"The Mission" by Steve Green (1989)

Christian song evokes memories of school event

The first day of my first high school intramural wasn't a sunny day way back in August 2000. Well, I got new shoes, shiny black, and I wore them to the event and I also brought my slippers.

However, I failed to make my costume for the verse choir contest. I got my staff, covered with shiny papers from cigarette packs and some brown material that I got from coconut trees. I thought costume making was going to be a team effort but I was wrong. Each man was to his own.

Luckily I met one of my mates for the verse choir contest. He got no brown material but had sewing material at home, so I went with him to get some needles and thread, returned to school, and made our costumes. I shared my brown material with him. We both skipped the parade.

Intramural hour. The event was graced by a doxology contest, which, after many years, I think was inappropriate to start the event. You don't hold a contest to see who sing better when praising and thanking God, right? The head teacher and the adviser of my faction, both Evangelical Protestants, should know better.

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I forgot the title and the tune of my faction's doxology piece, but I can't forget those of the competition: "The Mission". I admit it was a better piece than ours, which was a less upbeat, but more solemn.

The competition won but I got wind that we could have won, if only one of the members did not change position right on stage and in front of the judges. Well, one of the judges, a nurse, was a close friend of one of the advisers of the other faction. I can really spot nepotism.

The dancing squad contest was held after the literary contests, and my shoes were shiny black no more. Actually, it was for this contest that I got new shoes, black shoes.

By lunch time, the school was quiet. I was one of the very few students who remained at school because we didn't live near the school's vicinity. Later that afternoon, I went to the area's basketball court to help with the decorations for the musical competition and coronation program. It wasn't a sunny afternoon, but no rain.

It was a bad evening, which I'd like to forget and not write about it. I don't want to associate anything bad or negative with the things that I like, and in this case, a Christian song.

Mission is enduring suffering

It was only in 2011 that I remember to research "The Mission" on YouTube, and that's when I know who the singer is. And I suddenly remembered the Christians who suffer from persecution in some parts in some parts of the world. May God protect and bless them. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of all Christians, the words inscribed on a church in China.

Radicals torch properties of Christians in Pakistan (Image from the European Center for Law and Justice)