We left for Ipoh last Saturday to minister in three services in two churches. We had a great time with Pastor Joyce and Pastor Christie. Pas Christie and I were in the same year at Bible College of Malaysia. Both these churches are Cantonese speaking. Ipoh is basically a Cantonese speaking city. It was so neat to hear our messages translated in Cantonese and really refreshed our minds on many cantonese words/terms we have forgotten living in Africa!!!
But first, a picture of our two wonderful girls. They are such troopers. Both of them ministered with us. The first night, they played a duet for First Assembly. On Sunday morning, Vickie went with me to Emmanuel and played a solo flute piece (her first!) and then after the service, the Youth minister took her aside to speak to the youth group of the church. This is also Vickie's first. She usually prefers being in the background and let her big sister do all the talking. She answered questions and shared with the youth her life in Kenya. Kathryn went with Tony to do the pictures and possibly help out at the altar. On Saturday night, she noticed that the musician was weeping as she played the piano during the altar time and Kathryn being very sensitive, wanted to take over the piano so that the lady could be prayed for at the altar. She did not end up doing it because she was afraid the lady could not understand her and would cause an interruption on the flow at the altar. We are so grateful that our kids are so willing and so good!! They are only 11 and 13 but they sometimes are so mature, we think they are older! We are so bless! 
The lady in the peach shirt and brown skirt praying for the people is Pastor Joyce.
The girls and their "act" : Shine Jesus Shine...
We continue to be bless and overwhelm by the responses of each of the services we ministered in. We feel that the people's hearts are completely open and ready to receive His Word.
These posters were in the church notice board. Talking of posters, the girls will be doing one for another church. They will probably do it next week as we will be resting at home most of the time as Tony recovers from his minor surgery this coming Monday. Pray for him!
After our ministry time, we headed north to the beautiful island of Penang! A friend booked us into Gurney Hotel, along Gurney Drive! It's a great hotel with lots of eating places along the road! Kathryn taking archery lessons at the hotel sport centre. She shot that arrow into the bull's eye!
Daddy is also trying!
The girls trying out hats at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur...goofy girls!
Along Gurney drive at night, it was a 15 minute walk to Gurney Plaza, a shopping complex. Vickie and I took the cab, while Tony and Kathryn walked back to the hotel.
Tony and his girls at the beautiful pools/recreation center of the hotel. We had so much fun playing and swimming in the pool. Tony and I beat the girls at one game of foosball. We also played ping pong. It was ALL fun!!
Vickie goofing off in the car with the coffee bean napkin. Just so you know, the hotel is sandwiched between Starbucks and Coffee Bean....it's the perfect hotel for ME!
Vickie loves her cookie monster t-shirt
Do you think they have the same eyes?
This is actually in Ipoh, sorry that I am not doing this quite in sequence!! The pastors took us to the first dim-sum (chinese dumplings) restaurant in Ipoh,
They have all kinds of dim sum. By the way, our time in Ipoh aslo turned out to be a food fest for us! Ipoh has such good food. Tony was completely estatic when he got to eat the famous Ipoh
But first, a picture of our two wonderful girls. They are such troopers. Both of them ministered with us. The first night, they played a duet for First Assembly. On Sunday morning, Vickie went with me to Emmanuel and played a solo flute piece (her first!) and then after the service, the Youth minister took her aside to speak to the youth group of the church. This is also Vickie's first. She usually prefers being in the background and let her big sister do all the talking. She answered questions and shared with the youth her life in Kenya. Kathryn went with Tony to do the pictures and possibly help out at the altar. On Saturday night, she noticed that the musician was weeping as she played the piano during the altar time and Kathryn being very sensitive, wanted to take over the piano so that the lady could be prayed for at the altar. She did not end up doing it because she was afraid the lady could not understand her and would cause an interruption on the flow at the altar. We are so grateful that our kids are so willing and so good!! They are only 11 and 13 but they sometimes are so mature, we think they are older! We are so bless! The lady in the peach shirt and brown skirt praying for the people is Pastor Joyce.The girls and their "act" : Shine Jesus Shine...We continue to be bless and overwhelm by the responses of each of the services we ministered in. We feel that the people's hearts are completely open and ready to receive His Word.These posters were in the church notice board. Talking of posters, the girls will be doing one for another church. They will probably do it next week as we will be resting at home most of the time as Tony recovers from his minor surgery this coming Monday. Pray for him!
