Blending Trip to New York

11 saints from Montreal, 7 students and 4 serving ones.  Many of us testified that what we enjoyed the most in New York was just enjoying the Lord while we were together.  During our sight-seeing day, we stayed in the enjoyment by singing hymns on the streets, preaching the gospel, and reading the ministry book, "The Heavenly Vision."  We came to New York to see the REAL scenery, which is simply Christ and the church.

Beautiful skyline of New York from New Jersey,
which is directly across the Hudson River.
New York's skyline is about 10 times the size of Vancouver's

The same view at nighttime.  Absolutely amazing!
Which one do you like better?

Roommate Joe and I at the Apple Store

Caught a glimpse of the Statue of
Liberty on a ferry ride to Statin Island.
It lights up at night

My spiritual companion/housemate
Naifu and I at Times Square.
This place is always busy, even at 1am.

An almost perfect photo of me in Times Square,
minus a brother who walked in front of the camera :P

Naifu and I with the famous NYPD.
We preached the gospel to a few cops here

Times Sqaure again!  Minus that brother. haha

One point I recently enjoyed from our Morning Revival is that we are becoming the New Jerusalem.  Moreover, we enter into what we enjoy today.  The walls of the city are 'adorned with every precious stone' (Rev. 21:19).  One example of these stones is pearl, which is formed when sand particles lodges in the wound of the oyster, and the oyster secretes its life-juice around the sand to produce pearl.  The oyster represents Christ, who as the living One came into the death waters, and was wounded by our transgressions.  Through His death and resurrection, He could secrete His life over us to make us precious pearls for the building of God's eternal expression.

We must be those like Paul, who aspire to know the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death (Philippians 3:10).  To be produced as precious stones, we have to pass through a tremendous amount of pressure and heat.  This means that when difficult times come, the Lord does not want to take those situations away, but rather He wants to remain in the oyster so that he can secrete His life to us so that we can be transformed.

Midterm season is finally over and I have lots of free time to spend with the saints now.  I've attended the French home meetings/prayer meetings, Chinese home meetings and they have been great times of blending.  I still plan to visit Toronto before I leave to see my old spiritual companion Timothy Chung! 

As for my ankle, it is still swollen and is painful only when I do hard movements, especially jumping.  The doctor looked at my X-rays and found nothing wrong with my bones.  They suggested it could be  partially torn ligaments in my ankle joint, and that I get an MRI done.  Other than that, they said if it doesn't hurt throughout the day I don't need to worry about it and I can still continue with other light exercises.  Perhaps this could be a prayer request for me.  The doctor said it could be another 1-2 months before I am fully healed.  I am not really bothered by it, except for the fact that I really miss playing basketball and tennis.  Instead of playing on Fridays when I planned to, I join the full-timers coordination.

Thanks for reading and I miss you all.  Can't wait to see you all at the training or back in Vancouver :)