TMT 10 Day 3

Greetings from Thailand again!

We have much to thank God for today, without Him our plans would be pretty much ruined. When we were going to start the evangelistic concert at the Inburi Rice Mill today, the sky was pretty much overcast and grey. We definitely thought that it was going to rain. Okay, that’s exaggerating it abit.

Photo : Children's English Club

As a city kids we are pretty sure some were totally oblivious, but the aunties there were commenting that it would rain. And they are usually correct. So we had to pray against rain.

Photo : Open heavens at Inburi

After all, God ever stopped the sun in the sky, so why not the rain right?

The rain actually did not start until, as Shaun would emphasize, when he packed up the last mat on the ground. It was pretty cool considering when we turned to our left, we could see lightning bolts streaking across the sky and when we turned to our right, we could also see flashes of lightning. But our area was totally protected. Cool huh.

Photos: Scenes from the concert

In addition, the distractions that happened during our evangelistic concert did not affect the response to our concert much. There were cars driving through our “stage” and two kids on bikes who, in my opinion, should never ever be let within touching distance of anything that can move faster than 1 km/h. It was almost as if we were filming the “Stop and Stare” MV. We are thankful that many responded during our call for ministry.

We also are very thankful for the ministry time. We went there as ministers, but ended up as the ministered. A grandmother shared that her kidney was miraculously healed after the doctor told her that she has no chance of living, and that her wayward daughter appeared the morning after the remaining family were painfully crying out to God the night before; their faithfulness of the Thai people really blew us away and definitely humbled us. We seem to be reaping the harvest where others already seeded. Hmm this sounds strange, we’re definitely not any good with agricultural metaphors considering that we have never ever done anything like that before, but we really hope you get what we are saying. This is when we are again reminded that this is not accomplished by our own power, but by God’s grace. And that we definitely should not boast in our own works, but if we should boast, we should boast of the salvation of God. Haha, don’t have bible now, so quoting it from memory. Please forgive if it’s not word for word.

We met Air, a middle-aged man who is a faithful member of the church. Air had suffered an accident 20 years ago, resulting in back pain. The pain recurred recently when he exerted his back while working. Daryl, Vanessa, Keith, Peilin and Eunice prayed for him, twice because the pain lifted the first time but did not completely dissipate. During the second round of prayer, the team members felt various manifestations of the Spirit - heat, warmness, a breeze - but we were all sure that the Spirit's presence was strong. Later, Air himself told us that he felt a heat on his back, and he knew that the Spirit was filling him. However, there was still residual pain. Eunice felt the Lord say that He wanted to heal him completely there and then, so we continued to pray for the residual pain when the opportunity arose. After one simple prayer, his back was completely healed and the pain totally gone. We were very encouraged, not just by the healing, but by the knowledge that the Spirit was so tangible and present, aiding us in ministry. Yet we were reminded that it was not by our strength that Air was healed; he himself had rock-solid faith that God was going to heal him and had been praying and requesting prayer for healing. God has brought us the harvest and we are merely his workers who reap in joy.

Lastly, we are thankful for the unity that God has granted us. We have been working really well in different capacities to bring about a single goal, as we have mentioned earlier. Again it was demonstrated at the children’s club at Inburi Rice Mill, where we had the main session,

Photo: Football ministry

a side football session for the older teenage boys, and a … running about session for the very young. This is where we see the flexibility of trippers to take on initiatives they were not briefed about, and also, that football is a universal language. Not maths nor music.

Oh yea, not forgetting, “Aachan” Henry is way better! Yay! Please continue praying for complete recovery. And we are also thankful for the wonderful beef ball noodles we had today! And chendol! And big bags of coke that appear whenever we feel exceptionally hot and thirsty. And the mosquitoes have been quite unsuccessful so far J

Okay, prayer requests:

1. Energy and recovery for the next day. It may seem we are eating loads to keep our energy up, but honestly speaking, many seem to be pretty fatigued physically.
2. God to work mightily, and that we would be humble yet powerful servants for him
3. Whatever you have been praying, it is working haha, so continue please =)

Louisa, Daryl n Eunice(guest reporter)

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TMT 10 Day 2

Hey all,

Today, we would be reporting from two different points of view, so that we will present a report that is comprehensive and not gender biased.

