Diaries of a Motorcycle Bride

Exodus 15:27 “Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water.”

Around the same time that Vincent got his new van (the one we’ve been waiting & praying for), I also received an invitation to help out with a kids camp. In retrospect, this is the best thing to happen to me in these 8 months. Below I’ve amassed a list of the 10 things that I’ve learnt and gained from this camp:

1. Greater clarity of how the lines of authority, mission decentralisation & that I am not free to do as I will (asking for my mission pastor’s advice, finding that I needed to get the local church pastor’s permission to join the camp etc);
2. Intense enjoyment of kids’ worship and the revelation that the way kids worship with a pure heart can really usher in the presence of God;
3. New friendships and contacts with locals & missionaries;
4. Received a double portion from the Lord in all the ministry sessions;
5. Attained my monthly quota of (my much-needed) English conversations in these mere 3 days;
6. Seeing how God uses me in little ways- be it selling t-shirts, pulling up a chair for someone or covering a sleeping kid with a coverlet;
7. Greater awareness of the differences between Vincent and my calling & ministry;
8. Greater awareness of how the Singaporean in me influences the way I run & do things;
9. Ability to exercise my creativity in this camp by making flags (yay!!); and
10. Finally the understanding that I desperately need to pass whatever tests God is putting me through now (endurance, flexibility) and my desire to be “promoted” from where I am right now.