Missions Field to Missions Force | Pr Yvonne Chong

You're listening to a message to go from EX Church.

We hope this message will light up your day today.

My sharing, it's gonna move us from just focusing on

the missions feel to being the mission's force.

Okay.

Uh and I believe you know, you know X Church itself,

we are a very missional church. Uh as you can see,

you know, the different things that we do is always

very it's always focusing on the outside of the four

walls of the church, uh and being relevant to the community.

So I believe as well you knows EX Church is

that uh exmoney also, will you know, step up even

further to be a mission's force right to where God

wants to lead you guys. I'm talking about X Many

not just as a church now, but you guys as

individuals also, Okay.

So I'm gonna just bring up some.

Statistics now, uh and and you know, to just help

us be aware of what's going on in the world.

So this stats is done by.

Admissions organizations in America called the Joshua Project.

So you can actually go to the website.

If you like numbers, you like to read data right

and interpret it right, you.

Can go read it. So I want to bring it

up because.

I realized that numbers help us know what's going on. Uh,

and and and be able to kind of check and

take stop where we're at the moment.

Uh.

I think for those data scientists people, right, they love data,

They love numbers because it tells a lot, a lot,

a lot of stories.

So I'm just revealing it, uh.

And it's up to you, you know, and I pray

that the Holy Spirit will will actually speak.

To you on what you know, what's going on worldwide?

All right?

So first like is so I'm gonna show us statistics

as of twenty twenty four of world religion and they

are people groups, okay.

So I'm gonna start with Islam.

There are one point ninety eight billion believers one billion

Muslims worldwide, and they are represented in four thousand people

group okay, uh, And then you can see three thousand

and four six they do UPG I shortened it not

in our space, but UPG starts are unreached people group.

For us believers, when we refer to the group people

as unriched people, that means that they do not have

the Gospel in their language yet, or they do not

have even Christian jargons in their language yet so uh.

And Islam is already you know, reaching this unriched people group.

So we are not in this three thousand people group yet. Okay. Uh.

And the percentage they are contributing to the worldwide is

twenty four point eight percent.

All right.

Buddhism is five hundred and five million believers. They have

in six hundred and sixty six well, very interesting number,

sixty six six people groups.

Okay. Uh.

And and they contributes to six point three percent of

world population. Next, like, uh, those who are animistic is uh,

seven hundred and thirty eight million.

Uh. Animistic. It's not people who follows any mayor, It's

not that.

But you know, the they basically yeah, maybe they take

anyway as a religion as well. But people who are animistic,

they worship objects.

Okay.

It can be a tree, the star, the moon, the sky, uh, tables, chairs, uh, anything. Okay,

So there's actually a lot. There are nine point two

percent of the world population. Next, Hinuism one point two

billion worldwide, and they are at fifteen point one percent

China one point eight billion, and seventeen point seven of

the world population White China. They are because they are

actually religious less. They are in a way neutral because

of you know, they only followed Confucianism, the teaching.

And also because of what's that.

Communism. I'm like, suddenly the words sleep my mind, sorry, communism.

So it's actually quite a huge percentage of them. So

they have no concept of a higher authority or a

higher spiritual being that's in control of the world, so

it can be any gods.

I mean. Also they don't have a concept of that. Okay. Next, Christians.

Okay, we are at two point five billion consists of

the Catholics and Protestants, so that's thirty one point two

percent of the world population. Yay, So you can see

here we are the largest in the world. But I

can't speak on behalf of the Christians because I know

a little bit more. You do know that there are

also a bunch of groups of Christians that are just

Christians by name, okay, on paper. So the data is

collected by, yeah, the registry itself. So I'm not so

sure how many of this two point five or thirty

one percent are you know, spirit like Christians.

You know, we prayed for Malaysia.

You know how many Christians in Malaysia or churches in

Malaysia are spirit field spirit, let you know, revived Christians.

So I'm not too sure.

Okay, probably if we count that it might be lesser

as well. So if you can see here, the top

two religion in the world right now would be first

is Christians and the second one is.

Yeah, and it's quite close.

Okay, the percentage is actually quite close, all right, So

next light, Uh, we can go to the next light. Okay,

well sorry, let's let's go back to the previous light.

So if you can see here, uh, you might see

the raid dots and whatever not.

