New Bizz

Hello there my followers. Sorry that it's been a while i dont update my blog and i know that you guys wondering what Meluat been doing these days. Well, first of all, i am self-employed running small business and everything are challenging, yet running smoothly. But instead of showing the pictures of my current bizz, i want to entertain you with some pictures that will show you some new bizz that im involve with soon to come out. if you are in Palau, let me give you something that you will soon see with your own eyes.

Yep, there will be a new food bizz in town pretty soon. I hope your stomach is empty and your wallet is tight with cash because there will be a lot of delicious menu coming for you.

Photography Counseling

When it comes to the work of Photography, im still a rookie at it and i have so much to learn about it. As i continue taking a lot of pictures, i not only capture a moment, but i also capture a memory of a lifetime, whether good or bad. some of those precious moments are not as significant at the second i press the shutter button on my camera, but few years later, the picture will be worth of talking about.

Some of the good things that these taking of the pictures shows or revealing to me are the growth of my skills and knowledge of photography. it shows improvements when i compare my recent pictures to the past. it helps me know that i am improving in what i put most of my passion into.

But for the most important, I take the work of photography seriously because it does help me in so many ways and it impact my life. I use it as a counseling session. And mainly, i focus on nature photography. And most of the time, i consider myself as a butterfly chaser. I take pictures of nature because they dont lie to me. they just present itself as it is. Even better, when i take a shot, i learn so much creativities and artistics God pours onto His creation just to please us. the bottom pictures are just some of the shots that i took and I hope you enjoy them. they are not the best but hopefully it reveals to you some things you did not know.

 

 

This is a macro shot of Hybiscus flower.

 

 

 

This is a beautiful butterfly sucking the nectar of the hybiscus.

 

 

 

I call this Lobster fly. Its tail is just like lobster that when it flies around, it spread wide and on its side, there's some kind of controler like lobster.

 

These pix are just some examples of my work. The more focus i spent my time on them, the less focus i spent on my daily burdens/problems. it not only takes my focus away from them, but at the same time, it helps me think slowly and patiently. it helps me process things in my mind better. It helps me resolve things better.

 

Even though i use this as a therapy, I also expose some details of these creatures that we barely see everyday. I guess people have different ways of lightening their burdens, but this is my way. I don't hurt these creatures, and at the same time, they don't mislead me to other troubles. I call this a Counseling Through God's Nature.

 

ALL IN ALL, I JUST HOPE YOU'VE SEEN SOMETHING NEW AND LEARNED SOMETHING THROUGH THESE PICTURES. FOR ME, I DID LEARN SOMETHING.

 

I MAY BE AN ARTIST, BUT IN THE END, I'M STILL A MASTERPIECE. THERE IS SOMEONE WHO IS HIGHER THAN ME, THE ONE WHO CREATED ME, THE TRUE ARTIST, THE ALMIGHTY GOD.

Ministry Report

Two weeks ago, Karyn Sorenson came to Palau with Daisy Murdock to do some Student recruit and Counseling workshop. Last week, Daisy returned to Guam and Karyn went to Yap for more workshops. 

This week on Monday, (March 25th) Jo Romaniello and Lisa Collins came to continue the workshop of counseling, and what Jo and Lisa brought to share with us was "Story Telling and Journaling"

 

 

 Jo is a Professional Counselor for Marriage and Family and I've known her for two years. She was teaching students in PIU this semester and we were blessed to have her and Lisa to come and help us with some ways of doing ministries with Families, Workers, and the Community.

 

 

 Lisa is the Librarian for PIU and we were also blessed by her when she showed us the benefit of using journals in our Spiritual Walk with God.

 At night, they do workshops with random church members.

 Day time, they spend time with employees of Kinder Garten

 Bethania High School

 and Emmaus High School staff to help them in some of strategies to help them in their works.

On a down time, I take them to do some errand and fun time. on the top picture, I took them to the waterfall in Ngardmau and they enjoyed a refreshing swimming.

Majority of the audience that attended the seminars were women.

Jo had a chance to meet Dr Lala and made connections that hopefully in the future, they will work together to uplift the spiritual health in Palau. At this meeting, i learned that Jo planned to come to Palau over 20 years ago. It's a blessing for me to meet these wonderful people that have sacrificed their time show some blindspots of our ministries.

Ministry Report

Hello my fellow prayer supporters. Sorry for not reporting about my ministries for a long time. I just want to write some of the things that you guys probably need or want to know. About a month ago, my brother was attacked. He went hospitalized because of his cracked skull. He flew to Philippines for surgery and everything went well. Now, he’s back in Palau and just started schooling two days ago, even though he is still on a recovery. He have a lot of make-ups to do. Please pray for him so he can handle all the pressure and just to have enough grade to pass him to the next level.

For my ministries, right now I preach twice a month and sometimes it can go three or four times a month. It depend if some churches ask me to preach at their church. But my regular schedule is preaching on 3^rd and 4^th Sunday of the month in two different churches. I will be preaching this coming Sunday at one of the village (Aimeliik) and be preaching on the Easter Sunday at the outer village (Angaur). When I come to this village of Angaur, I usually stay there for a week to help the community with any sort of work they need, especially after Typhoon Bopha. At the same time, I observe and seeking potential children that I can recruit to start Bible study with them and hopefully toward Sunday school session. Currently there are only two children in this church as of now. The rest are adults. 

