While some people spent their Christmas season on holidays, some on camps, and some even at home, I spent mine at Grace Community Service Centre that fed 300 homeless people in their Christmas celebration.
I was asked by Jon and Andrew to tag along their magic performances for the homeless people. They didn’t get paid. I didn’t get paid. It was all for community services.
Talk about community services, I personally think that the Grace Community Service Centre has done a tremendous job in reaching and making an impact in the community. From what I’ve heard, every week volunteers will avail themselves to feed the homeless in the centre. Forget about all the once-a-year community service that other churches do during the Christmas season. Making an impact in people’s life in a once-a-year deed won’t do anything. I really respect the energy that the volunteers have in the community centre. I compared myself with them and I realised that I’m nothing more than a ‘talk without a walk’ sorta person. These people can truly say ‘Loving God, loving people!’
It’s really an eye opener for me. Never once in my life have I ever gone to such occasion. I went for home visiting to the poor families during Christmas but it’s nothing compared to this! All of these homeless people have in some way been nurtured in Biblical ways. Week in, week out, the volunteers hand out food while sharing with them the gospel!
So once a year, they have the feeding program a big occasion to celebrate Christmas! When I walked into the place, a strong aroma filled the air..nasi briyani! I really wanted to be fed to by the feeding program. The food smelled soooo good. The event started off with the sharing of the gospel. The preacher was really amazing. He shares in English and later on translate his words into BM and Cantonese!
Right after that, they started distributing the food to the homeless people. It was jam packed.
While the homeless ate, Jon and his magic friends from the Magic Annexe performed close-up magics to them. It was a real treat for them, really!
Around 5.30pm, they took on the main stage and amazed everyone there, including myself =)
This is Kenoph Lai (Cannot Fly). He’s really very skillful, probably the most skillful one among them (so they say). Besides being a hilarious person, he’s actually a medical student. It’s hard to believe rite?
Andrew brought the house down with his birds birds acts! Hahaha some of them even asked him “Are those birds real?”
I didn’t take many good shots on that day. It was hard to move about to snap pictures as it was darn crowded but I would love to go for more community services to capture down the moments. I hope that the pictures are enough to let you guys be aware that the world isn’t just this beautiful. Get out from your comfort zone, walk down to that back lane, watch and hear for yourself the cries of those in need. You can make the difference =)
For more info of Grace Community Services, do visit their site at http://www.gracecommunityservices.my
