Dear Friends,

May the resurrection power of our Risen Lord Jesus Christ fill your hearts. 

• l Dorcas Design (a sewing workshop for disabled women) - Our goal is to be self-sufficient. Please pray for stable orders, plus we also need to find more workers.
• l Cambodia -
• n School furniture - Fund raising is going on for purchasing furniture and equipment. Maybe you can participate in this.
• n School construction - At present the construction of the ground floor has been completed, and the construction of second floor is in progress. We hope to start classes in September.
• n School principal and staff - Stanley, an Australian-Chinese missionary, will go to Cambodia in May to be the principal. His wife and children will go some months later. In Cambodia we are now recruiting a vice principal, teachers, and other staff.
• n Multi-purpose building - construction has been completed. The two rooms on the ground floor are being used for missionary quarters. One room on the second floor will be used for the Mission office, and the other will be used as a guest room for guests or a dorm for camps and retreats.

We are thankful for the love offerings of many brothers and sisters for these building projects.

February, March, April are traveling months. 

• l February 22 - March 10 to Cambodia, for missionary retreat, training, and meetings ----

About 80 Free Methodist missionaries in Asia and their children gathered together for a retreat in Siem Reap, Cambodia.  I was much refreshed and encouraged by the messages and fellowship.  We shared our experiences, needs, challenges and prayer requests.

After the missionary retreat we had leadership training for the leaders in South East Asia, mostly from missions districts.  For Esther, it was the first time to attend an FM gathering.  She has been working in the FMC for more than ten years.  She shared with me, "In these past years I worked by myself and I had to trust God all the time.  This is the first time that I feel I am belonging to the big FM family, with so many co-workers.  I am so excited, encouraged and confirmed.  I am so thankful that many people are praying for our church." 

After the retreat, the leaders and missionaries went back to their mission fields.  Then I continued to stay in Cambodia to attend the annual meeting and have other meetings with our missionaries and church leaders.  It was a bit tiring to have meeting after meeting, but we were refreshed spiritually.  In the Cambodia FMC annual meeting, I could feel the prayerful hearts and unity among the local pastors, leaders and missionaries.  Pray that they will fix their eyes on Jesus.

On the way to the airport for departure, I visited our missionaries Joel & Grace.  I found that I had left the power cord for my laptop computer in Miu Ling's apartment, where I stayed.  But there was not enough time to go back to get the cord.  At that moment, Josephine came in to visit Joel & Grace, because she saw that the gate was open.  Josephine said that she would go back to Hong Kong two days later.  At that moment, we all praised God.  Josephine could bring back the power cord for me.  God is so wonderful !!

• l March 22 - April 16 to Macau, helping in a "cross culture training camp" for missionaries ----

This is a 4-week training for missionaries who will go to mission fields soon.  There were eight missionaries from different mission agencies.  One day we went out for street evangelism in a tourist spot.  I was so amazed to see tourist buses come and go with big crowds of tourists.  We sang songs in the street, distributed gospel tracts and CDs, and shared the gospel with the on-lookers.  I had a deep feeling of what Jesus said, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few."

• l April 21 - April 28 to Malaysia, attending a prayer camp and missionary retreat, and visiting ----

I am looking forward to visiting our FM church and pastor in Malaysia after the prayer camp and retreat. 

I am an April tiger !  In the Chinese Zodiac there are twelve animals in a cycle.  This year is the "Year of the Tiger".  Can you guess which cycle I am in?  To Chinese, this year is a "big birthday".  Totally I had 5 birthday dinners and delicious birthday cakes.  I received valuable gifts like a mini-hifi, a microwave, a traveling bag, etc.  All these electrical appliances make life easier and more enjoyable.  Friends are so considerate and generous to me.

A missionary family was sent to Cambodia last August.  The couple are experienced physicians.  They are now gathering some other missionaries who are dentists and physicians from other mission agencies to pray for God's guidance for partnership in starting a medical ministry.

Life should be full of dreams.  If there are no dreams, there will be no work.  If there is no work, there will be no dreams.  Let us have the same attitude as William Carey: "Expect great things from God.  Attempt great things for God."  　HE is able!

Serving together for His Kingdom

Polly