Saturday, December 01, 2007
This is a direct copy/paste from the report I wrote for the church magazine, including my testimony.
Mission Trip to Setapak, KL
23rd to 25th November 2007
To carry out Jesus’ last command, to go and make disciples of all nations. This was the purpose of the mission trip.
The team of five, Matthew, Serene, Jun Yuan, Jia En and I met on an early Friday morning, with this purpose in our hearts. After a prayer with Bro Kim San and Bro Ang, our driver, we set off for Setapak, Kuala Lumpur.Upon arriving in the late afternoon, we prepared tracts printed by the church before setting off to the flats in the neighbourhood with Sis Mei Lan, the church’s pastor. Watching her hold the conversation with such great panache made us confident ourselves and we were quickly done with three blocks. During this time, we also noticed the small number of Christians who lived in the area, realizing how large the harvest field was. Still, we invited them to our evangelistic outreach on Saturday, entitled, “The Secret to Success”.
That night, we joined the Wangsa community for LG. Though the meeting place was small, we enjoyed praising God together as a family of Christians. I was greatly encouraged when I saw the youths’ fervour for God. Matthew, the leader of the group, then shared about evangelizing. When Jesus sent His disciples to spread the gospel, He told them to “Take nothing but a staff…” (Mark 6:8). This staff is the Holy Spirit, the guidance of God. As the staff is always placed before our foot takes a step, evangelism must be carried out by following God.
The next morning, we covered two more blocks of flats and returned to the church for SuperKids, a weekly programme aimed at nurturing young children to grow closer to God. Singing along and doing actions with them brought back many memories from when I was in Sunday School.
The Evangelistic Outreach, the main event of our mission trip, began in the evening with a few items - we sang a song and performed a skit. This skit posed questions for the people. What is success to us? How do we achieve success? Serene and Sis Mei Lan complimented each other in their testimony and sermon respectively by saying that the secret to success was God. Even if we possess wealth, popularity, or academic qualifications, success would not be complete without Jesus Christ in our lives as we will not be happy.
Not only has this mission trip allowed us to encourage the church in KL, we were encouraged ourselves when we saw the work God had done through them. Praise the Lord for the church, so willing and ever ready to carry out the Great Commission, to go and make disciples of all nations.
Joel.
From left, Me, Jia En, Jun Yuan, Serene, Matthew
We went tracting here!, covered 5 blocks in total
The kids programme, I was supposed to be involved but I was the photographer...
I cant remember if this is after the saturday outreach or sunday service, anyway, food was great!, prepared by the church
Not many photos now, I havent received the rest from Serene, so I cant do nuts about designing the mag page either..
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