After our ministry time, we headed north to the beautiful island of Penang! A friend booked us into Gurney Hotel, along Gurney Drive! It's a great hotel with lots of eating places along the road! Kathryn taking archery lessons at the hotel sport centre. She shot that arrow into the bull's eye!
Daddy is also trying!The girls trying out hats at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur...goofy girls!
Along Gurney drive at night, it was a 15 minute walk to Gurney Plaza, a shopping complex. Vickie and I took the cab, while Tony and Kathryn walked back to the hotel.
Tony and his girls at the beautiful pools/recreation center of the hotel. We had so much fun playing and swimming in the pool. Tony and I beat the girls at one game of foosball. We also played ping pong. It was ALL fun!!
Vickie goofing off in the car with the coffee bean napkin. Just so you know, the hotel is sandwiched between Starbucks and Coffee Bean....it's the perfect hotel for ME!
Vickie loves her cookie monster t-shirtDo you think they have the same eyes? 
This is actually in Ipoh, sorry that I am not doing this quite in sequence!! The pastors took us to the first dim-sum (chinese dumplings) restaurant in Ipoh,
They have all kinds of dim sum. By the way, our time in Ipoh aslo turned out to be a food fest for us! Ipoh has such good food. Tony was completely estatic when he got to eat the famous Ipoh Chicken Rice. Their bean sprouts were fat and juicy and crunchy - even Kathryn, a non-sprout eater loved it! We also enjoyed the best durian we had. For those of you who do not know what durian is, don't worry, I will do a separate posting of it later, with pics.
My brother in law took us out for a special buffet dinner before we left for Ipoh, at the Shogun Japanese restaurant. This is Tony's plate - full or raw food!
There were even escargot, or snails, if you ask me. And yes, Tony ate one of that too! Sometimes I wonder about the man I married....who is he????? The girls and I were not that adventurous, we pretty much stick to the cooked stuff!
Raw squid....
Caviar...in a maki roll
While at the mall, the day we drove to Ipoh, we saw these "silver" people advertising some phone deals. These are live people! We couldn't help ourselves but acted "touristy" and took pictures with them!
Kat found this in a little shop, a bear (I think!) of her favorite footballer.
Vickie realises her life long dream to play with a glow stick!! She bought a bunch of them!
This is our last evening in Penang. We went to a seaside restaurant, Eden, and they had a cultural show on. The girls took pics with the troop.....again, very touristy!! We had so much fun. We drive back today to Kuala Lumpur for three services this weekend. I will be doing a Youth Service on Saturday, Tony and I will be speaking in two different churches on Sunday and Tony goes for his minor surgery on Monday.....
My brother in law took us out for a special buffet dinner before we left for Ipoh, at the Shogun Japanese restaurant. This is Tony's plate - full or raw food!There were even escargot, or snails, if you ask me. And yes, Tony ate one of that too! Sometimes I wonder about the man I married....who is he????? The girls and I were not that adventurous, we pretty much stick to the cooked stuff!
Raw squid....
Caviar...in a maki roll
While at the mall, the day we drove to Ipoh, we saw these "silver" people advertising some phone deals. These are live people! We couldn't help ourselves but acted "touristy" and took pictures with them!
Kat found this in a little shop, a bear (I think!) of her favorite footballer.
Vickie realises her life long dream to play with a glow stick!! She bought a bunch of them!This is our last evening in Penang. We went to a seaside restaurant, Eden, and they had a cultural show on. The girls took pics with the troop.....again, very touristy!! We had so much fun. We drive back today to Kuala Lumpur for three services this weekend. I will be doing a Youth Service on Saturday, Tony and I will be speaking in two different churches on Sunday and Tony goes for his minor surgery on Monday.....It was so good that we get to sneak in this vacation between all the action. We really had a blast, even though Vickie didn't feel well the first couple of days. We laughed, played, shopped, swam, prayed, had movies marathon (from the DVDs we bought from Batu Feringhi ) and ATE and ATE and ATE!!! While we were on holiday, we got another call for another weekday service. God is so SO good to us!
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