Today, I watched a movie, the green lantern with my team. It was quite nice! I like the fact that even though the super hero had fear, his WILL to overcome his fear finally overpowered the enemy (made from FEAR!) His power is pretty cool as well, as he can create things out of his imagination (all in green though)! I just didn’t quite like his green eye mask!

It was incredibly cheap, only USD$1.50!!! The reason was because we have a discount card and we have collected some points after the past few months. Thus, we could have one free ticket. The other two cost USD$2.25 each!

I should watch more movies here! Thank God for a relaxing night out! So blessed!J

Drums rolling *** introducing our…. Hope Ecuador’s website. Clap * Clap * Clap*

http://hope-ecuador.org/

Thanks for the help of our brothers, Weizhu and Yue Ann in Singapore who helped to set up the website and to get it started! From there, we added different components and articles into it. It is now FULL of life, showing the church life and the brothers and sisters in Hope Quito, Ecuador!

Thanks to Katy, our young adults caregroup leader who also helped greatly to edit the Spanish and also to add on new articles, for e.g. the article on the SALT conference under Noticias y Eventos (News and Events). For my Singaporean brothers and sisters, if you want to read the articles, you can cut and paste them onto google translate to understand them. The translation may not be fully accurate but you should understand it more or less!

On Sunday, we publicised this website to the church and we asked for volunteers to join in this website ministry! We have good responses, one sister, another Karen came up to me to offer her services and others offered to send me more photos and testimonies to beef up the website! Let us look forward to more exciting news and to read about what God is doing in Hope Quito, Ecuador! All glory to God in heaven!

Today as I was walking along the street to have lunch with Katy, I saw a truck which says “Mantenimiento del camino” which means maintenance of the road fixing the road during the peak hour of lunch time! It was a two-lane road with cars travelling in opposite directions. The truck was one side of the road and it stopped a few times to allow the workers to pour tar on some pot holes on the roads near the humps along the road. As a result, the road was congested and many cars had to stop to wait for the workers to go from one pot hole to the next! As I was walking, I thought to myself, why couldn’t they have done it at a different timing to prevent the inconvenience to other road users! Was the road condition so bad that they have to do it then?

It brought me to think about the verse in the bible in Ecclesiastes 3:1

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.

Indeed, how true it is, that there is a time for everything. There is a season for every activity under heaven! I pray that God would help me to know His will for me in this season of my life in a clearer fashion! Help me to have the trust in you and to have the patience to see your plans for me unfold! Lord, I submit my life into your mighty hands! In Jesus name, I pray! Amen!

Time flies! On 31 May  2011, I arrived to Quito, Ecuador! I have been here in Quito, Ecuador for more than 3 months already! These few months have passed like a whirlwind! I felt that I have been here much longer, as many things have happened. I am quite lazy to write my blog these days but I think I should pen down my experiences here in Quito, Ecuador as well as in Santiago, Chile so that I would remember this wonderful period of my life, the last lap of my church-planting in South America (for the time being, I hope!).

Some significant things that happened are as follows (haha, I think I like to write things down in lists, this structured part of me should be credited to my 6 years engineering background in NUS.)

• started work at Inlingua (first time teaching some big shots like Regional GM, HR manager of a multi-national companies)
• started playing the keyboard, lead praise and worship in church!
• started to know the people here, my caregroup (led by Katy)! They are warm and fun-loving people!
• went to Cotopaxi with my caregroup!
• helped to organise the SALT conference 2011 in Quito!
• went to Cuenca for a short trip with my team!
• Lalitha’s mother passed away, and we attended the funeral service, sang in one of the services with Katy!
• visited Ivana at the hospital who got into a automobile accident. Thank God she is ok!
• visited Lucy many times at the hospital
• saw 4 new believers in a single caregroup
• helped to cook for more than 100 people at Pan de vida, a social work organisation for 3 times so far
• managed to wake up for my morning classes so far (the classes are as early as 7 am in the morning! GOsh…)
• got my cellphone stolen within the first month here (really careless!)
• suffering from rashes since beginning of August (real ITCHY!!!)
• serving with my wonderful team (Shenteng and Peiru) I really have a lot to learn from them…
• …

I can’t think anymore! Oops, getting late! I should sleep…tomorrow I have a class at 7.30 am! God, help me to wake up!
Thank you Lord, In Jesus Name, I pray!