Today is my two month aniversary of being in Hong Kong...and it really feels like i got here two weeks ago. Within these two months, I have been able to find all the great places to eat, shop, and hang out at. I am no longer feeling like I am lost in a big city, but am starting to make HK a place that is familar to me and a place I can call home. Words cannot describe how great the city is, and how amazing the people here are. I have been so blessed in so many ways.
MY WORK:
IBC: At International Baptist Church for the past two months has been eventful!! Every week I write leters to the girls in the youth group, plan for upcoming events, create flyers to pass out to students at schools, prepare for discipleship witht the girls on Saturdays, email every student giving them updates on events and the youth group, visit a school with Ben where we have a Christian Club, create power point presentations for Friday night Shillage, and spend as much one on one time with the girls I can. all of that is my average week to week tasks and along with that I usually have other things to do.
SHILLAGE:
The Shillage is our friday night youth group, its when the kids come and we meet for a normal youth service that we would have wednesday nights in the states. All week, all our preparation comes down to Friday's.
WIS:
West Island School is the school Ben and I visit every Friday at lunch to have Christian Club. about 15 kids on average come eat thier lunch in a class room with us while we play games, act out bible stories, have pizza, and try to invest and expose kids to Jesus Christ and get them to come to the Shillage.
DBU:
I am currently taking 12 hours online through DBU. I know I'm crazy your thinking, but DBU has truly made it a blessing to continue my education online. Thankfully we have Monday's off of work in which I spend most of the day reading for class or working on assignments for that week. All of my teachers have been great and I am really enjoying my classes as well. It has been hard at times to juggle class and ministry, but the Lord has always made a way for me to focus one each and give them the time and attention needed. I know that the Lord has me here for His purpose, but I am also so thankful that I can continue my education which is just as equally a calling and important.
SPIRITUALLY:
Spiritually the Lord has really been testing and growing my faith. I am so thankfull for Nathan and Colette who have been great leaders and truly have been great role models for me to follow. I have been able to do some reading and learn more about different religions while here. It is amazing to see first hand why people believe in other God's and I am learning that it has a lot to do with the culture and just how the people here live. There have been days where I feel as though God is so far away and I have to constantly remind myself of His faithfulness, mercy, provision, soveriegnty, and power. Then there are days like last week when I am able to see and feel Him as work in me and in the lives of the studens as well. The hardest part is not having the support system of friends and family like I did at home, but I know that it is part of the Lord maturing my faith and me relying on Him for everything. I have really been able to grow my faith and call it my own, not something I have because it was instilled in me at a young age, but something I have because He chose me first, and I now choose to honor Him with my life.
PHYSICALLY-
I am healthy, and happy! I enjoy running here a lot, only the hardest part is EVERYWHERE you run it is concrete, so my knees hurt from time to time, but thankfully there is also a track near by where I run a lot. I haven't been sick yet, and have been blessed to be healthy here.
That really is all that has happened recently! I will make more an effort to post every other week and keep you guys updated!
1 Thessalonians 3:12-13
Monica Amanda Zuniga
7/F Tower A, Southmark Bld.
11 Yip Hing st
Aberdeen, Hong Kong
Skype: monica.zuniga22
email: zunigam@mail.dbu.edu
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