Showing posts with label NewsLetter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NewsLetter. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

2009 - October NewsLetter

The Stag at the Pool, an Aesop‟s Fable by bro. Tan Seow Hwee

One hot summer‟s day, a young stag came to a spring for a drink of water. Bending down to quench his thirst, he noticed his reflection in the clear pool and started to think, “ My horns are so very at-tractive. They are large and well shaped, unlike my legs that seem so ugly and thin." He sighed, " I wish I did not have feet like these!”

While he was lost in thought, a Lion crept up from behind, ready to spring on the unsuspecting stag. The slight rustle of the grass behind however alerted him to danger and before the Lion could pounce, the stag fled from the scene! As long as the grassy plain spread out before him, the stag could keep running. But as soon as he reached the woods, his horns became entangled with the vines and branches and he found himself stuck! “Oh, what shall I do now !" he cried, "My feet tried to save me, but these very antlers that I valued so greatly over my legs will now lead me to my death! ” Trapped in the mesh of leaves, the stag became easy prey, and before long, the hungry Lion's next meal!

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Thursday, October 1, 2009

2009 - September NewsLetter

MY STORY BY PETER KOAY

My name is Peter Koay Tiang Yeong and I am 22 years old. I am the 2nd old-est of 4 siblings in my family and we live in Butterworth, Penang. When my youngest brother was born, my mother decided to sell him to someone at the hospital. I was 5 years old at the time, and my parents divorced a year later.

When I was in Standard 6 (aged 12), there was a worker from the Salvation Army named sister Penny who would visit me on Sun-days and spend time playing board games with me at home.

Upon her invitation, I stayed at the Boys’ Home as a guest for 3 months. After that I returned home to be with my father. However,.....

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Friday, September 4, 2009

2009 - August NewsLetter

Peter - by Sister Molly Lim

BoldWay back in 1987 in Calvary Church, KL, God called me to serve Him. He had stationed me in the Salva-tion Army Melaka way back in 2003 where I worked for 3 years as a full time volunteer. Then in March 2007, He 'opened a door' and put me on the SA payroll as an Administrative Assistant until the present.

Reflecting back, I met Peter for only about 2 and half months. It all started one morning, this white haired elderly gentleman walking steadily towards the coffee shop for breakfast caught my attention. Neighbors said he usually goes out in the afternoon but that day was special. We became friends with just a small cup of my sweet red bean soup (old people's favorite). Then as God will it, I met him again and wondered why he was alone by himself even though communication was kind of difficult because he was hard of hearing; yet I felt the attraction to get to know him and his family. Daily I would walk him to my house for dinner knowing he is lonely and probably fed-up of eating outside food perhaps simple home cooked meals would taste a lot different. I also brought back SA canteen Indian cooked food for four occasions (after my Direc-tor, Freda came to know about it) as Peter loves spicy food.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

2009 July NewsLetter

My reflection – 5 years in Penang - by Major Francis Ng

How do you summed up 5 years in a page? Well, let me just say that God is good all the time! And all the peo-ple say: “All the time, God is good!”

Would I have chosen to come or would we have chosen to come to Penang to serve in our present ap-pointments? I heard someone said; “when given choices to man, the percentage of happiness drops against fixed choices by circum-stances and experiences!” There is a will and resilience for man to face his fixed choice or circumstances and make the most out of it.

Please, I hope you readers can un-derstand how in the Army, our lead-ers under God's grace and direction has appointed us here to serve in Penang and; we have been very blessed in living, serving and shar-ing our lives together with the peo-ple here in Penang. Of course, not without its challenges; and who in this world wouldn't have one or sev-eral in this world. And probably some of you are facing in this eco-nomic uncertainty, emotional stress, physical discomfort and other host of challenges.

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Sunday, June 28, 2009

2009 June NewsLetter

Daniel Hor’s Story...

My name is Daniel Hor Chee Leung and I am 19 years old. I was born in Ipoh, but dur-ing my early childhood years, I lived with my parents in Johor. I have a younger brother and sister. When I was 8 years old, I started help-ing my parents at a Dim Sum shop in Johor Baru. When I was in Primary 4 (10 years old), someone from the So-cial Welfare Department came by and upon inspecting me, found cane marks along my back. My parents were reprimanded for this, and after that, my aunt from Penang brought me home to live with her. After staying with my aunt for a year, we were visited by Captain Leong and Mrs. G from the Salvation Army. After the visit, my aunt decided to place me in the Salvation Army’s Penang Children’s Home.

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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

2009 May NewsLetter

My Story...by Steven Ch’ng

My name is Steven Ch’ng, and I am originally from Sabah. When I was 7 or 8, my mother passed away and my father brought my elder brother, my sister and me to stay with a relative in Ipoh, while he went to Penang to work. He also placed my younger brother who was 2 or 3 at the time, in a day care in Penang. My father would visit us for 2 or 3 days each month at the time.

In Ipoh, we were placed under the care of an uncle who was taking drugs at the time. My uncle wanted us to work as panhandlers, but we refused.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

2009 April NewsLetter

For this month release, we have a long list of events happening. From testimonial, good friday, new soldiers enrollment, TSA Penang Boys home open day, more.

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Saturday, March 28, 2009

2009 March NewsLetter


On Being a Sunday School Teacher… By Loo-Thoe Tan.

About 5 years ago, I signed up as a Sunday School teacher for the Penang Corps. I felt that I could contribute in this minis-try and that the task would not be too formidable. Was I in for a big surprise! Here is the description on the role and respon-sibility of a Sunday School teacher, that I have learned from the Bible (quotes taken from NIrV version).

Sharing God words by Brother Jimmy - Love (1 Corinthians 13)

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Monday, March 2, 2009

2009 February Newsletter

Jack’s Story...

