(Jocelyn in the hospital waiting for treatment)

Again, we were hoping to share with you an exciting news, but our Father has a different plan in store. Back in April, we were overwhelmingly ecstatic to find out that Jocelyn's pregnant! YAY!!! While our whole family was throwing a dance party, few days later, we were told by the doctor that baby's heartbeat has unfortunately stopped at 6+ weeks. We lost our baby girl (Moriah Sun). 

To say we are devastated is a total understatement. We were hard pressed emotionally, spiritually and physically especially me (Jocelyn). On Mother's Day, I (Jocelyn) was inducing myself at home coupled with severe side effects and hoping baby could naturally labor via medication without the need of procedure. However, baby did not come out, so I went in for an unwanted operation for 3 hours and came out feeling part of me died and gone with baby Moriah. 

As I reflected on the miscarriage, I was wrapped with sadness and broken into pieces from within. It seems like the darkness covered the sky every morning when I woke up, but God did not abandon me that His comfort carried me to draw me closer to Him even in the midst of the storm. Praise the Lord that I could finally empathize those who have gone through miscarriage before. God has allowed us to invite our kids to learn how to lament to mature their faith in the face of life and death. God has used several precious moments to warm our hearts, Liora will ask why God didn't give and is He testing us? She will also be crying in the middle of the night to sleep cuz she misses baby. Zion, on the other hands, will turn around to kiss my stomach when he sees a pregnant neighbor. 

There is also one miracle to be noted. On one morning, I was comforted by God as I woke up wrapped in emotional pain. He showed me an angel figure as the sun raze beamed through the blinds and curtain. I saw little wings, a circle head and swirly dress that came down. It was just the right size and comforting moment for me to feel our little girl is in heaven now. Our Father is so good and faithful that He hears our prayers and sees our tears. 

On top of everything else, I've also been graced by God to share the Gospel with most of the medical assistants, RN and doctors. They mentioned this was their last shift and had to stay for extended time for my procedure but I was the best patient whom brought encouragement to their faith. "We are hard pressed, but we are not crushed." To God be the glory in all He is doing in and through our family. Amen.

(Family doing covid testing together, stay forever lol)

Just when we thought we were out of the woods from all the hard-press events, we had wade through another trial where Jocelyn and Kyra caught Covid in August when we visited Houston. During 3 weeks of battling Covid, the condition of Jocelyn had gone almost out of control with severe symptoms such has deep cough, sore body and chest pain that I (Ric) needed to check on her everyday to see if she was still breathing because her body had put her onto at least 14-15 hours sleep per day. Even at one point, with Jocelyn's own words, "I almost couldn't make it."

It was scary and daunting 3 weeks of hard fought battle where we were isolated and exhausted without daring to make it known because of the shame and embarrassment. We got knocked out and deceived by the lies of the enemy to hide in the dark. Then our Father’s wonderful provision and incredible protection through His words from Elijah's 7,000 in 1 Kings 19:18 reminds us that there is a whole army of God behind us rallied and ready to love us, support us, intercede and pray for us, so we were convicted to finally reach out and shared openly about our despair. And our Father has done it again to restore our family with His great mercies and many of yours immense cares. Seriously, EVERYDAY, your daily prayer and texts, grocery pick-up, homemade cooking, flowers, Emergen-C, medical consultation, coffee and boba tea has gone exceedingly and abundantly beyond we can imagine. You, my fam, is the real MVP!

Thank you SO much for bathing our family in your faithful prayer. Jocelyn now has finally and fully recovered from Covid as our Father has mightily turned her

chest pain into faith gain.
coughing into praising.
tears into prayers.
ashes into beauty.
worshiper into warrior.

Hallelujah!!! "We are hard pressed, but we are not crushed!" The Lord is kind! We have slowly resumed our activity and ministry last week. YAY! ❤️‍

(Pictured with master trainers and staff of Life International in Michigan)

Back in June, our family was invited to participate an intensive training with Life International in Michigan. The training has left us marveled with the passion of the leaders and their immense love for the Lord! In the past 20 years, the training has spread its wings to South Africa, Libya, Congo, Lesotho, Cambodia, India, Thailand, Burma, Ecuador, Bolivia, Croatia, Kenya, Malta, Hungary, Ukraine and more and counting.

We are in awe of what God is and has been doing through the organization locally and globally to go everywhere around the world with the call to proclaim the message of Father’s heart and empower the leaders with the training in all nations for the sanctity of life.

It is such an instrumental ministry and monumental opportunity for us to be part of the specialist team and now going forward, Lord’s willing with His divine timing, we will join the team to teach and train the leaders worldwide wherever He calls us to!

We pray for you to join us to be the life givers and bring it to your mission field, church, ministry and even your family.

(Global virtual training with brothers and sisters from around the world)

After the training in Michigan, in July, we were beyond thrilled and honored to help teach/train alongside other trainer. We have pastors, leaders, doctors, seminary professors join from all over the US, the Philippians, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Croatia and New Zealand. Praise God!

Though we needed to wake up at 5am everyday throughout the week to prepare the class, the training, fellowship and partnership for the advancement of the Gospel and the expansion of the kingdom is indeed so worth of our time.

(Group picture taken with everyone at camp. Can you find us?) 

During summer, our family traveled to Houston to speak at Camp Challenge (Youth camp hosted by Fort Bend Community Church). We learned that whether its 1 soul or 200+, pandemic or not, with mask on, the Gospel will never lose its power, anointing and effectiveness.

After many hours of preparations, countless sleepless nights, 15,000+ words, urgent prayers, timely words of encouragements, 5 days of camp and 5 messages of God's Word, by the grace of God, the Gospel has been preached, decisions have been made, lives have been rededicated and worshipers have been turned into warriors! Hallelujah!!!

(Picture taken when the students raised hands to believe in Jesus, rededicated to Jesus and commit to being an evangelist)

This is a powerful and monumental picture captured at the last night of the camp where we got to witness the power of the Holy Spirit made manifested in the lives of youth after a long drought of in-person fellowship during the pandemic. To be honest, it was a hard crowd to preach because in the beginning of the camp, many of them had expressed that their faith has become so indifferent and apathetic, that they didn't even see the point to continue pursuing God or even question the reason to come to camp.

As you could imagine, the hands of God intervened slowly but surely and touched many hearts for the revitalization of their pursuit of God. We so hoped you were there during the camp fire to listen their powerful and beautiful testimony. We have so much hope for the future of our next generation. With so many incredible pastors/leaders and faithful counselors who love Jesus so well, I believe without the shadow of doubt that our Father is dancing and rejoicing with us on His throne.

Please join us to pray for each church, pastor, leader to dedicate their lives to raise a generation of army of God to re/commit their lives to knowing God, to be known by God, and to make God known! Amen!