haiz.. vcd couldnt work.. wanted to watch "Il mare" since i took 2days of leave. but the show i borrowed from xav jus wont play.. irritated.. but well.. spared me some time to do other things as well.
anywae.. Il mare is the original korean version of LakeHouse. i watched it on tv before but that was like at least a good 4-5 years back.. can hardly remember the details already.. finally hav the time and the disc but it jus wont play.. argh.
Anywae.. came back from malaysia over the weekend on a short mission trip with the youth of my church. Quite an eye opener for me as i can hardly imagine that the ground could be so hard and so thirsty. More than ever that i saw that wat ai qiu jie was doin there was more than necessary. Cant imagine how dissappointed and reluctant i was when we went doin street evangelism door to door. Doors slammed and dogs let lose.. not an uncommon sight. but thats jus the adults. On the other hand.. the youth are really curious and thirsty to know about this God we're talking abt. But they are simply so shy and reluctant even though they're interested.
Went streetE on the streets instead.. much more fruitful there.. shared 316 with them in chinese.. fumble and stuttered the first time.. but God was gracious.. didnt make me lose face.. haha. My faith and confidence grew as we kept trying.. encouraged by Grace(liyun) who was right on the other side of the street. I realised 316 is an opener and there's so much more to share with them.. and that u've gotta speak their language.
Learnt it best from Brother Huang from Ai Qiu jie's church. Amazed at how he captured the attention of the few young gansters speaking of the topics of their interest and how he came right back to Christ! so simple and effective.. had my chance to evangelize to some of those gangsters.. and really had a tought time keeping their attention while the others of his friends circling us in motocycles laughing at us. But u could tell the 2 of them we so intrigued when i told them that death is not the end of the road of life. intimedated by his friends.. had no chance to pray with them. Invited them for the event. But end up one of them too shy to come. saw him outside the church but was too late to call him in. looking from a distant, he rode away the moment he saw anyone coming his way. I pray God will bless him all the same though.
the youths are so receptive that i did the sinner's prayer with quite some of them rite on the streets.. we were so fired up tat we preached to anyone we saw on the streets.. and God is good!
But one embaressing thing is when i saw this girl who slipped pass ted on the streets.. i came up to her and asked her for 5mins of her time.. the next moment she went shouting " JIU MING AH(HELP!!)!!!" and ran away. haha. i was laughing at myself.. thing the whole church was laughing when i told them. well well.. what did i do man. can be i look tat scary can i?
in between.. we had practices for the evangelistic event on sunday nite.. i planned some songs to "present" as they say we should tone down alittle. but i know for sure it's worship for us all. had this short skit as well before mushi's call. managed to squeeze in some games .. wait.. no.. its silly games in between.. haha. doin some posture of animals.. but really fun.. everyone making fun of Grace's signature move during the July's skit. ha. poor grace.. her whole face was red when we all did the the action for photo taking. whahah. somemore they all very bad keep targeting Grace in the game cos her LuoHan fish posture too easy le. haha. (*who told you to chose so easy posture!haha):P
Had lots of good food there as well.. lots of ppl treating us.. eating on a bugdget that never seemed to deplete. haha. first time trying banana prata by Grace's introduction... cutted open the prata and some stuff flowed out of it.. tot i was oil.. a little disgusted by it at first.. but realised it's not oil but melted banana in the prata!!!! wow.. give it a bite and it was really great! haha. think really need to go on diet man.
the ppl over there also got us deserts and liang char( cooling tea) to drink.. it was too much for the mere 15 of us.. and someone made me drink so many bowls! :x haha. super bloated. was telling them i'll turn into the merlion vomiting if i drink anymore. haha.
well.. on the night of the event.. everything went well..as usual.. i'd stumble with words on stage.. good thing God is always in control. Liyun ROCKS! turned the skit around. simple stunning on stage with her stand up comedian talents that totally went out of the script.hah. i was laughing my head off. thanks to her.. the audience was very much more involved. Many of them accepted Christ during the call and alot of us was supposed to do "Pei tan". i came down from stage a little later.. so i saw most of them already entertained.. then i saw this group of 6 guy standing around.
tot there must be at least one of them there who accept Christ.. so went over and ask. i asked," hi guys, so did anyone of you put up your hands jus now?" all looked at me and shook. i was like... oops. haha. i was expecting to speak to the one who accepted only. but God had other plans. they happened to be part of the more beng group.. but God give me the courage to push a little further. I told them since they havent decided.. i asked if i could share with them for one last time. THank God they all obliged! Got them seated on the floor and grabbed a copy of the 316 file.. shared with them again.. told them where they were standing at the crossroad where their choice is clear.
they all listened intently.. i was getting nervous and excited.. i didnt lead them to do the sinner's prayer immediately.. i shared with them a short testimony of how i questioned God and got a fulfilling reply in peace and joy in my life! then i asked if they believe a little in wat i believed. they nodded. Asked if they willing to accept Christ and they all smilingly agreed. Thank God. felt the group was too big.. so i asked sunny to lead half of them in the sinner's prayer while i led the other 3.
after the prayer.. felt a strong prompting to tell them something very honest. i told them that we'd only be here for this event.. and we wont know if they're coming back to church after tat.. but i told them to promise me that even if they left church they'll pray to Jesus in times of trouble and joys. Taught them to pray a simple prayer. tats all i can leave with them. I could feel their appreciation. i hope they felt more than tat. Felt really great reaching out to them!
i turned around.. saw the Lims at work. haha. Ted was busy taking photos with his legion of female fans while Grace was the last group still left in the church still chatting up.. saw her from afar trying to answer those little girl's questions with her chinese.. haha. wished i had my video cam. but the girls was still intently listening to her.. so tats a good thing.ha * Grace your chinese not too bad eh.hah. jiayou k.. send u to china to evangelize next! ha)
God is good.. had my doubts for my reason to help out there.. tot i was running away from something. but turned out not. God planned it all. Thank God i went. Opened my eyes.
SOme of them goin back this fri to help out.. but i cant make it..so sorry. Well.. back to the dreadful reality for me. But i guess i've got another mission now.
long post.. sleepy eyes.. good night :)