You might be wondering what's going on.

So most of the which is ninety six ninety six

point six of the world's unriched people group, it's actually located.

So the rad circles are all the unriched people group

in the world in terms of the ice of christian okay,

inters of Christianity, and studies have shown it's actually located

in the ten forty window.

Okay. So what ten forty means, okay, these numbers is.

Actually it stretches from West Africa across Asia and it's

between ten degrees latitude north of the equator to forty

forty degrees north. So it's actually that middle section, and

this middle section itself has the highest population in the

whole world. Okay, five point three three billion people. There

are eighty seven hundred and thirty one people group, and

then six thousand is actually unreached. All right, just pausia,

because I realize that I've been using people groups. How

many of you know what people groups are?

Y'all know? Right? So if so, for.

Example, if I look at Chinese itself, Chinese is like

one huge people group. But you know, we have the

Harker people. That's one people group, and you have the

Tutu and the food.

Child and you know.

So I am sure in Africa, you know, the continent

of Africa, you have fifty two countries, right, I say

fifty four?

How many countries are there? Thirty four? Right?

And I'm sure you have thousands of people group in Africa.

In Asia, I'm not too sure. Actually I don't know

how the countries are there in Asia. But it's a

good chack. Okay, we don't find out as well. So

this just tell us us there's still a lot of work.

To be done, all right. Next, like.

World population globally as of February twenty before, there is

eight point one two billion, and it's still counting. There's

this website I can't remember the name now. It shows

life updates of new births and death as well.

So you go to the website, you can see.

The digits keep flickering because it keeps changing, and so

you can hat over to see medium age.

Okay.

So basically it tell us that between zero to thirty

zero means like the newborn baby till thirty years old,

that's the largest population in the whole world. Okay, life

expectancy this is based on studies only. Okay, some of us,

by the grace of God, you know, God's going to

allow us to outlive sixty seven. But average life expectancy

is only sixty seven, yes, okay, for an average human being.

All right, And we just gonna pause her for a while.

And when I was looking at this, I'm like, wow,

sixty seven. And you know, some God will bring people

along our way, and we do know that we may

not know what's going to happen to the person tomorrow

right or even the next second as all. And you know,

if I was just you know, playing scenarios in my head,

it's like, God, if you.

Leave me, if today.

You know, we go for lunch, you meet someone who

is sixty six years old, and and you know, God

stirs in her heart.

To reach out to that person.

You'll never know no if let's say, based based on

this life except as life expectancy.

Generally the person I only have one year life to live.

So what are we doing about that?

And why I want to bring up because as I played,

I was playing different scenarios in my head. I realized

that one word that God reminded me is like, hey, Yvonne,

there is an urgency, okay, to reach out. There's an

urgency basically right missions. I find missions and evangelism quite

they are very closely linked.

Uh.

And there's an urgency to reach out because we do

not know whether we are able to meet the person again.

But if God brings the person along our way, we

should know something.

About it, all right.

And I've got leadses you know, to God, informations do

it because you may not know what's going to happen

after that, all right. So so top ten most populous

countries in the world. You can see the least there,

but I would say you know, more than half of

the list that is here is actually just an outdoors

that and probably I've not met anyone from Mexico or

Russia yet, but Russia quite close to Russia, which is

the I call it. Then countries your Kyrgigstan, us uz Pakistan, Kazakhstans,

actually any lie Siaman University, we have a lot of

students from this region. I've not met someone from Brazil

yet here in Malaysia studying the US, but generally we

will find most of these countries represented. So now you

know why missions can just start our backyard, because God

has brought all of them here.

Okay, Next, like should I talk about this, Yes, no,

I should just generally Okay, just a browsing. True.

Looking at the world map, the purposcles shows missionaries received, okay, uh,

and you can see actually there are a lot of

other spots that not many missionaries go to yet uh

to reach And can you sport Malaysia we are almost

there's not even a number there from missionaries received. But

I believe you know, Malaysians we adapt very well because

we are a multi ethnic country and we adapt the

cultures very well. And I believe you know Malaysians can

be one of the largest sending forces. Okay, to the

missions field for now, I think worldwide it's still North

North Korea, South Korea, South Korean.

Sorry sorry, not North Korea.

Why I said North because this data is generated by Americans.

