This year's mission trip has exceeded my expectations, as not only did most of my expectations come to past, but the way God made me experience it first hand was significant! After hearing what Deacon shared about his experience of ministering to one crying youth, I felt that I wanted that too! Hence, one of my expectations was to be that girl, who is able and willing to minister to that one person.
On the last day of lessons in Ban Dong Nam school, I requested for the 3 youths in our P5 class who didn't received salvation yesterday, to come up front again. This time, Filter and Mak decided to receive Christ! Hence, the 3 of us held hands and as I prayed for them, I was just so touched and overjoyed at how The Lord always provides second chances!
After that, I realised "chok", the only boy in the P5 class who didn't want to receive Christ had left to read a book at the side of the classroom. Then, I decided to just spent time to minister to that one kid. I was reminded of how coach had spent 30mins to just minister and love a crying child. And that's what I did. With a tear stained face, I requested for chok to be prayed for. I remember myself saying to him, "it doesn't matter if you receive christ or not, because Jesus will still see you these. And you are very precious to Him."
However, after I prayed for him, he still went to the side of the classroom to "read". That's when I tried putting myself in his shoes- the whole class has been saved but I'm not. How left out, how lonely Chok must have felt... I went up to him, and placed my arms around him. All I remember was the shot of hurt in his eyes. Even though he gave me a blank face, like he was least interested in the affection I was showing him, I just continued ministering to him by just holding him by my side. I hugged, talked to him and continuously told him to cheer him up in Thai! However, it appeared to me that he didn't want me near him. Before lessons ended, we took polaroids with the P5s again, and I did too with Chok. I could sense that he wasn't smiling for the photo, but it didn't matter. I really wanted to love him with God's love in me. However, I found out that Chok actually took the polaroid of us! That meant that he actually felt loved and wanted to keep the Polaroid of me and him as memory. Which really made me happy! God has allowed me to meet my expectation- to be a girl who is willing and able to minister to that ONE person.
That night, another one of my expectations came to past again- to personally see souls saved! After Deacon encourage the youths to go around KMB to ask if anyone hasn't received Christ and would want to, Kelvin and I went around. Soon after, we met this lady and her daughter. We found out that she wasn't a christian. Hence, we asked her if she wanted to receive Christ and she agreed! All glory to God! There, Kelvin, Nigel and I prayed for her and we were glad that God has used the 3 of us to reach out to a lady at the corner of the room!
Not only that, during the last night of DG sharing, I felt that when I stepped out to lead the DG during sharing, it was so effortless! The anointing and favour of God was so strong and it flowed profusely through me. It was so evident that I could see the quietest people in the DG share about how they felt whenever we held alter calls, and the reason behind their tears. Indeed, it was heartwarming to not only facilitate a DG sharing, but also to have an interactive one! One where we treated each other as family, where we shared how we really felt deep down in our hearts.
This experience is indeed different from last year's parent child mission trip, as we managed to step out at such a young age with our friends, to spread the gospel! Not only that, but we were all empowered by God to do great and mighty exploits!
