Ministry Update Sept/Oct 2013

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