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Monday, June 15, 2009 1:00 AM
wahhaha i miss blogging! finally have a bit of spare time!updates:
5-7 june: went to Malaysia, sitiwan for missions with team 17 and 14!
5 june: set off at 10am. reached Rhema church, Sitiawan at 1130pm! (: woohoo so didnt do much went sleep. girls in church and guys went to Pastor Dave's former house. Girls slept on floor in sleeping bags and guys--beds!! ahhaa anyway thats not the point. we enjoyed fellowshipping with lady gaga! ahaha
6 june: washed up and changed into service clothes and had individual quiet time. helped out for different events- chinese chess,scrabble,fastest talker and sms shootout competitions held for the youths.. it was really a mini scaled emerge. was reminded of how pastor started city harvest too..practiced the "prodigal son" drama showed to kim hock. after that yvonne, vanessa and seth stayed for BVs and musos prac for service at 5pm..meanwhile the rest went for chendol, ice cream feast!
ahaha. man malaysia's sun is sooooo HOT! afterwhich 5pm was service. we were super excited for praise and worship. yvonne and vanessa were so cool! (: ahhaa although they were kinda lost caz all lyrics in chinese~! A friend from team 14 shared her life testimony..was touching and kim hock shared about life's purposes.. all in mandarin! there were many decisions made,i was a counsellor for a 10 yr old girl! (: after service, we all went for dinner together!! i remember the kopitiam. it's like our LAo PAR SAT! called red and yellow. aahaha. omgosh. we ate and ate..tummy was bulging like nobody's business. ahha afterwhich we went back church and slept.
7 june: woke up in the morning, went for breakfast! got ready for morning service and Rhema church really has the CHC's DNA! ahha Pastor's dressing, church service order the same, bulletins, etc.. Jasmine shared her life story with the rest. she's so nervous caz it's also her first time speaking all in mandarin.. man it was kinda wierd but nonetheless, her testimony really made us shed tears!! after that Pastor Dave preached a sermon about David's 5 stones!it was a good sermon!! after service, we naturally took sooo many photos with the people there.. with pastor, with all the youths, with everyone we know! ahhaha really had an enjoyable time there although it was short!!!
we went to the coffeehouse downstairs for lunch and all was on Pastor Dave! ahhaa we ordered bak kut teh for 6 persons and was nice and cheap! ordered a drink called "thumbs up" ahha! (: super tasty! anyway after lunch, we boarded the coach and travelled to Singapore. was around 2pm. however, we reached JW church at 140am! oh man WHAT A RIDE! ahhaa...
my reflections: although the actual time for us to mingle with the people was very short, we managed to really fellowship with them and even exchanged all our contacts and email addresses. I felt that we built great relationship with them and Rhema church really inspires me about church planting and that is not easy to start everything from scratch. I can imagine how City harvest was like 20 years ago! man we should never despise small beginnings! truly the youths are really passionate and on fire!! (: after this trip, i felt that we shouldnt take our church and our leadership for granted. Thank God that You placed me and planted me into City Harvest Church, what an amazing journey and BIG family! (: anyway i felt that we could have more chances to preach, lay hands, teach bs etc.. yup i would love to see great miracles happening during missions! that'll be great! (: