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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Thailand Mission Trip Thanksgiving

Dear Covenantors,

Thank you for your encouragement and prayer support. Because of your prayers, we are so awed and thankful that God showed up in Singburi and Inburi to heal the sick and brokenhearted, and to set the captives free. Quoting Pastor Eng Kiat's, he felt “the Holy Spirit is like a wind moving across the province in the last one week, touching and healing people through the ministry of the mission team.”

We saw for ourselves the fruits of the Covenant Green Shop – a pig farm, a mushroom farm and a fish farm. The initial start up money comes from our own Covenant Green Shop. The pig farm we visited belongs to a woman, called Miw, whose pigs are paid for by the covenant seed fund. She had attempted to commit suicide in the past but was saved by her dog. She contacted the Christian radio station, which linked her to Pastor Eng Kiat. Thanks to the labour of love from Pin Kiat and Gek Hiang and contributions by Covenantors, Miw and other families who received your love gifts are able to start life anew.

We also want to express our appreciation to Covenantors who contributed brand new stationery and cash donations that were given out as gifts to the Thai children and needy families during outreach events and visitations. We met up with the students who are recipients of the Thai Education Fund that was raised from the Sharity Food Fest and contribution from church. All of them are from needy families and had done very well in their studies. One of them was even interviewed by a local TV station for overcoming adversities and coming up top in her studies.

Thanks also to the parents of the young adults who released their children for the mission trip amidst the H1N1 flu. I remember Su Lan (Pastor Derek Hong's wife) declared prophetically during our Jul 09 Burning Bush Service that the young adults are like eaglets ready to take flight. This has indeed come to pass as they soared high during the mission trip by being so open to being used by God so that many lives were healed and impacted through them.

We want to thank the Pastoral staff, Session members and Mission Committee for their magnanimous support in terms of financial contribution and spiritual impartation to the mission team. Special personal thanks to Pastor Keith and Mui Fong for their advice on the planning and preparation for the trip.

And not forgetting the prayer and fasting team who prayed for us. Thanks so much for co-labouring with us during this mission trip. You all are the home HQ for the mission team !

Although we saw the Holy Spirit moved in physical healing and deliverance, God showed us during the trip that many Thai children who are abandoned by parents needed inner healing, many of them rarely have a chance to experience true Fathers love. We need to pray for them to continue to open their hearts and allow our Heavenly Father to touch them with His love.

Though the people we've ministered to will be followed up by Pastor Eng Kiat and the local church members, lets continue to commit them in prayer and stand alongside with them through our prayers!

All Glory, Honor, Praise and with Thanksgiving to God !

Wan Hsi, Eunice, Lydia, Kirstie, Joyce, En Min, Ying Qi, Charissa, Keryn Shi Wei, Alvin, Mark, Clarence, Gabriel, Andrew, Jacob. Henry & Carol

Saturday, July 18, 2009

TMT Photo

Visit to Singburi Church
Hooray!!! We've got a healing!
Chicken Dance led by Andrew

19/07/2009 Saturday

N: Thanks Aunty Ellen for your words of wisdom and everyone else for your support. God is the same in Singapore and Thailand and I believe that God's going to continue being totally awesome and real even after we return. And I too believe that the people 'left behind' will have their OWN incredible, personal stories to share as this is only the beginning as blessing upon blessing, testimony upon testimony will be heaped onto us. Yeah.... hopefully you agree. Having said that, we do not look forward to seeing you all again. Kidding. But I really feel an ache, a sense of loss, that all this is over so soon, because everyday had been so rich in experiences. I really don't know how to start writing as I feel so overwhelmed.

