Six Months since We Returned Home (September 17, 2020)

It has been a long while since I stayed at one place for longer than six months until now.

The past six months have been a time of resting from the accumulated fatigue, recovering from physical dysfunction, and refocusing on the SfK Ministries.

The following highlights what happened during the six months.

COVID-19

This pandemic has thrown a curveball at the entire world. Many people have suffered and died. More people have suffered from economic hardships and political turmoils. This situation is not showing clear signs of stabilizing or recovering. A new norm or new reality is a new vocabulary in vogue.  

Probably I suffered from it, too, although I never got tested. I am grateful that I am now fine.

SfK made Emergency Relief Grants to seven members of SfK MB Community to help them overcome their own cashflow or share foods and basic supplies with the people in need in their neighborhoods. 

Natural Disasters

On top of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries have been put into natural disasters, such as floods, hails, earthquakes, hurricanes and typhoons, wild fires, landslides, locusts. Many countries have experienced them, but more severely in China, Korea, USA, Bangladesh.

Political Abuse

Many people in power have taken advantage of the pandemic-related lockdowns to strengthen their political power. Fake news and disinformation have been rampant. 

In the midst, God has shown His grace of creativity so that we can still move forward with submissive resilience.

SfK MBA's online training program, called BMT, was launched. It still continues, but it is definitely a creative way to continue our equipping role for missional businesses.

The BMT would have not been made possible without the help of Freedom Film Productions. We signed up a partnership agreement to collaborate for His Kingdom. Their timely assistance has been tremendously valuable.

Amanda is pregnant and the baby is expected to be born in November, the right time for us to arrive.

We have made a decision to leave Thailand, due mainly to hovering uncertainty over Thailand's restrictions on the entry of foreigners into this country. We have sold major items, such as our car, motorbike, sewing machine, refrigerator, freezer, foot massage machine, etc. It is going to be another cross-border move. 

The world still rolls around despite the COVID-19 pandemic. China seems to be now exposed to the world for their lack of transparency and oppression on minority people, including Uighurs of Xinjang, Tibetians, Inner Mongolians, and now Hong Kong. The tension between Taiwan and CCP is growing and the US has taken aggressive steps towards the ever-greedy CCP of China through an alliance of Western Europe as well as Asian allies, such as Japan, India, Australia. Somehow, Korea is still sticking around China and it makes many people antsy and angry. 

In the midst, US is going through the presidential election between Trump and Biden. No one can tell who will win. Only God knows and I trust that He will intervene if the evil forces cross the line. India and China are also growingly more hostile towards each other and they standoff at their mutual border in the Himalayan mountains. Huawei, TikTok, WeChat etc of China are getting cold face from many countries for their national security concerns. 

It is indeed confusing and I do not know where it is going. But, I confess my trust in the sovereign power of our God and I trust that He will reign and take necessary actions as He deems just and good. In Christ I believe, I love and I serve, I move on. - Jeffrey