Firstly, from Louisa:

We started off this Sunday by doing what all good Christians do, which is to head for church. Except that we visited two churches instead of the usual one. In the morning, we headed for Dachang Church, a rather well-established church under Pastor Eng Kiat’s watchful eye. Here, we decided to hold an “Encounter with God” session for the adult session, and the children’s ministry as per normal. We had three different stations, namely prophetic painting, feet-washing and a gift station. Even though many of us seemed tired in the beginning, we went with anticipation that God will work marvelously through us. And indeed, He showed up!

At the prophetic painting station, people were ministered to as the painters prophesied directly into people’s lives through the use of drawings. Fear at first reigned as the painters were wondering if they had enough time to think of drawings, or if their drawings in fact passed the grade of being understandable. However, through the many styles that the painters employed (and the help of our very capable thai translators, perhaps more so of this than anything else), the paintings were understood!

Peilin shared a testimony of where she was suddenly prompted by Uncle Henry to draw for someone in the congregation that God wants to speak to. Being the well-trained people who always “tio” arrows shot by Uncle Henry, she obediently followed his orders and drew a pink flower. She didn’t know what to draw, but then she got another image which there was a stairway to heaven (no reference intended to the Korean hit show by the way). She was still trying to figure out the interpretation when she was inspired during the sermon by Uncle Henry to colour the background pink.

The congregation at first had two pink shirted ladies in it, and she worried which one the picture was meant for. In fact, at first, she was eyeing the pink lady in front (This shows that perhaps we should all sit in the front rows so that we will be targeted by prophets first) But, I’ve learnt that sometimes in God’s plan we should just act first and let God worry about stuff for you J. God solved it easily by causing the pink lady at the back to start weeping. So of course, the obvious candidate was her. Turned out that she was going through a very trying time as her husband was ill and she assumed the role of sole breadwinner. Well, the interpretation was that she was the pink flower and that the glory of God is shining and will sustain her. She was touched definitely, and really, a prophetic act was done that Peilin has spoken into her life and encouraged her! Praise the Lord!

As God is a thorough God, he also sent Kushasta to cover the base of praying and prophesying to the husband. It is indeed amazing how God works, how He uses us as different parts of a team to accomplish His one good will. There are many other great great testimonies to be shared, but I cannot continue to “luo suo” here and deprive others of their ability to hone their storytelling skills.

After the session was over, we had some real delicious Phad Thai and thought everything for Dachang was done and dusted. Just as a random side note to all moms out there, we are eating really well and probably will reach back like the seven fat calves that came out from the Nile in Daniel’s dream. However, Auntie Anong suddenly suggested we go and pray for this old lady that was deaf in both ears. So we did. As she sat down, more people who were partially deaf joined the old lady. One was deaf in the right ear, one who wasn’t that sure and one who had knee problems (this seems like a motley bunch, on hindsight, but I’m sure God put them all together for a reason :D) Here, we managed to experience our first healing of the deaf, where the guy who was deaf in the right ear experienced a “popping” in ear and from then, he was completely healed. God is really good! In addition, the woman with knee problems was healed of her pain and she could walk without pain after that! Deaf down, lame down, just blind to go J Okay, just joking but that will be a good prophesy yes? We are so thankful that God released His healing grace so much today, it was not that our prayers were super intensive or powerful or what not, as we actually uttered short and simple prayers but once God moves, and heaven invades earth, miracles will take place! Yay!

After that, we went over to the Thanpraporn Church. One thing amazing I have noticed about the Thai people is that they are so crazy for God that they attend two services sometimes. Cannot really imagine doing such a thing haha. Oh yea, about Thanpraporn Church, is the place that I went there on TMT like eons ago to pray for it that God will work in that place and build a church up. Heartening to see that prayer actually coming true, so those on my mission trip, BE ENCOURAGED! Here, we conducted the Children’s Ministry and sat into the adult’s ministry. We are grateful that God doesn’t neglect the young ones, and that He somehow managed to get them to sit down and listen to our lesson about David and Goliath and the armour of God without being restless. The children especially seemed to enjoy the fact that they could bring back their very own “shield of faith” and “sword of the spirit”. Thank God for His good work for all ages.

