150 words.

This is the 150 words I sent to church on 'how God impacted me through this trip to China'. Just wanting to keep myself updated with my reflections on this trip and see how my thoughts progress over time and also let you guys see, if you're interested. (btw it's secretly 162 words or something XD)

When I say ‘I miss China,” it is the two week environment of exploration and serving and the mission team and fellowship that I miss. However, when I was actually in China, it was you, SVPG, that I missed! So much of what I saw and learned, I kept wishing you were there to see and learn with me. But you know what? Here, in Vancouver, instead of two weeks, we get a whole month, even a year, to learn together. If you feel ready to go on a missions trip, please teach us upon return. If you don’t feel ready, please realize that this home is our mission field. I now have a renewed urgency for our growth as a group. Change is a result of steady progression. Let’s keep encouraging each other and learning together (HEBREWS 10:24-25) so that when we’re called, we’re mentally, emotionally, and spiritually ready to just be our uniquely created selves, and go to serve others.

HEBREWS 10:24-25
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another-- and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

Good night!

On the bus.

Here's a story for you from Tuesday, July 5, 2011.

This happened on the autotune bus (the minibus I took in Hong Kong was number 808 hehe).

So the minibus seats in HK are not individual seats but rather, they are like a booth seat, so the seats are like a soft bench. I'm at the window seat and a young lady is beside me. The bus fills up and finally, this one lady gets on and there's no room left for her to sit but she said she'll just crouch even though many people suggested for her to sit. So this lady crouched in the aisle. Then the bus starts moving because the driver already waited quite a bit for the passengers to arrive. Now, where she crouched was by the stairwell; there are 2 steps of stairs to be taken before reaching the raised seating benches so with the added height, and speed of the minibus on this rainy day, it was quite an unstable place for the lady to crouch. Anyway, so I just watched while all this happened, from my comfortable window seat.

Then the young woman beside me moved over in what little room she could and pulled the lady's arm. The lady, still crouching, refused. So I scooched over a bit too and the young woman pulled at the lady's arm again and this time, the lady came up and sat with us.

I just had to smile a bit. Couldn't help it. The young woman beside me smiled too =)

After all these videos of rude, young Chinese people on busses and around HK, this was quite nice to see. Hope is not lost in Hong Kong =)