Mission Impossible..?? Part 1

Wow..It has been quite some time since I updated my blog. My deepest apology.
However, This is my new and first entree for the month of February. Well, actually my precious red lappy crashed a couple of weeks ago. So its kinda hard for me to constantly update my blog. Sad but it was not really a big deal. Looks like I'm hunting for another notebook again..hehhehe..

Anyway, I had been busy with stuffs lately. I flew to the Philippines on the 20th of January recently with 6 other brothers and sisters in Christ for a mission exposure. So this entree will be chit chatting on the happenings during my mission visit there. Yeay!!! Claps~

First and foremost for all of you out there, I wanna say that I am a proud Catholic and FYI, a mission is an important assignment carried out for political, religious or commercial purposes, typically involving travel (google). So I went for a religious purpose mission. Let me just tell you how it all happened, how I suddenly end up traveling all the way to the Philippines and how God really provides. *winks ;)

I started my journey with my dear community in a local church about 4 months ago (October 2012 to be exact) when I participated in a seminar known as Growth in the Spirit Seminar or in short GSS. It was actually my first encounter with the Lord. It felt real and I know it is. Ever since that, I'm a true believer, worshiper, follower, you name it. I became so carefree even though I know I have loads of problems in my life. But all I did was surrender to Him and trust Him that everything will eventually be okay, and Praise God, it did. I never felt this happy. I was a very worried person back then, before the encounter. I worried all day and it stressed me a lot. I did not know that I can surrender my problems, my burdens and my whole life into His hands. But now I am grateful that I answered His call for the seminar. My life was renewed.

I thought that all is well and that is what I have to do all my life. Serve Him, follow Him and just be available for Him. Honestly, there are still times that I am ungrateful with what I have or whatever bad things that happened to me. Even after the seminar, even after the encounter. Anyway after the seminar, I heard that a mission is being planned for January. So when I heard this, I get a strong feeling, its more like a calling to say YES! So with a simple yes and no expectation of what might happen during the mission, I was already included in the team.

A few preparation was needed for the mission. We did a fundraising during Christmas (I did an entree on this if you scroll down, you will see it..hehhee..) and a few good friends (God bless them~ ^^) donated for our fund. Praise the Lord that we managed to prepare everything well. The preparation went smoothly and everyone was anticipating to start the mission. I must say that God is good all the time. He made sure that our preparation period went smoothly even from the smallest thing like our passport to the most important part, our flight tickets. We planned for the mission to be carried out later in February. But something made us booked the flight slightly earlier, by end of January. Right after we confirmed our booking, Airasia (the airline company) officially announced that they will be closing their route to Clark, Philippines commencing in February. Unfortunately for those who made their bookings in February, their flights were cancelled. Nothing comes by accident or co-incidence. God's will for my team to carry out the mission is greater than Tony Fernandes..Sorry to say..hahaha..

Spiritually and mentally, we were very not prepared. Or at least I can say that for me. When we saw the schedule that was emailed to us a few days earlier, all 7 of us freaked out when we found out that we were to be "main speakers". We did a gathering with the whole mission team and we spoke of our concerns and expectations from the mission. I think most of us were intimidated with the 'main speaker' thing. However, during our praise and worship session, the Lord kept on saying to all of us to not be afraid. All seven of us affirmed this. So I submitted to Him. I was like 'whatever happens, happens, and it happens because of Your will. I surrender myself to You, Father'. I think everyone was praying the same thing. I think everyone surrendered wholeheartedly, and off we flew to Clark.

p/s: Part 2 coming soon with pictures!!!woot woot..!!  :)