G: Yeah, today was amazing! Just go rest N, today I'll help ya out with this. The Fathers love was really tangible during today's session. From the morning session about knowing how much our Father loves us and Wan Hsi's testimony till the very end, Gods love just kept us going. Anyways, here's what sorta happened: the morning session started with Wan Hsi asking all of us if we knew how much God loves us or that every thought He thinks of us is good (when she asked that, I sorta noticed that quite few hands went up and those that did, did so quite hesitantly). She also noted that we tend to relate God the Father to our earthly fathers, which explains the response to the questions, as Pastor Eng Kiat(PEK) clarified: the Thais relate to their parents with so much reverence that they do not actually have any physical contact at all. The most intimate greeting they have is just the standard bowing with hands together. So in a way, due to their culture, the Thais rarely have a chance to experience true Fathers love. Our job was to pray for them to open their hearts and allow our Heavenly Father to touch them with His love and also to give them a nice BIG hug to enforce that love in their lives.
Then we had a super good thai kuay teow lunch together like a big family! As a person who doesnt take spicy food, I just have to say that even non-spicy thai food is uber. I don't mind eating it everyday even though my choices are quite limited. (time for more chilli training)
Anyways, back to the subject at hand, the afternoon session is a youth camp. about 40 youths from around the region came to attend it. There were little girls and boys, teenagers( there was a group that even looked abit ah beng), adults, and even an adorable little old lady in yellow(shes so cute I can still remember her smile). for the adult session, Wan Hsi shared her testimony about how God always hears us when we call upon Him and Uncle Henry(UH) and PEK stood in as proxy fathers to the thais; that was an AWEsome session.
UH and PEK filled the breach by being fathers to the thais for that moment, in which the thai people could release themselves from the hurts of not having felt a fathers love. In the words of UH himself, and I quote: the thai people really released forgiveness to their fathers, some of them even asked: Why were you not there for me when I needed you? Where were you? One of the girls said: "I've not seen you father, I've wanted to see you, I've always wanted a father like everyone else." One of the men, Sayang (yes thats his name), said: "I'm sorry dad, that I hit you when I got angry at you." Another woman, who was abandoned twice by her natural father and then by her step father, said: "I'm angry at you father, why did you leave me all by myself?" The Holy Spirits presence was so strong and the stories and words were so heart wrenching that UH and PEK wept openly while asking for forgiveness from the people and for a prayer of blessing from our Heavenly Father over their earthly fathers. At the same time, the team also went around and hugged and comforted the thai people and prayed for them. The Holy Spirit's presence was so sososo tangible right then, that even whilst ministering to the thais, some of the team also burst into tears when our Wonderful Father touched their hearts and released forgiveness and healing to their own hurts. How amazing and beautiful our God is! Personally, this is the most important day to me in the whole trip. The past 7 days, we mostly prayed and moved in physical healing and deliverance, but today, God moved in the spirits of the people and showed us what He meant in His word when He said we are of one spirit. What an amazing family we have in Jesus!
Before dinner, we all really needed to recharge and since it was our last day, it was time for IMPARTATION! Recharge + Impartation = FIRE TUNNEL
the whole team formed a tunnel as best as we could in the small area we had, and all the people present walked through it. (remember the "ah beng" teenagers I mentioned earlier? well as it turns out, looks can be deceiving and they participated in all the previous ministry and even waited their turn to enter the fire tunnel) Every single one was prayed for. Some of us were knocked down by the power of the Holy Spirit and Wan Hsi was so filled with the spirit she couldn't find the strength to get up for dinner! But after going through it we were all restored and it felt so goooood!
After the ministry time, we had another super duper thai dinner, brown sweet soup with rice, pork ribs and meatballs! ROCKS. A-ROY to the MAX.
Well, I took so long to type all this that everyone's like already resting. so I think this is where I'll sign off today. See you all tomorrow back at home!


The interview

All right. Yeah. For today we have an interview with the main man, the incredible PASTOORR ENG KIAT!! Uncle H felt that a 'outside' pespective would be great and would be an excellent input. So here goes:
(Actually, this sort of ended up as a conversation. Poor Joyce... she was really copying down points frantically as we chatted. You go girl!! Since we copied down points first, this ain't ad verbatim)

Q: So how different is this trip compared to others before us? (not that we wanna rank and judge, but it really was different)
Pastor Eng Kiat: For previous trips, focus was on going to schools to teach English and just inviting students for evangelism. For this trip, we went through a typical week of a missionary's life.

Q: How are your feelings for the past 7 days?
Pastor Eng Kiat: This was a typical week for me, so its not very tiring, except for the movement as team size was around 25-30 so takes more time and coordination. (We were all super tired at the end of every day, and that's a typical week for him!!)
I find it refreshing from my point of view and actually energized rather than tired and drained. I felt the Holy Spirit is like a wind moving across the province in the last one week, touching and healing people through the ministry of the team. I also felt encouraged to press in with my walk with God, and minister in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Q:What's next?
Pastor Eng Kiat: The people were already there, but the trip has encouraged me to move more in the Holy Spirit and in faith. Like healing the sick and casting out demons. I also learnt how to minister to the people so that they can be served more effectively, such as areas like physical and inner healing. Whether the church is conservative or charismatic, these works still need to be done. From time to time, we come across people who need deliverance. Most families are actually dysfunctional and has to be ministered to (inner healing). Lastly, I feel encouraged to equip the members of the church to move in the supernatural.

