LIVING WATERS 30TH ANNIVERSARY
(1976-2006)
Living Waters, a youth group of St Anthony's will be celebrating
its 30th Anniversary of its establishments. Here is our past
history of our group:
Year 1976:
17/4/1976 The formation of Living Waters by
Cheng Chi School at Stephen Lee Rd. Initially, there were 50
members joining the group since the announcement of the new group
was announced somewhere in March 1976, telling people that the
group will be going to be introduced soon. Meetings were conducted
in Chinese dialects like Teochew & Hokkien and the person in
charge with the group then has STRICT rules.
13/6/1976 Living Waters was chosen to help out
during the St Anthony's Feast Day, together with Cornerstone.
18/9/1976 Meetings were conducted at 1.00pm,
instead of 12.00pm due to certain feedbacks from youths.
18/12/1976 Youth Advent Vigil. About 14 of them
attended.
End 1976 Number of members: 62
Year 1977:
30/1/1977 12 of the members were selected to
teach Cathecism Classes in Teochew.
13/2/1977 First Trip for Living Waters: Visit to
Gay World Park.
15/3/1977 Mission Trip to Batam, 7 of them
participated.
16/7/1977 Living Waters commerated its 100th
member of the group.
23/10/1977 1st Walkathon along Mandai Rd. (Its
routing from Stephen Lee Rd 
Woodlands Rd (os Metal Box Factory) and
back to church.)
End 1977 Number of members: 108
Year 1978:
18/2/1978 New timeslot for meetings on Saturday,
3pm & 5.30pm
20/5/1978 Polling begins for Living Waters,
whether it will become a church youth group or not. It lasts for 1
month.
1/7/1978 Living Waters finally became a church
youth group, with late Fr Cyprien Huc as the
person-in-charge.
16/12/1978 Outing at Orchard Road.
End 1978 Number of members: 140
Year 1979:
19/5/1979 1st Youth Retreat. 37 of them
participated in this event.
28/10/1979 Recruitment Exercise for existing
students at Cheng Chi School & parishers of St Anthony's
Church.
10/12/1979 Youth Camp at Kuantan. Only 6 of them
took part.
End 1979 Number of members: 168
Year 1980:
8/3/1980 As there are too many members, the
group in charge had decided to transfer some of its existing member
to different parishes and set up another group there.
16/8/1980 Living Waters fund set up.
29/11/1980 North District Camp at East Coast
Park. Poor response at that time.
End 1980 Number of members: 186
Year 1981:
18/4/1981 Celebration of Living Waters 5th
Anniversary.
11/10/1981 1st Private retreat. Selected members
only.
12/12/1981 Youth Advent Vigil. It has a bit of
good response, compared to the last 4 years.
End 1981 Number of members: 203
Year 1982:
20/2/1982 Dinner & Dance at Gay World Park,
response was not good at that time because it was too
expensive.
19/6/1982 Living Waters & Cornerstone to
settle cost of Dinner & Dance.
7/8/1982 Another Walkathon organised, 25 of them
participated in this event, this time it was amended to Woodlands
Centre Rd.
9/10/1982 Living Waters helped out at Outstation
at void deck of Blk 6 Marsiling Dr.
23/10/1982 16 of the members were transferred to
another parish but with the same group
End 1982 Number of members: 233
Year 1983:
14/6/1983 1st Youth Walk by CAYC. 13 went for
the walk.
14/8/1983 Meetings are also conducted on Sundays
at 10.30am.
7/12/1983 1st Camp at FMM House (Holland
Rd)
End 1983 Number of members: 250
Year 1984:
21/1/1984 Meetings began conducting in English
on Saturdays only.
13/5/1984 1st Parish Recollection.
1/9/1984 New Coding System was introduced. The
format is T16/XXXX/XXXXXX. (eg. T16/1984/399271) It is to replace
the existing 7-digit coding system, which was introduced in 1968.
Living Waters code is T16.
21/11/1984 Fund Raising for renovation
begins.
End 1984 Number of members: 269
Year 1985:
23/3/1985 Mass Attachments commenced for members
of Living Waters
4/6/1985 1st Mt Ophir Trip, 167 members
attended.
21/7/1985 Living Waters began to upgrade its PA
system in church.
30/11/1985 1st Disco organised by Living Waters.
It received good response and about 70 tickets were sold.
End 1985 Number of members: 288
Year 1986:
8/3/1986 1st Church Cleaning done by youths of
St Anthony's
19/4/1986 10th Anniversary of Living Waters.
Celebration at Parish House with a small disco until
midnight.
24/5/1986 Walkathon organised, route amended to
Marsiling Rd.
20/9/1986 Dinner & Dance at Apollo Hotel.
Poor response at that time.
1/11/1986 2 members became the leader of Living
Waters. One of it was a secretariat and the other is the
treasurer.
13/12/1986 Youths made a 1st house visit to
Mandai villages and Stephen Lee Rd corridors.
End 1986 Number of members: 311
Year 1987:
7/2/1987 Parish Retreat, 28 members
attended.
12/6/1987 Certain members were helping out on St
Anthony's Feast Day.
19/12/1987 1st Christmas Party. Enjoyable for
every youth members.
End 1987 Number of members: 340
Year 1988:
12/3/1988 30 of them went to Taman Negara
Camp.
26/6/1988 Saturday meetings are now conducted in
English, with Sunday meetings still in Chinese.
18/9/1988 1st Youth Canteen.
10/12/1988 2nd Mt Ophir Trip.
End 1988 Number of members: 366
Year 1989:
25/2/1989 All meetings are conducted in
English.
15/7/1989 Swapping of members in two different
parishes.
9/12/1989 2nd Disco organised with good response
from every members.
16/12/1989 Family Christmas Party.
End 1989 Number of members: 380
Year 1990:
10/2/1990 Fund Raising for new church building
was set up.
3/3/1990 140 members of 1976-1978 were withdrawn
in phases, 35 goes to RCIA.
21/4/1990 36 members attended the Fund Raising
Dinner
27/10/1990 Parish Recollection. Good
response.
22/12/1990 Family Christmas Party.
End 1990 Number of members: 257
Year 1991:
9/3/1991 Weekly Donations for the New Church
Building Fund commenced. Lasted for 2 years.
20/7/1991 42 members of 1979 were
withdrawn.
23/11/1991 Mass attachments were revised
accordingly.
End 1991 Number of members: 238
--TO BE CONTINUED--