Bro. Song based his sermon on the following
verses:
Mark 4:35-41, Act 16:25-34, John 9:1-3.
Bro. Song started by sharing a little story
about himself when he was a young student.
His teacher asked him what was his elder sister doing. Bro. Song replied he did not know. The teacher told him, “you are good for
nothing!”. He was very hurt, and till
this day he still remembered this story.
How would you feel?
Story
of Nick Vujicic
Nick was born without any limbs. His grandparents and his parents were from
former Czechoslovakia. His grandparents
were devout Christians. When Nick was
born, his mother did not want to see him because he was without limbs. She
questioned why this happened to her?
However, both sets of Nick’s grandparents volunteered to take care of
Nick. As Nick grew and as a teenager he
found life meaningless and he told his younger brother that he will commit
suicide when he is 21 years old. His
father heard of his intention, and confronted him. His father shared that he loves him and he
will take care of him no matter what happened.
Nick than changed his mind. By
age 19 years he was baptized. One day he
was invited to a church to share and he saw a young boy just like him, without
limbs. The mother of this boy went and
hugged Nick, telling him he is like the son she is going to have when her own
son grew up. Nick was touched and tears
came. His heart was awakened and he
realized that he can make an impact on people’s lives. Nick has been going around the world sharing
his testimony of God’s love. He has no
limbs and yet can do so much, certainly with all our limbs we can doing something
for others too. God has plan for us
Jeremiah 29:11
Salvation
Army
Bro. Song and many of our church brothers
and sisters have been helping the children at the Salvation Army by giving them
tuition. He shared the story of a girl
who was very rebellious and did not want to cooperate with the teachers. This was due to her broken family
background. Nevertheless, Bro. Song and
the others showed their love for her and continue to teach her despite the
difficulties. Few years ago she came in
number 30 in a class of 36. But last
year she came in 3rd! Praise
God. Bro. Song and the others have been
encouraging her and getting her to set subject grade goals, and she managed to
achieve these goals. Formerly when Bro.
Song wanted to pray for her she refused, but through the years she has come to
know Jesus and often asked for prayers.
Teachers
Training College
Bro.
Song and Sis. Georgina are mentoring the teachers at the teachers
training college. They share the Gospel
with them guide them and encourage them.
They will be the future “missionaries” when they are posted to the interiors. Bro. Song also encouraged these teachers to
teach the children at Salvation Army. He
found that many of these trainees found that they useful. They also got trained while helping these
children.
A
school in Alaska
In this school the drop-out rate was 50%
and that is very high. To encourage the
students to stay the school built a football field. But Alaska is frozen most of the time and
there was no grass, and the children had to play on hard ground. A teacher heard about the plight of this Alaskan
school, she took upon herself to raise thousands to build a proper field for
this school. As a result of her effort,
the children there have a football field with artificial grass on it so that
they do not have to play on hard ground.
Disability
Camp
A girl of 12 years old was sent by her
mother to a disability camp, but she refused to go fervently but her mother
insisted of her going. Finally she
went. As she stepped out of the bus a
man with down syndrome came and hugged her.
She was surprised because she would not have done that with people she
first met. But this man showed her what
is love. During the camp, she was
attached to this man and later she shared that she learnt so much from a person
who is supposed to be a disable. In subsequent
years she volunteered herself at this camp.