At age 17 and going on 18, Jack is among the oldest boys staying at the Penang Children’s Home. Shy and soft-spoken by nature, his congenial personality has also added to his many like-able traits. In this issue, Jack shares with us his family history, his experience with God and his aspirations for the future...

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Thursday, January 29, 2009

2009 January NewsLetter

2009 January NewsLetter

“Go and Make Disciples NOW”, our mission for 2009, is based on Jesus’ Great Commission to His Followers (Matthew 28:19-20) just before His ascension into Heaven.



In this issue, brother Daniel Cheong shares with us a message on shining for Christ and sharing the Good News in the New Year...

Also: New Year’s Eve potluck dinner with bar-b-que’d chicken & pork, yummy ! An eve-ning of fellowship with Christian karaoke late into the night...Evening’s message by Major Francis to forget the past and run-ning the steadfast Christian race with perseverance and faith.

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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

2008 Christmas Newsletter

2008 Christmas Newsletter















Greetings in the name of the Lord! It's Christmas once again and as we celebrate the birthday of Jesus, we pray that you will have a joyful and meaningful time with family and loved ones during this season.

We would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Blessed New Year and happy holidays.

“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the govern-ment will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonder-ful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of-Peace”.

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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

2008 November NewsLetter

Brother Lenny (Yeoh Guan Beng)’s Story…

My parents divorced when I was 5. At that point, it was decided that my elder brother would remain with my mother while I was sent to live and work in a charcoal factory owned by my uncle. A few years later, when I was 10, my uncle decided to place me in the Penang Children’s Home. I stayed at the home for about 9 years, where I en-rolled as a senior soldier (~’63) and played in the brass band.

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Monday, November 3, 2008

2008 October NewsLetter

A TESTIMONY BY JOHN ZACHARIAH (SHAUN), Cell-group meeting at Uncle Fred & Aunty Alice house .....

It all began when I went for a football train-ing one Sunday. The team was preparing for a football tournament in Seremban. We had an unexpected match during the training; in the match I twisted my left knee. I was clueless on how did it happen.

At first I thought it was a normal sprain, but unfortunately it was a bad injury...

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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

2008 September Newsletter

Corps Council Update

Corps Council recent discuessed and plan exciting programmes for the church and members. Below are the list of them.

Pastoral Visitations
Bible Study
Penang Corps Blog
Community Center
Newsletter
Soldier's Meeting
Membership 2009

Kindly give your support through prayers, self volunteer, financial assistant and etc.

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Also there was a Church Outing at Batu Ferringhi beach where family members enjoy themselves.

Monday, September 1, 2008

2008 August NewsLetter


Francis Elias - My family in Christ

I was born in Penang in 1957. My father died when I was just 3 years old. Immedi-ately after my father passed away, my mother brought my brother and I to stay with my uncle. After a while, my uncle entered us in the Salvation Army, Penang where we stayed from 1968 to 1973.
It was in Salvation Army that I spent my early teenage, growing up with kids of dif-ferent ethnicity and various background and. I cherish my growing years here as it was filled with wonderful experiences. We were part of this big happy family and everyone cared for each other. There were, however, some sad moments espe-cially when some of the seniors, whom we had come to be fond of, had to leave. Nevertheless, the new recruits made us enthusiastic and cheerful again. I kept in touch with my seniors, some of whom would drop by the home occasionally. Still, I dreaded the day I would have to leave the home and family I had come to be fond of...

Maggie Ch’ng—Giving Thanks, and Exhortations in the Lord.

My name is Maggie. I’m from the church of Salvation Army. Well, I want to share with you about my testimonies. I want to thank God that sometime 2 years ago. I almost wanted to quit my job because of a hard time that I had with the people I was working with especially my supervisor. We had a hard time getting along, there were also different opinions and arguments at times. So it’s really so unpleasant that I even thought of quitting my job....


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Monday, August 11, 2008

2008 April NewsLetter


Mok Tong Meng ~ My Story...

1) I came from a very poor family background in Ipoh; we are in the sibling of three, a brother, a sister and me. My father pro-moted to glory when I was 3 months old due an acci-dent. from that day on-ward my grandpa & mother taken good care of us through working very hard to earned money to support us for daily and education expenses...

2) Ah Hong’s Album...

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Saturday, August 9, 2008

2008 July NewsLetter


Thank You, Fiona !!!

Fiona Loh leaves us to take up her next posting in Ipoh. In this issue, she shares with us a message in Christ...

Sunday School Beach Outing...

" Your Word is a lamp to my feet and the light to my path" (Psalm 119 : 105)

2008 June NewsLetter

Spiritual Discernment & Doing God’s Will...
by sister Esther Ong

John 10:34-38
How do we recognize the true prophets from the false ones; the true apos-tles from the false ones? How can we discern the ways and works of God that we may receive them as such? If we were to put up a list of criteria, we may miss out a new work of God; though humanly speaking, we would have felt more secure. The key to the whole of Christian living is intimacy with God. Nothing can replace this.

2008 May NewsLetter


A Mother’s Day Message... by sister Jasinta Lim.

It is simply God’s plan that I am given this opportunity to contribute to our Penang Corps May Newsletter and as we celebrate Mother’s Day this month, I want to dedicate this article to my beloved mother (the late Mrs. Michael) who was pro-moted to glory in July last year. She left us so quickly but memories of her are still fresh in our hearts...





2008 March NewsLetter


Testimony : Ms. Cindy Ooi

Cindy is one of those gentle, friendly people you will meet in our church at Sunday Service. Gifted with the skills to make ornaments, charming trinkets and other decorative items from basic material such as beads and ribbons, she has been a real talent harvested from within our congre-gation. In this print, we feature her wonderfully moving testimony