As I was exceptionally free this whole Tuesday afternoon, I was very glad to be able to help to receive the guests. Very soon, the workers George and Joshua brought the visitors with two vans, led by Ps Roy and Ps Joshua Kim from Walpyung Hill church in South Korea.
After hearing comments that he looked like a Korean, the CCH administrator finally had a chance to be surrounded by real Koreans. Unfortunately, he could not even pronounce a greeting word in Korean correctly. Nonetheless, his effort was appreciated by our brothers and sisters in Christ who kindly clapped their hands in return.
As many of these Koreans could not understand English very well, Ps Joshua gave a simple translation in their mother tongue of Albert's presentation.
Compared to the other time with the folks from Muar, this session of the "Albert Talk Show" was much more moderate. The host did not highlight the CCH boy's academic achievement.
Anyway, the South Korean visitors were only interested to know if the boys opened their hearts to accept them as friends, not their results in schools.
After their self introduction, our new friends turned the living room into a stage where they lively presented two praise songs in English
and Korean respectively,
and a meaningful short performance about our lives when we have Jesus as our everything,
and when we allow the devil to control us with the love of money, depression, alchoholism and lust.
Of course, if we repent of our sins
and turn to our Lord, we will always overcome the world, like Jesus.
I enjoyed this skit as much as the one by the Doulos team last November.
Next, the young adults took out balloons
and painting materials they had brought.
Not only they were talented in singing, dancing and acting,
they were also good at art.
The former full-time guardian Sis Fei Gin happened to step into the home during these interesting activities. It was a pity that she did not stay long. Otherwise, she would have got some beautiful flowers on her face
like Albert
and me.
Looking at Daniel, I thought of the face paint I had done to the children in the Philippines in September 2008.
David's face with white stripes reminded me of the aborigines in Australia.
Paul would have given me a fright if he had suddenly appeared from the back passengers' seat of my car while I was driving.
Needless to say, Luke's "facial flag" could have gained from Germany a free entrance ticket of every match of FIFA World Cup the team was playing to thank his fervent support.
Our painters themselves looked cute with moustache or musical notes on their sweet faces.
The visitors in their yellow T-shirts now cheered CCH up more by organizing outdoor games.
While most of them were playing with the children in the field,
George plucked ripe rambutans from the trees to make our guests from East Asia taste these tropical fruits. He also put a lot in a big plastic bag to let them take away.
Albert left to check out available seats at a nearby restaurant where all of us were going to have a meal together. The home administrator whose mind was in South Korea had forgot about the green flower and yellow dots on his left cheek. When he came back, he told me that his already handsome face had drawn even more admirers...
We entered the house again to rest for awhile. While getting ready to leave for dinner, Ps Joshua represented the group to express their desire to have a long-term contact with the CCH children by pairing them up as pen pals.
During the past three hours, they had already developed some friendship with the younger boys as well as the older ones John
and Isaac.
Matthew whose participation was the least active had not lost his popularity. He had two vibrant fellows to write to him in future and to add in his Facebook friends' list.
At seven o'clock, we went to "Chicken Delight" at Bukit Baru.
Our South Korean guests continued to bless us by giving us a treat and souvenirs from their country.
I suppose Sis Martha, the CCH cook, would have preferred serving others, like the Bible character with the same name, rather than being served.
The juniors were gathering around a long table
while the seniors were having fellowship at another table near the wall.
Where was I seated? You guess.
We said goodbye to one another outside the restaurant and looked forward to meeting again at Calvary Life Assembly this coming Sunday morning.
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