Multipurpose Activities/Carnival - to create public awarness of MECCC

Opening Ceremony of Muk En Community Care Centre

2009 Carnival

Blood Donation Campaign jointly by Muk En Community Care Centre & Foochow Association

There were more than 10 brothers and sisters from Muk En came for blood donation, we have successfully collected 65 bags of blood for the blood bank. Thanks for your support. There are many regular donors presented for the blood donation, and we met a malay guy that he has donated 344 times(we verified his donation booklet).

For Rent

2009 Carnival

Authorities asked to release 15,000 seized Bibles

KUALA LUMPUR: The Christian Federation of Malaysia (CFM) has called for the immediate release of the 15,000 Bahasa Malaysia Bibles being withheld by the authorities.

It said the seizure contravened Article 11 of the Federal Constitution which gives all Malaysians the right to profess and practise his faith.

“This constitutional right is rendered illusory if Christians in Malaysia are denied access to Bibles in a language with which they are familiar,” said its chairman Bishop Ng Moon Hing and executive committee in a statement Wednesday.

They said withholding the Bibles deprived Christians in Sabah, Sarawak and in the peninsula, a large majority of whom use Bahasa Malaysia, “the right to use the Holy Scriptures in Bahasa Malaysia, to practise and profess their faith and to nourish themselves spiritually.”

They said it was baseless to withhold the Bibles on the ground that they were prejudicial to public order since they had been in existence before independence and had never caused public disorder.

“Since the 1970s and in consonance with the Government’s policies in education and the national language, Christians in Malaysia have received their education in Bahasa Malaysia.

“To deny the same Christians the right to read and study the Bible in Bahasa Malaysia is thus ridiculous and offensive. In fact, it is this action by the authorities themselves which is an affront to good public order.

“We call on the relevant government officials who have neither the authority nor the right to act in this unconscionable manner to explain their action to the church leaders and to the public,” they said, adding that churches stood to their commitment to Bahasa Malaysia as the national language.

They said the Government had in an agreement in 2005 stated Bahasa Malaysia Bibles could be distributed so long as the symbol of the cross and the words “A Christian publication” were printed on the front page.

They called on the Government to walk the talk of its 1Malaysia policy and not impose conditions on the freedom of citizens to worship, pray and read the Holy Scriptures in Bahasa Malaysia.

“How can the first pillar of the Rukunegara, that is, ‘Belief In God,’ be made a living reality if the Government imposes restrictions and conditions on the constitutional and fundamental right of citizens to freedom of religion?” they said.

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/11/4/nation/20091104132939&sec=nation

Brother Lu Chin Tong, back from UK for holiday

Brother Lu is one of the founding member of MEMC (pre-memc), he is one of the most respected leader in MEMC family. He dedicated his earlier days for MEMC before migrate to UK, he has been working with Brother Roger Tan, the advisor of EMMCF (东马团契）in a ＭＮＣ and later in Malaysia Bible Society with Rev Ezra Loke (the long serving pastor in MEMC voluntarily).
We thanks Brother James Tang for hosting a lunch in Six Happiness Restaurant after the Sunday Service.

AH1N1 invading our Church

AH1N1 is spreading fast Malaysia, although the fatality rate is not very high, there are dangers of infected by this new virus and need immediate medical treatment once contracted. Most of the death after contracting H1N1 has other illness or too late to send for proper treatment.
We have to be more alert on this deadly virus especially when we are in places like shopping mall, church, LRT, bus and etc, the vaccine will be coming to Malaysia next month (total 40,000), this is 10% of our order from US. The vaccine mostly probably will utilized for front line civil servant like Police, Immigration officers, doctors and nurses, defense forces etc.
Some sunday school kids were infected and now under treatment. Pray that our Heavenly Father divine protection are upon all our members and family.

1 Malaysia

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.