{FECA Vision Choir} Report No. 12

Tuesday, July 19 - We met at 6:30 in the morning to warm up our voices and then went to sing at 7 AM for the Tuesday morning chapel service for the faculty and staff of UPH, the university in which we are living. Although it was early, the beautiful chapel was quite well filled and we sang "Soli Deo Gloria" and "I Am" which really prepared us for the rest of the day's activities. It is always good to worship at the day's start. We then ate tea eggs and bread which Meiring cooked the day before in the Huang's apartment and at 8:45 went on the bus to head off to a men's prison, one which we visited last year. After we got processed, we went into the chapel which soon filled up to over 100 prisoners. The sweet presence of the Spirit was there and we started the service after worship singing the Palestrina "Holy, Holy, Holy". We sang several songs after that, Glory gave his testimony and we also performed the heavy burden skit which we made up earlier last week. Pastor Ben then preached from Luke and over 40 raised their hands to accept Jesus as their savior. We then had prayer ministry time as over a dozen prisoners came forward to ask for prayer. One man was from China and he came forward in tears. Meiring and Brian Lee prayed for him in Mandarin and he also prayed to receive Christ at this time. We then came back to the dorm to change and clean up a bit before heading back on the bus to eat our lunch boxes while driving to YKASI, the home for families of kids with cancer. We got there and were reminded again not to sing any religious songs, so we sang "The Orchestra Song" and ad-libed "Doh, a Deer" from the Sound of Music, Old McDonald Had a Farm, and a few other songs, and spent most of the time playing and praying quietly. St. Francis of Assisi said something like preach the good news, and use words only when necessary, so we had to learn how to share the good news with no spoken words. Most of the patients' moms were M people, but two M moms asked Pastor Ben quietly and specifically to pray for their child. On the bus ride back, we found out that the normal price to pay for a funeral is 5M rupiahs so the 20M asked for by the deceased's family (it turns out he is single, so it is his family) is quite outrageous. (Note that yesterday's report said wife and incorrectly stated the amount as 2M rupiahs.) We ate our box lunches at the dorm, had our small group devotions and debriefed. We then collected a donation to give to the bus driver, a total of over 1 M rupiahs in US dollars and 2 M in rupiahs with a couple of Vision members wanting to pray about how much to give, Thank God for the generosity of our kids in Vision.

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