SEAPC Canada

    If you asked nine years ago if I would ever go on a missions trip, I would not have hesitated to say no. Three years ago, I heard a speaker talk about his time of service in India as missionary and he painted a picture of himself sitting in his home looking at his wall. He thought he had a tiled wall with grout lines. He mentioned how peculiar he thought it was that the grout lines looked as if they were moving. Upon closer inspection, he noticed the wall actually did not have grout lines but instead, had lines of ants marching along the wall. After listening to that speaker, I remember announcing, with certainty, to a car full of people that the man's ant story was gross and there was no way I would ever go on a missions trip.

         Our Lord has an incredible sense of humor and the power to transform anyone. I can say this because, despite my earlier proclamation, I found myself considering a prayer-waling journey through Beijing, China, and Tibet a short three months later. The decision to obey God's calling did not come without difficulty. I wrestled with God. How could I go? I have two young children at home - could my husband manage both of them on his own? We had childcare costs to cover - how would I finance the trip? What if I did not like the food? What about the sanitary conditions? I am not spiritual enough - I have not even read the Bible in its entirety - who am I to go on such a trip? One by one, God dealt with each of my concerns. By August 2011, I found myself willing to surrender and trusted that even though there was nothing special about me, God would use me for His purpose as long as I just made myself available. Not only did God come through for me in 2011, He did it again when I myself praying through the mountains of Tibet in 2012.

          If you asked me three years ago what I do for fun, adventure and excitement, the last thing I would think of saying would be to go on a prayer walk. As I sit here reflecting on missions trips since 2011, I have no other adjectives but adventurous, fun, exciting and fulfilling to describe them.

           If you asked me three years ago what my five or ten year plan was, my answer would be to carry on with life as I had been, with a focus on climbing the corporate ladder and preparing my children for a future of doing the same. Yet, God has shaped and molded me such that when my ten year-old son, Christopher, approached his father and myself in 2013 to tell us he wanted to join SEAPC on a missions trip to Cambodia, I realized that the Lord had greater plans for Christopher than to just climb any corporate ladder. In July of 2013, I went with Christopher to Cambodia. As I sat in a children's home in Battambang, I asked the Lord to show me how I  could make a longer lasting impact on the nations that was bigger than me going for two weeks a year. Twenty-two Cambodian children were praying the sinner's prayer and receiving Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior when the Lord opened my heart to bringing a ministry to Canada that would influence Canadians to change other's live through prayer.

           As SEAPC is beginning to move forward in Canada, I have had the pleasure of serving our Lord with three other people. David and Sonia Chung, and my husband Joe share the same vision of building a ministry that empowers Canadians to change lives through prayer. We are asking that you keep us in your prayers and that God will grant each of us wisdom and courage as we navigate the various challenges of establishing this new ministry in Canada, and that, however we dot his, it is all done with the purpose of fulfilling God's plan.

Wen Chin Tsai - President SEAPC Canada