Its been a week that i am here in Singapore. Learn a lot for the past few days. And tonight was a blessing. Got to go out doing street ministry with YwaM Singapore. Never thought there’s YWaM in Singapore.
So, it all started a few days ago when uncle Jacob came over for lunch and shared about his life and ended up inviting me to join his Monday ministry with YWAM.
We went out earlier tonight at 9 pm and gathered at YWAM base in Geylang where some other YWAM’ers and volunteers were preparing some food for the street ministry. We break up into small teams. I went with Lona, the leader. He’s a guy from Tonga, Nicole a Singaporean and pak Anwar from Surabaya. I was worried actually since tonight was going to be my first street ministry abroad. I didnt know what to do and above all, since we were going to minister to the homeless in Singapore (I didnt know there are homeless here), I was afraid that I would give food to the wrong people since I cant tell which ones are homeless which ones are not. Haha. :D
So we went and I was shocked at the sight of those people. Back home in Indonesia this thing is normal. We have quite a lot of homeless, but here in Singapore... come on man, you gotta be kidding! Some of them are Malay, some of them are Chinese and some of them are Hindi.
Long story short, we met many of them. Me and my team managed to minister to some Malay and Chinese. I was schocked upon knowing that some of them are actually from Indonesia. They migrated to Singapore many many years ago. The ones who I got to talk to were Ahmadi and Usman. Ahmadi seems to be the healthiest and stronger one among them so he look after his fellow homeless. When they are sick, he will be the one to share money or food with them. They are muslim but they were open for conversation with us. I was cut to the heart when looking at Usman who is sick and couldnt move his hands so my friend Nicole had to help him sit and feed him. I could really see love tonight. I remember the story of Moses when God appeared to him in the bush, he asked for God’s name and He said “I AM WHO I AM”. To me, that was a mysterious name. But now I really understand the meaning of I AM. HE is what He says HE is, HE is what we need HIM to be and above all, HE is where we want HIM to be. HIS nature is revealed in His name. He is not confined by time and space. In the bible we see God’s names reveal His very nature. Jehovah Rapha (The Healer), Jehovah Jireh (The Provider), Jehovah Nissi (The Banner of Salvation), Jehovah Shalom (God of peace), El Shaddai (The Almighty) And tonight I really see the great I AM on the streets of Singapore.
What an awesome God we serve. He is always present.
I’m impressed with these YWAM’ers and the volunteers. How they love these people, they dont even hesitate to hug them. I’ve been learning that God is love but tonight I really see Him through the love of His servants. I was reminded of the scripture in John 13:34-35 that it is through our love that people will know we are Christ’s disciples.
Sometime we dont need to preach with our mouth, some people might just misinterpret it, but our action speaks louder than our words. Your life can be a living bible for people to read. When people cannot read the bible, they will read your life. How true !!! I was talking with Ahmadi, i didnt even share the gospel with him but then he asked me if I’m muslim or Christian and I said I am Christian. He said ; I knew it. Only Christians would do such thing to help poor people like us. And then he went on by saying ; I’m a muslim but I dont know how much longer will I become a muslim. I’m here everyday but none of my muslim fellows come and feed me like you guys do. Now that i wonder what to believe. If I change my mind one day I might wanna talk to you. Only Christians care. Wow ! what a statement. And again i’m reminded of the sermon on Sunday service yesterday, the topic was somewhat amazing “Life is not about duration but is about donation”. Many are times we spent too much time wasting every second thinking about our pleasure, how to get this, how to do that and on and on, we forget that we are here to for a purpose and that purpose is to shine His light and make Him known and making difference in other peoples life.
God is so good. Today I see Him, the Great I AM moving in the street. And I thank God that I could take part in the ministry tonight. We usually have Singaporeans coming over to Kupang to help the poor and the homeless there, but tonight I was blessed to be able to bless those who are poor in Singapore. I pray for more opportunity like this.
To end this, I encourage you guys to show your life as living bible to other people, and for my Singaporean friends, you guys might wanna visit YWAM base in Geylang and join their ministry every Monday and Wednesday. You’ll be blessed.
YWAM Singapore
Nicole feeding Usman who is sick
Photos were taken secretly
Thank you very much, God bless.
