It’s good to be back… and nice to know that I won’t be traveling for a while.

The past 2-3 months has been just fly here, fly there.. in 3 different countries. I just really don’t know how those business people do it… esp. if you have family and all.

I’m really thankful that through the past few months God has watch over us all.. and my team-mates as well who have been on most of these trip with me.

Near the end of this month.. we’ll ALL be back in Singapore.. and one complete team! Yeah!
I’m planning for prayer retreat day for us.. as we touch bases with each other, and connect with God to get a clear focus for this next half of the year.

Pls keep my co-workers and I in prayer as we attend the Ravi Zacharias’ “Young Apologists” conference in Bali these few days (1 – 4 Aug). (no we’re not paying all that money to go there and learn 1000 ways to say ‘sorry’…  it’s an Christian Apologetics conference). 

We see it as a time to ‘sharpen our axes’, as people in the forefront sharing the gospel… so that we can defend our faith even more effectively. And cos this has direct/indirect bearing on reaching the lost, we wouldn’t be far off to assume the devil won’t be too pleased abt this and will try to wreak havoc so we can’t go or can’t benefit from it.
 
So please cover us in your prayers ya?  Pray for:
1.    Safety on the road and in-country (for Lil too as she flies in on Thurs to join Simon)
2.    A keen mind and a hungry heart.
3.    Good health
4.    God’s protection over both our families back here.

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God is sooo good! Up to the week before we left, we still hadn’t found a car to use. (we had prayed, and prayed for a car…but still nothing)

Finally a friend & supporter emailed & offered us… her TRUCK!.. a Land Cruiser! for our use throughout our time there!

God answered… not in the way we pictured it… instead it much ‘bigger’ (literally) than we pictured… =) hee.hee!

Land Cruiser wow!
Originally uploaded by muffyn.

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another picture of our little snack outing!

I took Josh to the famous Cheesecake Factory.. for a afternoon snack. it was a delightful time… esp. when Josh proclaimed all of a sudden…

“This is the greatest day..”

It brought a big big smile to my face…
… and warmed my heart!

Yesterday got to try my favourite Pho (Vietnamese noodles) And Josh loved it too! esp. the beef meat balls!

We would have gone to our old favourite place Kim Loan (a Viet restaurant tt Lil & I frequent when we here in LA fr ’94 to ’97) but it was a little too far from where we’re stayin’ now. =)

have u ever been hit by the ‘sleepies’?
this strong physical feeling of wanting to lie down and shut your eyes..
and nothing seem to be able to distract you from wanting to just sleeep!

well, Josh & I were hit with a strong dose of that after our 20 hour flight from Singapore to Los Angeles. By afternoon (LA time) it was like in the middle of the night in our body clock. So he literally just knocked-out. Nothing could wake him, even though we moved him from the car seat, to the sofa, and back to car seat.

And last night, I woke up at 2:50am, and thankfully could fall asleep after 30mins. But woke up again at 6am. Hopefully, we’re done with sleepies.. I’m quite fresh now, but Josh is taking a nap. So we’ll see.

Happy 9th Anniversary!
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She got it… and a pleasant surprise too!
she’s plenty happy… =) which makes me really happy too. Esp to receive her email with pictures!

here’s her 2nd email.. (the 1st one is too mushy to blog.. hee!)

From: lillian@sccc.org.sg
Subject: eating my cake!
Date: 19 Jul 2005 AM 07:25:52
To: simon@forerunner.org.sg

Hi Darling!

I was writing the other email half way when I stopped to go and
eat the cake. It is soooo yummy! I know Josh would have loved
it! THanks da!

Forgot to tell you this in the previous email.. hee!

Love you lots!!

DaDa

I’ve planned for these flowers & cake to be delievered to my wifey tomorrow… on our 9th wedding anniversary.

I’m sad I can’t be there… but i’m really lookin fwd to a holiday together in August! Yeah… that will be 1st time (in a long while) that we’ll be spending extended time together w/o the kids. =)