We were so blessed to have one new convert yesterday. He is a postgraduate(master) student from China. Praise God! In the month of December, there are two new converts. Both of them are joining my caregroup. Hallelujah!!

The caregroup ended at around 11pm. Bro Elaijah continued to stay with the Hope Church uni members for House Of Prayer. We started our sharing. We talked about what we lost after joining the Vision as well as what we gained. Our hearts were just opened to each and another. Then, we were asked to think which of them has eternal value. In fact, we knew the answer pretty well. When I looked back the journey I had gone through, I don't think that I was losing as I had got the best. It's the best part after all, renewing of mind. A sign of growing!

The clock was ticking. We were still in the church! At 11.57pm, bro Elaijah, "Let's pray!".. We closed our eyes, we bowed our heads, we spoke in tongue, we prayed hard, we enjoyed it somehow. Holy spirit was in the hall. "Amen!" it was 12.08+-am! We had been actually praying from 2009 to 2010... I simply loved that.

There were no fancy fireworks, no extremely high feeling, no snow spraying, no alcohol, no clubbing, no wild fun, but just really simple.

Hmm.. I was not alone, in fact. There were my shepherd, a true God lover who totally laid down himself indeed; my caregroup leader, a handsome one who gave up working in Singapore as an architect with a good pay; an ex-AIESEC UTM President, ex-AIESEC Malaysia Vice President who gave up the oportunity to become the AIESEC(World's largest student organization) World Committee Member; two sisters who gave up the scholarship to Korea and Japan respectively; a bro who continued to stay with us despite having chance to fulfill his (previous) dream to be an entrepreneur with his friends; and more.

What's on earth are those sacrifices?! in fact, the Vision has changed many of us, still. Our world view, mindset are being reset. We can still rejoice in it anyhow, somehow. What Vision is that if it's not from God? Matthew 28:18-20, 22:37-39

The people I mentioned above are mostly graduates from UTM that continue being postgraduate students, taking Master or PhD. They see the need of staying in UTM, being a blessing to the bro, sis there, becoming shepherd of many and fulfilling the Great Commission. They should have started working and enjoying their wonderful young adulthood at this point of life but they didn't. They stayed until the time of leaving has come according to the leaders. Yet, they leave with good reasons, some for church planting or a more efficient serving in church. Does this "burn" you?

Take a break, here's the photos of Hope JB. =)
















































The pictures say it all... Tell me, how could you not love this family of God? They are so united in Christ! My tears drop when I see through all the pictures. God has been so faithful! It's impossible if there's no God!

I love this family of God! There are bunch of sacrificial bro sis who always put God at first in their lives as they have acknowledged God's unconditional love towards them! There are nothing greater than this on earth. We serve together and I really love it...

Let's continue to lay down ourselves for God's kingdom and believe that God is going to do greater things in 2010!!!