Elaine in Melbourne

Hi everyone, especially my beloved family and spiritual family :)

Thanks for all your prayers, makans, presents, making the effort to send me off at the airport…etc. It all meant a lot to me.

Apologies for not sending an update earlier. I was busy in the initial stages, just trying to get my totally empty bedroom (in the recently rented 2-bedroom apartment I am sharing with Elison, a fellow FCBC Youthneter who has been working in Melbourne for a couple of years) furnished. I also needed to do my part in buying a washing machine, microwave, dining table and chairs, for the shared living and dining areas, since Elison got everything else. Not to mention getting an Aussie mobile number and internet, orienting myself to the University of Melbourne, attending various graduate academic orientation seminars and social events, applying for my modules and getting my timetable sorted, etc… the list goes on and on…

Now that things are more settled, I am finally able to write my first entry for this blog I am keeping to share my life and reflections in a foreign land.

To begin, I just want to say that

GOD IS SOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD!

He made a way for my Mum and sister to accompany me to Melbourne and be with me for the first week, He sent so many divine appointments, He blessed me with a great housemate and new-found friends from Singapore and other countries who are believers, He comforted me in times of homesickness and ministered to me during my quiet times and services at the 2 churches I’ve visited so far (Assembly of God Richmond and Planetshakers City Church) and the list goes on and on again.

“I stand amazed, captured by Your grace, let me sing Your praise and stand in awe of You… I stand in awe of You.”