Thursday, May 08, 2008

Who cares?

For the past 2 years, i had never been busier or felt more content with my life. Every Tues, Thur and Sat i wld travel down to KL to be with the street people. On top of the Sat feeding, i was ministering at this drop-in-centre which opens Mon-Sat which functions as a place for them to eat (3x daily - nothing fancy, just plain stuff like bread, biscuits, maggi mee) rest, bathe, get their clothes washed, play carrom, watch some tv and free movies-cum-supper (on Thursday nites) . I wld drop by after work for a couple of hours to sit and listen to their stories, counsel those i can, share the message of God's love with those who are open to listen. We do wat we can to help as far as we can. Like arranging for those willing to go into drug/substance or prison rehab, old folks/women's homes, buying bus tickets for those who wanna balik kampung after finding out how tough life on the streets can be...
You will be surprised how many people just walk into the centre from all over M'sia, as far as East M'sia and even foreign lands - some are sooo young, just teenager drop outs and runaways... They all come with a common dream - to get a job, make big $$ in the big city of KL... and then after 1/2/3/4/5 days out on the streets, with no job, no home, no food.... God only knows how many are sucked into criminal activities and bad habits and end up totally lost ... society frowns upon them, rejects them; no one gives them a chance. They can't get jobs - who wants to hire them?! So, they are stuck... My heart breaks over some of the stories i hv heard... but by God's grace and mercy , a few, a very few handful i hv seen break thru the vicious cycle... proof that even in the midst of such darkness, God's light shines thru, becoz really God is the only One who cares abt them.
There is really little that i can do for them , but i know i can pray. So i pray with them, for them, and thank God when some break free... for all the sweat i poured into this work, there's no greater reward than to see this happen... when lives which are all broken up get mended and turned around, transformed by God's grace and love...
2 yrs spent in this ministry hv given me so much joy, so much meaning... and i was tinking i dont wanna do anything else...but as usual, God has some surprises up His sleeve for me...

2 comments:

Hong said...
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Hong said...

Wow, I should say what you do is true altruism! Thumbs up!