Christmas gift from Our Daily Bread

Looking forward to Christmas again with some new songs. It is a season of love,  giving and renewed hope.  Everything needs to be centred on Christ, the newly borned baby some 2000 years ago and who is very much alive today.  

The mystical "Flying Horse"

Taken with Samsung phone and edited with Samsung Editor.  No longer carrying my SLR camera nowadays.  

"I give you every seed bearing plant ..."

Didn't plant this but it started growing anyway to my utter delight.  

Spring onion flower.

Such a beautiful bunch of flowers from the spring onion plant. Beginning to love the plants I am growing to eat!

CME programme for doctors

15 Clarke St lobby.

Dinner after the lecture.

Dr Leong presenting cases on Shortest of Breath and Wheeze.

On going Ipoh World photo exhibition at 15 CLARKE ST.

Humming bird in my garden

Nowadays it is so easy to take photos.  This picture was taken from my car as I was driving out to work.  No sophisticated equipment.  Just with my Samsung Note8 mobile phone. 

V - Nest Cafe in Ipoh Old Town

Court yard with water features

Water fall feature

Rather steep stairs leading to 1st floor

Main hall

Food and cashier counter

Well decorated ceiling

Food counter

Picture of air well

1st floor

Bird Nest at the ceiling

Cafe situated at 27 and 29, Jalan Bandar Timah, 30000 Ipoh in Old Town.  Serves various goodies made from Bird's Nest.  Has many seminar rooms.  It is a renovated 2 storey building but has 3 floors inside.  Closed on Wednesday.

Had coffee and cheese cake this afternoon. 

The role of a Christian doctor

A well written article by a junior doctor about how a Christian doctor is slightly different from the rest. Go to article

PEP device with pressure guage

Helps in mucous clearance.

You are invited to the Inaugural Leong Sin Nam Annual Lecture

Perak State Council 1932

Mr Leong Sin Nam (seated at the far right) at the Perak State Council meeting in 1932.

Source:  Arkib Negara Malaysia

Leong Sin Nam Football Trophy

A rare picture of Mr. Leong Sin Nam (seated 3rd from left) with the football team. LSN was a keen sportsman but not a footballer himself. Date of picture unknown.

World TB Week 2018

ABCD

Assets based community development. What is right with you? What gifts has God given to you that you can use to improve your life and that of your neighbour? How can the individuals and organisation in your community work together to improve your community? Once the assets have been identified the next question is about needs. How can you use your assets to address those needs and to solve those problems.

Relief, rehabilitation and development

Ensure participation of the affected population in the assessment, design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the assistance programme. Conduct an initial assessment to provide an understanding of the disaster situation and to determine the nature of the response. Respond when needs of an affected population are unmet by local people or organisation due to their inability or unwillingness to help. Target assistance based on vulnerability and need and provide it equitably and impartially. Aid workers must possess appropriate qualification, attitudes, and experience to plan and effectively implement appropriate assistance programmes.

Response to poverty.

A helpful first step in thinking about working with the poor in any context is to discern whether the situation calls for relief, rehabilitation or development. Relief can be defined as the urgent and temporary provision of emergency aid to reduce immediate suffering from natural our man made crisis. Rehabilitation seeks to restore people and communities to the positive elements of their precrisis condition. Development is the process on ongoing change that moves all the people close to being right relationship with God, self, others and the rest of creation.

Work

Work is an act of worship. When people seek to fulfil their callings by glorifying God in their work, praising Him for their gifts and abilities, and seeing both their efforts and its products as an offering to Him, then work is an act of worship to God. On the other hand, when work is done to glorify oneself or merely to achieve more wealth, it becomes a worship of false gods.

Poverty

Poverty is rooted in broken relationships, so the solution to poverty is rooted in the power of Jesus death and resurrection to put all things into right relationship again.

Newsletter is necessary

Print a monthly newsletter to keep abreast others and to showcase our successes. Promote events, talk about the good already done and profile individual team members to give them well deserved recognition and to put a human face to the organization.

Oxygen Concentrators for loan

The Perak Chest Society in partnership with Lahat Road YMCA is providing oxygen concentrators for loan.  The machines are located at 15 Clarke Street (15 Jalan Sultan Abdul Jalil).

