Today marked the 46th Anniversary of formation of Malaysia, where Federation of Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak & Singapore come together as 1 country on 16th Sept, 1963. Few years later, Singapore pulled out to become an independent country.
Since the launching of 1Malaysia concept after taking over the premiership by Dato Seri Najib, we have continuously heard of 1Malaysia from press release, his blog (www.1malaysia.com.my) and programs to promote 1Malaysia.
Not many days after the announcing the 1Malaysia concept, our PM was in Kuching to say that Sarawak is the role model of 1Malaysia and Malaysian must learn from Sarawakian on unity, harmony, mutual respect and acceptance on different religions, beliefs, cultures, and language.
Sarawakian should be proud to be the model of other Malaysian, we must treasured the environments and cultures that we been brought up from. We must also understand what are the major contributions to make Sarawakian being a model of unity and with high degree of tolerances towards others.
In Sarawak, we can easily see people with different beliefs, cultures and background having breakfast or lunch in same restaurant. We also can see different races of hawker having stall side by side with each others to serve the customers within a restaurant.
To me, it is very simple, the Christianity has bring love and planted deep inside the heart of Sarawakian. With 43% of Sarawakian are Christian and growing (meaning almost half of Malaysian Christian are from Sarawak), I believed that Sarawak will continued to nurture heart of love, and bring blessing to Malaysia beyond 2020. The number of today's Sarawak Christian community were the selfless contributions of our previous christian leaders (missionaries, pastors and church volunteers) to build a strong and witnessful Christendom. Praise the Lord.
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