So they actually study.

The amount of percentage of North Americans being sent out

and they realize that there's actually a huge number of them.

All right, so yes, let's go on to the next line.

So all missionaries in the world in total, that only

four hundred and forty five thousand missionaries either Catholics or

Protestant missionaries in a rich ward. That's seven estimated at

seventy seven percent missionaries in the unevangelized ninety percent missionaries

in the unreached is only.

Three point four So I've got impass here for a while.

What does this tell you? I let you digest it

for a while.

So just don't remember, right, the unriched people groups, that's

about six thousand, six thousand ver unriched people group. Still,

But why are missionaries still scent and the focus is

still very much in already the reached world? For example,

Malaysia technically is reached already. I mean we have Bible

in different languages in Malaysia, but.

Why is that?

So I go bring it slightly a bit closer uh

the whole. And I was reflecting as I'm like God,

this speaks a lot about how we start churches as

all or how different churches are started, and a lot

of churches that true observation are planted and started just

to reach Christians. Very sad because, uh, there's still a

lot of unevangelized people, people who have not heard the

gospel yet, you know, just can be across the road,

across our talman, across the desk, uh, you.

Know, cubicle office space.

But people are still very focused and huge budgets are

still put in the churches to reach the Christians.

Uh.

That's that's the reality of things, you know.

Uh.

And and something slightly closer still, uh, you know our

focus and attention, you know, we have just all of

us have an equal of twenty four hours, seven days

a week.

Uh. And if you look at our.

Time, you know, how much time do we actually spend

with the Christians, with our friends who are already Christians, And

how much time are we spending uh the soul into

lives that are not believers yet?

Uh? And I do a very uh.

Real check for myself because I work in a y

a y A is a community of actually the majority

of my colleagues are Christians.

Only one she's not a Christian yet.

I believe one day she will be uh and and

really change chat with myself, you know, like, Okay, Monday

to Friday, I'm already spending time in the office with them,

uh and and and Saturday Sunday with church summer. So

what am I doing, hm to put my resources, my time,

you know, my my effort, my circle of friends as well.

You know, am I spending enough time with the unevangelized

group of people or can be unreached? Okay, unreached a

bit hard because of language barrier, but we can start

with unevangelized as well.

So just a yeah, a note for us.

Because I was doing this, I'm like, oh ouch, you

know I felt it a bit as well as God

was challenging me.

Okay, next, like.

So basically this fellow, uh, the ratio there just says

that there are thirty missionaries to one thirty times as

many missionaries go to the rich people go to work

with Christians to their as.

You know, do they unreached?

So that's a lot and we know that probably that's

why you know the world is still not done yet,

or there's still a lot of work to do.

There's still a lot of you know why you're host leader,

you know, keep you.

Know, riting like, hey, let's go for missions, let's sign

up for uh community outage, Let's be powered youth community outash.

You know, you know leaders here. Know sometimes I feel because.

I'm a homes leader as well, like why is not

people go why you know my homies are not going out?

The campus students are not signing it up. We keep

encouraging and encouraging.

So yeah, still a lot to be to be done.

But if everyone of us here play a role, right,

I believe you know, the commission will be accomplished.

All right, so next night, okay, Uh.

So I think my attention and focused, I mean I've

already eluded the percentage is still the same. But there

was a study done that So according to the study done,

it says that young people have always been leading the

way to go to the missions field and in the

US itself, roughly twenty one million university students that go

out to do missions.

Okay, so how about us here, you know a lot

of us here are still.

Young as long as below one hundred years. Okay, we're

still young.

Uh.

And university students, I hope this is relevant to you, okay.

And and.

If you have not gone for missions yet, at least once,

you know, do sign up and be part of it.

Ah.

The harvest is plentiful, you know, right, harvest is plentiful.

But the labors laborers are feel Okay, so is it

God's fault?

You know?

Is it God to blame for not calling to the

missions field? Sometimes it's like, okay, God, why are you

not raising enough laborers?

You know why?

It's only the faithful feel that's always going out and

reaching you know, God, why are you're not doing something?

But it's actually not that, you know, the person that

has to be blamed. It's actually us for not answering

the call. Okay.

And in Schurich, and it's not doing missions man. That

we preach and encourage, uh. And we talk about outreach.

