Uncle Greg and Aunty Noeleen who led us on the trip Well, i'm back from my SE Asia trip for about 2 weeks now......it was........catalytic! It was really eye-opening and paradigm shifting too. We went to Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Korea - that's nuff for 13 days eh? we really maximized every moment and i have to say that in Singapore i was like a kid in a Candy Heaven! i was luvin every moment of it - the urban culture, night life, presence of the arts, role of the youth.....it actually reminded me a lot of TO in these ways. Singapore is not the most popular of nations when it comes to our western conceptions of democracy and liberty but it was like breath of fresh air to me. It gave me something to aspire to, especially when i saw the role of youth in the Church. They really have their place - in one Sun am service we seen b-boys and b-gurls doing their thing! The Church also has a lot of influence because they are interested in engaging current issues in a relevant way - Singapore will host the first ever Youth Olympics because of City Harvest Church and a Christian based youth NGO bid for it! Dat's influence fo sho...
View of Singapore from 30th floor churchKorea was madd cold! We were in Seoul and it was jokes cuz all the SA'n were saying how they look forward to Seoul's negative temps cuz they prefer cold over Singapore's and SA's heat. Well....it just took one gust of minus something wind and flurries to make dem dizzy! They must've bought out an entire store - 3 scarves, 2 hats, and much more per person! lol. But Seoul is an amazing, it's a HUGE metropolis - 10 million strong. We looked out from the Seoul Tower and all i could see was skyrises to the horizon. We also visisted Dr. Paul Yongi Cho's church and heard him teach - was a really interesting place. The Church there also has a lot of influence. We even went to prayer mountain and joined the ppl's there for late night and early morning prayers; that was an experience - you sit on the floor on these mats with little back supports....they're serious about prayer there.
Yours Truly proudly reppin da Dot in the Seoul TowerIndonesia was interesting - we went to the island of Batam which is only an hour ferry ride from Singapore. It's quite underdeveloped in comparison to Singapore, but i enjoyed the rawness of the experience if you know what i mean? reminded me nuff of SA and everyone there rides a motorbike - some had 5 ppl to one!
Motorbike Galore!Malaysia....well i missed this day trip as i was back at the hotel sick with food poisoning from Indonesia - terrible thing. Had me upchucking (lol - nice word) my guts out. Thank God, after an injection in my backside (those hurt!) i recovered quite quickly and was ok for the rest of the trip. We also had 2 nurses on the trip who really helped me out.
That fateful restaurant in Indonesia where my stomach met its MosesYa, it was catalytic in that it gave us a picture of what happens when certain principles within the Kingdom of God are lived out.... it helps one to conceive of what they're striving towards - not that we aim to mimic what we've seen but we've mos def been encouraged by it...
But on to better things - as you can see on my FB page i've extended my hand (or been extended to? Queen's english...) in marriage to a young damsel by the name of Lerissa Paul. Wow - it's been a journey, a beautiful one! God has more than restored, renewed, revitalized....as His word says, the latter will be greater than than the former! Our God is so great - when He restores what the locusts and caterpillars have eaten He makes it better than what it was before. Nuff said, in the pic below we were on a cruise in and around Durban to celebrate the engagement with close family > an epic night.....
So Family, stay intensely focused on this plane (you know which cliche i'm avoiding?).
Til we meet again,
Wunness
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