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Archive for August, 2009

Greetings …. I’m back and this will be a more leisurely LIVE blogging exercise. Elections are over … now it’s reports!

 

Good morning friends, I will try to do some LIVE blogging as I’m participating in the Convention.  BLC council John Cheah and Alpha Lim is with me.  Pastor Naomi Tan our associate pastor is here too!  I won’t be blogging details but more of reflections, random thoughts, and perhaps significant decisions.

I hope I can still managed one more day of LIVE Blogging. It’s been a wonderful learning experience, but it’s pretty exhausting as there is also 101 things I’m doing as we build up to the Lutheran Church in Malaysia & Singapore (LCMS) Convention (with Elections) starting tomorrow. We practiced from 8pm to 11.30pm last night to finetune the sound system mix and music for Monday’s Special Worship Celebration at 9am! So, there’s still lots on my plate. But I’m learning still to be at ease

My LIVE blogging will return with a greater challenge. Dr. Choong Chee Pang will speak on how Christians engage public issues theologically in Mandarin, and I will attempt translate on the spot if possible into English.  I don’t think I can manage too many verbatim stuff.  But let’s see how it will go.

Well, I must admit that the LIVE blogging experience has been exhilarating. The learning curve wasn’t too hard.  Perhaps, the more frustrating aspect was the inconsistent internet connection I had earlier.  The trouble was likely I was starting off blogging from the sound booth.  It was much better when I switched my place nearer to the windows. I’ve decided to set a better context before we start off later today at 10am. See you then.

“How many anak Bangsa Malaysia must die before you are moved?” asks Haris Ibrahim yesterday. It’s still relevant today! Please read on and then do something . .

“The children are the most badly affected by the food shortage”.

Read the rest of this report in the Staronline.

That report, whilst mentioning that Father Sylvester Ding, who is coordinating getting aid to those in need of the same, had said that people could send their donations in kind to the Miri Carmelite Chapel, does not give details as to how contributions could be sent.

I have asked for bank account details and / or the full postal address to which contributions might be sent and will post those details here the soonest I receive the same.

People, if you hold to the spirit of One People, One Nation, then you must see these starving children in the remote Kapit Division in central Sarawak as your own.

As you read this, you would have probably already had your first meal for the day.

Get your office mates to join you and skip lunch today, pool the money that you would have saved from that missed meal and get ready to send it out to our children in Sarawak.

The little pangs of hunger you will feel will be more than offset by the sense of fullness you will derive from knowing that the meal you missed is on its way to a little one who hasn’t eaten anything of substance in days.

Update at 5.05pm : Just got off the phone with Father Sylvester Ding. He has provided the details for those who wish to send love to the anak-anak Bangsa Malaysia in Kapit, Sarawak.

Account holder : St Francis Centre Belaga

Bank : Maybank, Bintulu branch, Sarawak

Account No. : 011065307834

God bless all you good people.

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