PARENTS' APPRECIATION LUNCHEON

We combined the Mothers' and Fathers' Day celebrations and organised a Parents' Appreciation Luncheon at the Oriental Restaurant in Jaya 33, to provide our church folks an opportunity to honor their parents' the traditional way- tea ceremony! Many heart-felt and appreciative words were written and spoken to the parents. It was so good to see the parents and the children connecting. Grace and I were especially touched by our son, Nicholas, who was in tears as he read his appreciation to us. That in itself was priceless.

I shared a short message on how the Bible commanded Christians to honor their parents and obedience to this command comes with the promise of long life and prosperity in the land (Ex 20:12; Deu 5:16). Non-Christian parents need not be concerned that their children will not be filial to them when they become Christians. I also told them that embracing Christianity is not embracing a foreign religion as the Chinese civilization is so much older than the West and many Chinese characters contain Biblical imagery. This tells us that the Chinese knew about the Christian God even before the West.