It's almost every other way, every other day, but what

are we actually doing about it? If you look at

this right, there's a huge difference a start contrast between

missions feel the need there and efforts to fulfill the

great commission there's a huge difference still generally world wide.

I believe no extras is slightly better because there's a

lot of emphasis put and focus put into reaching the community.

But generally, you know, there is still a huge difference.

So Church, you know, I believe it's time for us

to examine our responsibility, how we use our twenty four hours,

seven days a week, and how and to examine our

commitments as well. Are there commitments in our life that

needs to be readjusted, restructured so that we have more

time to be God's missionary in where he has placed us?

Okay? Matthew, twenty eight June, Chapter twenty eight, verse nineteen

to twenty. Probably. Yeah, there is no mic to go around.

Today, but I probably just get uh the leaders in

front they just read can read it out loud.

I'm sure you guys can hear it.

Okay, likeness, maybe you look you're ready and you're there,

ready you can start first made twenty eight, verse nineteen

to twenty.

Yeah.

Amen, So right, if you can see here the Great commission,

most of us are familiar with it, but the instruction

from God right is really really clear, and it's a

call for all of us it's an instruction for all

of us to go therefore into all the world. Right,

what does all mean? All means all okay, all okay

and and and the world here to all nations. It

means ethnic group, those of you who are at homes

we studied already, is to go into all ethnic groups,

to baptize them, to reach them, and to teach them

everything that God has commanded us. All right, So if

you can see here the word command as well, It

didn't say is that, you know, to teach them to

obey everything that I've suggested to you. But the word

here is command. So if this is a command meaning

it's not a suggestion for us, maybe perhaps when you're free,

you could or you know, if you can, you know,

you can consider. No, the commandments go all right, and

and the word go is go. And there isn't a

suggestion whether you should go or not. You should go, okay.

So it is a mandate for all of us here,

believe us and and and a mandate for us to

participate to be part of missions. Okay, the missions at

our backyard, and also missions globally as well. All right,

everyone is good, so far, Okay, let's look at Proverbs

chapter three, verse twenty seven. Maybe Goco can read it

since the mine is next to her. Proverbs chapter three,

verse twenty seven. Proverbs Chapter three, first twenty seven. Do

not with whold good from those to whom it is

to you, when it is in the power of your

hand to do so.

Yeah, do not with hold what is good from those

who need it? Now you know why?

You know?

The word of God is good. Who God is good.

The gift of salvation is good. We all have it already, right,

It's given to us and we accept it freely. Ah,

but sometimes by us not going out, by us not

rendering it to another person.

We are here, bethholding. And this talks about.

A generous act of obedience, right, you know, we talk

about the command of God. Okay, the Great Commission is

a command, not a suggestion. So to obey that, you know,

it's it takes radical obedience because we are all humans

creatures of comfort, but these days creatures of high commitment

as well in a lot of different areas of our life.

So it takes being radical to continue to fulfill what

God wants us to do, all right, and and sharing

good and being good, being aware of our surrounding is

not uh, and.

It does not come automatically for a lot of us.

Uh.

That's why you know they have this whole bystander thing

in right, and studies being done and it's real by

being bystanders.

But can we be the first one to act upon it?

And and and you know, to reach out?

All right?

So we are called to act with obedience, but also

to be generous, okay, radically generous. And and why I

say that because being radically generous means that we prioritize

and we put others people's needs above ours.

Oh that's very uncomfortab and why uncomfortable?

Because being creatures of comfort, we tend to heart a

lot of our resources to ourselves.

And that's not why I just say. It's not what

I say.

But there are also studies made of it as well,

and there's very minimal resources used to actually direct towards missions.

Feel so it has that's why not as a church

we always have yearly you know, first parity platch. We

give you at least the opportunity once a year to

depart to part from all the resources that you have

collected throughout the a year, and you know, give it

towards missions. Yeah, so as a church, you know, we

have provided that platform opportunity. But now it's up to

us whether we want to heat that call. Romans, Chapter ten,

verse fourteen to fifty.

Can someone read it? Okaya?

No?

When I first met Shakina, I used to call Chakaina

chicaa glory. But now yes, Shaka.

Humans tend fourteen and fifty fifteen. How then shall they

call on him in whom they have not believed? And

how should they believe in him of whom they have

not heard? And how shall they hear with that preacher?

