Back From my 1st Mission Trip

The mission trip was amazing. It really showed me what it meant by the harvest is great but the laborers are few. And the church we went to was a weak one, the pastor was really old and there was no one in line planned to take over his place. Despite having so many of us there this time round, we still didn't have enough people. Seeing the patients took up so much time, esp since no teams went there for the last 2 months (supposed to have one trip per month), the villagers' medical care were haywire. Only managed to free up 2 people out of the 11 to share the gospel cuz of the language barrier too. Felt to inspired to pick up bahasa indonesia and brush up on my Teochew. Who can teach me? One thing I realised was tt our Singaporean Teochew is so different fr theirs; this I know cuz usually my Teochew pts in Singapore would understand my Hokkien.

Everyone is into missions these days! Paige is. YY is. My preceptor also went to Kunming recently with Linking Hands (a Christian medical missions org). Even Ivan and Cyrus are interested in coming for e Sengarrang mission trips. Suddenly remembered a channel 8 drama and what Pst taught about common grace; "If the unfortunate cannot walk out of their disfortune, the fortunated must walk in to bless." "不幸的人走不出来，有福的人要走进去。" I totally agree with it. Hope tt with my longer working hours in Guardian I'll still be able to go for these. =) Its really great to know tt I can use what I learnt in pharmacy school for the expansion of His Kingdom and to serve others.

And most importantly, Jenny and I spent some quality time together during the trip and we finally had tt heart-to-heart talk I've always been praying about during those cold war days. The greatest thing was she understood me better, she apologized and I was able to release forgiveness. It was the best thing tt happened during the trip.