There are some things in mind that I’ve been thinking for these past few months and these things are my ambition to go back to school, specifically training missionaries to evangelize the unreached people in Papua. I’ve been searching and just the other day I found the right agency or center that is doing this training focusing on Papua. This agency is called “The Center for Pioneer Church Planting”. Of course, there are some other agencies that are doing these kind of training, but this one is on top of my list. I’ve read the testimony of the person who found this TET with his wife and I fell in love with them immediately. The name of this person is David Sitton and his wife is Tommi. I found out that the verse that I consider it as my life verse was shared to him when Joe Cannon cornered him between his classes decades ago…(Rom 15:20). Even Joe’s question to David was attracting my attention when he mentioned about the work in Papua New Guinea. He has a gift that I can relate myself to, which I’ve tried to explain to other people around me and just think I’m crazy or they don’t take it seriously. TET is a kind of a family that I want to be part of. What caught my attention is when Cannon said, “Come with me, brother.  I will teach you.  I can mentor you.  There are not many who will go with me into the jungles and rugged mountains to find them.  Come with me, brother.  Let’s go get some of them for Jesus.” Though as much as this CPCP is on the top of my list, the tuition for this is way too high for me. I support all everything that this CPCP is doing, but i can't afford to join. I wish I can be part of it. Yeah, the beginning of this blog was really prompting like i was going at it, and i wish i will go to this school, but my budget cannot afford it. I think the simplest thing i can say is that I want to get trained. BUT...

The reason why I share these is because my ambition is just the same as Sitton’s and Cannon’s. Sitton was trained and mentored by Cannon, that’s why he is doing an awesome ministry these days. I want to be mentored by a person who understands my ambition, that’s the reason why I want to find the way to go to this school. It’s not fair when my missionary friends are working hard and I don’t do anything. It’s not right. I’m so out of place. People keep saying that it’s not the right time for you yet. I don’t care that if it’s not the right time for me. All I know that some of my missionary friends in Papua already told me that they need extra hands to help and I think that’s  a good reason to take action. I know my little brother Alex from Switzerland have the same passion to do this kind of ministry. If you are reading this brother, there are lot of open doors for ministries in Papua. Thanks for praying for me and sorry for the late report. 

TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT BLOG:
God is looking at us as faithful servant when the world consider us crazy. When you forgive genuinely to a person who raped your wife or killed your child, the world will look at you as crazy, but God will see you as His faithful servant. When you sacrifice your home and belongings to go to the mission field without any regrets, the world will think that you are crazy, but the Lord will see you as a faithful servant. When you risk your life to share the LOVE to a person pointing spears, bows and arrows toward you, the world will think that you are crazy, but the Creator of the universe will see you as a faithful servant. Before the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and He said that He is the Messiah, the Pharisees laughed because they thought Jesus was crazy, but the Almighty God saw Him as the faithful one. The world thought Jesus was crazy, so they crowned Him with a thorn and spat on him as they laughed, but our God the Father saw Him as faithful Son because He fulfilled His will. Jesus went all out to pay our sins, even to His last breath, He gave it up for you. How much will you sacrifice for the one who paid for your sin even before you were born? There are fellow brothers of ours who are in mission field right now who need extra hands for the ministries that they do. There are fellow unbelievers who are waiting for you to go and evangelize to them. What are you waiting for? Are you still waiting for the right moment? What is the right moment? Jesus already said “GO” (Matt 28:19)

I have mentioned in this blog that missionaries in Papua need extra hands to help. That’s just one place of many that needs extra hands. If you say that you’re still waiting for something, it’s like a person drowning and you’re saying that you have to ask permission from your parents if you can throw the floater to that person. This is not saying that everyone go to the mission field. The point of this is that you can make a difference. You can GO, you can SEND, you can SUPPORT, and you can PRAY. For me, where Christ is not know, that’s where I want to go. Places where other servants of God are afraid to go because of the danger, send me there. IF WE ALL FEAR, WHO WILL BREAK THE SILENCE? WE SHOULD FEAR GOD MORE THAN WE FEAR THE WORLD. (“Let’s go get some of them for Jesus.” Joe Cannon)

Anyhow,  I'm trying to look for some potential location where i can put my focus on it and find a person or two to disciple and make them my Timothy. As much as there are lot of needs, i want to focus on little thing at a time in order to impact the bigger issues. So i want to start with one person and work on it until people want to get involved. I mention this because I've experienced it before and i want to apply it here in Palau. It's very effective, especially focusing on discipleship. I think this is the only thing that i can do in order to help me grow and explore what God has gifted me with. Since I'm very mission minded and i want to get out anytime to go out there and reach out to those people who have never heard the name JESUS or don't even know what's BIBLE, this is all i can do by building disciples and pray for those faithful servants of God on the mission field right now and those who are preparing to go back to the field. I take off my hat for all of you frontier missionaries who are doing an awesome ministry.