And how should they preach unless they are saying as

it is written? How do you defeel all the feet

of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring

glad tidings of good things and amen?

So how can they call on Jesus?

How can they declare that Jesus is my savior if

they have not believed? Right? And if they can't, they

can't believe because they have not heard. And then they

have not heard because someone is not sent to them

to share with them the gospel. So don't do your

neighbor and said, let's be a mission's force.

Okay?

So action.

Okay, call to action? What can you do? All right?

First is from James chapter five, verse sixteen. Wait January James,

chapter five, verse sixteen.

Okay, James, chapter five, verse sixteen. Confess your truspasses to

one another and pray for one another that you may

be healed. The effective furtheran prayer of a righteous man

avails much.

Amen, Thank you. The effective.

The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

That's the NIV version. And so even in missions and

try right do pray?

What can we do?

You know, we can pray and continuously keep the word

in prayer because our prayer should be directed to two ways. One,

we pray for the laborers. That goes out right like

we pray for them. But I realized that a lot

of times we forget to pray and ask God, God,

can I also be that laborer, be that answer right

to the lacking of missionaries being sent out. We always

forget that. It's like God, send send him and he

will go. But actually the song where we're saying, send

me and I will go. Right.

Yeah, So let's direct a prayer to the missions. Feel

that you know the need we met.

But can we also pray and ask God to prepare

our hearts or give us that hunger and yearning. And

first to see God moved in the harvards feel to us, okay,

in us and through us, all right. Second one is

from Second Corinthians, chapter nine, verse seven. Can someone read this?

Someone okay?

I can be oh, Second Corinthians, chapter nine, verse seven.

So let each one give as he purposes in his heart,

not grudgingly or of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Yep.

So what we can do first is to pray. Second

is to give financials, but not grudgingly. Past cannot always

like to say, you know, don't squeeze the note until

so tight, until that are gone.

Okay, that's the king of the country.

It starts crying on the money, you know, not grudgingly

or of necessity, because God loves a cheerful giver. Third

one is to just basically go okay, and it takes

all of us to be involved. What he can do

is start exploring ways that how you can actually do missions.

You totally have no idea where to start.

Can speak the buss Steven, you can speak to all

the leaders here are like, okay, you know I have

a desire to go and do missions.

Where can I start? And they can't guide?

Ill?

Okay, and be ready for them to give an input

as well. All right. I like this code by Claude Higmann.

He says reaching the world with the gospel is actually

not a resource problem. Every time we think it's actually

a resource problem, but it's actually a mobilization problem. And

I hope that we help we can help reduce this problem. Ha,

So that we kept proving wrong, Okay, and next time

we can just you know, say that he's saying it's

actually not true.

Okay.

So I'm going to close right now. We just reach

my own story of what God has been doing and

still doing him in my life in terms of outreaching Okay,

reaching out cross culturally. Okay, So those of you know

actually light it's been some of it.

Most of you don't know.

We started our worship service in twenty ten, but Homes

we started prior to that with Homes first two years

before that. So it's two thousand and eight, So two

thousand and eight till now, it's about sixteen years. So

I've been part of Neeli for sixteen years already been

around because God has not asked me to move anywhere else,

and to faithfully so into Nela until we see the

glory of the Lord even covers the whole on near life.

So but where it started, so nearly.

One of the very significant time, I remember when we

heard there's going to be a new campus coming up,

which is Salmon University. We decided to drive through that land.

We we what got a God is English roughly roughly

roughly love know where it's gonna be.

Uh.

So we drove there and it's a huge oipum plantation still,

but we can see some clearing whats happening, and remember

that we actually stretch off our hands and pray for

the land. Uh. And since then until now, I'm still

very involved in campus work. So anything that has to

do with university and college, like, I get very stood

up about it.

So pray, pray, pray, pray.

Then when the university came out, I was like, Okay, God,

the building is up, students are in. God, bring people over, Okay.

So that you can see a picture of the university.

It looks really beautiful, actually, uh, Shannon, you can show

the first picture is a building, so left and right

is a hostel sorry, I don't have an area view.

Uh this picture, I took it standing from a four

story building they call it D six, and it's the cafeteria.

Fourth floors of food and they have three blocks of cafeteria,

so there's a lot, a lot of food for the students.

