Whole Year Sharing 全年感恩分享 (2017-18)To counting God's graces and blessings throughout the whole year at Samuel School from the amazing personal experiences from parents and students to witness God's almighty to God be be glory.
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Ms. Elsa (Isaac Wan 's Mother)
Ms. Angel (Joyce Ma's Mother)感謝學校比我地有機會述說神的恩典
Thanks for Samuel School for providing us a chance to counting God’s grace.
Mr. Chris (Shawn Lai's Father)好感恩神帶領Shawn入讀撒母耳學校,叫Shawn和我們一家都蒙福。
感謝神,我們每天要早上07:30前到學校,Shawn 每天都能夠自己準時起床,並且趕快擦牙洗瞼、吃早餐和換校服,非常有規律。由於早了出門口,送完他上學後我還有時間可以晨更,反而假期都沒有晨更。 感謝神,學校老師和同學都好包容Shawn,有時他會不守學校規則,又或者不與人合作,但老師們會跟他一同祈禱,讓神幫助他穩步成長。 今年我們每週有幾晚家庭祟拜,家庭祟拜將我們帶到神面前,一家人學習彼此關心和代禱。雖然Shawn有時會投訴太夜,不想做家庭祟拜,想早點睡,但當開始祟拜後,他好快就投入唱詩歌,並且每次都會開口祈禱。 7月初Shawn跟我們說7月16日當天只需上課半天,未能於當天下午在學校慶祝生日,所以我們跟老師協調,改為7月13日慶祝;最近我們經過餅鋪,Shawn即時同我講要買彩虹蛋糕回學校慶祝生日,我說可否買彩虹蛋糕回家慶祝,但他堅持要帶回學校慶祝。可見他已融入學校的生活,並非常重視各位同學和老師。 Thanks to the Lord to lead Shawn studies at Samuel School, and blessed Shawn as well as our whole family. Thanks God, as we have to arrive at school before 730am, Shawn can get up on time by himself daily, and prepared himself, have breakfast and get dressed, in regular base. As we have to leave home early, after I take him to school, I still have time for morning exercise, it not even happen on holiday. Thanks God, teachers and classmates are very tolenance to Shawn,even he not follow rules at school, or not cooperative, however, teachers would pray with him together and God intervened to build him up consistently. This year, we had few times of family worship in a week, through the family worship brought us to God, we learnt to care and pray for each other among family. Even Shawn complained that it was too late at night, and refused to have family worship, and would like to sleep earlier. Once, we began the worship, Shawn enjoyed and worshipped together and prayed opennly each time. In the beginning of July, Shawn told us that there will be only half day on July 16, so he cannot celebrate his birthday at school in the afternoon, and we arranged with teacher for having a birthday party on July 13rd for celebration. When we passed by a bakery, Shawn said that he would like me to buy the rainbow cake to school for his birthday celebration. I asked him, can we buy a rainbow cake to home for celebration? but he insisted to have it to school for celebration only. I can tell, he had integrated into his school life and very value each classmates and teacher at school. Mr. Ronald (Heather Yuen's Father)小女Heather是於去年5月份入讀Samuel School的,她當時親自經歷聖靈的感動,願意向原校辦理退學,轉為入讀Samuel School。但在入學初期她面對不少困難和掙扎,經常返唔到學,在此我要多謝Ms. Celia 和Ms. Anita,她們不斷關心和鼓勵Heather,也鼓勵我和太太建立家庭的祭壇,每晚做家庭崇拜,仰望上帝奇妙的工作。去年7月份,Ms. Celia 邀請Heather前往內地做一年交流生,任教幼童英文班。Heather不太願意在大陸居住,因為無法上IG和Youtube,Whatsapp也收不到,而且她不喜歡教書,但她祈禱領受到這是上帝的心意,她雖然有掙扎,但最後願意順服上帝,於8月下旬懷著戰戰兢兢的心情上路。
