This month in Malaysia I am serving with 14 of my squamates as the women in my squad are all together this month. We are working with an organization called Kawan (which means “friend” in Malay). The Kawan center is a drop-in center serving the street-based community by providing some needed free services regularly during each week to anyone who may be in need of them. Some of the services they provide are:Breakfast & lunch, safe resting/sleeping areas, bathing & laundry facilities, counseling & referrals to other service centers, and information on HIV/AIDS diseases & prevention.
We have had a number of opportunities in this ministry to serve the people around us through these avenues. So far we have served breakfast, and lunch to homeless, a group of us cooked, some of us played games with the locals and others of us moved boxes from the attic to a lower floor.
I love to do manual labor, to be able to tangibly see a difference after leaving a place, and knowing that I have helped serve that person is my favorite form of ministry. So I jumped at the opportunity to get sweaty and move some boxes around. In two days with about 5 total hours worked, and 12 hands to help we managed to finish what was thought to be a months worth of work!
The reason we are working to move these boxes is because the Kawan center is needing to move locations in about a month. The landlord for this building came to the director and simply said “be out by the end of June.” So we are preparing them to move, the only thing is that they don’t currently have a place to move to.
We are trusting and believing that this will all work out. You can join us by praying that this moving process will be a smooth one, and that Kawan will find a new location soon!
Us, after a morning of moving boxes.We are very close to the equator here in Malaysia, not to mention we are here at the peak of the hottest season. So when we climbed 4 flights of stairs up to the attic of the Kawan center we felt like we stepped into a sauna! Hence the surprising about of sweat that is glistening on us!
Buttern’ that toast…for our guests at the Kawan center. Kristie and Nettie whistling while they work.
