a little bit more about what i'm doing in sabah

for the benefit of those who am unsure of what i'm doing in sabah :)

In 2006 i took a gap year after spm to join a missions organisation called ywam - youth with a mission. i chose frontiers dts - discipleship training school (the most basic school of ywam) at brisbane and did my outreach in India. a dts is basically a 6 months course which has 3 months of lecture phase (kinda like bible school) and another 3 for outreach (missions). It was in that school that i felt a calling to my home - Malaysia, to reach out to my own backyard, culture and language. i felt a calling towards sabah and to love malaysia whilst doing my dts. i determined to fulfill this call once i had completed my studies. my call here was further confirmed when i visited sabah somewhere in 2007, while overlooking the town of kota kinabalu alone one night.

Upon completion of my studies at monash university this year and a couple of awesome years in between, i head back to ywam - this time to sabah, doing a bls - basic leadership school (a second level ywam school which basically means staffing two dts's - co-leading an outreach team on one and leading an outreach team on the other). i might, however, just be staffing one dts, which means just 6 months instead of a year (with an interval of 6 months in between too). for more info about dts/bls/ywam kindly google it :p

so here am i in kk, as the only guy staff at the school along with the base leader, in training and awaiting the students and school to start on the 22nd. mark and tammy (the base leaders) have been pretty awesome and the environment here is very family and home oriented. the main language here is bahasa, with a slight sabahan slang 'ba'. i need to learn up my malay, and fast! food here is similar, which is awesome, the weather's the same too.

Am excited for these next few months, God's doing great things already! like providing for us a place to run the school and other provisions in the nick of time. just found out that awesome people like josh yeoh (penhop) are coming as speakers too! how cool is that yo! haha

would appreciate your prayers and continued support, am still trying to figure out more about my role here, blend in to the environment, communicate effectively in bahasa and get used to the hang of things, along with hearing the voice of God and growing in Him, to be an effective witness while i'm here.

i will try to update as much as possible / or at least as long as there's internet connection :p He is good :) i need to constantly remember that :) till the next update, take care :)