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decided that blogging about my trip to segamat would take far too much to do at one sitting, so i shall split this job up into a few parts and blog separately. have to finish this by next week else i wont know how to blog for youth camp also! haha...

well, for those who do not know yet, i went for a missions trip in segamat, somewhere in jb, on the 4th - 9th dec. and it was an amazing trip! really met with a lot of fresh things over there and filled with amazement at what God has done in and thru me.

left on a tuesday. nothing eventful happened on the train trip there other than a few photos taken and stuff. the place we went to was this town called jementah. we started to prayer walk the field, cos we were planning to have this sports carnival on that field itself, as one of the first activities organised to specially reach out to the youths over there by any of our missions teams. after that we prayer walked around the main residential area.

after prayer walking, we felt led to go to the basketball court and play with those guys over there. had fun playing with them and connecting with them. but i felt a bit rejected and left out during that period cos i'm not really good at basketball and wasnt able to connect with some of the people there. sort of compared myself to other more extroverted and forthcoming members of the team.

the next day we had the sports carnival, which went on quite successfully. God dealt with me in the area of handling children. all along i always feel that i cannot handle children and never really wanted to be placed in a position to do so. but in the end i got placed with the children's games, instead of the youth sports which i initially expected to participate in. sort of a dying to my own flesh. had fun still, and even though now i cant claim that i am able to deal with kids well, i think i've learnt that God can use me where i am with or without any gifting as long as i am willing

at the start was also very impressed with God moving in the area of word of prophecies. a few words that were given came true, and its really amazing to see such things happen with my own eyes. yup. in the evening of the 2nd day we joined the msian church for prayer meeting, which was a great time. God dealt with me in the area of the spirit of condemnation. all along i always feel very inadequate compared to other people and keep on condemning myself for being unable to build relationships with other ppl, and having few frens, which is a burden i continually carry around with me. but God just lifted it from me during that time, and it feels so refreshing and free lah.

pastor linda also told me that she felt led by God and told me certain things about my family, which is exactly the same things that ps nerina told me a few weeks back. but after trying to deal with the issue and not really seeing any success for a few weeks, got quite discouraged, and i think God is just encouraging me to go on and just have the faith and love. Hallelujah.

really enjoyed the bonding that we all shared as a team, esp among the brothers. feel that this is a community that i can really belong to and really be able to share with, as we all learn to carry each other's burdens. understanding what it means to be brothers and my sisters in Christ, as one family.

more coming up....

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