Visit to the Red Cross Home
Yesterday (21st Dec) my sister Yiling, Bertram and his friend Nina, and Pam and her friend Thaddeus went together to visit the Red Cross Home for the Disabled, somewhere in Hillview. It was to celebrate one of the residents' birthdays which fell on Christmas day. It was a blessed visit, but what shook me was what happened while we were preparing for it.
We were supposed to bring lunch for them. I had promised to buy them KFC and they were thrilled to bits cos like...being disabled and in the home everyday of the year, they don't go out and they hardly get treats. Their normal lunchtime was about 11am but because KFC only opens at like, 11am, so we could only go at 12noon.
At KFC, we had gottan the food, and I was sharing with them from Matthew 25:31-46. It was on social concerns and the passage talks about "whatever you did for the least of these brothers of mine, you did for Me." (v.40) So i shared and tolded them about the residents and some of the conditions that they are born with. And like, I realised tha twe hadn't gotten a birthday present for Christopher yet, and so we were all ready to take off...
As I was getting up, the cleaner guy at KFC, with his cap and table cloth, stood at the edge of the table where I was at, as I was getting up, said, "The Lord wants you to pray before you go and minister to the people....yadayada..." I was like..."WHA!!!" My jaw could have dropped and he went on to explaing why the Lord would have us pray...I was so shocked that I didn't really hear what else he was saying, but I got the point. So we prayed, and, after we did, I composed myself and shook the guy's hand and said to him, "God bless you, brother! Merry Christmas!"
It was a really blessed visit. Even the cap which we all chose (hurriedly) for Christopher was his favourite colour blue. God is so amazing! We are even appearing on Channel U on the show that features various homes, cos they happened to be filming at that time and since we happened to be there to celebrate one of their birthdays they sort of just accomodated us. All of the rest (all first-timers) had a good experience. God is so good because like in the past when I brought groups there some of the people were quite shocked or traumatised.
Well, anyways, I think another idea behind Matthew 25:31-46 is also kind of like...God shows up in the unlikeliest places!...and we never know when He is going to show up! We may not know that we could have been ministering to our Lord Jesus when we do an act of kindness toward an old lady or the roadsweeper. So, it could have been the Lord who showed up and reminded us to pray, shorty, tooth decay, table cloth and all, but he spoke with authority. WOW. Many things that have been happening lately just blow my mind!!!
Blessed Christmas!
-jiemin =)
We were supposed to bring lunch for them. I had promised to buy them KFC and they were thrilled to bits cos like...being disabled and in the home everyday of the year, they don't go out and they hardly get treats. Their normal lunchtime was about 11am but because KFC only opens at like, 11am, so we could only go at 12noon.
At KFC, we had gottan the food, and I was sharing with them from Matthew 25:31-46. It was on social concerns and the passage talks about "whatever you did for the least of these brothers of mine, you did for Me." (v.40) So i shared and tolded them about the residents and some of the conditions that they are born with. And like, I realised tha twe hadn't gotten a birthday present for Christopher yet, and so we were all ready to take off...
As I was getting up, the cleaner guy at KFC, with his cap and table cloth, stood at the edge of the table where I was at, as I was getting up, said, "The Lord wants you to pray before you go and minister to the people....yadayada..." I was like..."WHA!!!" My jaw could have dropped and he went on to explaing why the Lord would have us pray...I was so shocked that I didn't really hear what else he was saying, but I got the point. So we prayed, and, after we did, I composed myself and shook the guy's hand and said to him, "God bless you, brother! Merry Christmas!"
It was a really blessed visit. Even the cap which we all chose (hurriedly) for Christopher was his favourite colour blue. God is so amazing! We are even appearing on Channel U on the show that features various homes, cos they happened to be filming at that time and since we happened to be there to celebrate one of their birthdays they sort of just accomodated us. All of the rest (all first-timers) had a good experience. God is so good because like in the past when I brought groups there some of the people were quite shocked or traumatised.
Well, anyways, I think another idea behind Matthew 25:31-46 is also kind of like...God shows up in the unlikeliest places!...and we never know when He is going to show up! We may not know that we could have been ministering to our Lord Jesus when we do an act of kindness toward an old lady or the roadsweeper. So, it could have been the Lord who showed up and reminded us to pray, shorty, tooth decay, table cloth and all, but he spoke with authority. WOW. Many things that have been happening lately just blow my mind!!!
Blessed Christmas!
-jiemin =)
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