Hubby left for Medan today for a mission trip. He will be there for about a week. I hope he would be able to buy Ambon cake for us. The last time he went to Indonesia, he brought bake one Ambon cake and I couldn’t get enough of it. This time, I told him to buy 2 Ambon Cake. Gonna eat till I drop. At the same time, I hope he would also have sometime to hunt for log furniture. I heard they have good quality log furniture at a very cheap price.

On a serious note, please pray for him and his team that they will be able to minister to the Christians in Medan. Pray that their presence there will be an encouragement to the Christians there and also to his team members as well. Don’t forget to pray for me and my 5 kids.

Thank you!

The mothers in my church suggested that we have Makan Fellowship (fellowship over food) every month and each of us mother take turns to host it at our home every month. It all started when one of mothers invited us for lunch after church service. We had a great time enjoying the delicious home-cooked food and the fellowship. Then one of the mother’s jokingly asked “So, next month whose turn?” All of us agreed that it is a good idea. Instead of scratching our head where to go for lunch after church, we just head to the church member’s house for a good meal.

We had Makan fellowship last month to celebrate the 1st birthday of a pretty girl named Leticia. This month will be my son 2nd birthday. I am still contemplating whether to invite them for Makan Fellowship. Can I manage with a newborn? I am not sure.

Normally what do you call them? A Song Leader or Worship Leader? I prefer Worship Leader because he/she leads in worship not just singing songs unto the Lord. I love it when my husband worship lead during Sunday service. Not because he is my husband but because he worships. You see, some worship leaders are so conscious to sing well when they are up there that they forget to worship; they just sing. We can hardly go into high praises if the worship leader does not worship. If you are a worship leader in your church, please worship God when you lead us. We don’t bother about how you worship the Lord, how you raise up your hands, whether you worship in tongue or not because we will be busy worship our Lord.

With GBM, hubby got the opportunity to go for more mission trip. The pastor of the church is going out to visit churches and families around Indonesia and East Malaysia. Since they are many of them, the pastor is training hubby up to lead others to these places. Hubby’s training begins with following pastor and another pastor of another church to travel around the globe to support and encourage the leaders and members of other churches.

As for me, I wish I could tag along but we can’t afford to drag all of 5 children with us. I’ll be here blogging and writing acnefree reviews while hubby have fun serving the body of Christ. Maybe one day, when the time comes for hubby to go for long term mission, we will uproot ourselves and go.

Last Sunday we have a fruitful meeting in church where we get to meet most parents in church. The food was more than we can eat! We brought spaghetti to the meeting and we brought the whole pot of spaghetti home which was hardly untouched. Don’t wanna cook spaghetti for pot blessed anymore!

The pastor preached about how to be a godly parent and how to raise godly children. Thank God we are on the right track but we still have lots to fine tune.

This July, hubby will be going to Medan for a mission trip. He will be following the pastor of our church to visit churches and families in Medan. This will be the first time of the year hubby will be away from us for a few days. I hope I can cope minding 5 children all by myself. Well, by then my youngest will be 6mo and she will be on solid food already and in a walker too. I hope life would be easier for me by then. Oh ya! I need to look for a good travel emergency insurance because Indonesia is never a safe country to visit these days eh. Praying for God’s protection upon them at the same time.

God has been good to us. When hubby steps down from full time service four years ago, he decided to take up business. Four years passed by and we have seen God’s faithfulness in taking care of our needs. When hubby was working in the church, he was given the opportunity to preach once in a while. In the new church, God has open up new opportunities for him to preach. Of late, he was asked to preach regularly in the church as the church pastor travels to minister to other churches.

As for me, preaching is not an easy task. It is an honour that every preacher should carry out with great care. And every preacher knows that there he/she needs to put a balance between giving a purely inspirational and a Word based sermon. Sometimes there is a tendency to preach a topic that the listeners would be happy to hear. Heavy topics like Bible Prophecy or last days prophecies are definitely not for the beginners. One has to do a deep study on the subjects to really understand it before preaching it to the congregations.