Uncle Henry: We really want to see Christians here move in miracles, signs and wonders. That's why we arranged a prayer fire tunnel on the last day for impartation of the healing anointing to the church leaders and workers. There is no secret formula to healing, God is the one who use our hands to heal. I believe that something takes place in the spiritual realm during impartation. The healing anointing that was imparted to us by other healing revivalists would also be imparted to the leaders here. I would be passing Eng Kiat some Bill Johnson, Kris Valloton and Derek Prince books and CDs to help him in equipping the church members.

Q:What growth did you see in the TMT team?
Pastor Eng Kiat: Majority of them has came before when they were kids. They were young and needed a lot of guidance and constant encouragement and enthusiam. But now, they're here like ministers, who could take the lead on their own. Many of them testified that they encountered God, which stirred up their faith level and made them realise that there's more to life than living for self. Looking back, its more like a partnership. Members of my church grew alongside with the TMT teams. If there was no TMT that year, it felt quieter. The Thais love TMT too. It's such a joy and annual celebration when it happens.
Every team that comes believes that God would work powerfully in the Thai spiritual life. The Thais have high respect for the team because they feel that we are empowered to evangelize, and they believe that God has great plans for them and would use them in various ways. In fact, I don't even need to send out invitations for mission trips. Teams always offer to come first. I'm glad to be a contributing part of the TMT.

There you have it! Directly from the horses mouth! HAHA!

Friday, July 17, 2009

18/07/09 Friday

J: WHAM PACKED ACTION, anyone wants some? Back from ANOTHER day of more works of healing and deliverance, armed with more testimonies! Ready?

N: Thanks for passing the buck. All right. It seems that everyday is getting more and more incredible. Loads of testimonies. Which means that we have to work our off tonight. Ok. We had another action packed deliverance this afternoon. Super intense man. We prayed for some lady who used to be a witchdoctor. Aiya...the story is sooo long. So just ask any of us when we return. Anyway, to cut things short, she got violent - very violent. Even Neo got owned. But Wan Hsi bounded the spirits in her and cast it out. And she renounced all ties with the spirit of the dead 'monk' who controlled her. Epic battle and don't fret, we are feeling better than ever. we also learnt the important of worship during deliverance; the demons in her didn't like it at all when we started to worship, then she manifested.

J: The team was split into two today, one that went to pray for the witchdoctor, while the rest went on to do their children program :) After a victory won by Jesus, we moved on to have cell group at a church which was known to be called "mozziesland" by the experienced Thailand mission trippers. There we had a sumptous dinner and a sharing session on Faith by Mark. It spoke deep into what we were about to do again later, after his sharing.

We all thought we could leave after cell group before everything started, but was told that people had already come to receive prayers today. One of the most presence of God was felt today, where Alvin made a prayer that they'll be no bugs/insects/mosquitoes to be of any hindrance and it came true! We were spared from being blood doners as compared to any of the previous days. It was really cool cause when we asked Supanee/Arunee, they said the place was usually swarmed with insects/mozzies.

N: Aye. God really watches over us. Cool thing is that Wan Hsi wasn't with us as she was busy preapring for tomorrow's discipleship lesson, so we were like without our most pro member. But miracles still happened. All glory to God! Ok, Uncle H, Clarence and Neo prayed for this woman who was the mother of Sayang (+10 pts if you know who Sayang is) . Anyway, she had leg problems and couldn't lift her feet; she needed the aid of a walking stick. Anyway, we prayed for her and then she could walk without aid of her walking stick. And she had a 'physio' session under Uncle H. Haha.

Ok. We have yet another guest writer. She's covenant's very own DS lite. You should see her during deliverance and healing sessions. Super fierce.

EM: Try picturing a woman with facial expression that resembles that of a tree trunk- motionless, unresponsive and stoned. Her face was powdered white and her eyes were blood shot. Scared and shocked were what we felt when we first saw her. Anyway, Andrew, Joyce and I took a step of faith and prayed for her. She was such a promblematic woman, I tell you. Firstly, she wakes up confused every morning. She also had irregular heartbeat, partial blindness, a crack in her hip bone which caused her to walk with a limp and lastly, she is HIV positive. After inviting the presence of God and casting out some spirits (eg. spirit of confusion, spirit of blindness, spirit of unforgiveness, spirit of numb) her face flushed back with colour. We prayed for her blindness thereafter and she is able to see clearly now. We healed the blind! We also prayed for the crack in her hip bone and God was amazing. He removed the pain and she started walking normally again. God solved her problems! She left with a smile.

