Singapore!

It's been super long since i last updated and so much happened that I can't remember all of them. So i'll just write the highlights.

Hmm... i don't remember what i wrote on my last post so i don't know where to start...
let me think... ok.. i have no clue... i'll start with the last two weeks at Philippines.

Two weeks before we left Philippines, our team was in a town called Nasugbug. It was the most tiring week and a half we had so far. We started our day after breakfast around 8am and got back home between 6-8pm. We went to schools to share testimonies and pray for students, small communities to do open air evangalism, house to house, churches to preach, and few others. Philippinos are open to us because we were foreigners and they treat us like pop stars, but a lot of them already consider themselves Christians that when we ask something like "Do you love Jesus?" it's so easy to say "yes." Of course I don't know for sure if they do or not, but it seems many are comfortable with how much they love/know God. This is when I realized how important it is to be sensitive to the Spirit and always be asking what to do/say next during a conversation. Also, the power of testimony rather than intellectually battling trying to prove who's right.

What made that week a bit more tough but good was that the boys had to sleep in a church. The church didn't have screens on windows but just bars. There was no carpet or tiles... it was just pretty ghetto. the only source of water was a pump for us to do bucket shower. it wasn't horrible, there are far way ghetto places, but it was the most ghettoest i went through. First day seeing the church we will be sleeping at, I was like "crap.." but it was a good experience in letting go of my rights to comfort.

The last day in Philippines, we went to a place called Smokey Mountain in Manila. Smokey Mountain is a trash dump and people live there while making money. My guess is that people moved there to be closer to their job, and I mean reallllyy close. they live right next to the trash dumps. You see younngg girls there, around 14 years old, and you know they are prostitutes. We didn't spend much time there.

We've been updated that the church in a community we had open air evanglism had grown significantly that they needed to do service outside their normal place. We saw few healings there. Then another family got plugged into a church from house to house.

Another cool but also sad thing is.. a little town (Tubog) my team visited 4 times a week for 3 weeks had a witch doctor who we've been praying for outside her home. We prayed for witchcraft to leave that area. We found out she died. There could have been a nicer outcome. haha. sorry...

So we got to Singapore on August 2 and our plans have changed a bit. We are staying at a church that is connected with YWAM. the YWAM base didn't have a place for us to stay so we are staying with that church. The YWAM base and the church are located 5 minutes away from the biggest red light district in Singapore. And the church we're staying at happens to focus their ministry on prositution. The church was praying for such a big group like our team, and our team also feels we are being led to minister to the prostitues. It also seems it's strategically a good way to impact the area. So our plans have changed a bit to support the church.

Cool things that happened recently.. i'm going to have to speed up real quick because i'm running our of time at the pc bang.

So there was a big Christian conference where more than 3000 people attended. after the worship time, there were gold dusts on our palms! i wiped it off on my shirt, and more would appear. Our whole team, not sure about others in the conference, had them.

Ok i gotta bounce. Have a blessed Sunday worship tomorrow! FIRE!!!!!