album selling in Hong Kong

for all my friends in Hong Kong, if you’d like to purchase my album, “The Quieting,” please email me (sunnyhu7@gmail.com) and give me HK$100 before I leave on the 14th. My cds are taking a bit longer than I had anticipated to be put together in Taiwan so they probably won’t get here before I leave, sadness…yes much much sadness…but once i get to Taiwan I’ll send them to Hong Kong!

For samples of the album go to: www.myspace.com/sunnyhu

Chinese/Asian Church Dress code

wanted to share the lessons i’ve learned through previous ministry/missions trip mistakes so you don’t have to offend the churches in Asia as me and my teams have hehe. Most churches here will give you some grace if it’s your first time ministering here especially if you don’t speak Chinese fluently or if you’re Caucasian.

Here is the dress code if you want to be ministering in Asian churches in Asia:

1. bottoms: wear pants. jeans are acceptable. no shorts or skirts that reveal the legs, even if they’re “conservative” and cover your knees

2. tops: no spaghetti straps, wife beaters. tops should cover the shoulders and not be too low of course

3. shoes: covers your toes. yes i too wish i can wear flip flops, even “fancy” flip flops are not acceptable. ballet flats are acceptable just as long they cover your toes.

considering the weather here in Asia, especially in the summer, it’s a sacrifice but a very worth while sacrifice! : )

you know you’re in Hong Kong when…

1. you switch to a stronger solution (disinfectant) for your contact lenses cause they’re so dirty from the pollution
2. you can find dim sum anywhere for breakfast! and 7/11 sells DIMSUM!!!
3. You avoid shops on weekends cause it’s terribly packed
4. You use an “octopus” card to do almost everything
5. You sleep with the AC on at night
6. The TV reports how badly polluted the air is everyday
7. You’re quarantined for having a cold…or was it just me?
8. Some of the written Chinese doesn’t quite make sense
9. The bubble tea cups are a lot smaller than Taiwan
10. There are alchohol disenfectant gels in every public place
11. you can get around without knowing Chinese…almost everything is English accessible…

feel free to add your two cents…of how you know when you’re in Hong Kong

my songs are uploaded!!

check out the songs on my upcoming album, “The Quieting” on my myspace….whoot! finally found some time and a proper internet connection to upload them…
www.myspace.com/sunnyhu

May 09 Update

here’s my latest update:

please keep my team and I in your daily prayers. simply read through the prayer list once a day : ) we really need all the prayer coverage we can get. bless you.

Prayer Requests:
1. Grace to maintain the fasted lifestyle in Asia “being strengthened with all power . . . may have great endurance and patience” Col 1:11

2. Protection from the enemy “Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler, . . . And under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler. You shall not be afraid. . . A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall not come near you” Psalm 91:3-8

3. Firmly established in God’s love, not moved by man’s opinions “being rooted and grounded in love . . . that you may be filled with all the fullness of God” Eph 3:17-19

4. Anointed ministry with His presence, His heart, signs and wonders. “And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh” Acts 2:17

5. Team unity: “that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.” John 17:21

禱告事項：(請在您禱告中記念我們)
1. 在亞洲有恩典能維持禁食刻苦的生活: “照 他 榮 耀 的 權 能 ， 得 以 在 各 樣 的 力 上 加 力 ,好 叫 你 們 凡 事 歡 歡 喜 喜 的 忍 耐 寬 容” 歌 羅 西 書 1:11
2. 保護免受仇敵的攻擊: “他 必 救 你 脫 離 捕 鳥 人 的 網 羅 和 毒 害 的 瘟 疫 …你 要 投 靠 在 他 的 翅 膀 底 下 ； 他 的 誠 實 是 大 小 的 盾 牌 。你 必 不 怕 黑 夜 的 驚 駭 … 雖 有 千 人 仆 倒 在 你 旁 邊 ， 萬 人 仆 倒 在 你 右 邊 ， 這 災 卻 不 得 臨 近 你 ” 詩 篇 91:3-8
3. 緊緊紮根在神的愛中，不受人的意見而影響: “叫 你 們 的 愛 心 有 根 有 基 . . . 便 叫 神 一 切 所 充 滿 的 ， 充 滿 了 你 們” 以 弗 所 書 3:17-19
4. 藉由神的同在、心意、和神蹟奇事，帶下有恩膏的服事: “神 說 ： 在 末 後 的 日 子 ， 我 要 將 我 的 靈 澆 灌 凡 有 血 氣 的” 使 徒 行 傳 2:17
5. 團隊的合: “使 他 們 都 合 而 為 一 。 正 如 你 父 在 我 裡 面 ， 我 在 你 裡 面 ， 使 他 們 也 在 我 們 裡 面 ， 叫 世 人 可 以 信 你 差 了 我 來” 約 翰 福 音 17:21

