Countdown to Freedom Concert

3 more hours to the Freedom Concert!!!! We just came back from NIE (the place where we will be holding the event). Now Tim is preparing for his sharing later. Cambodians are different from singaporeans and to reach them we need to come across as friends and the challenge for Tim would be to bring the message across in a soft and gentle manner and less preachy. (Different from Singapore style ah :)) So keep him in prayer as you all read this as he is preparing for later. Tim feels nervous and yet priviledge. Pray for him to be able to connect to the cambodians at a friend level and be Spirit-led. Pray for the translation to be smooth also as he work together with somian. That there will be synergy and they will be in the same Spirit. The theme is on Hope and Freedom.

We did up the decor and it was fantastic! With balloons and the word: FREEDOM in front of the stage. The place looked so warm and welcoming after we did up the decor. Thank God for weiling!! We used red and green balloons to decorate the door (use the colour of the cambodia flog) and blue and silver balloons for the inside. We also did the props for the skit and rehearsed the skit. Due to language barrier as we do not have a translator for the skit, it will just be a skit on alot of actions, gestures, expressions and screaming, so while writing the script and acting out, must be super drama and exaggerated kind since there will be no dialogues or talking at all.

The plot of the skit:
A girl (me) is happy with her life and loves to study but has an abusive father (guan rui) as he loves to drink and he gambles. So one day while the girl was cleaning the house, she heard the dad coming home drunk. She quickly went to keep her money and hid in her bed under her blanket. Father came into the room looking for money but counldnt find anything and flare up. He confronted the girl and asked for the money but the girl refused to give him and he hit her and strangled her. In the midst of the struggle, the girl accidentally hit father with something hard and he bled and was so angry. She ran away out onto the streets and became homeless. One day while she was looking for food and she was really hungry after not eating for days, she found a mango but was bullied by another girl who took her food. She was in despair and desperation.

At this point, Tim will come in to share. I will leave it to Tim to update this part on his sharing. Then we will show a video on Jesus dying on the cross and at the last part when Jesus was hung on the cross, I will come in again to receive Christ's love for me and to have hope and joy in my life.

Prayer points for skit:
Please pray that the skit will be relevant to them and that it will touch their hearts. It will stir in their hearts and prepare them for Tim's sharing and the video of Christ and the altar call. Pray that i will be able to portray the helplessness and despair and hope and joy at the end. This is really a challenge for me, acting other roles would really be easier than helplessness and despair. But i believe that God will anoint me in this and that I will experience breakthroughs :) Joyce is my keyboardist. PRay that we will have synergy in the skit and that the music will bring out the helplessness and despair and also hope.

For this event, it is the first time they are doing something so big, invited 120 children and everyone is really excited. 2 church is combining effort to do this with us and also another stm team from hope singapore but the adults side. They will be doing a dance with some of the cambodians before our turn and their dance is about a group of 'dead' people coming to life after receiveing Christ.

Program flow:
ice breaker games
praise
dance (by marcus and his team)
skit
sharing
altar call (response)

Please keep us in prayer from 4-6pm (singapore time). The prayer points are at the side. I am so honoured to be part of this. So humbled also. This morning as we were doing QT on john 4:1-42, God spoke to me through (v35-38) and i was also reminded of the verse that God spoke to me about the cambodians when we first touched down at cambodia and that is 2cor 6:2. The harvest is now! "Now is the day of Salvation". I believe today and now (this time) is the period of reaping. Many people have been sowing and for years they have perserve in sowing seeds in the hearts of the cambodians and now we are part of this harvesting. It is a priviledge and a blessing for myself to be part of this, to be used by God and to witness what God is doing here. It is really amazing!

All of us are anticipating and the same Spirit is flowing in the room (summarised by serene). Tim is feeling nervous so pray for him k :) We are all fasting lunch and praying. Going to have a time of worship and prayer soon.

Hey all, i hope u all are as excited as we are and also capturing our heartbeat and Spirit there.