A Carnival of Harvest!

"Say you not, There are yet four months, and then comes harvest?
Behold, I say unto you,
Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest."

John 4:35

When Jesus spoke these words, He was just outside the city of Sychar in Samaria. His disciples had gone to the city to find food, and Jesus had just met the woman at the well.

Jesus' encounter with this woman was life-transforming. He spent a significant amount of time talking to her about her personal life, answering her spiritual questions, and treating her with a level of dignity that had rarely been afforded to her. It was the first seed Jesus ever sowed into the heart of a Samaritan. The woman was so moved by His compassion that when she returned to her village, she told the people, Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? (John 4:29).

Over the years Agape has sought to find people like her in the community, talking to them about their personal life, answering their spiritual questions and treating them with dignity and love. By so doing we have been sowing seeds into Pek Kio.

The Samaritan woman so enthusiastically shared her testimony of Jesus that the entire village of Sychar went out of the city to find Him. Thus, from the moment Jesus first sowed His seed into the heart of this Samaritan woman to the time He reaped His first major harvest among the Samaritans would only be a matter of hours.

Last Saturday we saw a record six hundred over residents flooding the Lantern Carnival in the church grounds. About 53 people came to be prayed over at the healing booth and 16 people received Christ!.It all happened in a matter of two hours. That was the grand highlight. But there were other highlights as well:

(1) the absence of strife in the Agapians
(2) the presence of joy in all we did
(3) the sense of God's favour on the Carnival
(4) the strong sense of family among Agapians
(5) the long queues at the games booth
(6) the responsiveness of the people to healing prayer
(7) the attentiveness of the crowd to the healing testimonies on stage

Surely, the Lord has been in our midst and the harvest is indeed NOW!

To every single Agapian who put his /her to the plough, including the precious children who performed on stage and Chan Kok Meng's early morning exercise group - thank you guys for serving the Lord with such a wonderful spirit of love and joy. Each one of you is a wonderful blessing!