The final leg of the journey is here! Our last continent. I have been waiting for this part of the trip from the beginning. I just had this feeling that I would love Asia, and so far my prediction has been right on- I LOVE Asia!!
We arrived late Tuesday, February 2, 2010, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Our 20+ hours of travel consisted of a 3 hour van ride to Johannesburg, 2 flights, and a 6 hour time change. Now during all this travel I did not sleep at all, mainly because God did not give me the gift of sleeping on transportation of any kind, and also because I wanted to be able to sleep without any jet lag in Kuala Lumpur. Well, that did not work. You’d think after almost 48 hours of no sleep you would be able to fall asleep as soon as your head hit the pillow. Not so. I laid in bed for until about 230am until I could fall asleep. We have been in Malaysia for almost one week now and we are still having some trouble adjusting to the time difference. Oh well.
This month has the potential to be the best month yet. My team is working with Global Ministry Team (GMT) and their Kuala Lumpur office this month and through them have been given some amazing opportunities. Our first week served as an introduction to Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, GMT, and Isalm. We were able to explore the city some, speak to different GMT staff and partners, visit a Friday prayer at the Federal Mosque, and do some prayer walking. It was quit the full first week but God definitely spoke to us through it all.
Our second week will be spent living in a city about 30 minutes from KL called Sham Alam and will be living with a group of Christian college students. We hope to serve and encourage this group of believers for the week, and while they are in classes do some prayer walks and planning for the last two weeks. These students live in an area and attend a school that is over 90% Muslim and about 2% Christian. They really only have each other to support one another and we just want to love them for this coming week.
Week 3 will be spent in the jungles of Malaysia! Sounds exotic right?! We will be living in one village and traveling to surrounding ones, running VBS camps, sharing testimonies and the love of Jesus. Week 4 we will be living in KL again but will be traveling 30ish minutes outside the city to village, possibly teaching English, prayer walking, doing home visits, maybe playing sports with the kids, whatever God lays on our hearts to do. I am tremendously excited for these coming weeks, I know it will be hard but I also know it will be an incredible experience, filled with God moments. More to come!
