Birthday Celebration

Yesterday was an important day for my wife. She celebrated her 75th birthday. She makes no attempt to keep her age a secret.

We had a stream of visitors who called us on. First to arrive were Sister Joy Goh and her nephew god son, Raymond. Joy first came to The Salvation Army in Malacca when Cadet Teoh Poh Leng and I went there to conduct cadets' campaign in 1954. She was still in school then.

Later when I was appointed to Malacca Corps as the Corps Officer (pastor) in October 1954, her cousin Edward started coming to the Sunday school and Youth Group. Later another young girl called Pauline Ho came to the youth group. Edward and Pauline later got married and had two children. Raymond is the younger of the two boys. Raymond came to Singapore for his education, later when to Australia for his university education and now works for Bank Negara, Kuala Lumpr. What a joy to see our friends again.

We have a wonderful cell group which meets at our home every Friday morning. Brothers Bill Lutz and Ronnie Lim hosted a lunch at North Border, Rochester Park for the eleven of us. It was a lovely lunch plus great fellowship.

We met again this morning for our cell. We did not want to cancel the meeting as it is our last for the year 2011. We shall have recess as all of us will be busy with Christmas activities, like kettling etc. We thank God for friends who care. This mutual caring support for each other build each other up.