Greetings (It is 1040pm), ! I'll just update from today which was the start of the training of the returnees by Joan/Keith/Praba over at Wesley Methodist where we use the school's chapel and have the training held there. The 10 kids will be then looked after by Mui Fong, Andrew, Grace and me, where we did artwork of coloring and doodling after sharing 2 stories of creation and Adam and Eve.
Mui Fong asked the kids what did they enjoy particularly about for the day between the two stories, they actually do prefer the story of creation citing that it is important to know what God created. The kids do color and draw well, which was fun and teaching them the "Every move I make" dance, MF, Grace and me thought of together in the room, it was indeed a joyful time with the kids and praying over the kids as we asked them what would they liked to be blessed upon.
The main highlights for the day would be the Encounter Night, whereby we transformed the chapel, it looked different with the candles lighted up. The returnees were actually apprehensive after they were told they were free to head to the various stations to encounter God. Things got started as many started at the Communion Table where you can really feel their reverence for God as they took the communion consisting of some biscuit crackers and juice, irregardless of the age, young and old, all of them took communion with such thankful/reverence attitude.
There were 4 stations - A mirror station (where they were asked what would Jesus think of them), Communion Table, Feet Washing and the scrolls station.
Hugs was going on at the feet washing station and yes, the most amazing thing that happened... Pastor Keith decided toinvite the security guard of the school who has been watching us from afar for the past couple of days, to wash his feet. After explaining what the entire act was about, Christ was being shared to him and he decided to receive Christ. The security guard came from a Tamil background (not Singhalese) and so, had some white religious strings/wristlets tied around his hand, which upon receiving Christ, decided to take it off as a symbolic act, had them cut away with a scissors. It was really encouraging cause there was a salvation but more importantly, someone no one really would have thought or have easily missed, but got invited for a feet washing opportunity and was changed for life. Praba shared that while we were praying, he felt something dark left so go Jesus! :D
We had another healing, of a man who was walking with a limp since the first day I saw him (yes, I've been eyeing him the entire time since I saw him the first time), Pastor Andrew had the chance of washing his feet and since saw he had a limp, decided to pray for healing... AND YES. IT HAPPENED, he could walk up and down the steps. I was watching him the entire time and we prayed upon him a couple more times and the people around was all amazed that he could actually walk. The last time I saw him, he was actually helping to lift a church bench up so it could be placed back to where it was supposed to be. It was really quite a WOWing sight but praise to God for a healing :)
We also actually had a live telecast of what we were doing in the afternoon, streamed over Skype, over to Covenant, back in Singapore, where the returnees danced to "Every Move I Make" for the people back in Singapore, both sides exchanged their greetings, some with their moms over at this sideand daughters working over at Singapore, it was really heart warming before the TOSHIBA laptop decided to overheat, malfunction alittle bit, went off on its own and we couldn't quite get the connection back.
So that's about all for today :) Tomorrow will be another similar day of training and kids program running and I would like to request prayer request! Pray for my dear roomie, Joan (she fed me Vitamin C tablets) but is now feeling a little bit flu-ey, I did pray for her before I headed off for shower and type this post but we could do with more prayers.
- Keep the entire team in prayers please! That we'll be well, in good health (no flu, headaches, gastric flu) and have enough strength and energy to last/teach/play with the kids!
- Pray for tomorrow's night encounter that they will have anot
her round of refreshing times with the Lord and be strengthened and encouraged! (They were encouraged today and many said they had a good time at the encounter night as they went into their individual groups to share and reflect).
- Pray for Pastor Andrew that he'll have favour from SINGTEL (YES), cause thanks to the data plan on an iphone, that was left on all the way till here, while he wa
s using minimal usage, the bill has exploded to a huge sum, pray he'll have more discount to have more amounts waived.
May we continually be sensitive to what's on the Lord's heart, I'll post some pictures up meanwhile
Loves,
The Baby
(The team affectionately calls and introduces me as)