That the middle tallest building that's their library. Whole building

is just a library. Okay, So this is Salmon University.

So unique came up and I'm like, God, where are

the people? And God started bringing different ones. So you

can show the next slide so you can see here this.

Is our second homes.

And back then, okay, back then we have such thing

as called the homes two point ol but we don't

have it now already.

But two point zero.

Why it's called two points because we don't have a

venue to meet. So we met for homes in McDonald's

that is near the university. So uh, and we have

to scale them because a bit hard to do worship

in McDonald's, right, A few hard to do communion and

collect offering in McDonald's. So usually we meet fellowship and

then straight into the Word. So God brought these people

and then we grew. We started having a venue to

meet because we got to know of our stuff. And

she's like, okay, you can use our space.

So the group grew.

Next picture, uh, and I'm going to talk about this

picture for a while because this home was a very

very significant homes for me.

I was done, you know, done.

This is actually in the classroom, so we'll finish, ready,

And then suddenly one the homies came up to me

and she's like and she was just sharing and powering

her heart out and she was crying and stuff like that.

But the only thing and part of the time she

was doing that all in Mandory and the point of time, right,

my understanding of mandori is like shaking. Us understanding of

mandory was close to none. Damn, Like God how and

I felt very very bad, you know, as a homes leader.

You know, God somehow give us a heart and a burden,

you know.

A shepherd's heart. And I'm like, God, why is she crying?

I don't understand.

Then I have to ask her, okay, you boss, I

don't don't don't, don't talk yet. Then I try to

grab someone to help me translate. So now that's the

tree of us involved. She will talk, talk, talk, cry, cry.

Then she stopped because translation is to happen, so I

can't understand. Then I speak in English, it gets translated

back then and there she starts talking and crying again.

So my God, this picture and this cannot work, uh,

you know for a person, because she was going through

so much. But I needed translation, and you know, I'm

not being sensitive, and I felt like, you know, and

I pray to God, God, you know, something has to

be done. And after that, you know, I had the

boldness and courage to sign up for my drink class.

I was doing what kindergarten Mandarin.

Uh.

But because I'm like, okay, uh, this can't go on forever.

Uh.

And but at a part time, when I signed up

from mandorine class, it took a lot of courage because uh.

At a part of time, I didn't know. I have

a fear of learning mandriy Uh.

I'm from Penang, I I I and my dad he

is Akan, so in the family he had just speaks

English with his siblings or Bahasa Branakan with the other

older relatives.

So at home he speaks English with us.

We can't understand basa banaka, but we just speak bassalla

all right, Abasa Malaysia.

And then Hokien. We got going on Pinang.

They're just surrounded by everything Hokien, so there's no need

the big mandarine. And I studied in the public school,

so it's not a mandarine school as well, but in

the kindergarten. During my kindergarten years, my dad my parents

wanted me to pick up mandrine. Uh and and and

they sent me to a mandor in kindergarten. So our

deaf or mine.

But every day I go home, I'll cry and I'll

complain I don't want to go to school anymore. I

was sent to.

School and I was about three two and a half

three years old, because I was so eager to start school.

Uh and my parents started me quite young actually in kindergarten,

not childcare, but it's kindergarten already.

With the excitement. Everywhere I go back there, I'm like,

I don't go to school, Abro. They're all aliens. They

don't understand me. I don't understand them. I don't speak

alien language.

And I kick out a fast and I didn't know

that became engrain So anything that has to do with

Mandarin I always reject.

And and that's one of the things.

And when I came to Ko to study years, so

you know, hocker for your order, and Auntie will always

I just speak Cantonese or Mandrine. Do you then every

time I I didn't know I can reply and hogen now,

but now I just Dogen, so I reply in English. Uh,

and always get scolded by the older generations like why

are you Chinese? Can you speak Chinese? That I resent

Bendrain even more, right, But I'm like, you know, mandre

is used to colonize the and control the people of China, right,

they wanted to unite with a language anyways, So God

revealed that with me, and I had to repent, and

I'm like, okay, God, sorry that I called all the

Mandaris people speaking people aliens and I didn't know. I

still have that at the back of my brains. That

crystal ball wasn't fully flushed up. If you wash inside out,

it's still hanging in the air. So so because of that,

I'm like, okay, God, I'm gonna repent, I'm gonna change,

and I'm gonna learn Mandrin. So I went for that,

and along the way, I can't remember what's my next picture?

