my first time...

today is Good Friday... yes, we have Good Friday every year - but...

today is my first time being in a prison (for 7 hours)...

today is my first time leading worship (should be sharing hymns, to be more exact) in English...

today is my first time sharing my testimony in English...

maybe u can figure out what i've done today... i (together with other ACMers) went to Pik Uk Prison for their Easter EMs organised by HK Christian Kun Sun Association...

we had three meetings to host: two in Cantonese, one in English... i was then "assigned" to lead the English one... really scary... coz i had no experience in leading a English worship... ~_~

it took me quite some days to come up with the songlist... we had a brief rehersal two weeks before... i wrote down all my scripts... all things were ready the nite before...

but things never happened as u might wish... esp when u thought that u had well prepared...

according to the rundown, we would have a 15-min hymns sharing before the sermon... but upon we arrived the foreign canteen (where we had the gathering), the speaker - Helen Reed - had finished her sermon already... she, indeed, had already been there for an hour and more...

well... we could simply sing the 3 songs which we had prepared... but what to do next... coz our session was supposed to end by 4pm, but now it was only 3pm...

okay... we just finished our part as planned... meanwhile Helen did a few sharings between songs... we sang Perhaps Love, More than Anything, and God will make a Way...

after those hymns - we had 45 mins left... so Helen asked us (our team) a very simple question - How did Jesus change your life?... simple but we needed to use English... ooops... hopefully with God's mercy, we managed to share our stories in English...

this is really a wonderful experience i ever have in serving Him... so many "first time"s altogether... thx God for letting me to serve Him in the prison...