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Missions in Africa// July 2022

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South Africa - Cape Town and Johannesburg My 3 weeks in South Africa were spent with 3 different tribes from different social classes. I’ve seen how His love is for everyone regardless of their origin. Is also humbling to model and learn how to be a better witness cross-culturally in Africa. The first family I've stayed with is of French descent. I pondered “why this family? what do they need?”. Apparently, the daughter of this family has been having daily anxiety attacks, paralyzing her for weeks. We worshipped and sought God together where she encountered Jesus for herself and instantly felt lifted. When I left, in tears she goes, “Thank you. Nobody has ever done this for me before. God sent you to our family at the right time.” I came to understand being a witness entails ushering God’s presence into a household, and that can bring so much healing, joy, and peace. God is looking for hearts willing to be used anywhere, anyway, and anytime. All we need to do is to say yes. Rina, 7...
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//My faith stories at Poland// Mar-Jun 2022

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“You have faith stories, too. No matter how small, remember them, recite them, count them, and celebrate them. They build your faith for what is coming next in your life.” ― Reinh The highlight of my trip to Poland would entail how God guided my every step. He is always on time and He hears every need. Brought an air ticket to Poland not knowing where the YWAM organization is. A Ukrainian Family received me at the airport and connected me to the YWAM team which he happened to be liaising with! (The Ukranian family that received me at the airport) (2 Ukranians approached me at the park where i was worshipping alone)   Upon my first day of arrival at the YWAM base, a brand new luggage randomly appeared when the team was praying for it the day before. Many other ministry needs were also provided for upon prayers!   Past few months I've seen people putting their hope in Jesus, and having their hunger satisfied in Christ.  (Hundreds of Ukranian soldiers saved)  (Wors...
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Slow down and lean in

It's not wrong to feel.  When things are painful, it's okay to show it.  Band aid on brokenness can get messy.  It is fine to lament whilst you're praying.  It can be both and not either or. You can be courageous though unsure. Remember a life of emotion isn't a sentence of blues.  Be vulnerable to own what's true. The tears, the joy, you grow through it.  What have you learned? What can you take from your heart being churned? How does that serves your new direction, and where would you land? You're never forsaken, even when you're mistaken.  Slow down and lean in on how you feel. Then go again, having known the walk you've been shown.  Don't stop growing and let your authentic life be what is showing.  // I find myself grieving for days with the spirit. Ended some nights in tears and prayers, overwhelmed by the stories I heard in this time of war.  I see their faces in my mind. Children, mothers, soldiers, my friends and sisters.  ...
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Love in Ukraine

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Hello fellow folks back home! I’m Geraldine from Hope Church Singapore. Just to share a little more about myself, I was in the social sector for the past 5 years, and I quit my job last year to do a missionary school with YWAM (Youth with A Mission) in South Africa. I was supposed to be doing outreach in Lebanon this coming month; however, my heart has been burning for the recent Ukrainian war. As of today, 1.4 million refugees have been evacuated to the borders of Ukraine, and all the relief organizations nearby are overloaded and overworked, attending and swamped by the needs of the refugees. Many of the refugees are traumatized by the impact of war, where they witnessed death and encountered pain and separation.    God has been revealing more and more about the land day by day as I pray. When you see a gap in a crisis like this, you fill it, and you respond with urgency. I didn’t feel a need to wait but to go.    God has also dropped in me to bring people along. I...
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Feb 2022 DTS updates!

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          Hello again my dear friends and family back at home! 💕      I'm missing you guys so much, especially during festive season like Chinese New Year. This is my first CNY away from home, but thankfully, I have fellow Singaporeans here and could enjoy hotpot as I used to back home. 👏✊  It is just so comforting to find homies here at Cape Town, to gather and encourage fellow kingdom builders in this journey when the going gets hard.   Worship at the beach      Remember Imtiaz, the friend I shared in my previous newsletter? Well, he led worship for the very first time as a Christian, at a public beach?! 😮 and the public was there worshipping with us. That was really out of our comfort zone, and we were both so nervous as we practice. Yet, I’m so glad we press in for love and to just lift him up with our instruments.  Soccer ministry with the slum children      We have weekly local outreach at...
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January - DTS updates!

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DTS (Disciple Training School) - Who We Are We have 34 students from different nationalities: Egypt, Netherlands, Germany, UK, US, South Africa, Sweden, Canada, Singapore, etc. It just moves me to see people of different nationalities lifting Him up with our native tongues.  This has been one of my favourite African praise songs; Jabulani Africa! Jabulani means to rejoice.                             My team is filled with so many young lives wanting to live for Him, and being so hungry in seeking Him. We have a 17-year-old team member who has been faithfully praying for healing over his cancer-stricken mum for 6 months and was disappointed with God when he lost his mum 2 years ago. Yet he shared that he is here because he wants to find God despite going through things that he cannot understand. I heard stories of our local South Africans who lives on an empty fridge for years, but God provided their daily m...
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What is the cost of discipleship?

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The Cost of Discipleship – Luke 14:25-34 25 Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ 31 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.  33 So therefore, any one of you wh...
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