Okay, the next picture of us.

So along the way, God started bringing more people over.

And this is like the courting of Salmon University. So

my host I decided to plant the holes because the

Light Leader sent me out and I was all alone,

but so I built a team from scratch.

Uh and and Mandory speaking people started coming.

Next picture and then uh, this is one of the

first year when we had the Mooncake festival. We sent

uh Okay Festival autumn mid autumn festival for the Chinese community.

We sent a bus over and it was a bus

two busloads.

Actually just this is just one of them.

Two bus loads of Chinese speaking people coming from mid autumn.

And that year I could couldn't fully understand mandring yet,

so I ran there, but I said try the whole session,

not knowing what's going on, but I tried to connect.

With them on the bush.

And the next picture, okay, go back to the picture

where that's elder Sally are. So after that, you know,

God challenged me, is like, hey, Ron, you know it's

time to you know, connect with this community the next

level because they can come for homes, but in church

when they come to church church service, right, they still

feel really really lost because of the language, and and

God challenged me, why not bring up to the leadership

team of Newlai. Then, okay, our leadership team has changed

quite a bit. Bring it out to them and suggests

to have a bilingual worship service in their life, both

English and Managin. I'm like, what, so run out a

team and guess what the team's response was, Let's go

for it.

No, they're not like you guys amazing here. They were

like what. I faced a short time of opposition.

I was like, God, I'm not going to do this. Okay,

one is already language yourself is tough, but you have,

you know, led me to speak up for them. But

now the team that I worked so closely with, you

know people, I thought, who are you know, fellow laborerous leaders?

You know I share that and they say no, It's

easy to face rejection from by strangers, but rejection from

your own people very very high digest I was like, God,

this is all because of you. Uh And many many

times I share it alder shely and I'll be like crying.

I'm like, God, why am I crying?

You know?

These are all aliens to me, And and and then.

I realized I realized something because God, after that revealed

to me, I was so worked up by it.

I was so affected by the nose and rejection.

Uh do reach out further to this community because I've

already seen them as my own.

Uh.

And when God revealed that to me, I'm like, Okay,

I should not call them aliens anymore. They are my people.

That's why I should speak up for them. That's why

I should stand on behalf. Although my mandory now is

not really good yet, but I can understand way way better.

So that's where we kick started our first bilingual worship service,

the one around it and eventually came over to really

help us get started to get trained. Uh waity jealously,

I don't have time life, okay, so I gotta move on.

So the community of Manday speaking students has grown and

post pandemic when we restarted write uh so Act NEYL

was the last church plan to restart our service. UH

one is because it's a different state Malaysia had a

lot of restrictions than the second was the venue that

we used to meet close down their business affected. The

whole hotel actually closed down, so we couldn't find a

suitable venue, so we restarted as of today, about two

and a half years ago only for our worship surveys.

We really started with twelve people actually live. Bilingual services

started seven years ago, so you can do your calculations.

And we asked God, God, we're doing let down the nets.

But you know, God led us to do different Mandarin

alphas to reach out and at least the past one

year itself one and a half years now already, if

we look back, we have seen about close to sixty

responses okay, either people giving their life to Jesus or

rededicating their lives through the different initiatives we do through

homes as well, small groups as well, whole Sunday service

so and we had Arrivel tour and Neli orso. So

we have seen a lot of responses and majority of

this response I would say almost can actually come in

one hand. But for people who are only English speaking,

the rest are all Mantain speaking people.

Uh and and and and I believe you know, God,

you know showed me again.

It's like, hey, you know, as long as you step

up in obedience or theoretical obedience for me, uh and

and this I see it as a long term missions

for me. Long term cause cultural outrage for me because

I'm still yet to fully understand the language, uh, and

yet to be able to understand the culture fully as

a just different different perspective of looking at things like so. So,

but God has worked and we have seen how to

the salvations and we dedications. The local church gets edified

only sixty you know, doesn't not all of them come

to action, which is totally okay. You know, they go

to the different churches in their life, and the different

churches in the life gets blessed that well, all right,

So because of that, the work has grown and you

can go to the next light.

