Day 2 - Night

After breakfast today we went to Ho-Ming Tsui’s church, RHCCC, and he gave us a tour around their huge church building. We greeted some of their pastors, walked around in their mazelike basement and had a look at their old and new sanctuaries. We were told that technical equipment in the new, big sanctuary uses 500 Canadian dollars worth of electrical power whenever it’s turned on (or used during a sermon, don’t quite remember)!

Rendezvousing with the girls at the church

Pastor Ho-Ming showing us the church’s emergency exits on the church map. Or is he…?

After the tour we had dim sum for lunch at the Emperor Fine Chinese Cuisine restaurant. It was pretty good!

 
Dim sum!

Then we had a workshop called Scripture-Driven Worship with Shu-Ling Lee back at the church. The workshop was interesting, he taught us a lot that we hadn’t thought much about before! After the workshop he joined us for a bit on our worship practice, giving the worship team some hints and tips. I was playing around with my phone, trying to stream a video on Qik, but it didn’t work. I guess they must have put up some firewall or filter on the church’s internet connection. Uploaded one of the videos to YouTube instead:

After the worship practice we went to pastor Kelly Tam’s house for dinner. Ho-Ming’s family was also there.

Ho-Ming’s kids.

We had a team meeting at their place after dinner, where we talked a bit about our schedule for the week. Then we split up, the girls went back to Ho-Ming’s place to sleep, and the boys tried to go to T&T, but we failed to find the place, and ended up going to a FoodyMart that we happened to pass on our way back home to Ho-Ming’s parents’ house.

Welcome to FoodyMart!

After we got home we were invited out again by pastor Ivy Milanowski, went to Go for Tea for some bubble tea (and cake). Her husband Glenn also went with us. Tried out Peppermint Milk Green Tea, which tasted slightly like toothpaste. According to some people it tasted worse as they drank it, but I guess I drank it so quickly that I didn’t notice. I thought it was pretty refreshing.

 
Having fancy toothpaste tea. Oh the black thing you can kind of see on the back of the standing menu thing is actually a remote control for calling a waiter over to our table.

The weather was pretty hot today, according to Shu-Ling it was usually not this hot in Toronto. Weather.com says it was around 24°C, so not that hot, but the humidity makes it feel a lot worse… Oh also there was a earthquake today! Unfortunately we didn’t notice it, either because we were driving while it happened, or because we were on ground level or outside so it wasn’t as noticable.