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EURO 2008

This is the first time I’m really crazy bout this game. I know all the team, who’s the player, their achievement and history of the previous Euros…Not in details of course, but enough for me to enjoy every match that I watch, you know, who they are and which team they belongs to. Last night I watched match between Portugal and Czech…haha…I’m the rose among the thorns. I don’t know why I’ve become so fanatic about football lately…Maybe, I’m kind of bored with the ‘girls stuff’ and why not sometimes switch to ‘boys stuff’…haha…Girls, I told you…It’s fun and worth watching!! (^_^)

End of the Spear….A true story.

This is the book I read currently, a story of a mission work in Ecuador, among the Waodani community. For me personally, this book really inspired me, even though I haven’t finished reading it. It is written by Steve Saint. This is the brief introduction of the author.

“He grew up in Ecuador in close community with the Waodani. His father, Nate Saint, was martyred while attempting to befriend the Waodani. At the request of the Waodani elders, Steve returned to the Amazon in 1995 with his family. His experiences in the jungle led him to establish I-TEC, a non-profit organization that assists the ‘hidden church’ in its journey toward independence, self substance, and maturity”

Here’s the review:

From the backcover

“Steve Saint was only five years old when his father was brutally killed by Waodani warriors, men from the most savage culture ever known. But in a story almost too amazing to be true, Steve eventually comes to know- and even love- the very ones who drove the spears into his father’s body.

Decades after their lives were changed by learning to walks God’s trail, the Waodani ask Steve to return to the jungle with his family to live among them and teach them how to interact with the encroaching outside world. Striving to mesh his two very different worlds, Steve must face the tragic events of his past and learn to fully trust God through terrible danger, great loss and remarkable joy.”

I love reading biography, especially of those who giving their life to the mission work of God. For example, besides this book, I’ve read Vision for God, The story of Dr. Margaret E. Brand, served on the staff of the Christian Medical College and Hospital in Vellore, South India for eighteen years. In India she became a world expert on leprosy’s effect on the eye…and for twenty two years she is the staff of Gillis W. Long National Hansen’s Disease Center in Carville, Lousiana, where she was the Chief of Ophthalmology. Other than that, I’ve read about Ravi Zacharias, Elisabeth Elliot and Ben Carson in Gifted Hands. All these people are professional in their area. Yet in their professionalism, they responded to God’s mission and bring impacts to others around them and even to the whole world. I hope that I can be like one of them, but of course in a way that God has chose for me…I want to be part of God’s mission even in my own area of expertise…Keep Praying….Amen.