Team Toowoomba

The team (less Jiaren the photographer) - Stephane, Edna Will, Yew Meng, Andrea, Elana, Benjamin, Jason, Patrick, Andrix and Seng Yee.

Yew Meng and Elana, our good friends who lead a church-based ministry to international students in Toowoomba, arrived with 10 great folk last week. Most of the team members are uni students in Toowoomba. They are an international bunch - Singaporeans, Malaysians, Bruneians and Chinese.

In their five days here they ventured where no teams we know of had gone before - out to three provincial churches in the Kampong Cham area. Village outreaches are very different to here in the city, and they experienced the fair dinkum mckoy - booked into a rowdy Cambodian outback bar (they moved!!); an open-air Christmas outreach meeting at the end of a outright scary track that their van-driver charged into like a death-wish ... and more. Their prayer lives appear to have improved greatly ...

Their first few days were around town. I tagged along for their orientation morning with Karen Hanna (an amazing Aussie girl who organises the schedules for visiting teams) and discovered lots of stuff about the the church and various ministries .... after 18 months of being a part of the place!

Elana - a one-woman evangelistic dynamo. Her last words to me - to get follow-up sorted for the van-driver because she led him to Jesus the day before!

It was a full-on, unforgettable experience for these guys and we just loved having them! Now we are a bit wiser too about what to expect in village outreaches ...