album art

hehe Chiao-tien helped me draw up drafts of my album art. what you see below is the front and back covers:

album art

Whaaa-taaaaa!

so here are my songs i plan on recording translated into CHINESE!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH i can’t believe it. Thank you Jiun Chern for your incredible Chinese skillz.

Praise the Lord. Here is each song, when they were written and the story behind them…mwhahahahaha….i can’t believe i’m getting a little bit closer to recording and making an actual album….ahhhhhhhhhh…Lord help me make it happen…if it’s Your will…anyways….here are the songs:

1. Hold Me
written on: 1/18/09
story behind the song: so i started formulating this song last summer through a cry of my heart for God to “hold me” to His Word. There are countless times when I know God’s truth with my mind yet my heart and my flesh doesn’t abide by God’s Word. I began praying and crying out to God, “hold me with Your Word, with Your truth” all the time…until Your Word is written into the depths of me.

Let Your burning hold me
願祢烈火懷繞我
Let Your Word hold me
願祢話語握住我
Let Your light let Your life, let Your light, let Your life hold me hold me
願祢光 祢生命 願祢光 祢生命 懷抱著我

When I’m found faltering
當我感到徬徨
Hold me
擁抱我
When I’m found wandering
當我迷失時候
Hold me
擁抱我
When I’m found falling
當我跌倒時候
hold me, hold me, hold me, hold me
擁抱我,

With the mysteries hidden in Your heart
用祢心裡深藏的奧秘
With the secrets kept inside Your love
用祢愛中深藏的秘密
With the whispers so easily missed
用祢微小細語的聲音
Keep me in the place of knocking seeking asking, asking
保守我 不斷向祢 叩門、尋求、懇求~祢

So come pierce divide hold all of me.
來 刺入我 抓住我心

Conform me to Your Word
祢話語 更新我

2. Homeward Bound
written: June 08
story behind the song: This was the first love song I’ve ever successfully written. It was one of those songs that came out so easily! Somehow the end credits of “Prince Caspian” birthed the idea. I ran home, grabbed my journal after the movie and started scribbling. The next day, I found some chords, (probably led by the Holy Spirit) then a new song was born! Though for awhile I was under the assumption that it needed to dispose of, due to the fact that the relationship ended, yet a few weeks ago God opened my eyes to whom this song is truly written for. Throughout this rough season, Jesus has been kindly revealing to me that He is the only One that I ultimately need. He is the only one worthy of my whole heart and will never give up on me in spite of myself. One day when I was praying with a couple of friends, He simply said to me, “it’s for ME!” So I started to sing the chorus during our prayer time. Now this song has found its home! Hope it blesses you to find your home in the embrace of Christ.

It started off as just one tear 開始一滴淚水落下
That tear traced and grew to a thought 那淚水種下了意~念~
That thought blossomed with desire 那意念開花成渴望
I can no longer disguise 我再也無法委~裝~

I tried to make my heart undo 我想要使我心解開
This knot You tie my senses into 是祢讓我的心揪著
I tried to pretend I don’t need Your smiles 祢笑容 我努力假裝不需要
I nearly convinced myself 我真是自欺欺人

Chorus:
But I need you 我需祢
I want you 渴望祢
Next to me the rest of my life 要祢一生在我身旁

Bridge:
with your eyes looking into mine 祢的雙眼看著我
with your hands intertwined with mine 祢的雙手纏著我
my steps behind your steady lead 我要緊緊跟隨祢的帶領
running along with heaven’s heartbeat 快跑跟隨天路的蹤影