Anyways, there's like quite a few more testimonies, all of them amazing, plus countless photos. But that's all for today. Reason is simple: its 3.30 am. We'll be happy to tell you more when we get back. Tomorrow's another busy day. Last burst of fire. Woot!


TMT Return Flight details

TR103, ETA S'pore 11.45am
Shi Wei, Jacob, Kirstie, Gabriel, Lydia, Andrew, Joyce

TR105, ETA S'pore 4pm
Henry, Carol, Ah Bi, Eunice, Mark, Clarence, Wan Hsi, En Min, Alvin, Charissa

Thursday, July 16, 2009

17/07/09 - Thursday

J: Back once again! Thank you Aunty Ellen for all your lovely compliments, heh, it is an honour having devoted fans over on this blog, one like you:) It keeps us going, since all these conversations are reported fresh after our debriefs. It takes some discipline!

Today's main topic, we'll be sharing testimonies! If you all don't know that sharing testimonies does act as a form of release of power of Jesus! Hope this will encourage and spur the many of you others, into this walk of faith into the supernatural!

N: I think Neo appeals to younger demographics than Aunties. So if you find him to be amazing, then good for you :) Anyways ...... YeeeaaaaaooOOWWW!! Sorry, just wanted to get that off my chest. Incredible day!! For parents who are reading this blog, YOUR kids are doing really doing some amazing stuff in Thailand and the Holy Spirit is really working miracles through them. C'mon, don't just secretly read through this blog, support them by sending encouraging posts in the tagboard or something. Everyone is in the thick of the action, ALL of us.

Ok. Let me begin. We had a soaking session in the morning because uncle H and auntie C felt that we needed refreshing and rest. We were supposed to do visitation in the morning too but instead, we 'slacked' around in Pastor Eng Kiat's house. Most of us fell asleep, we were that tired. But I think we were ministered to in our own way.

In the afternoon, we went to a man's house. He is a recent convert and has been suffering from serious itch all over his body for around 1 year. We removed idols from his house and even performed a communion and 'baptism' on him. But no really obvious healing happened to him. Some of us were rather disappointed. But that doesn't mean that God's presence isn't with us. We held on to his promise and amazing stuff were to follow.

J: Simultaneously, there was another prayer going on for a lady, who had HIV for the past 10 years, was blind and had numb feet for 7 years. Having numb feet would mean that she couldn't wear her footwear, just by slipping her feet onto them. She always required the aid of her hands. But after prayers, HALLELUJAH + PRAISE THE LORD, she could finally, place her feet onto her flops without much aid of her hands. It does make me realise how often a time, we tend to take things for granted daily. That's just part of the awesomeness of the happenings today, let's have a guest writer today to show you some more power!

C: eh! why did i suddenly get an arrow shot at me? hello. how do i start? well as you just read, i was like praying for that lady with the HIV, i was actually quite stunned *ZOHMUG* by the way she had reacted, she totally leapt! imagine seeing an adult shout and scream, she was so overjoyed like a kid receiving a coolest present! even our reaction of joy, seemed so watered down! she was literally shouting "KHOP KHRUN PHRAJAO!" over and over! translated just simply means, THANK YOU GOD! it was awesome my first miracle i prayed for. my trip has been just simply AWESOMELY AWESOME! =) haha! on a side note, everyone's getting FATTER! THE FOOD, SOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOD!~ and HOT HOT HOT HOT SWEET SWEET SWEET SWEET AND SALTY SALTY! hopefully not salty from perspiration due to the fanatically hot weather! erh Joyce, Neo! SAVE ME! i'm overkillin'

N: Yeah .... Thanks C. Keep this up and i'll totally be replaced. Anyways, its 1 down and SEVEN more testimonies with us. Stay with us ... this is like LoTR, super draggy but totally EPIC!! Plus the protaganists in here are far better looking. Next up. We had a children's club and concert at Thong En. But it sort of ended up as a healing session. Uncle H mentioned that everywhere we go, regardless of the programme, we always end up doing healing and deliverance. After the concert, we prayed for a couple of people who stayed back. We prayed for the landlord of the place who had pain in his knees. He was a non-Christian. After the prayer, he stood out and felt no pain there. BAM!! for extra effect. Then he accepted Christ, just like that.

