……beau†iful.surrender……

so I decided I need to change some things strategically to better reach the young people in Hong Kong... so I will be updating my xanga more often now. I will try to keep both up though!!
My xanga is www.xanga.com/Miwa_Chan it's so weird. My name was chosen without knowing I would be living in Hong Kong with the Chan's....

6 people got baptized today!! Praise God!!! 145 people came to our service!!

My Hong Kong mom and dad are always really concerned about my face. It's quite funny. My HK mom makes me herbal tea to drink to clear up my skin, tells me to drink water and she's taken me to get a facial to pop all my pimples (and this was one of the most painful experience in my life). But then last night, my HK dad want to do something, so he told me to go wash my face, then he popped some of my pimples with a needle and put Chinese medicine on it. -_-

ANYWAY, I can't believe that it is now almost September. Summer went by so fast... I feel like I should have done more, but at the same time I'm no superwoman so I can't do everything but still... I wish I would have done more outreaches and more street ministry... but I can't take back what was done already, so I gotta be concerned with today!!

My Japanese is getting hideous. I dunno what to do!! ahh!

I was tearing up watching the Olympics. WHY? It just touched my heart to see soo many people from different countries come together and be at peace with each other. One World. One Dream. It was weird being in the country where the Olympic was held, I live one station away from one of the events =D Anyway, I started thinking eschatologically... every tribe and every tongue confessing that Jesus is Lord. I don't think I can even start to comprehend what it would look like if everyone worshipped our God together, with one heart, one vision. Even the thought of it makes me tear up.

we have such an amazing God!

it's so intense! it's exciting! I love it especially because it really reveals how great and mighty our God is!

I will be arriving in Japan Sept. 7. I'm excited. It'll be a time to take a step out of what I've been doing from June and renew the vision and see what God's done so far in Hong Kong. I'm also really excited to meet the new pastors that will be the full-time pastors here in HK!!! yay!!

Sometimes I think I beat myself up over things... God was telling me something in my spirit, but I didn't trust my spirit enough... in the end it got revealed, but still! I want to be confident that God DOES tell me things! >.<

I need to practice... sigh...

I can't even tell you how much I've learned about... life in these past couple weeks (that I haven't blogged.. haha)

God has given me soo many different opportunities left and right! It's been a challenge, but it's been awesome! I've preached 3 weeks straight and I led worship for the first time in a LOOONG time today!

For those of you who are not familiar with JLH, it's a bilingual church. We have services in both Cantonese and English. From worship, to announcements to the sermon. So even though my Cantonese is VERY limited, we have amazing people who help me translate. =)

I never thought I'd ever preach. Especially in a different country!

Our church is getting refined right now and it's great! Now we have more people focusing on the vision of the church, it's so awesome!!!

I went to the CHAN family reunion yesterday. haha. It was a Chinese Style Banquet. IT WAS CRAZY!! haha.. it was fun though =D

So the other day, I taught 3 different lessons at the same time. One person bass. One person guitar. One person keys. That was tough. haha. I didn't think I'd ever do that one. XD

praying.praying.praying.

oh and I bought CONVERSE ALL STARS SHOES! haha. I gave in...

2nd time speaking in church! whoo hoo!! It's amazing how God uses someone like me to speak to others!

It's been really cool being SUPER involved in this church, I never thought I would be like... IN it THIS much. know what I mean? well.. maybe you don't. but it's so fun! I feel so blessed!

everyone here wears converse all stars. and now some people from church are trying to get me to wear them too. and i think i might give in because i saw these really cute ones for really cheap... haha