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Miracle to Start the Radical

By Anonymous
Aster H’ng

In true Dalat tradition, the way MEW has been scheduled for at least the past five years is to have a guest speaker come and do chapel-like sessions. But this year, MEW started off with a shout (literally).

On Monday, February 20th, MEW began with a spectacular worship night led by local artist, Josh Yeoh. Now, firstly, who is Josh Yeoh? Josh is the founder and director of the Penang House of Prayer. Josh has also written, produced, and released two worship albums so far. He travels globally to help others set up a House of Prayer in their regions, speaks at conferences, and tours for his albums.

Now why did Josh Yeoh come to Dalat to lead a worship night? Well, it’s a rather miraculous story. A couple months back, Dalat’s spiritual life director, Mr. Ronzheimer, felt the prompting to have a worship night at Dalat during MEW to change things up a little. He recalled Mr. Allen, the Spanish teacher, telling him about this artist named Josh Yeoh and went to talk to him about it.

Now, at the same time, Mrs. Allen, Media Literature and Bible teacher, had also received the idea of a worship night being held in Dalat. During a mentoring session with a student, Allen asked her what God wanted to do in Dalat. The student immediately replied saying that she had received a vision of a worship night. With this confirmation, Mrs. Allen picked up the phone and messaged Josh Yeoh. Yeoh replied to Mrs. Allen by informing her that he had received a message from a Dalat parent that same morning who felt he needed to come to Dalat to do a worship night.

With all of these signs, Mrs. Allen rushed to meet Mr. Ronzheimer to tell him that Josh Yeoh needed to come and do a worship night, only to find that Mr. Ronzheimer was looking for her to say the very same thing. Mr. Ronzheimer then brought the idea to the administration team to be approved, but he was met with some doubt. But in the very end, Mr. Ronzheimer sent it home with these words, “I know that God wants us to do this, so we are going to do it.” And with that, the idea was approved and the schedule for MEW was changed and the worship night was set in stone.

It was finally time, and the chapel was buzzing with excitement. All the chairs had been removed and yet the whole room was packed with people from the front to the back. Without any further delay, Josh Yeoh and his team launched straight into worship and led the room into a time of ground-breaking worship.

Explained perfectly by student Emmett Balzer, “The room was packed, but when we sang it felt like we were singing to an audience of one in equal broken unity.”

Truly, it was a night to go down in Dalat history; and, hopefully, it’s the first of many more to come.

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