(meanwhile, another guest comes in)
JAC: So far everything is just awesome and it just and incredible and great. Everyday i am just suprised by what God can do when we go out in full battle to heal and minster to the people. It's really an experince to see and experience God's healing power first hand. All in all, i anticipate what God will do everytime we go visitation and heal the sick.

N: Way to go, JAC! Anyways, a few of us also prayed for another lady, who had a multitude of maladies. It was 3 of us versus the horde of diabetes and kidney problems, hypertension/high cholestrol(normal is ~200, hers was 500!), numbness in right arm, headaches and heaviness on back. But our cause was just: the lady was actually supposed to go to the hospital today as the village clinic told her that she was in trouble, but she had faith in the living God and that he would heal her, so she came for our 'concert' instead. haha...pressure sia. But again, its not who we are, but who we fight for. As we prayed continously for her(it was a rather long 'session') , she started to feel better. Her arm slowly gained strenght and feeling, and her heart, which used to beat very fast, started to beat at a normal rate (Lydia prayed that her heartbeat whould be 1 with God). Also, she felt the heaviness being lifted off her. We were advancing inch by inch, until her body was completely reclaimed and redeemed in the name of Jesus.

J: Another thing to note of, was that all the prayers were going on at the same time. The only thing that was different was the time it took for the healing to take place, which was really cool, and it made the entire area felt like a healing clinic. I finally realised what it was like back in those days of the bible, of having healing sessions at homes and it feels like we yaggers were writing history. A room conducted by all of us, for the first time! HISTORY MAKERS (of course glory goes to God once again)

En Min, Joyce, Uncle H prayed for this woman who had back pains due to an error of a doctor who was drawing her marrow and in addition, felt giddy and at times get so bad that she would black out. Asking for the presence of the Lord to come, she bent her back after receiving prayer and no longer felt pain in which she would normally do. We all squealed in joy for her healing and would also believe that her giddy spells is a thing of the past too :)

N: Nice. Sweet. There was the land lady, who wasn't a Christian. Andrew, Clarence and Jacob started off the prayer for her. She had diabetes, hypertension, numbness in hands and backache. At first they felt that she didn't really understand what was going and she couldn't really experience the healing presence of God. But they persisted, like true warriors. Haha. And kept on persisting as she slowly improved, especially as sensation slowly returned to her hands. As for her back pain, Aunty Carol got a 'download' that it could be due to uneven leg length. That was something she didn't know but when we stretched out her legs to compare them, it did seem that her right leg was slightly longer than her left. After constant prayer, we compared them again. They appeared to be the same length. WOW.

J: Here's another lady who had headaches, giddiness and high cholestrol levels who felt better after prayers. She was asked to open her hands to receive the blessings and she said it felt warm and there was a sensation that moved from the movement of hands pulling to currents flowing through her. Now how cool is that?

(AC walks into the room...)
AC: This lady with frozen shoulders and breathing difficulties. Eunice, Mark and myself prayed for her a few times and erh.. she started smiling and like she was very happy and erh, her shoulder pain was almost gone and she started dancing and moving her shoulders and that her breathing difficulties were gone! After that Pastor Eng Kiat shared the gospel with her and she comitted her life to Christ. Aint it AWESOME?

N: Thanks AC. Seriously, no one is safe from my arrows. I'm totally on a shooting spree. Ok, next up, M.

M: I am so gonna kill Neo in Telunas. haha! Ok i just want to give thanks for Gods work being done in this Uncle (around 60 years old?). I was thrown into the deep end when I was the only 1 person available to pray for this man. I was very nervous as I never prayed alone before. But, this has reminded me that its not me but God who does the work. =D The man was suffering from breathing difficulty, and knee pains. In Jesus name, both sickness left him and I could just see that joy being shown through that straight face of his haha. I just thank God for showing me full healing for all that I prayed for! To God be the glory! (Ty Aunty Ellen, if your reading this, just want to let you know I am fine and coping well here!Thank you! )

N: Yeah, Mark is awesome. He can make a totally random girl at a petrol station fall for him in 3 seconds. just by saying some words. Respect.

J: Alright man, so much so for all the guest writers today! We're gonna be reverting back to the usual writing style tomorrow again, so savour today's entry! We'll be back! *winks winks* All glory be to the Lord who has been so amazing today, causing our faith to rise and opening our eyes to even more of this walk in the supernatural! Go preach the word and heal the sick, may God's presence be with us wherever we go, and thank you all for all your prayers! See, it works! Never underestimate the power of prayers, though wer're miles apart.