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7月21日

Job Training Centre for the special needs

My church runs a few initiatives to meet the needs of intellectually challenged youth.  One of the projects is a training centre which teaches hem employment skills like cooking, sewing etc.  A new product the centre has been trying to launch is greeting cards.  I helped designed a few and it was finally printed out last week.  The youth has been busy putting and decorating the cards thoughout the week.  The cards will be sold for RM5 for a pack of 3 starting this weekend.  The proceeds from the sale will be channeled back to the youth as salary. So by buying the cards, you are helping them realise their potential and also affirms them that although they have special needs, they too can have a job and earn money like you and me.  Sometimes we take for granted even simple things like our ability to hold an employment, be self sufficient and to support our family.  So many of us have so much complains about our job while these people are just more than happy to have a productive role to play in the society and somewhere where they can spend fruitful time. 

 

Anyone wants to help can either purchase the cards during our church service or let me know.

 

 
7月18日

Ryan to the Fire Station

I bring Ryan to a playgroup in Taman Tun every Tuesday and Thursday morning for about half a year now. Basically the playgroup allows children around 2 - 4 years old to have fun together and also for mothers to interact.
 
Yesterday the playgroup visited Taman Tun Fire Station and Ryan (and me) saw how the fire station operates.  I learned two main things:
 
1) Emergency no is still 999.  I was never sure.
2) In case of fire, you can dial 994 and contact the fire department directly.  999 gets you to an operator who diverts the case to Polis, Fire Department or hospital... so if you are sure it is a fire, can dial 994 directly which saves a bit of time.
 
 
7月6日

Imitating Christ's Humility

I've been waking up in the middle of the night and not able to go back to sleep quite frequently these days.  Tonight is another one of those nights.  I find it hard to understand why this is happening cos usually in the morning, it takes an earth quake to wake me up.   I told Funj last night before we went to bed that maybe the Lord wakes me up so that I'll spend time with Him... during the day is usually busy and with Ryan running about, I hardly have any quiet time to myself.
 
So when I woke up, I opened the bible and this is what the Lord says to me.
 
"Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others."
Philippians 2: 3,4
 
I am reminded of how selfish sometimes I go about doing my own things and thinking about my own needs that I failed to notice the people around me.  There is so much I need to learn and usually these things are important but so seemingly not urgent in our busy life... no wonder the Lord has to wake me up in the middle of the night to remind me.