In addition, Thanpraporn also saw another healing, where Daryl and Enting prayed for a lady with knee problems. After prayer, she started looking very happy. Wondering what was going on, they tried asking if she felt better. She answered by *drum roll* stamping her feet on the floor! Haha, could not ask for a more comprehensive answer right? She could again walk without pain! PTL! That is a short snippet, I’ll let Daryl add in his testimony.

We had dinner and after that a short cell group, where Devi shared a very inspiring testimony. I recommend everyone to grab a copy of her CD heh heh.

Today was definitely a most fruitful day, with many members stepping up and taking up their destinies as warriors for God. Isn’t it just great that we hear of so many new people accomplishing stuff they never thought they could do? I personally have seen so many people discovering their true identities, and all I can do is thank God for His transforming power in our lives. I do believe that TMT is a place where we ourselves are ministered to such a great extent, I fervently believe no one is going to come back the same ever. God is such a great God, when He tells us to be strong and brave; He definitely backs us up with His legions of angels and His Almighty power! And of course, His great loveJ

Okay after my very long ramble, some prayer pointers would include:

1. That God will continue blessing our work and that we would continue discovering our identities personally
2. Pray for our safety and health
3. That the space on the song tiao will be multiplied haha.

Daryl : Feelings of the healing at tamparapon. I was kind of a skeptic of this healing thingamajig, nonsense I might have called it. But after this one experience, my mind is blown right out of the water (or cerebrospinal fluid).

Having always thought that I knew it all, experienced it all, God just showed me that he can heal too, yes, heal. Anyway, making my rounds with the camera opened my organic apertures to a whole new world, allowed me to see unbelievable sights and accorded me indescribable feelings.

So I was hovering around the AIRCON ROOM, with the camera and the people praying, they were, Uncle Henry, Devi and Peilin. So I decided to chip in whatever I could afford, considering the immense weight of the DSLR in my hands. I gingerly raised my hands toward the old lady and just prayed a simple “Lord, Heal her leh….” , felt a warm sensation in my hands and hovered around somemore. Deep in my heart I knew that something cool was about to happen, but I maintained my skeptic, objective, scientific ways, just to see what happens.

The old lady, SUPPOSEDLY in pain, STOOD UP and WALKED around as if she was part of a healthy lifestyle programme commercial by the Health Promotion Board in Singapore. AMAZING. AND as if that was not enough, she kicked the ground with that hurt foot/leg. KICKED THE GROUND! Obviously, Joy emanated from her face. God’s Joy. God’s Glory. God’s efficiency. No fuss, NO GST!!!!. FREE OF CHARGE. GOD IS GOOD.

So far (2 days have passed), God has accorded me the privilege of witnessing 2 miracles. 1) WATCHING THE WORLD CUP HERE IN THAILAND and 2) HEALING AND GOD TOUCHING LIVES. Which is more significant? I’ll leave that to you.

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TMT 10 Day 1

Hello all,

we have reached Singburi, Thailand and have settled in very well at Pastor Eng Kiat's place. Everything has been very smooth flowing thankfully. The goodie bags for the events and camps have been packed and the atmosphere is wonderful. Morale of the group is high and the joy is overflowing if i might add.

Today, we had lunch under the same golden arches as the previous TMT team en route to Ps Eng Kiat's place.

Scenes of jubilation ensued after the customary introductions and greetings amongst the group, tears of joy could be seen on Daniel's and Keith's faces, as high fives and congratulatory hugs went around, UPON finding out that we would be able to WATCH THE WORLD CUP!!!!!! GOD IS GOOD!!!!! Daniel subsequently went on his knees in all gratitude, well okay, not all of that is true, BUT hey it came close, quite close, somewhat close...


In other news, riding in the Song teow brought back fond memories for a lot of the team that came previously and we managed to find a Tesco to procure the necessary supplies for the rest of the trip.