All users are to fill in this document:

PERAK CHEST SOCIETY

178 - 180A  Jalan Pasir Puteh

31650 Ipoh, Perak

Tel: 05-2556302   Fax: 05-2432145 

__________________________________________________________________________________ 

HOME OXYGEN CONCENTRATOR LOAN PROGRAMME

Person or Patient who borrows oxygen concentrator (Users): 

Name: ………………………………………………………………………………………… 

NRIC No:  ……………………………………… 

Address: ………………………………………………………………………………………

                 ………………………………………………………………………………………

Date to return oxygen concentrator: ……….... / ………….. / …………...  

Signature: ……………………………………..

Terms of Agreement between Perak Chest Society and User: 

1.        The home oxygen concentrator loan programme is available to all members of the Perak Chest Society while in stock.  It must be recommended by a doctor and a referral letter is required.

2.        Oxygen therapy must be prescribed by a doctor.  The desired oxygen concentration, flow rate, frequency and duration of oxygen use must be made known and strictly adhered to.

3.        Users are to seek immediate medical advice if their condition worsen after using supplemental oxygen or if they develop side effects from oxygen therapy or while using the oxygen concentrator unit.

 4.        The oxygen concentrator is for medium term use only and must be returned to the Perak Chest Society within one month from the date of borrowing.  

 5.        Users are to use the oxygen concentrator in a proper manner and in accordance with the operating and maintenance instructions given.

 6         Users are not to make any alterations or remove any component from the oxygen concentrator.

7.        All Users must place a deposit of RM500.00.  Upon return of the oxygen concentrator in good working condition the User will be returned RM 400.00.  A charge of RM 100.00 is levied for servicing the machine upon return.  Should the oxygen concentrator be returned damaged the cost of repair will be further deducted from the deposit.
8.        The Perak Chest Society and its Board members will not be liable to the User for any injury, damage or death arising by reason of any defect in the oxygen concentrator or as a result of using the oxygen concentrator.

Witness:

Name: ………………………………………….

Signature: ……………………………………… 

Doctor:

Name: ………………………………………….

Signature: ……………………………………… 

Today’s Date:  …………… /………………/……………..

Publicise an Event

Some tips:

• Staple a card with information about the event onto existing handout tri fold brochures.
• Create photo flyers and hang them in places.
• Keep signs clear and uncluttered.
• Create custom countdown calendars to give away to generate  excitement and awareness.
• Create an oversized schedule of events and display it outside the venue several weeks before the event to help people get a sense  of what to expect.
• Talk up the event.  Call 3 -5 people outside your circle of friends to tell them about the event. Then seek their assistance to inform their circle of friends. 

How to write a grant proposal

First requirement is to identify and develop a project that supports the core mission.

Questions to be answered:

1. What do you want to do?
2. How much will this cost?
3. How long will it take?
4. Who will benefit from this project and how?
5. How does teh project fit within the mission of the organisation?

Prepare a good summary of the project followed by details.  Most people will just read the summary and decide whether to read on further.

Perak Chest Society will need a grant to purchase more oxgyen concentrators for loan.

Worship

What is worship? 1. Praise God for who he is. 2. Honor Good for what he does. 3. Thank God for his help.

A Healthy Small Group

The continual must do's for a healthy small group.  The SCORE Principles:

SERVE - what you do with one another
CARE - people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care
OTHERS - look at the interest of others
RELATE - improve relationship
ENTHRONE - place God first.

Small Group Growth

Small group growth correlate clearly with:

1. Amount of time the leader spent with the Lord each day.
2. Amount of prayer for members. Those leaders who prayed for their members everyday had groups that grew on the average twice as fast as those who only prayed for the members once or twice a week.
3. Hospitality, social activity and ministry.  The more time a leader and members spent together outside meetings, the faster the groups grew.
4. Number of visitiors.
5. Visitor follow up.  It is not surprising to discover that the more visitors a group had, the faster it grew.  However, the research revealed more importantly than the number of visitors a group had, was whether the visitors were followed on.
6. Raising up leaders.
7. Clear goals.
8. Preparation for the meeting.

MEETINGS MUST BE FUN AND ALIVE.

Having a company culture is important.

Culture is the set of shared attitudes, goals, behaviors and values that characterises a group. In a company it adds up to how things get done and influences the entirety of the employees experience and thus the customer experience.

Taman Herba Negeri Perak

I love to grow herbs in my garden.  

I visited Taman Herba Negeri Perak and I am astonished by the number of ornamental plants which also have medicinal value. This park has a large collection of plants which are labelled.