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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIS ZHI QING!
YOU ARE SO LOVED! :D

26thApril'08

BAPTISED! 20th April 2008.

born again!
2Cor5:17
Therefore,if anyone is in Christ,he is a new creation;the old has gone,the new has come!

Its really awesome!
Declaring publicly to the questions Pastor Daniel asked, to declare that Jesus is Lord,Jesus died for our sins and rose from the death after 3 days! :D
When I came out from the water after being immersed, I felt light! as in physically and mentally light!

During the baptism of the Holy Spirit after the water baptism, God showed me a picture of the past, something of the past that I have been set free, but still felt guilty at times. He told me that I have been totally set free, a new person now! Through this baptism, God showed me love. I felt so touched when sis zq,edward and lopez (my core group) came over and pray for me. At that point of time, love just overwhelmed me, it was really indescribable! And the gifts,smses,blessings that people gave! :D

.the flowers are really so so lovely! (including the 2 mini toons ones! LOL)
.the happy face balloon!
.the cow pokey!
.the necklace labelled T！
.the sour sweet!
.the cross keychain attached with a not bloomed sunflower!

Anyway something to touch on,
today morning I had oppression, I couldn't move any part of my body, and couldn't speak. And at that point of time, I heard a voice saying "your brother is coming home with me". Meanwhile I prayed and commanded the devil to leave in Jesus name! After a while, I was alright! This isn't the first time I encountered oppression, but it was the first time that I heard voices. BUT THE DEVIL DIDN'T SUCCEED! I am baptised and not afraid! :D And I goanna try harder to bring my brother back to church! :D

I AM SO SO SO SO HAPPY! :D I AM SET FREED! JESUS IS AWESOME! :D
I am excited to live a NEW life! NEW person!

SCHOOL STARTED!
:D :D

New modules,new projects,new textbooks,new challenges,new project mates!

Cher asked us today
.what's our goal for the future? Are we going to continue in this ECH line in the future?

I thought about it. I don't want to be a childcare teacher.
To be honest, too little pay, job scope = Educator,Care giver(taking care of daily needs),having to deal with parents and collegues

Came to realise that my interest still lies in art&craft,design aspect. So if I ever continue in this line, it would be in the art aspect, like using art to deal with children. Otherwise, taking this ECH course would help me in parenthood in the future. :D good deal right? :D LOL!

Actually really excited for the start of this sem! I got to have discipline to revise and study hard! :D I want to become more active in the photography club! (CCA!)

I still miss Chengdu
I really thank God for giving me all the good friends around me! :D Its awesome! :D
I really love people who are honest and open! :D

Appreciated! :D :D :D :D

Giana: An awesome girlfriend! Indeed our friendship grown so much deeper after the trip! With the conflicts and talks, we got to know one another more! Its really fun being with you! Your laughter and the joy you brought to the team! :D I love you lots girl! :D Thanks for being there to support me!

Wee Huat: A friendship grown deeper! A guy that is full of joy and passion! Never fails to make me and edward laugh! And your classic "lu pian de ye hua bu yao chai" Takes care of the girls in the team well! :D Its amazing that a guy who loves fun can draw a line between ministry and fun so clearly! :D

Edward: Another friendship grown deeper! Someone who reads a lot and know a lot! Another fun guy to be with. Your seriousness with God is applauded! Really see that you learn a lot from this trip! Your sharing about love with patience and kindness really challenged me! :D Thank you for taking care of me and giana throughout the trip! :D

Xiang Shu: First time going on a trip led by you! Its really awesome that this trip had a balance between work and play! You brought lots of laughter and fun to the team! Thank you for being sensitive to the Holy Spirit and challenging our motives and goals. And thank you for being sensitive to our needs too! :D Thumbs up leader! :D

Jeffery: My mortal. Got to know you more during this trip! Its really awesome that you responded to your call and took the step of faith to serve 1 year in Chengdu! It impresses me that you are always dependant on the Spirit, be in meeting new friends, or topics to speak with them! Your lameness with edward and chow chin brought lots of laughter too! :D

Lopez: Guitarist for P&W. Thank you for taking the effort to train with me and giana when its our turn to lead P&W. And rmb-ered one day when I was feeling upset, when I asked you to play the chinese song,I really felt God's comfort and presence when we were singing! Its really cool to see you get to know so many peeps in China! Continue to use your gift of being able to open up to peeps to build relationship! :D

Wei Hao: A brother who takes cares of the girls too. Thank you for always being gentlemen enough to help me and giana carry things. Through this trip, really changed my impression of you. Its really awesome that through the friend you knew,Ou Yang,we got to know so many other friends! And I can really see your genuine care towards Ou Yang! Keep it up! :D

Liang Zhi: A really encouraging brother. Would always see you encouraging the people around you, for their sharing, and praising them for the things they did! Its really a culture that we need to build on! A brother that is really good in sports, and through that, built friendship with the people over in Chengdu! :D

Chow Chin: My angel. Thanks for all the notes and gifts you given me as my angel. You been one encouraging angel! The stuff you wrote really amuses me. LOL. Through this trip, really seen that you have grown a lot more mature than you used to be! Its really great that you learn to grab opportunities during rest time after playing basketball, to build relationship with the peeps in Chengdu! Continue to recognize and grab opportunities in Spore! :D

