An experience of missionary work

So here’s to the recap of the last Saturday service of the month.

And………… Beginning with icebreaker, the regular weekly Youth Service kicks off. With Yeo Naomi spearheading the icebreaker, the game we played was the Name Game. Everybody present was separated into 2 groups and each group had to pick a representative. Each representative, on the count of 3, have to reveal themselves and call out the other representative’s name, age and number of siblings. As for the method of revelation, instead of using the typical cloth down the middle, Naomi used the method of having everybody (other than the representatives, of course) squat on the count of 3 leaving the representatives from each group standing.

Moving on, we had prayer led by Lim Joycelyn and worship lead by Charity Loh, who along with Benz Paul, are the worship team’s new worship leaders (Insert applause here). Worship and prayer was relatively simple, but effective (Congrats to both Charity and Benz for stepping forth to take up this challenge). The theme for the worship session was praising God, whether in good times or bad.

Finally, we had Victor Lim up to share with us his testimony from his time spent in India for the last few years. Some of the experiences were as follows:

1. Basically the area of ministry that he operates in is Himachal Pradesh, which is at the northern part of India. This place has only 2 seasons: Summer and Winter. Most of the community here are farmers rearing animals and growing plants. There are 2 main people groups (Pahari + Lahauli) and 2 minor people groups (Tibetans + Nepali) living there in the area. Among all the people groups there, the Nepalis are the largest group to come to Christ. The church that Victor and his wife Rama have planted there are a multicultural church although it’s about the size of the current fireBRANDS.
2. Tibetans have never experienced much about Christ, if at all. Hence, most of the Tibetan women go to the nunnery. — to avoid some of the strict traditions in their lands.
3. Developing countries have a whole set of experiences that differs from the 1st world countries to offer to people. The experience of “life” with the people there, especially rural people, is one that is the most exciting and appealing, according to Victor. Also, it is often harder to live out in the rural areas because there is a lack of doctors and nurses nearby on hand to help during emergencies (even though India is famous for producing a lot of doctors and nurses, but sadly almost all of them opt to work elsewhere).

Victor then passes on 3 points to a good healthy relationship with God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

1. Know your calling. Taken from 2 Timothy 1:9, basically the calling of God is a pre-ordained one and it has been set before you were born. Therefore, getting to know God on a deeper level means that the calling upon your life will slowly be revealed to you through much prayer and “talking to God”.
2. Growing your roots and growing closer to God. As the iPhone is the evidence of the brilliance of Steve Job’s brain, so the bible is the evidence of the brilliance of God’s brain as well as the written account of all He has done. Passage: Psalms 1:1–3.
3. Running the race and focusing on Jesus. Paul has written that our lives are akin to a marathon track, there to allow us to “run” well and to bring glory to the kingdom of God.

So, that’s all from me for this blog post. Hope to see you peeps soon. Ciao.