0700: Was supposed to meet Clarence and Jason for an early 8 am breakfast at Marina Square Mac.
0750: Left the house. :P
0810: At the MRT, realised I'd forgotten to take my confirmation slip. Took cab back home and to Suntec.
0840: After a generous non-taxable donation of $22 to the SMRT Corporation (darned ERP....), I go to Suntec Convention Centre.
0845: Chaos!
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the booth.
Not enough signs to point people the right way. The ushers were very helpful though. And happened to see Ps Ben there! :) We were both pleasantly surprised to see each other there. He quickly got up from his chair, and helped point confused me to the relevant personnel on duty. I was very touched by his small act of kindness. :D
Saw Xiaojia for the first time in the crowd. She's a penpal (or should that be email pal? haha), and I could identify her at once.
0905: Got my confirmation slip cleared and collected my goodie bag. Yay! Scrambled down to first level to meet Clarence. He blessed me with a Fillet-O-Fish and hot tea. His treat. Very blessed both in stomach and soul. :D
0915: Rushed to Room 201.
Specialist workshop: Tentmaking in a Globalized World.
w00t. An awesome workshop. :D
1235: Lunch with Peter, Sharon, Clarence and Tracy. Heard that Jason's workshop on ministering to HIV patients, the class went down to Tan Tock Seng Hospital to visit them. Sharon was so excited about the possibility of ministering to these patients, whereas Peter was enthusiastic about missions in the marketplace. Clarence and Tracy both went for Social Enterprise workshop. Xiaojia's boss gave a talk there, and she was there to help man the laptop (and lug it around too haha).
1350: Met up with XJ. Was very blessed by the encouraging time of sharing and chatting. :D
Then there's a whole lot more!
Like, I got to know this South African missionary - he's Eben, and his testimony is very inspiring. He went on his first missions trip when he was 15, and made a commitment to the Lord to go as a full-time missionary for him. So, upon graduation from high school, instead of taking the normal route of going to university like his peers, he chose to go straight to a missionary college. Whoa. It was not an easy journey for him, but he made this decision to honour God.
Oh yes. We found a common point: he's been to a lot of African nations on mission trips! :D His eyes glowed the instant I shared with him that I'm going on a missions trip to Africa next month. Haha. But really, very blessed by his simple heart for God and sincere simplicity of spirit. But one thing for sure - he's not simple-minded - he comes across to me as mature and sharp.
Anyway! Watch this Africa missions video by him and his wife:
Check out their blog too!
So encouraging!
Found some community care ministry booth outreaching to, among the nations, the poor Filipinos in slums. Bought a book as a gift for a friend.
Then the rally. Pictures worth 1000 words!
It was a very meaningful time. What Rev Morley Lee said was that the church in Singapore has been so blessed by God. But as the Lord himself said, "To whom much is given, much is required." So we must renew our hearts and spirits for God. God isn't so interested in the methods of missions, but much more interested in us becoming better men and women of God, whom He can use more fully.
Here's a pic of Yufen at one of the exhibition booths. It's on using media for missions. Was ab-so-lute-ly thrilled when I saw this opportunity!
From the pamphlet:
"Create International, a frontier missions communication ministry is committed to producing professional and innovative video resources to serve those working among the world's unreached people."They make videos for the following purposes:
- Mobilisation
- Evangelistic
- Discipleship
- Music Video
And Yufen was excited too - she said that hopefully she can do some art next time to bless the peoples too.
Ok, more updates for the next day!
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