3. Pain grows beautiful things
date written: hmm….i think April/May 08
story behind it: Through various relationships last year, God took me through a season where He began to put His finger on past wounds that didn’t heal correctly. The pain was so great I wanted to avoid the person with every ounce of my freewill I can manage to exert. Yet something in me kept on holding on. Miraculously, God used the situation to bring me out of my little isolating cave where my heart was beginning to fester and harden. Inside the walls I erected around me in effort to protect myself from future pains, my heart was suffocating. So slowly, God gently guided my heart into His light through friendships and used the soil of pain, to grow beautiful things. “He has torn, but HE will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up” Hosea 6:1

Verse 1:
It’s a mystery 真是奇妙
The way You perfect me 祢如此造就我
With silence and trials 用沉默 試煉
And deepest breaking 深處的破碎
It’s a mystery 真是奇妙
The ways of refining 祢如此煉淨我
With Your fire and floods 用祢烈火洪水
All so necessary 是如此有智~慧

Chorus:
Oh can you hear the sound Of tears that grow joy, grow joy
看啊 淚水澆灌出來的喜樂~ 喜~樂
Whoever thought that wounds and pain
真不可思意 痛苦能夠
can resurrect resurrect beautiful, beautiful beautiful, beautiful things
復~活~ 成 美麗 美麗 美麗 美麗生命
verse 2:
It’s a mystery 真是奇妙
How Your rod comforts me 祢杖安慰了我
Always calling me higher 祢總是提升我心
Than I dreampt I could be 超過我所夢想
It’s a mystery真是奇妙
How You hold me 你手緊握住我
love that never ever, gives up on me 不止息的愛 永不放棄我

I’ve already come up with a title and have an album cover in mind. If you feel led, or if you could take some time to pray about this, I do need some financial support in order to get this album out. Please contact me if you’d like to help me! (sunnyhu7@gmail.com)

heading out again…

So I’m gearing up to leave for an extended ministry trip to Asia again this summer. Though this trip is seemingly similar to my last year’s trip, there’s a drastic difference that the Lord has done in my heart. Rather than using my own strength and desires to pave the way to Asia, God set everything up this time. Even before leaders at IHOP approached me about talking to the directors of Incubator Ministries , the House of Prayer in Hong Kong commissioned by Mike Bickle, I had a dream hinting toward an open door in Hong Kong.

With these small increases of prophetic history in my own life, situations where I waited upon God for His desires for my life to be released (mostly because He kindly disciplined me to wait rather than take things into my own hands), I’m beginning to hunger even more for the evidence of God’s divine orchestration in my life. I want to know what Jesus is thinking about, what He is praying for in order to join forces with Him and strategically live my life from God’s vantage point rather than depending on my own finite perspective and limited strengths, or should i say weaknesses (haha). Though many times waiting on God to break in can be wearisome at first, in the end when the fire falls upon those logs that you’ve just soaked through with 12 large buckets of water, you bet your knickers that the show is much more intriguing than fabricating any type of fireworks from your own two hands (1 Kings 18:33-35).

Jesus, You freaking ROCK!

Please take a moment to read my support letter and prayerfully consider partnering with me in increasing God’s government in Asia!

bringing Jesus to Asia summer 09

Is this God or the Devil?

I’ve been meaning to post this sermon by Bob Sorge for awhile. Many times in a believer’s walk, it’s hard to decipher whether the trails and heartaches we’re experiencing are an act of God or an attack from the enemy. In this message where Bob shares his own wrestles with this question after suffering the loss of his voice which heavily influenced his ministry as a preacher and worship leader, truth shines through. I pray that this message will touch your heart and strengthen your love for Jesus Christ.

Is this God or the Devil? message by Bob Sorge

Faith Builders (Graham Cooke)

I pray these videos builds your faith as it did mine. As I stare at God’s power and love for people, it changes my heart and causes me to believe and take hold of these truths for myself and for others. A friend recently pointed me towards a teaching by Graham Cooke on taking hold of one’s prophetic destiny and it truly is shaking up my perspectives toward how God sees me. If you ever get a chance to read Graham’s books or listen to his teachings, please do! They rock!