A brighter Christmas for 423 needy families in Philipines!

Thank You!

Dear Frens,

Thank you so much, to so many of our friends, for stepping forward to pledge food hampers for the poor in Montalban and Tagaytay, Philipines.

We targeted to contribute 300 food hampers and we managed to get a total of 423 hampers!

Apart from contributions of  $6,770 we also received 300 packets of gummie bears and 300 bars of chocolate for the hampers :)

It gives me great joy to continue doing this work, just in knowing that there are so many friends amongst us who care enough to help strangers and are truely appreciative of the blessings received in our lives.

On behalf of the poor I would like to say special thanks to Alice, Puay Hoon, Steffen, Declan, Jackie, Tara, Ranmali, Emily, Peter, Jae, Raj, Lyn, Auntie M, Theresa, Susan, Julie, Regina, May Yan, Corinne & Friends, Raj, Cheryl and to Esther and Amelia from ICPE for making all this possible.

And as always, all Glory goes to God! \o/\0/\0/



May the good Lord bless you all and may you and your families continue to enjoy abundance in your lives as we usher in Christmas and more importantly the spirit of charity that Christmas brings.

Bringing Food to the Poor this Christmas!

Dear Frens,

Christmas is round the corner again, how have your year been?

Mine has been good. I have had several personal successes through the course of this year and of course as life would have it some big awful challenges as well.

I realise that whenever we take 2 steps forward, we often face issues that pull us one step back at the same time. It is like this that we always have God with us and it keeps us grounded to the fact that we need him.

All in all, with God by our side, we will always come out ahead and be able to count the many blessings we received.

This year for Christmas, I feel called to bring you a project in Philippines that will bring food, prayer and hope to the poorest of the poor. I have friends on mission who will be able to buy and pack food packages for the poor at a dump site village of Montalban.

As many of us will enjoy Christmas comfortably, I feel pain in my heart that there are people especially children who have to live with trash, scavenge for things at dump sites to keep alive.

I feel it would be a wonderful and meaningful Christmas for us, friends of Project Kyrie to share our blessings with them. Each food hamper will cost about $16 and there are hundreds of people in this poor village in need of our blessing. We target for to support them with 300 food packages.

If you would like to join me, we will put our money together and contribute as many food packs as we can to make this Christmas alot brighter, alot more meaningful, alot more joyful as we bring the face of Christ and the face of humanity into the homes of people who have so little.

God Bless,
Mill

Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good-will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent - Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774 - 1824)

Let's Leverage to Help the Poor and the Needy!

Dear Frens,

My day started like this:

10am - class

Things to do today -  organise the pick up of 31 sets of computers and monitors for distribution to the needy given by Informatics Campus.

11am - Transport by volunteer still not confirmed for pick up today at 4pm

12pm - Transport still not confirmed but volunteer trying his best. Pray.

3pm - Call from volunteer's friend to pick up computers on his behalf with a van instead of his lorry. Trouble... Van is not large enough to transport all the computers. Problem!

3.05pm - Rack my brain whilst having a late lunch after class. Remembered a friend who runs an ambulance service. Try, call for help!

3.30pm - one van and two ambulances race to pick up 31 computers and 2 lap tops.

5pm - work done

10 computers arrives for local sg families
10 computers goes off to start of a new day care centre
11computers on its way to JB orphanage and homes
2 laptops sent to stat a computer class in kupang Indonesia ( need 8 more!)

Moral of the story:
Be who you are
Be where you are
Be available when you can
And this would make a world of difference to the those in need!

Many thanks to all who have come so generously and willingly to help the poor. Special thanks to informatics for the computers, medic network for taking time out to rescue computers for the poor, also to Chris Bek, Samuel, Eric and all his helpers.

God Bless,
Mill

* we are born to love, we live to love and we will die to love still more - St Joseph Cafasso (1811-1860)

With God All is Possible!

What can God do with an old 10yr old van that we alone can't?

This is a short testimony how a little old van that was heading towards the scrap yard gets a new lease of life!

Few months ago, whilst I was at West Mall with 15mins to spare before a movie, whilst gaping at some cakes, a good friend with the Canossians said 'hi' to me. Before long, she was asking me if I wanted an old van to export to a 3rd world country for the poor. Of cos I said 'Yes'! . I reckon it's my job to just say 'YES' and God's job to find a home for it.

And of cos HE did!

This is what the van is now :)

We are like the old van aren't we? When we are touched by God, we transform.

An obsolete old van touched by God is now a new life-saving ambulance that will last many more years and save many many lives!

Friends, if each of us avail ourselves to say 'Yes' to helping the poor, God will do the rest. What we can't do ourselves we have but to ask around and there is always one of us who can always do something wonderful for His Glory.

Many thanks to the Canossian Sisters, Budi, Christopher and all involved to make this project a success \o/\o/\o/





God Bless,
Mill

Simply delicious!




Much Thanks to Woh Hup for contributing the sugar free bird's nest for the aged at the Gift of Love Home for our Chinese New Year celebrations with them.

The resident's enjoyed the special afternoon very much. Much thanks also to Praise@Work for providing much love, other tea items, song items and games.

Christmas Party for the Kachin Children @ The New Generation School in KL



Party Happy Meals donated by Peter Twang



 



Clothings donated by Children of Nanyang Primary School



Books from Cannosaville



Christmas ended meaningfully for year 2010 as friends of Project Kyrie came together to bless kids who have little.

Helping others and making others happy need not be a big ordeal. Things easily come together when we have the same heart to reach out to bless others with our lives and our resources.

A meaningful, fun-filled Christmas Party was under way when friends said 'Yes' to driving up to KL to visit a school for Kachin ( Burmese) children.

With one 'Yes' everything else easily fell into place. We have at times, to be the one who opens the door and allow opportunites for others to do good and allow blessings to flow.

In this case, we managed to send children's books, clothes and an opportunity to have a fried chicken happy meal for 100 kids. Many have not had the opportunity to eat a happy meal before. So thats a call for celebration!

Many thanks to the Cannossians for the books, to Nanyang Primary School for the clothings and to Peter Twang for sponsoring the Happy Meals. Many thanks also to the Angels who said 'Yes' and drove all these things up to KL plus organised the Happy Meals!