This's year mission trip theme is One Choice, One Way, One God.
I thank God for everyone who helped make this trip possible. Firstly will be all your prayers before and during the trip. Secondly would be supporting our fund-raising. We started off with a few of us not able to go for the trip due to financial constraint. To me I believe that if your heart is willing to go, money shouldn’t be the concern. So I prayed and really ask God to provide for the youths and that is when we had our fund raising. And to my surprise, we had enough money to cover all our expenses there. Thank God for providing us with the money.
We had 10 youths with Pastor Rebecca for this trip. We had a tight schedule this year and were traveling from place to place. We went to 2 new places, Leyte and Camotes. We were involve in worship service lead by Shiyi, Charissa, Gladys, Joshua & Pearlyn. The children’s ministry was handled by Pearlyn, Sherryn, Gladys, Ian & Glendon. We attended a youth service in Lapu-Lapu, did house to house evangelism in both Leyte and Camotes. This was when we go house to house to share Step to Peace with God. We also prayed for the community.
There was this time where we prayed for this lady who had a stroke. She had difficulties moving her limbs and was seated down. When we went in the house, we shared with her the salvation message and eventually challenged her to receive Christ. She accepted Jesus into her life and we started praying for her. Slowly she could move her arms, we continued praying more fervently and then she was able to stand. We continued praying and praising God and well enough she was able to walk and lift up her hands to praise God. Sometimes we lack faith in God when we pray or do things, so this experience tells me to do my part and leave the rest to God.
Another happening incident was during our boat trip back from Leyte. We were all sound asleep in the middle of the night when suddenly I felt the boat was tipsy and I got shocked when I opened my eyes to see total darkness in the room. I went out to investigate and realised that the boat’s engine had died and thus the boat is stranded in the middle of the sea with no electricity. Wild thoughts started streaming into my mind: What if we drift to another island, Should I go wake them up? I wanted to wake Pastor Rebecca up and then I remembered about Jesus’s disciples waking him up in the middle of the storm and Jesus telling them “You of little faith.” So I prayed to God to take charge of the situation and help the crew to resolve whatever problem. I knew my work is not complete on earth yet and thus today I won’t be going to heaven. I headed into the room and saw that most of them were awake so I explained the situation and reassured them.
Overall it was a good experience to be with all my youths and thank God for 3 of them who were there for the first time. And hopefully more will want to be involved in mission work and see God work through them. Amen
