Barbeque!

Yesterday was great. We had barbeque at church, for the first time, if I'm not mistaken. Managed to invite over 100 people to this seeker meeting -- good turn out in such a short time. Prayers are sent up to heaven and I'm 101% sure God really answered all of our prayers: good weather, good turnout, good response, good coordination and organising, etc etc etc.

We started cooking the food at 7.30pm, a little late, but nonetheless was able to cook relatively fast to feed the people. But everyone was kind of famish, so there was a break at 9pm, everyone went in for the video, followed by altar call and ministering. Video show was about Todd Bentley sharing testimonies and healing power of God -- great message. Ministering song: Because He lives -- beautiful touching song.

Meanwhile, a handful of us who remained outside continued to grill the chicken wings, cook sausages and toast garlic bread. I'm pretty good at thawing the sausages and toasting bread over the barbeque fire now, haha... Supply looks good to be able to feed the people again when they finish ministering inside, or so I thought at first. Well, it turned out that when the people come out they were still rather famish and in seconds (yes, mark the word seconds) all the food were gone and we were back to a kind of frenzy to cook as fast and as much as possible to keep the supply going. XD Though it was kinda slow because the fire is running low fast, I suppose the people are happy with the overall organising and it was all very well done because everyone had enough.

I think on our community side, some of them must have been touched by the message, but some of them I heard slept through the video because they couldn't really understand what was shown. Well, may the Holy Spirit still touch them and give them dreams. XD. Yea, really need to work on them, not just befriending them still, keep asking them how they are with their studies and all... God give us wisdom!

After all that, we started cleaning up, and boy it was a very messy cleaning up! I don't think I've ever seen the pantry area as dirty and muddy as it was last night. And trying to get the burnt stuff off the barbeque wire, ooohhh... it was tough. At one point I was thinking, God, please let us have a bigger toilet and pantry area! XD. So after washing all the oily cutleries and utensils and tools etc, we washed the toilet too, cos there was just too much mess. Oh, by the way, I was already covered with layers of sweat, smoke, ash, barbeque smell, mango cordial juice, oily water, etc at this point. XD Good, I needed some splashing to get off that sticky feeling.

But yea, over everything, I was extremely happy to be helping out. And with the kind of turnout, whooh, it's just a great sense of achievement for all of us. May the Lord continue to let the knowledge of His glory fill the earth, as water the sea.