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My Day 5

Hi people. Today as i was thinking what to prepare as breakfast for Eelee and me. I stood there for 5 mins thinking if i should take the egg. The rationale behind this is that the team is really very thrifty. They'll walk three MRT stops to save SGD $1 of transport fare. But in the end can't resist the egg and cooked out own chicken mc muffin with egg. haa.. We're so fortunate in Singapore where we use 3/4 eggs to cook one fu rong dan. haa..

After breakfast, we left for the university of Chile. It is the best university in latin America. Guess what, it is located on a hill. So when you step out of the school building, there is mist all around and its much colder then the ground temperature. Just imagine schooling on genting highlands but just a colder version and the people around you all ang mo.. hahaa..

The view from the school overlooking parts of Santiago

As you are travelling up to the richest university in Chile, i was told that right outside the university, are some of the poorest communities in Santiago. What a difference you see. And the students will drive pass these communities in their flashy cars with huge indifference. The social divide here is obvious. The rich are very rich and the poor are very poor. Guess in Singapore we have a fairer system of meritocracy where even the people @ the lower rungs of the society have a reasonably fair playing field.

I love the way Julian, our church planter in Peru puts it,

"Our church does not function the way a church would function in Singapore, even at the pioneering stages. "Church" to us is a loose organization of fellowship groups.

Much of our work is club based (from the NGO - volunteer work), and from there, we slowly bridge towards Christian fellowship.

Hence, strategies change so much that possibly the only thing that remains constant is our efforts to extend God's kingdom. Everything else is a melting pot of different strategies and methods."

Amazing isn't it?

Regards,

Jie Hui

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The kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it.

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Saturday, June 09, 2007