The Giant Leaf

Davy Liu, a brother from NLCC and a good friend, always has such passion for the Lord and relentlessly uses the creative talents God has given him to reach out to the world. Davy was involved in many animation features such as "Beauty and the Beast", "Aladdin", "The Lion King" and "Mulan" while working at Disney.

He began "The Giant Leaf" project in the early 90's and through many challenges and obstacles, this project finally bore the first fruits. Recently, he published the "Giant Leaf" children's book. Here is the short overview:

An enchanting dream that saves the animal's Kingdom – A young fox named Kendu dreams each night of a giant leaf. While he is dreaming, Kendu fills something that is sorely lacking from his life: freedom. When an opportunity for escape from his oppresors presents itself, Kendu summons up all his courage and ventures out into the blackness of the Wilds despite warnings that a fearsome beast known as the Animal Eater resides there. With his two newfound friends—a rambunctious monkey named Yitzhak, and Odelia, a plucky koala bear—Kendu is determined to find the giant leaf from his dream, and with it, a life full of promise and hope. The Giant Leaf casts new light on a story as old as time.

You can buy The Giant Leaf: Take a Giant Leaf of Faith to support Davy and his cause from Amazon at a decent discount.

Here is the trailer for the book:

Here is an interview with the artist:

For more information, you can go visit www.thegiantleaf.com.

Memorial BBQ 2007/05/27

After church on Sunday afternoon, we had an awesome bbq at James' house. We've made a variety of different type of foods on the barbie. One interesting thing we learned about using a two-layered bbq grill is that some of the items must be placed on the top layer to slow cook otherwise the food will be burnt too quickly. Here is what we had:

• Korean Style BBQ
  short-rib cross-cut with soy sauce, sugar, wine, ginger, scallions, and garlic
  short-rib (thick cut) in sea salt and sesame oil

• Chicken drumsticks marinated for 4 days in soy sauce, sugar, wine, ginger, scallions, and garlic


• Spicy Louisiana Sausages (from Costco) - super spicy, i think we'll go with Johnsonville Brats next time


• Taiwanese Sausages (these grill slowly on the top layer)


• King Oyster Mushrooms in olive oil, sea salt, and pepper - it's a vegetarian version of abalone



• Rib-eye Steak - with Monterey Steak Seasoning (from Costco)

For dessert, we had malted milk shake. I've found out that by adding a bit of instant coffee in the oreo cookie milk shake, it gives it a nice kick. It's definitely a decadent dessert.

Welcome

This is a blog about Passion 1.5, a young adult cell group of the New Life Christian Center (NLCC) in Irvine.

Our vision is to lift up the Joshua generation to become true worshipers of God and bring them into the promise land. We focus on the 4-W's during cell group meeting:

• Welcome
• Worship
• Word
• Work