After 2 weeks I am up and running again. Today had gathering with all the Stradford Students at one of the guy hostel. The more I spent time with them, the more I want to see breakthrough in this ministry. Each time I see their humbleness and how some of the students who had took my words and the words of those who taught them seriously, esp on life skills and money management it moved my heart to the core.
I began today with a lunch meal with a student couple. Everything was a first time today. I don't really know what to talk, what structure I should use, and how do I really struck conversation with them, yet I had been asking the Lord to guide me. I had this paper that I translated into BM about self worth, so after a good good meal, somehow I started this...
I asked them to describe themselves so they know themselves well, then suddenly the idea of having them to write about their other half, and then the ideas just flow and we managed to struck quite a good conversation, praise God. Am amazed by how God lead me. Then I went and get rice for the 3 hostels and then bought chicken, vege, fish balls to cook soup in the hostel for them. And then my cake is ready and being sent to me. I praise God, one cake would easily cost me RM80 or more, and I have 48 students all, surely one is not enough, 2 would be even more expensive, my colleague's mom agree to bake for me at RM 60 for 2 cakes. God always know how to meet my needs. When I ask of Him, He never fail to answer me.
Today's gathering is pretty much done by all students, I gave every hostel RM30 for food, 3 hostel, but the food they produced is not really up to my expectation. But it's all right, and the Lord multiply the food, initially I was thinking, another 2 hostel only manage to buy biscuits and one make jelly, they could have done much more, like hostel 20 that fried bihun and I believe they spent more than 30 ringgit for the food, but their heart is willing to bless.
Another thing that moved my heart, while they were frying the bihun, gas habis, and so I was shocked, what they did was they gonna carry the tong gas to the kedai runcit about 1km away...in exchange for new one for RM30. If they asked them to send, it would be additional RM 1, and they told me "tak apa la sis, satu ringgit boleh kita jimat". I was shocked, and me being me, how could I just leave it, so, up the tong masuk my myvi passenger seat, and I brought them to kedai runcit, and they brought out every shillings they had with RM20. I have been pampering them lots, now I am also learning to hold, and let them have the responsibilities to manage money well. But it just break my heart to see them in this condition, so I went and 'angkat' the amma taukeh, sweet talk them and told them these are the poor students from Sabah studying here with minimal support, and ask Aunty not to charge them extra for sending the tong gas when it is finished next time, and Aunty graciously say yes, and I pray she will honor her words.
Oh Lord, how can I find more resources for them, and help them? There's too many of them now, help me Daddy..
We are starting the next new 3 cg next week, and Lord please empower the student leader that I had raised. Help them to grow, and continue to grow.
The harvest is plentiful, pray for the Lord of harvest to send worker to the field :)
