The CHOICE National Conference Meeting (CNCM) 2009 was recently held in Malacca, from 10-11 October.
This is a yearly national event attended by the CHOICE group from every state and diocese.
This year, CHOICE Kuching is the National Council team and the host is CHOICE Melaka-Johor. CHOICE Kuching National team is headed by Fr Simon Poh and Mary Chen. They came with few other delegates representing Kuching.
The meeting was attended by close to 80 participants, from CHOICE Penang, CHOICE KL, the host; CHOICE Melaka-Johor & CHOICE Kuching from Sarawak. CHOICE Miri & Sibu were unable to attend this meeting.
The meeting began on Saturday afternoon as participants were checking in at Puteri Resort in Malacca.
This is a yearly national event attended by the CHOICE group from every state and diocese.
This year, CHOICE Kuching is the National Council team and the host is CHOICE Melaka-Johor. CHOICE Kuching National team is headed by Fr Simon Poh and Mary Chen. They came with few other delegates representing Kuching.
The meeting was attended by close to 80 participants, from CHOICE Penang, CHOICE KL, the host; CHOICE Melaka-Johor & CHOICE Kuching from Sarawak. CHOICE Miri & Sibu were unable to attend this meeting.
The meeting began on Saturday afternoon as participants were checking in at Puteri Resort in Malacca.
The meeting began with an opening mass; organized by CHOICE Kuching and the meeting began with confirmation of minutes of CNCM 2008 and followed by reports from other CHOICE group.
Each CHOICE group were represented by a Priest, a single young adult and a couple. Fr Dominic Santhiyagu represented CHOICE Penang & Fr Thomas Koo represented CHOICE Melaka-Johor.
Lots of challenges and expectations of CHOICE was discussed during this meeting and the main focus is to narrow down the communication gap faced by each CHOICE group. CHOICE is also represented in Asia, called CHOICE Asia, that meets once in every 2 years. The next CHOICE Asia meeting will be held next year in Singapore. Audrey Dewitt from CHOICE Penang is the council member for CHOICE Malaysia. Some proposals and ideas were discussed for Audrey to represent at the CHOICE Asia meeting next year.
Fr Simon Poh also proudly announced that the first CHOICE Weekend in Brunei will take place in December this year. CHOICE Kuching is helping to prepare for this 1st weekend in Brunei; they are helping with the workshop and also act as the presenters. Bishop Cornelius Sim of Brunei joined as a full-time participant in CHOICE 3 in Miri to prepare the way for CHOICE 1 in Brunei.
The meeting ended about 6pm, before we got ready for the fellowship dinner. The 8-course dinner was hosted by the host; CHOICE Melaka-Johor. Every CHOICE group did a presentation of either a dance or a song and liven up the night.
The next day, the meeting was continued and ended about 1 hour later. The next CHOICE council group was chosen, as CHOICE Kuching held the term for 2 years. CHOICE Penang was chosen as the next term national council via voting.
The meeting ended with a short formation session by Fr Simon Poh, and followed by closing mass organized by CHOICE Penang, celebrated by Fr Dominic Santhiyagu. The hand-over of the National Council file was done at the end of the mass.
All the team then checked-out from Puteri Resort and many headed to savour famous Malacca food, before we said goodbye.












