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Family trip to Holyland (28 May - 8 June 2023)

It's been our dream to bring our kids and parents to go to Holyland. My ultimate intentions are to bring my mom who's been wanting to go to Holyland since more than 10 years ago and through us we answered her prayer and desire, in addition I also want to let my dad know about Jesus that He's a true God and He's truly alive not some kinda of story fiction that's made up. I just hope that after this Holyland trip, he has a great desire to know more about Jesus, follow Him and wants to be baptised.

As for hubby, his great desire is to present our kids to God so that our kids can grow their faith, love God more and have great desire to put God first and follow Him till the end of time.

We prepared this trip 3 months and it's all by God's providence that we could get the Father to be our shepherd and other participants to fulfil minimum number of participants.

We prayed hard and do abstinence and fasting for these trips to make it successful and we are really grateful that by God's grace and providence, everything is going well and smoothly.

Starting from our journey from SG to Jakarta, then Jakarta - Dubai - Cairo, our activities, hotels, food, bus trip to different cities, countries and continents until we returned back to SG.

Our parents and kids were healthy, safe and sound even though there are times that my dad, my parents in law and our second son are not feeling well but they were able to join all the activities and no complaints about tiredness.

We feel so grateful and this is just a beginning of the journey.

Our homework are still a lot and it's a long journey. We will start to introduce our kids to the bible and family prayer as a family and as my mom, it's also just a beginning to introduce my dad to Catholic's faith.

This is the summary of our trip



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