Back in 2008, Albert Jin had to make a tough decision of either going to Japan or China for his summer mission trip. In my heart, Jesus told me to tell him to flip a coin. He thought that it was absurd, but realized that there is no harm and that it’s actually pretty interesting. We gathered 4 of his roomates: Brandon, Theo, Daniel, and Wilson and told them the plan of how we will find out where Albert will go for his next mission trip. Albert actually wanted to go to China because he thought that being able to speak Chinese would an great asset for the team. On the contrary, Chinese wouldn’t be as a valuable asset if he went to Japan so He assumed, but God’s ways are far beyond our ways. The Bible verse that popped into my mind was from Act 1 when the original disciples had to choose a replacement for Judas. We read the story and we decided that it was time to flip the coin. All six of us held hands together and prayed that God would bless it and reveal his thoughts for Albert.
After we prayed, we decided that if majority of the toss is TAILS Albert would go to Japan and HEADS would be for China. I told Albert that I feel God telling me that he’s supposed to go to Japan. Albert was like… “No way! It’s going to be China!” I told him… “We’ll see.” So we flipped our coins one by one.
Brandon flips TAILS… Albert was like… “-_-”
Theo flips TAILS..
Daniel flips TAILS!
Wilson flips TAILS!!! (by this time we were freaking out!)
Albert flips TAILS!!!!!
and finally I flip TAILS!!!!!!!! (by this time it was obvious lol)
We were so tripped out!!! The UCI students busted out a calculator and the calculated the percentage of getting 6 consecutive TAILS was 1.5625%. We tried to duplicate 6 consecutive TAILS again but it didn’t happen. In the end, it was obvious that Albert was supposed to go to Japan for the summer. Even though Albert knew where God was thinking, a part of Albert still wanted to go to China. I told him it’s human nature to rebel against God. The story of Jonah came up and I told him to not be like Jonah. You’ll be blessed everywhere you go, but there’s definitely a best choice.
Albert became close friends with two people on the mission trip that completely changed his life. Soon after the mission trip, Albert got filled with the Holy Spirit and received many gifts from God through these two people.