We leave tomorrow for China!!! We have all been looking forward to this month. It is crazy to think we are already beginning our 8TH MONTH! It seems like just yesterday we were counting the months through Africa, but for me Asia has flown by. It’s even weirder to think that I’ve been with my current team a month longer now than I was with my first team!
We are spending the night in the airport tomorrow night and flying to Hong Kong early Sunday morning. This won’t be our first slumber party at the airport, I’m sure it will be just as amusing as the last time in Bangkok.
This month we will have no internet access so I’ll go ahead and tell you what I do “know” at this point about ministry next month. We will be working at a special needs orphanage Monday-Friday 8-5ish. After this past month it will be nice to have weekends off and a somewhat regular routine. Last month was amazing, but it was definitely wearing on me physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. The first week we were in a city called Kuantan. We were involved in door-to-door, prayer walks/drives, visiting villages, putting on children’s program and then over the weekend we put on a 3 day youth conference. We talked about Choice, about some of the choices we have as believers: worship, friends, faith not fear, etc. It was a lot of fun and we all loved the church body, especially the youth! Then we went to a smaller city called Jerantut where we did mainly door-to-door. We were fed breakfast, lunch and dinner by almost every family in the congregation. It was such an awesome opportunity to go into the homes of the church body and not just see them on Sunday morning or during prayer meetings, but really get to know them. Go into their homes, share life for a little bit, and get fed, and be able to prayer for them and encourage them. They fed us WELL, curry and rice breakfast lunch and dinner! J We had an amazing month and got to see God do some miraculous things. Also we were encouraged by the Tamal Methodist Church here in Malaysia, they are on FIRE. Now we have spent the last 4 ½ days getting some R&R in Kuala Lumpur and I am so thankful for it, I truly believe it was a gift from the Lord to rest and rejuvinate before heading to China. Still little tired but much better than I was coming to KL. Plus that has to do with the encouragement from family and friends since I got here! J…another blessing!
No we’re hitting the ground running to China. Pray for our teams as we travel in and out of the country, that we would have God’s favor. Also for endurance leading into month 8th, the halfway mark and to now has definitely brought on a level of fatigue so pray for a freshness and renewed fire. (Crazy to think in 4 months I’ll be back stateside!) Also pray for peace because the fatigue effected my emotions, which won’t surprise you if you know me at all haha, but that led to homesickness more than usual so just pray for continued peace, especially since I will have no communication with my family until April. And with that being said, pray for my family as they go this month without hearing from me. I have the most amazing and encouraging parents & family who truly have entrusted me to the Lord on this journey and they have 100% peace that I am safe because I am in God’s will…but they are still my parents & loved ones. So pray for them this next month that they will have peace about God’s hand and guidance this month. Trust me, I’ll be ready to skype and see their faces and hear their voices come April 1st. Love ya’ll!!!
Peace out Malaysia…Hello China!
