A hazy Tuesday...

Yesterday, our mission team had lunch at Dong Hoon's place in Bayswater, Gelugor. Since he's from Korea, he cooked us simple yet authentic Korean fare, with the most mouth-watering kimchi ever, he had made from scratch! It was so yummy, I tell you!

We met his beautiful wife and 2 lovely daughters. The 10-year-old one stayed in her room, doing her school homework (after she had served us), whilst the 3-year-old one sat quietly with us at the table throughout lunch, looking so adorable in her cotton frock... listening intently to our conversations in English although she couldn't understand a word. Then of course, she'd randomly babble something Korean-sounding to her dad - and we'd be swooning at her cuteness! :) What a well-mannered child. She did not once get off her chair (the piano stool) to run around - and we had been seated there for 2-3 hours straight.... um, talking about crocodiles.

Why crocodiles? Well, to begin with, it was a great time of fellowship and planning for the up-coming mission trip to Sabah this month. We will be spending 3 days in Sandakan, then 3 nights and 4 days at a jungle village/settlement on the outskirts of Lahad Datu, where there will be river crocodiles and pythons! What an adventure!:P Nobody is planning to bathe in the yellow river whilst we are there (least of all our Korean team-mates - Joseph kept mentioning the nightmare he had last week - the one of the crocodile - and it was kinda traumatizing, I gather), so I guess we will be stocking up on the wet-wipes and hand sanitizers, as well as sulphur. Then of course a good shower and hair-wash the day before we leave!:P I plan to revise some first-aid stuff from my Oxford Handbook before I go - just in case - if there is time!:P

It will be intensive work but fun too, I believe! This will be also my first ministry trip to somewhere across the seas to speak to adolescent girls (Christian youth) about self-image and eating disorders. I always feel that to transform a community - you need to first start with the people of God, who would then make a difference as salt and light in the place they live and work in. Some people once made that difference in my life (pretty much broken by EDs back then), and today, I'd like to continue that work in the lives of young women I will meet! Although it is a pretty small group, I am a great fan of small beginnings - and I believe, God would in His time, open more doors for more ministry in this area, as He had promised 5 years ago. Praise God for bringing me this far.

Thank God He brought me some provisions this month - that will help me cover those extra expenses! :) Thank You, Lord.

Above: Our host, getting out the silver chopsticks - which I found doubly hard to use, because I don't have the right technique of holding them - even after all these years!

Today, it's back to planning that church-plant. I hope this will come into good use some day!