Monday, January 11, 2010

End of the hill tribes...onto KL...

In an internet cafe and not sure how long the connection will last so...
Its been amazing the way God worked while in the hill tribes.
The first night we got there we were hoping for a bit of relaxingness, unfortunatly they'd planned for us to do a service with the kids that night so we did a bit of planning. But through it all it was great to see God working in our weakness. Youth came along who the missionaries in the village hadn't seen before in the church. After the service we decided to ask if any boys from the village would like to be in a drama that we were doing in different villages over the next few days. Luckily the drama was on Ephesians 6 and the armour of God so it involved fighting, and once again we/God were able to get the boys who were not even regular church goers to volunteer to participate. Which meant they would sit through a further 2 church services as the gospel was shared as well as getting them involved in Christian stuff which was actually fun. It was a great time as we took them with us and included them. It was a funny sight, riding in the ute behind them seeing them in the ute in front smoking then coughing then throwing up from motion sickness (it was very windey) and laughing about it all!!! We bought them ice creams on the way back from the service today and they loved that too- all 10 of the locals!!!

Other God moments: Chuilian got talking to one of them in the back of the ute who didn't go to church and shared about how life has its problems but God provides purpose, and he listened and asked questions about it too!!!

One of the boys his grandparents are the local witchdoctors but he was still willing to come along and see what the God thing was all about and have fun

Just the way God worked in our weakness.

Yesterday Leonie and Chris had a half day off which was great, although since Leonie started to slow down a little, its all catching up to her a bit so she's a bit under the weather with a cold now, which when combined with really hard beds and still not 100percent sleep, its a bummer.

So most of the team's still pretty tired (I'm fine at the moment- Thanks God) and its starting to show in the interactions within the team, so please pray for grace, wisdom, and an understanding of how we can all work together best. It was great doing kids ministry cause we each found we had a specific purpose, but now as we move to KL, pray that we can also understand what God wants to do with us there. Pray also that we can understand where each other is at, so we can encourage accordingly.

Still confirming if we'll catch up with the MacCartneys, it may just be me, just praying that we can do it the best way to not be a burden to them.

Getting to the tough end of the trip, so prayers are especially appreciated.
Chris