作為父母,知道女兒首次出外生活,難免會掛心她能否適應。最令我深刻的是,去年12月聖誕假期我和太太到內地探望女兒及參與當地學校的嘉年華會,同行還有20多位其他教會朋友,是我不認識的。那次我有種奇怪的感覺,忽然間覺得我女兒Heather和她伙伴Grace Leung猶如「香港小姐」般,引來旁人艷羨目光,因為有幾位我不認識的教會朋友先後跑到我面前,跟我說,你女兒好棒,年僅15歲,竟然可以帶敬拜、做英文老師、籌備嘉年華會、還有去街市買菜為30人預備晚飯,真不簡單,假如我有個女兒像Heather般就好了。我心想,這完全是上帝的恩典,我們沒有甚麼可誇的,他們不知道在1年多前我和太太經常在牀頭為Heather流淚禱告,過往一段很長日子,Heather一直處於低谷,我和太太試盡各種方法,Heather也有努力過,但最終沒有顯著果效。然而在內地我親眼目睹,只是短短4個月時間,Heather巳從低谷中走出來,她臉上再次展露燦爛笑容,她比以前更敢於表達自己的感受。不但如此,她變得更渴慕上帝更倚靠神。在此我要多謝芬姐和Freda,Heather有幸得到資深宣教士的牧養,是她的福氣,是上帝豐厚的恩典。我要多謝Ms. Anita願意遠赴內地照顧Heather兩個月之多,剛好適切Heather當時的需要,這引證了上帝無微不至的預備。我也要多謝Grace Leung,如果沒有妳這位師姐在她身邊,Heather必定會感到心慌和孤單。 若要總結過去一年的經歷,我會這樣說:我一家雖然行過死蔭幽谷,但如今上帝使我的福杯滿溢,我和我一家要一生一世住在耶和華的殿中,直到永遠。阿們! My daughter Heather who started studying at Samuel School in last May. She was encountered the move by Holy Spirit, and willingly to transfer from her school to Samuel School. At the beginning,she was facing many difficulties and struggles, she cannot attend to class often, thus, I would like to thanks the endless caring and encouragements from Ms. Celia and Ms. Anita to Heather, also encouraged my wife and I to build up family altar, and having family worship every night to witness God’s amazing work upon our family. Last year in July, Ms. Celia invited Heather to join the culture exchange program for a year and teach English for prenursery class. Heather was not willing to stay in China, as there was able to connect to IG, Youtube, and cannot received message from Whatsapp, also, she is not like to teach. However, after she prayed, and she knew that it is the will from God, even she had struggles, she submitted and obeyed God at last and along with fighting mind to start this new journey in mid August. As being a parent, we were concerned about how she can adapt the new place as it is the 1st time she is being herself for living. It was impressed me the most was last December Christmas holiday, my wife and I went to China to visit our daughter and participated in the carnival of local schools, this trip along with over 20 brothers and sisters from other church whom I just met for the 1st time. This time, I had a rare feeling, all of sudden I think that my daughter and her partner Grace Leung like “Miss Hong Kong” as they were so eye catching from others, because those brothers and sisters came to me and said that my daughter is awesome, at aged of 15, she can lead the worship, being English teacher, to organize the carnival, and went to market to buy and prepare the dinner for 30 people. It was amazing, if I were having a daughter like Heather, it would be wonderful. Deeply in my heart, I witnessed that it is all the graces from God, it is nothing for us to take credit for. As they did not know that back to a year ago, my wife and I were praying with tears for Heather in the bed, for quite a long period of time, Heather was in a dark vallery, my wife and I tried so many ways and Heather also did her best, however, there was not much in progress. However, I witnessed by myself in China, for just 4 months of time, Heather has been walked out from the dark valley and have her sunny smiles back on her face and also had more courage to express herself. Additionally, she is more thirsty of God and rely on Him. I would like to thanks Pastor Yiu and Freda for shepherding Heather, it is her blessing and the amazing grace from God. I also thanks Ms. Anita willingly to stay for China for more than 2 months to take care of Heather when the time she needed, it testified God’s endless care of preparation, and thanks Grace Leung, if without her, the senior student, Heather definitely felt fluster and lonely. |