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05/30/2026

Join us for World Focus tonight to hear from some new missionaries preparing to serve overseas. See you there at 7pm.

05/29/2026

Riding the Roller Coaster with God
Maggie Ting
My journey with God serving in WEC

My 20-year journey with WEC can be likened to a roller coaster ride – it was unpredictable but exhilarating. Let’s go!

First, the queue…

When WEC caught my attention, I was serving as a youth pastor in my church. God had called me to serve Him cross-culturally when I was 18; by then, I was 33. The following year, I took leave from church to visit a WEC project in Cambodia for ten days. A couple of months after my return, I woke up in the middle of the night for no reason. Then God gave me His “PowerPoint presentation”, which ended with a question: “Where do you want to serve?” I knew without a doubt that it was time for me to leave my parents and my church youth, and start a new life ministering to people in Cambodia. The leadership of my church and WEC Singapore met up and agreed to send me off to Cambodia by July 2003.

Fasten your seat belt, pull the bar down and hold tight

When I arrived in Cambodia, I had the sense of being home, although in the initial months I missed my youth groups the most; they were my greatest joy and fulfilment until then. Our wise Father showed me this ‘hole’ in my heart, I gladly offered it to Him, and He filled it up with His presence. “It is well” in my soul indeed!

Slow climbs

The months of learning a new language were a very humbling experience but rewarding- from baby talk, making mistakes and learning to laugh about it, to finally being able to understand conversations and then share God’s Word with others. It was not my sheer hard work but God’s grace and mercy on the Khmer people that the Lord enabled me to learn to communicate in my first year. I think He did not want me to mutilate this ancient language!
Read about the rest of this roller coaster ride here:
https://wec-sing.org/sb40/riding-the-roller-coaster-with-god/
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

05/28/2026

Pray for: Vanuatu
Vanuatu’s motto is “In God We Stand”. Pray that leaders of this complex little nation may be examples in doing so. Committed Christians played a major role in attaining independence, and they continue to help lead the country – not least is the President himself. Two of the main islands of Vanuatu are named Espiritu Santo and Pentecost – how appropriate for such a linguistically diverse nation! May the same Holy Spirit visit this nation powerfully.
https://operationworld.org/locations/vanuatu/

05/28/2026

Join us this Saturday for our World Focus meeting. We will be hearing from some new workers who are preparing to minister overseas.

05/27/2026

Pray for Tonga
-Pray for emigrant believers to cling to the truth of God's word as they adapt to life in their host nations.
-Pray for freedom from the love of money among young adults tempted to seek riches abroad.
-Pray for hope and eternal purpose for youth turning to crime and drugs as solutions to boredom.
https://prayercast.com/prayer-topic/tonga/

05/27/2026

Pray for Tonga
-Pray for emigrant believers to cling to the truth of God's word as they adapt to life in their host nations.
-Pray for freedom from the love of money among young adults tempted to seek riches abroad.
-Pray for hope and eternal purpose for youth turning to crime and drugs as solutions to boredom.

Tonga is an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean consisting of 171 coral and volcanic islands, 36 of which are inhabited by 108,000 people. Tonga is unique among Pacific nations in that it never completely lost its native governance. Tonga was a British protected state from 1900-1970 and later bec...

05/25/2026

Pray for: Tonga
A strongly Christian nation, Tonga sends significant numbers of missionaries from both Catholic and Protestant traditions, despite its relative poverty and isolation. Much more can be done; pray for the ministries of YWAM and other evangelical groups working toward this.
https://operationworld.org/locations/tonga/

05/22/2026

A Missionary Kid: A Perfect Cultural Mess

The most frustrating thing about being an MK (missionary kid) is not being an MK! As a child I grew up in a Central Asian country. Coming home I was uprooted from familiar surroundings, deposited back in my “home” country and expected to fit in. This doesn’t always work as well as it should. After 6 ½ years travelling and living in politically and economically unstable places, New Zealand is a shock to my system. I haven’t seen a single gun since arriving at Auckland airport 4 years ago. I have not heard the local imam’s morning call to prayer, nor felt the ground shudder with military explosions. Outside of other MK’s I haven’t met another teenager who understands why this is strange. Most teens I meet aren’t interested in the plight of spiritually starved people in faraway places. Few care that human rights don’t exist in many nations. I even met one boy who didn’t believe countries outside of NZ existed!
So I’m here; a quiet Year 11 student with a Kiwi accent. Over time my memories, language and behaviours learned in Central Asia have faded. I am no longer expected to be different. People don’t ask about my life overseas anymore. They no longer ask how I’m fitting into NZ, as I’m supposedly an established Kiwi now.
Only, on the inside I’m not. I’m a cultural mess...

Read full story here: https://www.wecnz.org/mission-kid/

05/20/2026

Pray for Solomon Islands

Pray for true reconciliation and unity to heal ethnic conflict and division.
Pray for the Holy Spirit to ignite revival as the Word of God is preached.
Pray for efficient and rapid progress of Bible translations into indigenous languages.

In 1568 the Spanish explorer Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira observed gold on the Solomon Islands, and, thinking it the source of King Solomon’s fabled wealth, he left the islands with their given name. This group of islands east of Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean came under British rule in 189...

05/18/2026

Pray for: Solomon Islands
Ethnic diversity and a divided geography (6 major island groups) create a divided society. Tribes and political groups live together, but struggle to form a unified nation. Outside intervention brought peace in 2003 and disarmed the militias, but deep divisions remain. These language and culture barriers also inhibit Christian work. Each small ethnic group needs a different approach and language resources. Denominations divide along tribal lines. Pray that Christianity may take root in each group in a relevant way, and can overcome division. Pray for true forgiveness and reconciliation that come only through repentance. Without these, the nation can never truly progress.
https://operationworld.org/locations/solomon-islands/

05/15/2026

Going Deeper, Stepping out Through Art
By Jillian Cheong

It all started in 2020, the first year of the Covid pandemic. All physical meetings had been disbanded and church services were livestreamed. With three young kids at home, I found it difficult to tune in to livestreamed services on Sunday mornings. I felt isolated and disconnected from church and community, and wanted very much to find spiritual feeding somewhere else.
The ARCS platform really helped me in this area. In our online arts devotional sessions, participants listen to a short 10–15-minute devotional sharing based on a verse or short passage from the Bible, then take an hour to meditate on the sharing and create artworks, before coming back to share in small groups what they created during their art time with God.
At first the idea of spending an hour to make a finished art piece based on scripture felt very foreign to me. But as I ventured into this through ARCS, I discovered the value of making art for God. Not only was the process of making art meditative, it helped me to go deeper into the word of God. It was a way of having a conversation with God, the image co-created with the Holy Spirit. The artworks made as a form of personal worship and response to God were also a blessing to others who attended the sharing. I started to realize that art can really speak and be used powerfully by God to minister to others....

Read the whole story here: https://wec-sing.org/sb40/going-deeper-stepping-out-through-art/