Day 2 / 161109

We met for morning devotion at 0730 Thai time and well it was he 1st time I lead devotion so I was pretty nervous about it. Generally I thought it was ok but lacked alot of control on my part cause Joel was playing and I sang. Then I realise if a worship leader doesn't play an instrument and guide the direction through his instrument, its going to be difficult to lead.

After a heavy breakfast we set off for the tribal village! It took us nearly 4 hours to reach but we generally enjoyed ourselves in the trip chit chatting and playing games at random. Till then it was pretty much a leisure trip.

When we got there I found myself in familiar terrain, the kind that I train in just that a village is there. We went straight to Pastor Arthur's house only to know that he is not only the pastor of the village but also a retired 3 star General(Lieutenant General) of the Myanmar Army. (just in case you didn't know, Singapore only have 1 Lieutenant General)

And so with that our ministry started. We went to the school leaving Aunt Suling and Jie Felicia at the Pastor's place to teach the church elders. The kids were generally shy and had some difficulty warming up to us especially with the language barrier. We played some games and then things got a lot easier with uncle Peter helping us to translate.

Frankly speaking at that time, I thought to myself, language barrier is hindering us from telling them the good news of God, or even sharing a simple message. We can hardly talk to them and it got me kind of frustrated. Perhaps this is not where God wants us to do his work? Let see what God will do to change that mindset.

After the games we went back into the school and did some craft work with them, creating the Lion's mane! And still the setback was the language. Thank God we had uncle Peter all we would really have issues doing anything at all.

Then night came. We went back to the church and again, Aunt Suling taught. This time on the women who had blood issues for 12 years. They did a few performance for us and so we reciprocrated with a simple song of 'Jesus loves me yes I know'. It was later reflected back that they really enjoyed our presence and am encouraged by us.

That night we went back to the Pastor's place and most of us slpt without bathing. =p Anyway the place was so dark that I couldn't even see my hand when its right in front of my eyes. Oh and something happened in the middle of the night which triggered a late night prayer meeting. What a night eh?