2009

The past year was a lot like a football match: it is one comprising of 2 halves. It was only 7 months ago in April that we were still serving in Japan helping out in the Tokorozawa & Ikebukuro house churches and running kid's club programs. Not to mention we were immersed in Japanese culture: speaking to its people, lapping up its food and watching its television programs.

Now we are back in Singapore, and a routine is taking shape. Our lives are starting to slowly but surely, resemble the life we left in 2007 to serve in Japan. Daniel has his regular day job as a civil engineer and Joy will be starting work helping out in the OMF Singapore office. We are also being roped in to serve in different ministries in church. Our diet has also completed reverted: Daniel once had Fried Hokkien Mee (the swimming in lard kind) everyday for 5 days. He has since learnt his lesson...

Life is starting to get busy for us again. In fact, with so much happening in the latter part of the 2009, it feels like years that we returned from Japan. Our perception of time seems so far removed from reality that it is surreal.

2010 will continue from the previous year as one of transition as we settle firmly into our work routine and move into our new place in Punggol sometime in mid-March. Japan is still very much in our minds and we keep wondering to ourselves if or when God calls us back into the field. Nevertheless, 2010 will not be a boring one for us and we will trust in His sovereign will and perfect timing for our future.