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CAFÉ MINISTRY
In-The-Beginning
October 2007 to March 2008
Everything there is a beginning, here is the
background to St Peter’s CAFÉ Ministry.
Sometime in
June-July 2007, Holy Trinity Parish started the CaFE program, it was announced
in St Peter’s church. I went to the first session, hoping to increase my
Catholic Faith over a cup of coffee.
The Session began
with Praise and Worship and Fr Stephen Lim, the Parish Priest gave his
blessings. We watched a video talk by David Payne, have some sharing over a cup
of coffee and some biscuits, session ended with more praise and worship and
closing prayers. I think it is similar to the ALPHA program, of which I have
never attended.
I went for the
second session, and then never turned up due to my heavy schedule.
Then I met Connie
Chin of X-Fab at a FMM meeting and introduced her to the Café program. She went
and attended most, if not all of the 7 sessions of Module 1A as well as the 5
sessions of Module 1B. The Modules ended with a big event somewhere at Damai.
So far so good
until one Sunday morning after Mass, Fr Chin told me he wanted the Café program
to run in St Peter’s. Well Father, we can invite the Holy Trinity Group to run
in our Parish. No, we want to run our own Café. Find out more. OK, will do.
The best person
to help is Connie. And she did a good job, contacting
Here Father, I
have done the enquiries, this is what is required and you need to appoint a
leader to run it.
He looked at me
for a long while and said I should be heading it!
But Father, CAFÉ
is for adults, I am doing the FFC which is meant for Children!
He looked at me
for another long while and said I should be heading it!
Well, Father if
you insist, I will run it the way I think best, and I want Connie to be my
Secretary. Agreed.
Connie, we have
to make KOPI from now on! First we must get our Vision,
Father found some
sponsors who sent the resources from
Few days before
the meeting Connie called, Michael I am leaving! What? Where to? US. For
Holidays? No migrating, Oh ho ho, When? Few months’ time. Connie, I am happy
you found greener pasture on the other side of the globe, but we will still
appoint you as the first secretary of CAFÉ, I insist.
Before the first
meeting, Elizabeth Kueh was identified as the Treasurer, she agreed happily.
Then Fr wanted her to help in the Parish website... but Father we need her in
the CAFÉ ministry… In any event we will appoint her as the first Treasurer of
CAFÉ.
Valentine Harry
was appointed as the Assistant Leader, but he is overloaded with the Parish
Council.
The rest is
history in the making –
Connie said
goodbye, Anna Ting became Treasurer, Liz remains low key, Michael and Harry
found successors in Lawrence Lee and Abraham Choo so we can concentrate on FFC.
We are still
trying to brew our first cup of coffee…
KOPI-O SATU !