There are times when I see hubby at loss as to what to preach. But when God has given him the topic, then I can see the excitement in him when he prepares his sermon. May the Holy Spirit speaks and do the convicting to every listener when His Word is preached.

The date of the mission trip to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah has been confirmed. It will be a 4 days trip and we are so happy that we managed to get one of our ex-church members to help with our business. If we can have him for long term then hubby can plan to go for more mission trips which is his passion, his calling.

Yet again, I am stuck here with my own mission to raise Godly children. I thought marrying a soon-to-be missionary, I will be able to go for mission trip more often but I am so wrong. My last mission trip was to Sarawak a few months before we got engaged. After that, I’m stuck at home.

Anyhow, I am trying to help in anyway that I can besides praying for the team. I am hoping to be able to sell more Mr Plattie (Soft Toy) so that I can contribute to the mission fund. Unfortunately, I only managed to sell 2 Platties.

I did post my intention in FB but most of them “Like” my status and commented that I have a good heart. Don’t just “Like” and compliment me, support my good intention by buying some Platties for your kids lar.

This year, if God willing we will leave our hometown 3 times to go a weekend vacation. This will be a record breaker. Since I am married to my husband, we never get to leave our hometown more that twice a year due to his busyness with church and work.

Our family weekend vacation to Genting Highland is confirmed. We will be up there end of this month. This weekend vacation is sponsored by my dear advertisers. I have been saving up my USD for this trip for quite a while.

I was just telling hubby that after his mission trip to Sabah this September, we should make a weekend trip to Cameron Highland to visit a missionary family there. We have been telling them that we will visit since they left Kupang and started serving in Cameron Highland. This year is the best time coz come next year, we will be homebound.

So I suggested we go in October so that I can have time to accumulate my online income for this trip. At first I thought this weekend vacation will be cheaper than Genting coz we do not have to pay for accommodation coz we will be staying in their house but hubby said otherwise. We need to spend double that our Genting trip. Oh! The other half is to give them as love offering. A VERY expensive accommodation! I don’t think I will have enough for the other half and that I have to leave to hubby.

Last night, hubby suggested that we sign up for church camp which will be held this August. We will have the church camp at Port Dickson. Yippie! Another family weekend vacation for us.

Sunday is the only day that we get to be together as a family the whole day. Sunday is the only day that we can have lunch and dinner with hubby. Sunday is the only day that our children can have their daddy.

Sunday is also church day and the only day that hubby can fellowship with other church members. On other days, hubby will be at work from morning till night. He will have his tapau-ed food from home for lunch and dinner.

I don’t mind if the church takes away my hubby once or twice a month on Sunday but not 2 weeks in a row and for lunch and dinner on the same day. You want him but we NEED him.

I guess the choice is hubby’s. He got to be wise in choosing between his family and church.

I was surprised when hubby told me that he will be preaching again on Sunday. He told me that only only managed to preach 2 points and there is another 2 points to go but time did not allow him to do so. Tu lar…speak slow-mo.

This is the first time I came across a preacher that needs to continue his sermon the next Sunday. Those who preaches in series got lar.

Dear, dear, next time speak faster ok? Don’t be so long-winded.

That was hubby’s sermon last Sunday. For the first time, he preaches in Malay in church. He preached in Malay before but that was during mission trips to the Orang Asli and the Sarawakians.

How I wish I can share what his sermon was all about. As always, I am stuck in the Mother’s room trying very hard to listen to the sermon while other mothers chit-chat, their children busy playing and preventing my own baby from escaping the Mother’s room.

Hubby was supposed to preach just now but his preaching was postponed because one of pastor’s missionary friends from China came for a visit and she shared a long testimony; the length of a sermon.

Hubby is fine with it because some how, we knew that something will happen in church today and hubby won’t be preaching. Furthermore, hubby is not well prepared for this preaching and he will be preaching in BM.

