cova t buffet...

yummy yummy.... for only HK$138 + 10%... how can u resist... having "high tea" at such a nice and elegant environment...

plus we met stanley ho 何鴻燊 & his n-th wife today...

my first time...

today is Good Friday... yes, we have Good Friday every year - but...

today is my first time being in a prison (for 7 hours)...

today is my first time leading worship (should be sharing hymns, to be more exact) in English...

today is my first time sharing my testimony in English...

maybe u can figure out what i've done today... i (together with other ACMers) went to Pik Uk Prison for their Easter EMs organised by HK Christian Kun Sun Association...

we had three meetings to host: two in Cantonese, one in English... i was then "assigned" to lead the English one... really scary... coz i had no experience in leading a English worship... ~_~

it took me quite some days to come up with the songlist... we had a brief rehersal two weeks before... i wrote down all my scripts... all things were ready the nite before...

but things never happened as u might wish... esp when u thought that u had well prepared...

according to the rundown, we would have a 15-min hymns sharing before the sermon... but upon we arrived the foreign canteen (where we had the gathering), the speaker - Helen Reed - had finished her sermon already... she, indeed, had already been there for an hour and more...

well... we could simply sing the 3 songs which we had prepared... but what to do next... coz our session was supposed to end by 4pm, but now it was only 3pm...

okay... we just finished our part as planned... meanwhile Helen did a few sharings between songs... we sang Perhaps Love, More than Anything, and God will make a Way...

after those hymns - we had 45 mins left... so Helen asked us (our team) a very simple question - How did Jesus change your life?... simple but we needed to use English... ooops... hopefully with God's mercy, we managed to share our stories in English...

this is really a wonderful experience i ever have in serving Him... so many "first time"s altogether... thx God for letting me to serve Him in the prison...

poo ai...

another round of "killing school" has just announced lately... i didn't pay much attention to the news... until my friend told me: "poo ai" is on the list... oooooops... my goodness...

"poo ai" is a catholic primary school in hunghum, kowloon... it's just next to the apartment building where i once lived... so it just took me a few mins to walk downstairs for school...

but in the coming school year... "poo ai" will no longer allow to admit P1 student (a.k.a. grade 1 in american edu system)... as it couldn't recruit enough P1 students this year... "poo ai" is just one of the primary schools to be killed...

why do we such a "school killing" policy? just becoz of a low birth rate in hongkong... resulting in an excess of primary school vacancies... esp hunghum is an old urban district, with fewer new born babies now... but u may also say that - there is a fault in the planning of education resources...

anyway... no matter for what reason... it is sad... *_*

more on doctor Lien...

here is one of Lien's stories from the book...

when his churchmates knowing that he was sent to Africa, they kept sending him boxes of used/new clothes without saying a word, or stating any reason... a total of sixty boxes (woh!)...

with his creative mind, he started the idea of a clothes-for-garbage activity in his area... hundreds of children gathered at a school playground... within only 2 hours, all the clothes were gone...

then...

a taiwanese girl heard of his story and wrote him an email... but Lien's reply on the clothes-for-garbage project was then being forwarded to seventy of the girl's friends... and these seventy kept forwarding the email... finally this email was widely spread around the world... [pls don't under-estimate the power of the internet...]

more and more ppl knew about this wonderful project... then they started sending him boxes and boxes and boxes of clothes and toys... this time, there were 1,500 boxes...

these 1,500 boxes of clothes had created a series of problems... under God's providence, and with Lien's faithful heart... all these problems were resolved one-by-one, no later no earlier... so he could start another round, with a larger scale, of clothes-for-garbage campaign in the city...

about doctor Lien Chia-en...

yes... i am back from taiwan... with lots of fun, new experience... no photo, coz my DC wasn't working... plus lots of, lots of books...

lately i have been reading one written by doctor Lien...

doctor Lien Chia-en (連加恩), a brother in the Lord... he is a medical graduate from National Yang Ming University, taiwan... he signed up for the alternative diplomatic service program and served in Burkina Faso (South Africa) upon graduation...

the book is about his life in Burkina Faso for the past 2 years... about the miracles happened around him... about God's mercy to his faithful heart...

i am so touched by the book... by the work he, and He, has done...