Cheong Seng: My da ti group mate. Though didn't really get a chance to work with you, but some of the stuff you shared during debrief really encouraged me alot! Through the way you share, I can see the passion you have for God and in reaching the people of Chengdu for Him! Keep it up! :D

Ken Lim: A encouraging brother too. The encouragement notes you written to me really encouraged me alot! Really cool that you could take your injured eye in stride! That you didn't complain about the pain etc, that it didn't affect you during ministry! :D Can really see that you loves your family alot! :D

This team was really an awesome team to be with! One that is united and cares by encouraging or being sensitive to the needs of one another! :D Though not perfect, but really thank God for each and everyone of them! :D Praise God for bringing us through this MT! And causing us to bond and even build deeper friendships! :D

Hey peeps,here's my testimony!
Thanks for all who prayed!
:D

I went with a team of 12 people including myself to Chengdu for 8 days. It was an awesome trip! The experiences I encountered were really different from the Thailand trips which I went for the past 3 years!Firstly, really want to thank God for the accommodation; Brother Joshua’s house was really good, well-furnished, comfortable environment! He was really generous to lend it to us! Secondly, thank God for the team! This team was really united and fun to be with! The culture we built was one that encouraged each other, one that was really fun! And the guys really took care of us girls!

Through this trip, God really taught me a lot! Basically what we had to do was to go into the universities, Dian Zhi Ke Ji and Hua Xi respectively. Our identity there were as students on exchange program, that we wanted to get to know more about the school and the culture over in Cheng Du. We prayer walk around the campus and tried to make friends by getting them to take us around the school or by inviting them to lunch/dinner after getting to know them. At first it was hard, as we were unfamiliar with the school, and we were actually scared to approach! But prayer walk really soften the ground! The boys started to know people through playing basketball! And one girl that I approached was actually the girlfriend of the guy that the boys were trying to get to know! We started building relationships by talking to them, sharing about Singapore, asking more about them.

Edward, Wee Huat and me was in one team. We got to know this guy called Yang Jian, after which through him, we got to know Da Ming and Chen Wei! Yang Jian and Da Ming were quite open! They brought us around, and on a Sunday evangelistic gathering, we got to talk to them about religion! BRX sharing about purpose of life and our testimonies actually made them see the need for God in their society. They recognized the trend of increasing suicide and they mentioned that some of their friends around them actually have psychological needs/problems. They said that Buddhism is not a solution to what they need. They felt that Christianity can provide emotional support. It was awesome! We gave them the Chinese version of four spiritual laws and a bible each to read. Though they didn’t accept Christ, but at least we planted seeds in them! This trip is mainly relationship based sharing. It is like an application of our daily life in another country! This trip helped me to open up a lot, to talk to strangers, to start conversations! The people over there were generally really friendly! They were sincere in the way they treated us, and we should be too! There was this girl that accepted Christ after I shared to her in the park! She’s a student who’s learning French and English. Her teacher told her and the rest of the class to read the bible to improve their English. Thus, she had read the bible before and also some books which talks about Christianity. She was very open! However due to not able to get her contact number, we lost contact. I got to be more careful the next time, to get the full details!

Throughout the trip, God dealt with me from inside out. There was only two girls, me and Georgiana in the team. Thus, we were rather sensitive with one another. We sensed that Satan would use the relationship between us to distract the team. And indeed, sometimes I struggled. I struggled with thoughts like everyone doted on her and not me or that she’s so outspoken, why I can’t be too. I recognized that it is from Satan, thus we sat down and talked. We talked about the different ways we handles things or people, we talked about our perspective of dealing with people. God made me realized that people handles things differently, it is unrealistic to expect people to respond in the way you do etc. God taught me to be patient, to not be self-centered. When we start to look people through God’s lens, we start on focus on others’ needs instead on ours! Another encounter was at Holy Love Special School. It really took a lot of love and patience to deal with the children there. It was tiring to push the wheelchair around, and while pushing, I constantly had to adjust the boy’s legs for him. But God reminded me of love, and every time I adjusted his legs for him, I prayed for him！And there was this girl who took my hand and scratched really hard on it, till it hurt badly. I was irritated, but again reminded of love and patience!

Another aspect God dealt with was with my weakness of infatuation. I easily feel attracted to guys. I got a breakthrough when we were climbing the mountains on a day where we were unexpectedly given time to rest and appreciate God’s creation! It was awesome that God planned it, that day happened to be Sabbath! I always felt nature to be relaxing and it always seems to overwhelm me that God created things so beautiful! God redirected my focus to Him on that day. He took away the feelings I had for any guy! The desire of focusing on Him alone grew stronger! It was awesome! His presence was so strong! After which, in the later part of the mission trip, I was tested. It made me realized that I have to be careful of the way I behave towards guys, the signals that I might have wrongly sent. Even though my intention might be pure, but it might have stumbled others who do not know. I learnt to really depend on God. It is impossible and tiring to be always checking on your motives. It is hard to love with patience. It is hard to draw a line in friendship with the opposite sex. But relying and communicating with God throughout your day, throughout your life makes it possible!

God worked powerfully through this trip! Despite not being prepared properly, God planned out everything for us! God provided us with the people to reach out to! Now Da Ming and Yang Jian is getting more interested in knowing about God! Da Ming read the four spiritual laws and thought about some questions! About love, about prayer, about reaching out to people about the gospel! Can really see God working in him! It is awesome! Praise the Lord for whatever He done!

:D
signed off with love,
Theresa :D