So now, he has a week to fine tune his sermon and preach to the walls in BM. ;P

Sunday is the only day when we can have him the whole day. Almost. 10am-1pm we will be in church. After that it is family day.

Unfortunately, since hubby can’t join the church activities on weekdays, they shifted the meetings and men’s fellowship on Sunday night. So far, every other Sunday, hubby will be away from 7pm-10pm. By the time he comes home, all of us will be asleep coz the next day is school day. So we only have him to ourselves for 6 hours or so.

*sigh*

Hubby preached in church last Sunday. Honestly, I have no idea what was his sermon’s title! All I know that he preached about shining to the world, good Christian role model, be a good Christian role model and about the book Emotional Purity. He even brought a lollipop and licked it in front of the congregation! Go read the book and you will know what I am talking about.

A few hours before the preaching started, that was around 6am, I woke up from my nightmare and went to look for hubby to tell him about the nightmare and to be comforted by him.

It so happened that the dream coincide which his preaching topic and he shared it with the congregation! How embarrassing!!! Not only that, he went further and shared some personal stuff. The moment he said “Lastly…” I let go a long sigh of relief!

How I wish I was an Ostrich and I can stuff my head in a hole.

Hubby came home from church telling me that one of the pastors mother out of a sudden went into coma. The pastor requested the senior pastor to come pray for her mother and she got out from the coma. The mother instead scolded her for asking the senior pastor to come pray for her because the senior pastor is a very busy person!

Didn’t she realised that if the senior pastor has not come to pray for her, she might still be in coma??? She so funny lar.

The daughter said, “If she can scold people already, means she is very alive.”

I was quite upset when I was told by one of the mothers that mothers are no longer allowed to accompany their children in Sunday School.

This means that those 2-3 years old won’t be attending Sunday School because they are still mommy’s boy or girl. I wonder what is their purpose of having a Sunday School.

We want to start them young, letting them getting used to Sunday School but when we are not allowed to be there, our son and daughter won’t stay too.

Even though my girls are 6yo & 5yo, they have not get used to Sunday School in the current church I am attending because we always skip church. So they still wants me to be around until they have settle down for their lesson then I leave. This is not allowed too. They said that we are interrupting with their Sunday School programme. Me, standing at one corner and watching them is called interrupting???

I know who is the one who suggested this. He has only a son and his whole clan is attending the church; from the worship leader to the Sunday School teacher. Of course his son won’t have any problem getting around in church.

Since hubby is comfortable in that church, I will just let him serve there and I am thinking of going to another church with my children that has a more parent-child Sunday School kinda set-up. I was a Sunday School teacher too and I never shoo away the parents. They are much welcome to assist me and encourage their children to participate in any activities that has been laid for them.

I can rant on and on about this but I shall stop here and go find out what is an industrial clamps for!

Hubby may be able to get use the BM/English service but not me. I am ok with the sermons in BM/English but not the worship. I just can’t worship with BM songs. Malay is my first language but now, it is no longer my mother tongue. I think in English most of the time. Whatever I hear in Malay, my brain will automatically translates them to English!

For example, yesterday when I was at the government clinic doing my first check-up with them, I was asked, “Suami kamu bekerja dekat mana?” My mind translate the “dekat” to “near” whereby the actual meaning of word that the nurse meant was “at” (i only realised it when i see my clinic book!). So instead of giving hubby’s shop address, I told her that he works near Giant!

I dunno lar. Maybe I did not try hard enough.

After a month of skipping church due to sickness finally we were back to church today. We went to church but hubby did not enter the main service hall. He sat outside the main door, next to the toilet. Like “Jaga” for the toilet only!

Well, he can’t enter the hall because he was punished for skipping church for a month!

No lar…am just kidding. He can’t stand the air-cond due to his coughing. He even wore 3 layers of clothing!

We hope and pray that he will be completely healed by coming weekend.