAW LIDO

Finally, we have completed the most challenging task after our trip from Las Vegas. We presented "Ratatouille's" big balloon sculpture showcase at SHAW Lido.

We want to take this opporunity to extend our appreciation to the following people who make this balloon carnival @ SHAW successful:-

1. Chan Sin Ling, Manager of Cinema Sales and Promotion (Shaw)

2. Mr David, Managing Director of Balloon Baron. Mr David was pioneer in the balloon business

since the 80's and he has been a great help to us.

3. Agnes, Balloon Connexion, distrubutor of the very best balloons, Qualatex.

4. Boon Hong, Aunty Pansy, our new team mate from Piggy and Pinky

5. Mich, our close friend from Vineyard Church Singapore.

Thank you all for making this event a success!

From,

Piggy and Pinky

Our Trip to Las Vegas, Summer Balloon Camp 2007

Dear Friends,

It has been a wonderful and eye opening experience for us to attend and be trained at the Summer Balloon Camp held in Las Vegas 2007.

With more than 14 countries and 400 plus professional balloon artists and decorators who came to the camp for one common reason – to learn, to share new ideas and to impart skills to one another. We felt a sense of belonging indeed. In fact, we were well taken care of by these lovely people.
At the same time, we made new friends!

We learnt a lot, especially balloon decorations and new balloon creations.

Here are some of the photo highlights that we would like to share with you...

Our First day assignment - Helping to decorate the main entrance area

Learn to insert a 160Q fish balloon sculpture into a 646Q clear balloon

We learn to make AMAZING Balloon sculptures during the balloon jam which lasted till 3am almost nightly...

Competition pieces - Totally awesome! How do they do it!?

One of the decoration class..... Wow! Amazing!

Here are some of the decors for our 3 nigts Special dinner...

Shaun's CBA exam pieces

Shaun got his CBA award on 8 Aug 2007

The key to our success is that we demonstrated a different value in balloon making – expressing love through balloon arts! We believe balloons can touch people’s hearts irregardless of ages and religions. They have the power to bring joy, surprises and fun! We want to extend this value to the suffering children, especially those from the 3rd world countries.

Coming back to Singapore, we have many plans! We want to impart balloon art to the younger generation. Our passion is to allow the younger generation to let their creative mind work in this area and to have a different perspective in using balloon as a form of art. Children love balloons and they have the ability to make complicated balloon pieces. One of the plans we have is to bring this art to the primary schools and we hope that we could kick start this programme very soon.

We hope our sharing can let people see the wonderful world of balloons through balloon making and they no longer see balloon making a non-professional career.

Thanks for all (especially our dear brothers & sisters from Vineyard!)your prayers and support (including financial support) to make our trip a success!

LoVe you all,

Piggy and Pinky

Stop over @ Manila, Philippines

On 12 Aug 2007, 4.05am, we touched down at Manila Airport after our Balloon Camp Convention in Las Vegas.

We were well received with our wonderful friends in Hope of God Church, Manila, and we were totally blessed by their hospitality and friendship. Although it was the monsoon season in Manila, we managed to visit our friend’s home and organized some activities with the children like games, balloon sculptures and face painting.

We also conducted a Balloon sculpture and face painting class the following day. We were amazed that the participants were so responsive to our teaching and some of them learnt fast as they were able to make complicated balloon sculptures within the same day.

Through this trip, we learnt that God has given talents to different people from all walks of life and background. With this in mind, we truly want to continue to share our passion and love by imparting our skills to benefit as many out there.

Thanks to all our friends (especially dear Dr Eunice & her husband) in Hope of God Manila and making our trip so memorable.

Love U all,
Piggy and Pinky

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