Now I'm going to close close. This is likesday.

Annualdy got started using our so from Salmon UNI. The

next revover that happened was with ipg Our ipg Our

Teachers Training Institute in Eli and in the whole Malaysia

there are twenty seven IPG branches.

Okay, so Neila is just one of them.

Uh.

And God started working in a Mandory speaking community that

just the last two and a half years.

Because all students graduator, even Salmon, we didn't have anyone

left from the campus or so, so we really started

and God brought a new wave in.

I thought we'd be English speaking, No, it's all Mandriam again.

God brought them in and and because of what God

is to done, I don't know the time to share that,

but yes, paved the way for other IPG. So the

other ipges started approaching us to say, right, we want

what you have. What God is doing in your campus.

Uh their small girl itself now is about close to

seventy people that they have in their small groups already,

and they are the minority population in terms of the campus.

Eighty over percent are Muslims and the rest is not.

So God is doing something amazing. So this girl that

we met up, she's from the campus in Pahan kalipis

next and because of the work there and what God

is doing to IPG, we could bring the stories over

to Unit ten.

This is Unit ten.

Thank God, it is speaking and Bahasa speaking, so we

are helping to encourage them there. And I brought Angeli

Angelius our IPG is to and she got revived as

well the last two and a half years. So uh

so now God is using the vendering world to bless

the other campus. Next picture Oh sorry, uh yeah, you

can go to the next one.

So this this unit. Then this is their second small groups.

I joined them.

The first one there's only three people. But after that,

you know, they started growing. Okay, next picture, Uh, this

is with the IPG in Charras.

Uh.

It was their first physical campus revel together. They are

small groups together. Uh, they didn't have a conducive space

to meet. They didn't really know how to worship lead,

but they just sang songs. But during uh that worship itself. No,

no worship yourself. So campus ravel, let's pray, listen, obey

a witness. So during listening time, when everyone is just

quieter and down listening, the spirit got decided to move.

Two of the girls was very deeply ministered.

Uh.

They were crying and crying and crying cannot stop until

that when campus revel and about lunchtine they still cry

and cry and cried then Uh and they shed actually

because they have has been long that they felt such

warm love from the from God.

Uh.

They say that I don't know why, but they say

that they.

Felt very very love. At that point in time, no

one was saying anything. There wasn't any music going on.

Everyone was just quiet by God.

Moved, so it was very very powerful. Next picture, Uh

that was Mandarin.

Uh.

This is a Bajasa small group uh IPG as well.

The campus is next to U M m PG. So

uh this during worship uh becus I joined that for worship.

Also, I'm like I.

Was cringing the whole worship because I'm like, okay, if

only they can do this and do that. So the

mine started working right because I wanted to debrief and feedback.

But when we started singing a second song one ago,

she was deeply ministered again. Or she started crying and

cannot stop until campus revel and then I'm like, God,

what are.

You doing again? And then so she shad.

She said there has been one year she has not

felt the presence of God. She has been doing her

devotion daily, she's in church, serving in church as well.

But she said she felt very very dry. But during

worship that day, she said there's a very heavy uh

impression weight on her her she said her chest area

and then she felt, you know, God just enveloping and hugging.

She said, if that wait is as if someone is.

Hugging her very very tightly.

Uh, and She's like wow, Uh, God has moved uh

and has been one year. She was she has been

hungry and yearning, but nothing happened and that day so

it wasn't comfortable for all that because they traveled by train,

heavy heavy range. They're actually all drenched something is actually

really cold, acorn and drenched. But she felt God's one presence.

So you know, God is working. Okay, I think that's

that's all right. So why I'm sharing this destiny because

we do not know just through our faithful obedience, faithful

swing right, how God will actually multiply uh, everyone's our hand.

We may not see it in the first generation, but

God can still work, all right. So my challenge to

all of us here, you know, is what is God

challenging you to do today?

To start doing today?

And and our role and our part is to answer

his calling, to answer his command. But the Lord will

be the one that causes us growth an increase because

for Christians, a lot of times sometimes you're like, Okay, God,

I do this for you. Really I expect something in return.

I expect you to work, but that is not within

our control. Yeah, our expectations should be on ourselves, like okay,

have I have I fulfilled the command and the mandate

that God has given to me what He has called

me to do.

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