Every first and third Friday of the month, we host a Care Group for the off duty Indonesian nurses and Care givers at our home. The attendance vary - sometimes we have as many as 12, at other times two or three depending on how many get time off. Besides there are times when their friends and relatives come from Indonesian to visit them and they have to go sight seeing or shopping.
We enjoy their visit to our home. We have time for fellowship, singing, prayer, a short devotion and supper. Our daughter and her husband visit Batam Indonesia and she brings home Indonesian "kueh lapis" meaning "layer cake" made from local or imported ingredients, imported butter from Australia or New Zealand and egg yoke and even dried fruit added. The Indonesians enjoy them, but we refrain because of the high cholesterol content!
These Indonesians attend our Corps (church) services and participate in the various activities.
We moved to Changi from Upper Bukit Timah one and a half years ago. That was the time, the majority of Indonesians, more than twenty came at the same time. We were requested to host these for three months and help them to settle down. The three months have extended to one and a half years. We'll carry on as long as they desire to come. We take it as the ministry God has given us.
"Therefore, whenever we have the opportunity, we should do good to everyone--especially to those in the family of faith". Galatians 6: 10 (New Living Translation)
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