Returning to Singapore in 2020 after having served as a missionary for a total of five and a half years in Cambodia, I envisioned living a quiet and peaceful life in full retirement. But God had different ideas for me.
In mid-2022, a church leader asked me if I would consider taking over the Chairperson’s role in the Missions Committee. I was dumbfounded. I had never been in the Committee as an ordinary member, how could I lead it? Filled with doubts, I asked for time to pray over it.
I accepted the role and agreed to try it out for one year.
The first year was full of daunting challenges, the first of which was that I was not only a newbie but also the only female among a team of seven. While dealing with the challenges, I also had to restart mission trips and other activities which had been put on hold during the Covid years. Yet, by the end of the first year, all the problems I faced were resolved and the mission trips and other events were conducted successfully. God had played a big role in all this.
That one year’s “probation” has since lengthened into three and a half years. Why did I stay so long? I stayed because God showed me that all things are possible with him. He had made possible a medical trip to Nepal which almost everybody had said couldn’t be done and trips to a restricted country which others had cautioned me against going. He has provided all the resources we needed for all the trips the past three years.
Thus, instead of retiring in peace and quiet, I have been “re-tyred” to be sent back into the mission fields, not as a missionary, but as a mobilizer and enabler of missions.
