#1 Jesus is Alive!
This card, with its message of victory, is also the card that sparked off this entire project. God had prompted me to give this card to a pakchik sitting at the fish pond during Easter outreach. When he received the card, he examined it for a while, and turns out, he was an art teacher !!! A conversation about the illustration and the card eventually led to one about our lives, hopes and dreams about the future, and ended off with a prayer for him. Amazing how God used this illustration and art to bring people together. And so from this encounter, I set about to create more cards to tell the gospel story. Thank You Lord for such God-moments. You have always proven Yourself real and faithful, even though You don't have to!
#2 Campus Outreach
Just before leaving for Ho Chi Minh tomorrow, God answered my prayer for an opportunity to tell the gospel story. The pack of gospel cards hiding in my bag finally came out to play! Thankful for divine encounters with college students my age, who for the very first time, heard the gospel. Most college students leave their families behind in rural and mountainous areas, to study in the city and hopefully secure a job to provide support back home. Access to the the gospel suddenly becomes all the more possible, and I thank God for the opportunity to have been a mouthpiece of His grace and truth in this beautiful country to two precious girls. Thank You Lord for giving me the joy of planting seeds - what immense joy! - I know You will do the rest of the gardening.
#3 Cafe Conversations
Up in a little cafe in Ho Chi Minh did I find myself having an opportune moment alone with two new friends. Having wandered around the city with them for a bit, I often found opportunities coming close but then slipping away or getting cut. In my heart, I then acknowledged that only the Lord would be able to create the opportunity. And I've slowly learnt that God loves to answer His children when they desire to give, however little it is they have. I have understood that He just delights in our earnestness and all it really takes from me is a YES LORD TAKE THE LITTLE I HAVE BECAUSE I WANT TO GIVE SOMETHING. And He takes it and multiplies it and that leaves me in absolute delight of His glory. Witnessing with the art cards this time taught me that sharing the gospel is not all fireworks and shooting stars, but an ear-to-ear smile upon hearing such good news. Sharing the gospel is not about a loud convincing voice, but the gentle nudging of the Holy Spirit that I see in quiet contemplative eyes. Sharing the gospel is not always about yielding fruit, but about being a faithful and cheerful planter of seeds. Sharing the gospel is not a religious duty, but a response to God's amazing grace. Sharing the gospel is both man's testimony and the Spirit's revelation. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.” (Romans 1:16)