Grubb Mission Report  December 2016

“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15).

A Work of the Chestnut Mountain Church of Christ, Chestnut Mountain, Georgia USA

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Singapore-Indonesia-Malaysia Trip (Nov. 21-Dec. 19)

   On November 21st, I began my 61st mission trip. I had an fast trip, with a short connection in Japan, to Singapore. I arrived in Singapore at 11 PM. on Tuesday night. The 9th Annual Four Seas College Lectures held at the Jurong Church of Christ began Wednesday morning. The theme of the lectures was: “Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth.”

   On Wednesday night, I spoke at the midweek English Bible class of the Jurong congregation. On Thursday night, I was invited to speak at the Chinese Bible class at Lim Ah Pin. On Friday, I participated in a question and answer session with Billy Bland and Roger Campbell. On Saturday morning, I presented my lectureship lesson. The lectureship came to an end on Saturday afternoon. There were gospel meetings being conducted each evening at Lim Ah Pin and Jurong. I attended the Lim Ah Pin meetings. Billy Bland was the speaker there.

   On Sunday morning, I was transported over to the Malaysia side to teach a Chinese Bible class and preach a bi-lingual sermon at the Johor Bahru congregation. In the evening, I presented another bi-lingual lesson at the new congregation in Johor State: Skudai. I went back to the Singapore side to spend the night, then took the boat ferry to Batam island (Indonesia) to begin a three day effort with the church there. Alex and Rita Daniel from Lampung traveled to Batam to meet me and Alex translated for me while there.

   For three days, we spent about 2-3 hours each night teaching on Basic Facts of the Bible. There were between 50-60 to attend each of the night sessions.

   On December 1st, I was in three different countries. I started out in Indonesia. By 8:30 AM, I was in Singapore. I then flew to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in the afternoon. My first place to preach was the Section 17 congregation. I taught the Friday night Bible class and preached both lessons on Sunday. In between I had the opportunity to visit with many of the brethren. On Monday, the Section 17 congregation had a camp in Ipoh. I spoke four times at the camp. It was a good opportunity to be with about 35 members of the congregation and some of their friends. I also was able to spend time with Mike and June Leong and my “adopted” granddaughter, Hannah. She is so much fun and so cute.

   On the weekend of December 8th, I was with the Kota Kemuning congregation in the Shah Alam section of Kuala Lumpur. On Friday night and Sunday morning, I delivered lessons from God’s Word. On Saturday afternoon, we had a three hour singing workshop. After the services on Friday night, I had the opportunity to visit with a few of the families. On Saturday night, after the singing workshop, several of the young people took me to dinner and had a number of Bible questions to ask me. On Sunday morning, before worship, I had the opportunity to answer more Bible questions during breakfast. After the morning worship, the brethren had a potluck at the building and we were able to visit further with the member. After the potluck, I went to brother Eng and sister Shirley’s house until Kam Wah and Janet Leong picked me up. I spent Sunday night at their house.

   On Monday morning, the three of us left for my favorite location in Malaysia – Cameron Highlands. We spent a couple of days up there enjoying the cool weather. On Wednesday, we came back and I stayed two more days in the Damansara area of Kuala Lumpur before moving on to my last appointment for this trip – Subang Jaya. Before going to SJ, I had some additional opportunities for fellowship with the brethren at Section 17.

   On my last weekend in Malaysia, I preached at the Subang Jaya congregation a three part sermon on “Speaking as the Oracles of God.” On Friday night, we had about 30 to attend the service. Saturday evening, I went to dinner with some of the members of the congregation. After delivering the final two lessons, Sunday afternoon, I traveled by plane back to Singapore and departed the next day for home.

   My flight from Tokyo to Atlanta was cancelled, but I was fortunate to get a flight to Seattle then get a seat on an earlier flight to get home just three hours later than I would have with the original flight.

   Thanks to all the brethren who helped to make this trip possible and successful. Thanks for all the prayers on behalf of these efforts.  

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SPEAKING SCHEDULE

2017

Jan. 31 – Mar. 14 – New Zealand (Arrive 2-2)

   2-9 Feb. South Auckland

   10-16 Feb. Hamilton

   17-19 Feb. Hawke’s Bay

   20-26 Feb. Palmerston North/Wanganui

   27 Feb. – 5 Mar. New Plymouth

   6-12 Mar. Porirua/Hutt Valley

   13 Mar. Depart Wellington

   14 Mar. Depart Auckland for home

Apr. 24-25 McCaysville Lectureship

May 6 GSOP Lectures – Mission Report

May-June – Malaysia

   June 1-3 Chinese Asian Bible Lectures

September – China

December – Taiwan

2018

April 15-19 Gospel Meeting – Shelbyville Rd.

Apr. 22-25 Gospel Meeting – Collinsville, IL

Budget Setting Time

Please keep our work in mind for next year when you plan your budget for 2017.

– John M. Grubb