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CBC MIssions
Myanmar
YANGON MISSION April 7 – 12, 2008

Photo of the team

This was our third trip and the second year to Yangon to fulfil our commitment of teaching the Million Leaders Mandate (MLM), a John C. Maxwell Program, for three years. This time round, the facitilators were Senior Pastor Richard and his wife, Pat Toh, Elder Tan Beng Teong, Brothers Steven Cheah and Jeremy Teoh. Sister Evelyn Ong came along to join the local participants. The CBC team’s task this time was to conduct MLM Books 2 and 3. There were 32 participants for Book 2 and 9 for Book 3. The attendance was affected by the long holiday season where most city folks would travel back to their home towns. This was a lesson for us to learn when planning for future trainings.

Having taught most of the participants for at least 2 rounds, we felt there was a greater bonding with them, especially with the local committee members. We had the privilege to take the latter group and their families for a dinner. This helped build relationships and have fun after the trainings.

There were two groups of people we built bridges with. Firstly, the converts from Buddhism, whom we felt would be instrumental in evangelising more of their kind because Christians in this category was less than 1%. The second group are the business leaders in the market place. They requested some business training when we come later this year. As we understand, most businessmen have to go overseas just to attend such trainings and very few are privileged to obtain passports. We are humbled when we see God’s children so hungry and willing to learn from us. May the Lord open the doors that more Christian leaders are able to go to Myanmar. So far, we have covered only Yangon. There have been requests for us to go to other parts of Myanmar, too.

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