I was
preaching in a church in Taiping last Sunday. After the service, an old lady
came to shake hands n she said to me, “You looked just like a little girl!”
Well, I literally felt my jaw dropped…
September
had been an eventful month. First week, the chairman of SAM passed away
following a heart surgery. Second week, a friend’s mother passed away at a ripe
old age. Third week, another friend’s brother passed away. Fourth week, a
(Anglican) church friend discovered he has 6 months till a year to live bcoz of
a brain tumor.
Ministry
wise, I was speaking on the OA ministry at the start n end of the month. Pray
with me that the seed of passion for OA ministry will take root in a wider
circle of the Christian faith community. I m very convinced that the OA church
is indeed the key to the spiritual revival that the Malaysian church is so
anticipating.
October
has a busy schedule. Will be traveling twice to the Kinta Valley. The first
trip is to attend to the administrative matters of the week-long SAM Ipoh diploma
class (which I’m not teaching) n it’s a short trip. The second trip will be
much longer n is much anticipated. The first batch of SAM-STM students will
graduate with their diploma. Unlike MBTS that opens the hall to everyone during
convocation service, STM holds its convocation in campus n due to its limited
seating capacity in the chapel, they allow each graduating student to only
bring in 4 family/friends. This is my first time attending their convocation n
their logistics sounds “serious;” but I m “seminary guest” n can walk right in
to the chapel. So, I’ll be going to Gopeng to join the OA team. There’ll be 19
of us traveling in 2 vans to Seremban, to STM campus n meeting another smaller
team of 5 from Subang. Returning from Seremban, I’ll stay on in Ipoh for a
week-long (night) classes with the SAM Ipoh certificate module class. This will
be my first time teaching the class n meeting the students. Plz pray for us.
I don’t
normally look forward to holidays, especially public holidays but it’s thrilling
to see there is a public holiday in Oct n at the start of Nov, a long weekend
break – the deepavali n awal muharam public holidays – back to back. Woohoo…I
think it must hv come with the aging process – the thrill to anticipate
holidays (?!)
30Sept
2013
