Thursday, June 09, 2011

CG Retreat cum Missions Project

3rd – 7th June 2011

It was a great rush to the airport! In the end, Michelle, Albert, Aaron, Jamie and myself made it to KLIA rather early. We met Alex & Grace for supper in Kuching. Peter & Sharon, our wonderful host not only opened their house to 8 us but drove us around in 2 cars throughout our stay.

The next day, we took a ride to Anah Rais Longhouse to take some shots of their lifestyle. We also went to Semengoh Wildlife Rehabilitation Reserve to see Orang Utan feeding. We were very blessed that 8 of them came for feeding. The last one that came was a huge one called Ritchie. The others seemed to run away when he came. Guess he is the boss! Marilyn finally joined us after that - after working on her road show event. We went to the "pasar" to check out the local stuff.

On Sunday and we separated into 2 groups to do some recording. I went to Christ Baptist Church’s Iban Service. Knowing out little understanding of the language, Pastor threw in quite a bit of English to help us. Oh, and somewhere in the middle of the sermon, I became a “prop” for an illustration. His advice was never go to sleep with a barrier between husband & wife after an argument. It was an emotional time for the church after the sermon when pastor told them to go around and seek reconciliation.

We proceed to Convenent Fellowship Centre after to join the other group for a few more testimony recording. It was rather tiring especially more for Grace as it was after a full day wedding shoot the day before. So we watched Xmen that night!


The next day, we went to a village to record more testimonies. By the last day we were pretty tired out. A number of us went for a nice good massage before heading back home! In between all that, glad I managed to squeeze some time to meet up with Andrea. We haven't catch up since we both left our previous job.

My highlight of the trip is definitely the faith testimony of these people.