Journeying with the pre-believers

Wai Ling (front row, 2nd from right) with International Student Ministry staff & students

I am enjoying my ministry very much and often I feel that I am on a mission trip every week when I meet students of different nationalities. Missions is really right at our door step! I personally had the privilege of leading 6 Chinese girls to Christ. I am able to connect and relate to the Chinese pretty well but when it comes to sharing Christ with the South East Asia students I lack confidence. I realized that there is so much to learn in sharing Christ ‘cross-culturally’. I need to understand the background of these students and how they are influenced by their upbringing, cultural and educational systems. If I don’t understand their worldviews it would be difficult to engage in a meaningful spiritual conversation with them at the heart level. Read more

To bare my heart before God

Whenever I go for my personal retreat, I would usually have an agenda in mind on the things and issues I want to talk to God about; to process through those thoughts and to seek His guidance. The recent retreat was a few days before our International Student Ministry (ISM) staff planning. I was asking God to tune my heart to hear His direction for this ministry but God changed the entire course … He was dealing with my heart rather than my work. As I was listening to a song, tears kept flowing and I realized that I was going through a period of loneliness mixed with frustrations in my re-entry back to Singapore. My age and stage of life contributed to a different and unique set of needs I have. It was good to bare my heart before God and to allow Him to bring comfort to my heart. I still have my concerns but I feel relieved because I have left those burdens at the feet of Christ. There is one thing I brought home from the retreat — God is the STRENGTH of my heart. Please pray that I will be patient and allow God to teach me new things as I walk with Him in this transition journey.

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