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Mission Yew Tee

Monday, 10 February 2014

6th Feburary

Still not sure whether I should post this. But yeah I feel it should be documented as well. Heh as Andy said, if people think it's boasting then just let them think so.

This idea was born out of a random mentoring session and I can't remember exactly what led to this forming. Our target group was the foreign workers that frequent the area in Sungei Kadut. (Mostly the Bangladeshi). We want to go and bless them during this festive season and to make them feel appreciated while they are here in Singapore!

Unfortunately, Bynes couldn't join us as he is piled up with assignments and work from the army. We were not exactly in a hyped up state as well especially since we are doing a movement like this. For myself, I felt neutral really. Was really uncertain as to how things would play out and things would definitely not go as we expect to. As what Andy said 'When you feel the opposition, you know you are on the right track.' For this mission or movement, we were really just led by the spirit.

Pretty amazing stuff happened. Andy paved the way when he did the initial interaction. We were unsure of how to approach these two Bangladeshi that were chilling on a hill and Andy just boldly went and striked a conversation with them. From there after we sort of 'set up camp' at the bridge at the end of the park connector and handed out the food and drink that we bought. The joy and smile on their faces as we gave them these goodies were just genuine you can't help but smile as well. There was this dude that cycled by (rather fast) and we caught his attention when we greeted him and said we are giving food and drink for free. At this, he immediately jammed brake (you can imagine with me the tyre screeching sound) and reversed as we caught up to him which I find rather amusing and cute heh. I honestly did not think they would actually stop and mingle with us.

There was a learning point to be learnt as well for me. This group that I approached were rather shocked when I placed the goodies in his hand. He immediately said 'I have no money' to which he turned out his pockets as if to prove his point. Had to keep reassuring him that it was free until he eventually accepted it but not without still having that disbelief. It wasn't until Justin pointed out that it was probably because of my attire (I was wearing my office work clothes) that I realised why. I must have looked like I was selling something. Never look like a corporate agent when doing this type of thing heh. Justin then asked me to swap with him playing the guitar.

Wished we went for depth rather than width as was the original plan. But it's rather difficult to find those who are settled down and chilling who are not in a rush to get somewhere who are easier to talk to(we only met two). It wasn't until we walked back to Yew Tee that we found a large number of them chilling at the roundabout and the empty lot next to the shopping centre. (Another learning point!) Should have went there eh.

One group of them walked by flashing a thumbs up. We were not even playing a song LOL. It's really weird to play guitar in a place like this.

Eh here got better reception

Ready to go out to the mission field

It's always a great learning experience for me (as with the other movements) and I've learnt much from this experience. It's always a joy as well to serve even though I'm quite tired from work and there's stuff I have to complete for the missions team. It was actually fulfilling. This lasted about one hour when we exhausted our supply of goodies. Makes me really admire the Acts church where they sold all their possessions and gave to the poor. (We kinda drew inspiration from that).

Definitely more to come as we don't see this as a one-off thing.

As I listen and listen to the song 10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord) by Matt Redman, an idea came to me. Why not try to list 10,000 reasons? By my calculations, if I do one per day it would take me about 27 years to finish, 54 if I do two a day. Kinda cool if you came up with the 10000th reason on your deathbed heh but yeah this could be quite an interesting journey. Not sure if I can actually get to 10000 but I can try. Also not sure if this is more suited for tumblr but for now, the first reason.

#1: our worth is not determined by our race, gender etc. He loves us all the same!

@ 11:47 pm