Begin to see the needs in the community
iPOH ELIM GOSPEL CHURCH
（7979志管人梁洁芝提供）
（7979志管人梁洁芝提供）
In the past, brothers and sisters hardly had any contact with the needy, although they were exposed to some unfortunate families’ ordeal from newspaper or social media, it was unthinkable and we were clueless on how to intervene. Social care is often limited to visitation to old folk homes or orphanages only or house visitation initiated by the church. After we got to know HISTEAM, brothers and sisters started to see the need to intervene in the lives of many groups of people who needed caring or help .
Through HISTEAM, now our church has some ideas of practical actions that can be taken. Church’s knowledge on social concern has widen, we learnt to do referral whenever a case is beyond our capabilities. Our church has a fulltime social worker; therefore our social care is not limited to weekends but also on weekdays.
Companionship class on Monday to Thursday allows brothers and sisters to develop their gifts on how to serve under-privilege children, e.g. Transportation, cooking, teaching, accompany, etc. These chores are rotate by 25 to 30 brothers and sisters.
Due to ministering to crisis hit families or some needy families, brothers and sisters now have the opportunity to visit non-believers’ families to spread God’s love to the community. Personally, I think the level of cooperation that we have now is satisfactory, although there are still occasionally some administration pitfalls, but that doesn’t cause much trouble, it can be easily solved just by communication.
Through HISTEAM, now our church has some ideas of practical actions that can be taken. Church’s knowledge on social concern has widen, we learnt to do referral whenever a case is beyond our capabilities. Our church has a fulltime social worker; therefore our social care is not limited to weekends but also on weekdays.
Companionship class on Monday to Thursday allows brothers and sisters to develop their gifts on how to serve under-privilege children, e.g. Transportation, cooking, teaching, accompany, etc. These chores are rotate by 25 to 30 brothers and sisters.
Due to ministering to crisis hit families or some needy families, brothers and sisters now have the opportunity to visit non-believers’ families to spread God’s love to the community. Personally, I think the level of cooperation that we have now is satisfactory, although there are still occasionally some administration pitfalls, but that doesn’t cause much trouble, it can be easily solved just by communication.
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Sister Jie Zhi’s ministering reflection…
HISTEAM ministry has broaden my Social concern perspective, I discovered that actually there are many Christian who are in this line of serving our neighbor, this realization has gets rid of my loneliness. HISTEAM has also become an important resource centre for me, it has increased my efficiency, I’m able to extend help faster and more confidently.
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