Sabah Mission Trip

Arrive back from SIBKL Sabah Mission Trip last night.

Though the whole trip was only 5 days from 3-7 September, it felt longer than that.

We started preparing for this trip since more than 1 month ago, meeting every Thursday night to meet, prepare, pratice, pray, share etc. I guess it must have been quite taxing for many people as everyone in the team are working and our practice always finish after 11pm. But I really think that it was worth it.

The main focus of our trip was in Kg. Meligan, situated 5 hours drive from Kota Kinabalu. This is the village where they had a revival back in 1977 but today the spiritual health of the place is not that good, especially among the young ones who didn't experience the revival. Thus one of our major focus was to see revival among the younger generation.

On the first day when we arrived at Kg. Meligan, we were well greeted with great food and a lot of performance. However we all felt the lack of true joy even in their worship. Like what our pastor said, it was singing for the sack of singing, putting on a show for men rather than truely focusing and worshipping God.

However at the end of the 1st night when an altar call was given, we were touched to see quite a number of people coming up to be prayed for. We were informed that this things doesn't happen often and especially not with those youths.

The 2nd day we had a dialogue session with the youths and it was a time where we got to know them better. Our purpose was to understand their situation in order to better prepare the upcoming mission teams that will be going there. I was facillitating the questionaire and had the opportunity to talk to a few of the youths. I was encouraged to see that a lot of them took the questionaire seriously and began to think and reflect on their relationship with God.

The biggest joy we had was probably on the last day. On Sunday we led the worship and followed by sharing of the word by Ps. Lee Choo. While most of us didn't know that, she told us later that she felt the Holy Spirit leading and she changed the whole message right that morning. The message was about coming back to our first love for Christ. During the altar call after the message, many people were moved and nearly all of them came up to the front, from the grandparents to the youths. Everyone were moved and touched by the Holy Spirit and many began to wept and cry. Our whole team went up to pray for them, some of us even prayed together with them in BM.

After the altar call, there was a man who said he had something to share. And little did we know that this man was once the elder of the church but he left his family 10 years ago and it was by the guidance of the Holy Spirit that he reluctantly came to join the service that morning. But God was working in his life and he began to confess all the wrong things that he had done to his family and asked for forgiveness. It was indeed a time of reconciliation. The whole family of the man came up to the stage and the elders of the churches prayed for the family. We were told that such repentance and reconcilliation was something that has not been seen in the village since the last revival.

Beside the man, 2 other men came up to share, stating how they have turn to charms and everything but that today they have decided to get rid of all the charms.

It was amazing to see with our own eyes the things that we've only read in the books or heard from other people.

There were also many miracles that happened throughout the trip, like how one media team member forgot to bring her SD card but another team member accidentally found out that one of her friends SD card was left in the beg; how a lost handphone was found after 2 days, how the weather was on our side when we had outdoor activities etc.

To God be all the Glory and may we see His name being Lifted up again in the land below the wind.