DMA: An
Lai All I
want for Christmas is…
MHII 081112
How Beautiful Are The Feet Of
Those Who Bring Good News - Isaiah 52:7
LEAKY
ROOF OVER HER HEAD
Friends,
What do you do this Christmas to share the joy? To remember the Christmas by?
For the last two Christmases, DMA had organised
visits to our “neighbours”, they were very happy to have
visitors like us. All our previous WOM visits are recorded here, have a look http://www.seraphim.my/divinemercy/neighbour/index-neighbour.htm
This Advent, to share
our joy of
Christmas, we will be visiting a neighbour
on the Saturday in the 1st week of Advent (8
Dec 2012, Feast day of Immaculate
Conception) after the Daily DMD. We will leave St Peter’s
Church in a convoy at 3.45pm. (last
year’s Advent, 4/12/11, we visited Jefit Anyir whose house is
not far from Lai)
Join us for the WOM Visit:
Be present at St Peter’s Church by 3:30pm on Saturday 8 Dec
2012. Better still, join us for the 3pm DMD before going to visit her.
She looks forward to our visit:
Life must be a struggle for her to make ends meet with a
minimal income. Though a non-Christian, she looks forward to our visit to her
humble home and it is okay to sing Christmas carols with her and family. Let us
bring Christ's love to her and brighten her days after the loss of her loved
one this Christmas.
Lai Siew Choo, a 54 year-old widow, she has two children
aged 23 yrs and 12 yrs. Her eldest son works as
a delivery assistant with a grocery shop and makes about RM400+ per
month. The youngest boy is studying in Primary six at SK Sg Apong. Her husband
succumbed to cancer last year, 2011 due to exposure to toxic element while
working as a goldsmith.
She is now staying at the family house at Sg Apong resettlement area with
her two children and also an elderly brother-in-law who has epilepsy. She
works part-time packing “ikan bilis” at home and earning a minimal income. She
receives two packets of food aid from the Society
For Kuching Urban Poor (SKUP) daily.
Her urgent need is to get the roof of her house fixed as it
leaks whenever it rains. As she shared her story, her eyes were
teary. She has five siblings and most of them are low-income earners
and have their own families to take care. The only help she wants is for
someone to help her repair the roof of her house. She has been advised to
apply for government welfare aid.
She could be contacted at 016-872-4827/082-487284.
Where is it?
Click here
for the Locality Map
What to bring?
Christmas Presents for the whole family. Food
staff, used clothing, anything useful.
Cannot go but want to help?
If your heart is with us but cannot go, you can pass your
presents to us, we will bring them to her on your behalf. If you want to give
money, we can help you to bring to her too, just put in an angpow, seal it and write your
name on it.
Can you help to repair the roof?
If you can help her to repair the roof,
that will be her Christmas Wish comes true. You can contact her direct
(+6016 872 4827 / +6082 487 284) to make an arrangement.
May we remember this Christmas knowing that one family’s
life has been touched by our show of love and concern.
Michael
8/11/12
DMA WOM # 5
Who: Lai Siew Choo. (1 Parent, 2 children aged 23 and 12, plus 1 elderly man).
When: Saturday in 1st
Week of Advent, 8 December 2012 (feast day
of Immaculate Conception), after
Where: Sg
Apong.
What the family needs
(suggestion)
FOOD
STUFF:
Rice, Sugar, Salt, Milo, Eggs, Canned Food, Noodles, Cooking
Oil, Biscuits, Milk Powder, Buns, Bread, etc.
HOUSEHOLD
ITEMS:
Detergent, Soap, Tooth Brush, Tooth Paste, etc.
CLOTHES/SCHOOL
ITEMS:
Some clothes, old and new,
School bag, colouring pencils, exercise books, pencil
box, etc.
FINANCIAL:
Maybe some
money for her to repair the roof.
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Program: (8/12/12 Sat. in 1st Week of Advent (Advent starts on Sunday 2 December, Christmas
falls on Easter Sunday is on Tuesday 25 December 2012) |
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3.45pm Leave
St Peter’s for Sg Apong,
Kuching by-pass |
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4.00pm Lai’s
House MAP- Lai S
C (near Jefit’s House) |
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4.40pm Take
Some Photos |
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4.45pm Home |
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Contact person: Mary Chok choksv2004@yahoo.co.uk |