China Trip: Breaking through the great wall!

“This is the age of the quick work.” This has been fulfilled in the recently concluded trips in China and Indonesia; where God evidently proved Himself to accomplish much in so short a time.

The meetings in China could well be defined as a journey with a rough and starchy beginning yet with a smooth and overflowing conclusion. The fact is that the said meetings were close to being aborted due to the absence of the expected interpreters who for some reasons or circumstances were prevented to take part in the early stage of the convention. Indeed, the speakers and the participants were altogether caught flatfooted in the first two days. But there was a deep call from the hearts of the Chinese believers that God couldn’t help but to respond.

Truly, it was the hand of the Lord who inspired a brother who is a professor in one of the universities to be in the meeting. With a very little exposure in translating, the said brother was encouraged to do the interpreting and served as the ice breaker for the meetings to be pushed through. There’s another brother who’s fluent in English and was willing to support the cause but could not because he worked in a distant city came surprisingly at the height of the meetings because his employer assigned him to the same city where the conference was going on. That provided a momentum that the conference took its natural course and kept on till it came to a close. Then two more interpreters came out into the open and who then could stop the work of the Lord?

Ministers, workers and believers from several cities flooded into their chosen place of venue to convene in a ten-day joint fellowships and ministers meetings. Several Filipino ministers were invited to speak and to participate in the said meetings.

Three meetings everyday seemed to be not enough for the ministers and believers whose display of spiritual thirst was so evident. A miniature ministers meeting was also done in reply to the brothers’ request which they said was of great help and encouragement for them to dig deeper into the Message as there’s more to it. The ministers collectively decided to do it regularly among themselves in order to help each other to stir up the spread of the Message in China.

The Chinese brethren said this is the kind of conference they have been praying for such a long time. The brethren convened one month prior to the said meetings to come up with the agenda and questionnaires that would be discussed during the conference and did inform the speakers in advance for necessary preparations along with the formal invitation. One of the ministers said, “Had I not come, I could have missed such a heavenly experience of my lifetime. I’m glad I did.” Another pastor told the Filipino ministers, “These meetings will have a great impact in China in general and will definitely bring a new complexion to the ministry in particular.”

Every participant testified about the supernatural presence of the Lord felt in every session in the entire duration of the joint meetings that such a fellowship so hard to start twelve days ago is now heartbreaking to stop. In fact, on our way to the airport, a number of calls were received from the believers asking if the meetings could still be extended.

The Filipino ministers would like to thank all the brothers who helped for their financial participation and all the believers who prayed for the realization of this trip.

Brother Nestor during one of the recent meetings in China.

Brothers sing “Just to Be a Blessing” in a very touching Farewell Fellowship.