Deep in December, Jumping into January
Ying Kheng (left) & Sonia
Roland and I (YK) spoke twelve times – at church, the YMCA, two Christmas parties, four youth camps, our 400-strong campus conference, and a wedding in Hong Kong (where I spoke for Sonia, a staff I’d mentored for years).
Our church also had three days of gospel campaign where we served as counselors. Praise God that 60 persons received Christ.
But it was not all work and no play.
It’s a special privilege
Roland Tan (2nd from left)
It brings us great joy reaching out to teenagers and campus students (this year I spoke 21 times to youth and campus groups). Teaching seminary students at EAST brings with it another kind of satisfaction. Here we mentor people who have already made that commitment to serve Christ. It’s a special privilege to help shape the hands and hearts of these future shepherds, missionaries, and church-planters.
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We felt very grateful
We were not renewing our marriage vows. Just a fun intro to a talk on letting go before we could let others in.
LAST week, Julienne graduated with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts (honors, second upper) degree in Visual Communications. As we watched her walk across the stage to received her degree, we felt very grateful.
That this gentle and talented human being is our child and God’s child.
That our Heavenly Father had provided for all her needs (we had only enough for her first year when she started).
That throughout the four years at NTU, she had lacked nothing: joy in learning, grace through the many lonely nights of projects and computer crashes, and solid Christian friends.
Above all, we are grateful that God has given our daughter a heart to obey Him. Next month, Julienne will spend ten days in Japan to reach out to abused and abandoned children.
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“I’m 31 years old; can I be a baby again?”
For me (YK, 2nd from right), speaking to 100 teachers in two schools. Most of them were non-believers but they listened to my talks attentively. I'm grateful.
Battsenger said, when I (YK) shared the gospel with her.
The manager of the GoldStar Hotel, where we stayed during our 10-day trip in Ulaanbaatar (UB), was my “man of peace” (Luke 10:6).
Every day, she would check if we had enough hot water (temperature between -3°C and 20°C). One evening she prepared for us Indian curry (she’s married to a Pakistani). Another day, she surprised me by doing all my laundry, and at no cost.
Though she didn’t receive Christ through my sharing, I know Battsenger’s salvation is near. “You have something special,” she told me.
When I replied that the “something special” is Jesus in me, she nodded. “Yes, I know,” she said. “My maid, who’s the purest person I’d ever met, has the same thing.”
“She’s also a Christian.”
On our last evening, I introduced Battsenger to Boggii, a local worker who would follow her up. Here’s the amazing thing: when the two women met, they realized they were neighbors 30 years ago in Hovd, a village 1,500km from UB.
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- “I’m 31 years old; can I be a baby again?” (PDF, 700kB)
- Jeremy Chew: Open door for the Word (PDF, 532kB) The Mongolians not only opened their door to welcome the Word of God. They also opened their hearts to us. They received us with warm friendship, food and gifts that were beyond their means. We might have taught them the New Testament, but they showed us how to live it.
10 days in Hong Kong
Julienne's 22nd birthday
The weather was cold, YK had a bad cough, and we were exhausted from a busy season of speaking and teaching. But right from day one, we tasted God’s favor and goodness during the 10 days of ministry in Hong kong. Here’s how: (read full letter).
We enjoyed our time with the HK staff. The young ones loved our stories of the ‘beginnings’; the older ones wanted to know how they could stay fruitful and passionate in ministry. We are very thankful. God loved us so much that He allowed us to serve in HK during the 80s, and now to spend the first week of 2009 with the HK workers, many of whom we feel very close to our hearts.
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