Please pray for Pat (the guy on the left), who will be giving his testimony and delivering the message this Saturday’s 7Days gig at Toa Payoh Methodist Church.

He is still recovering from a nasty bout of viral infection that he caught while overseas last week.

Pray that he would regain his strength and voice, and have the energy and ability to share God’s love boldly.

btw, this is pic of us eating Chinese pears… delicious! at our recent trip there.

This is my first ever blog.. while overseas.

We’ve come to the end our time here in Bangkok.. and will head back to S’pore in 2 hours time. I’m typing now from the computer lounge area in the Crusade’s GCTC (Great Commission Trainig Centre)

It’s be a really fruitful 3 days!

The staff from Koinonia- Thailand CCC’s music ministry has been ‘lapping’ up the training we’ve been giving them.

I taught 2 sessions… one on “Philosophy of Music Ministry”, the other on “Friendly Fire”, and the feedback I got was that it couldn’t have come at a better time.

I’m sooo glad we obeyed God to make this trip.

And I thank God for using us to bless and encourage this young, but growing ministry!

It’s been a tremendous joy and pleasure to see our friends again (we worked together in June for a TURT- The Ultimate Road Trip 2004, a student music missions project) and to hang out and have fellowship with them.

I’m now really lookin’ forward to hold my kids.. and my dear wife in my arms.

I miss them much… =)

Thanks for praying!

Signin’ out fr Bangkok, Thailand

Some of u wanted a little more info about our trip… and so here it is… =)

Here’s the objectives/goals of our Koinonia Resource Trip2004

3 things they need from us:
1. Share what we do (training/curriculum) with our STINTers? (Students who do a 1 or 2-year project with us) and perhaps also how we recruit them etc.

2. Share what we do for our music workshop in META (training curriculum
etc.) They would like to do something similar this December at their Vision Camp

3. Pre-liminary discussion and planning for TURT 2005. (The Ultimate Road Trip- a 6-week project with students, training, rehearsing, and going on the road for an evangelistic concert tour)

4. Our recruitment process etc. how we work w volunteers?

What we hope to achieve fr this trip.
1. Resource. Do consultation, share ideas, strategies etc. and train if
needed.

2. Show tangible moral support as they begin their new music ministry.
Pray for/with them. Encourage Nutti (the music min director). Cast
vision…

3. Maintain this partnership and friendship. ‘Recce’ and find out what other ways we
can help them get established. Wat other kinds of training they want or
really need.

Tomorrow, a few of us (fr ForeRunner) are headed to Bangkok, Thailand for 4 days to conduct some training and consultation with ‘Koinonia‘, the music ministry of Thailand Campus Crusade for Christ.

This is a continuation of our partnership with Koinonia to help them ‘establish’ their music ministry.

In many ways this is ‘discipleship’ ForeRunner-style…. It is very much in line with our desire to equip, enhance and empower other music ministries to do evangelism through music.

Do pray with us that we’ll be a blessing and encouragement to the Thai team! =)

this was where i did all the ‘work’ … (at the recent convention) the
only lighted place in our hotel room.. while the kids r sleepin’ in the
room with all the lights out. =)

A recent picture taken (just before bedtime!) when we were attending a convention at Meritus Mandarin Hotel.

I’m trying out a new software MacJournal.. that’s supposedly able to link to my Blog. If this works.. it’d be a cool way to publish some of my entries easily.