The team would like to thank:

1)Everyone that came to send us off at the airport

2)All your continuous prayers for us

Prayer requests:

1) Pray for good health for all members

2) Pray for a smooth day tomorrow

3)Follow the extensive and rather exhaustive prayer list:)


Do keep Tabs on our progress. Next update tomorrow. We believe that God WILL show up!


on behalf of the TMT 10,

Daryl & Louisa

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YA TMT '10 Prayer Requests

Covenant Presbyterian Church Young Adult (YA) Mission Trip to Central Thailand 3- 11 July 2010 Itinerary

Sat 3 July Departure from T1 (FD 3502) – ETD 10.55am Team Prayer and Preparation Sun 4 July Tachang Church Worship Service Thanpraporn Church Worship Service (Bangrachan) Mon 5 July Children’s Club at Inburi Rice-Mill Evangelistic Concert at Inburi Rice-Mill Tue 6 July Visitation at Tachang Children’s Club at Wat Yai Soi Cell-Group at Wat Yai Soi Wed 7 July Visitation at Singburi Treasure Hunt/Tracting/making contact with youths at Bangrachan

Thu 8 July Visitation at Inburi & Thong En Visitation at Sawaeng Ha Evangelistic Concert at Sawaeng Ha Cell-Group at Sawaeng Ha Fri 9 July Visitation at Bangrachan Cell-group at Sa Jaeng Village, Bangrachan English Outreach Camp at Thanpraporn Church (Day 1) Cell-Group at Sanamchai Village Sat 10 July English Outreach Camp at Thanpraporn Church (Day 2) Sun 11 July Flight to Singapore (FD 3501) – ETA 10.25am

MISSION TEAM PROFILE

19 young adults and Henry; the two team leaders are Shi Wei and Andrew, and the rest of the team members are Shaun, Charissa, En Ting, Keith, Louisa, Vanessa, En Xuan, Bella, Ben, Daryl, Pei Lin, Emelyne, Devi, Janelle, Eunice, Daniel and Kusha.

PRAYER POINTERS

Pray for Thailand

· The hearts of the people in Thailand be ready to meet and encounter God

· The churches will be refreshed by the team’s ministry

· God will meet his Church in Thailand and the darkness be lifted off Thailand

· May God make this land of smiles become a land of Joy and happiness in Jesus.

· Break the chains that bind and seal off God’s blessings for his people in Thailand , May God flood the nation of Thailand with his LOVE

Pray for the Team

· Pray that the joy of the Lord will prevail amongst the team members, and that their joy and smiles will be so contagious that it will be imparted to the local people.

· Pray that there will be such a strong bonding to one another and everyone will be close to one another as one big family.

· Pray that we will be like the most disciplined army, not consumed with self or seeking recognition, but rather be united and able to move in harmony so that we will be effective against the enemy.

· Pray that we’ll be as adequately prepared for the programme, and also be flexible to adapt to the changes which would inevitably arise.

· Pray for wisdom for the team, especially the leaders, to make the right decisions at crunch time.

Pray for Individual Team Members

· For this period before we leave, many of the trippers have taken to prayer and fasting to consecrate ourselves to minister to the Thais

· Pray that the Thailand Mission Trip will be an extraordinary God-experience for every team member.

· Pray that everyone in the mission team will be used mightily by God as a channel to release His love and healing to the people that we meet.

· Protection for the Team - From the Commando Mosquitoes, Injuries, while traveling on the song-thaew from village to village.

· Good Rest, Good Health & Good Energy to carry out the planned programme, visitations to churches & ministry time.

Pray for a powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit

· Pray that the Holy Spirit will once again move like a wind across the province in the next nine days, touching and healing people through the ministry of the mission team members.

· Pray that the team will put their trust and dependence on the Holy Spirit and in faith release healing for the sick and deliverance for those who are oppressed. In Mark 1:32-34, 3:7-11, 6:53-56 and Matthew 4:23-25, 8:16-17 when Jesus’ ministry was accompanied by healing and exorcism, the people were amazed at “the newness of Jesus' teaching and authority.

· Pray that there will be a powerful Baptism of Love and Baptism of Power by the Holy Spirit for the Team and the Thai people.

· Pray for God’s presence to be so real and tangible to the entire team through the revelation of the Holy Spirit.

· Pray that the team will be sensitive to the Holy Spirit’s prompting.

We are thankful to our God and thank you Covenantors for your loving support !!

Henry Wong

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