Armada - notes from China visit

I just got back from Yushu Qinghai. LQTRA is doing an awesome work in that region. I was amazed that the head of the ministry was a Harvard graduated, already got Spore government head hunted, everything mapped out for his life (thats Singaporean govt for you), in any worldly manner, he has it good going for him and Philip Poh gave everything up and came to Yushu to set up a ministry to rescue the desperately poor and oppressed in Yushu with his young family of 4 children.  We were given chances to preach in a three self church of 3000 and minister to a group of missionaries in the afternoon in Xining. 

The workers in LQTRA are really hard working people coming from all over China, they really tough it out, as guests we were given wood plank huts without heater to sleep, no bath, toilet was manageable.  The HK pastor got beaten by a wild local dog the first night. 

We did mobile clinic, we managed to persuade an old lady who seemed to be dying to go to hospital,  did you know the Tibetan Buddhism called for cut up your head to release the soul out when one dies, and then chop up the body and put it out in the open to let the vultures to eat up, if the vultures did not eat up that body, that mean this person won't come back in the next life. Living Buddha basically mean they found enlightenment and came back this life to save life.

The mobile clinic set up business in the middle of the city, many came, we visited homes and kid schools of Tibetans, Islam people (not so much Han Chinese). After the earthquake the whole town like a tents town, 100% destroyed. Incredibly dusty as every body was trying to build something before winter comes.  Night time temperature is below zero.