Table Of Contents:
- My first missions trip
- How God called me to serve in missions
- Start of my first missions trip to Northern Thailand
- Lessons learnt on my first missions trip
- After my first missions trip…
- Getting to know the Filipinos
- My second missions trip
- The turning point
- A strange request; a special gift
- Writing for God’s glory
- Planning my first trip to the Philippines
- Hindrances removed
- First time in Manila
- First time in the Philippines
The year 1999 was The Turning Point, in many ways.
Our church had moved into our cosy little building the year before and we were growing. Our missions program was also growing – this was the year the Lord enabled one faithful missionary with a huge heart for souls (the Filipina who was my room mate at 1997 camp) to start our campus ministry in the Philippines.
In 1999, the Lord led me into three different ministries in the church where I could be effective for Him.
One of them started like this – a friend was appointed the treasurer and every Sunday after service she descended to the basement to count the offerings. I was ‘enlisted’ to be one of the counters, and thus, every week, there would be two or three of us pouring out the offerings from the bags, and counting the cheques and cash.
As time went on, as our missions financial needs were growing, the treasurer was unable to take care of both church and missions offerings. One fine day, I was asked to take over that responsibility.
Members who had made pledges to support our workers in the Philippines started to look me up to hand over their pledge money monthly. My skills gleaned from the banking industry which I was working in at that time equipped me for the task of balancing cash, remitting funds overseas and keeping accounts.
At the end of 1998, I was also recruited into the camp committee (for the 1999 church camp). I had no idea how many people the camp director had approached and asked, but when he asked me, I prayed about it and saw no reason why I should turn down the opportunity to serve.
We had many fun meetings together. I could handle some of the administrative matters e.g. writing the FAQs, plus the task of designing and producing the camp booklet. It was fun! I helped out in another camp committee a couple of years later.
And so… Number one – counting church funds and collecting funds for missions, Number two – church camp committee.
What of the third ministry I found myself involved in?
to be continued… 
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