Wow! Look at these fruits!

After sharing this blog post with a number of pastors, one senior Pastor Ang shared with me these pictures. It's so wonderful to see the photographs of what came out of a small plot of land in her own garden!

Praise the Lord! At the request of a sister-in-Christ, Lovelle, Pastor Ang allowed her and a few friends to do some gardening on a regular basis.

Anyway, I have always complained why Malaysia has so much land to grow trees which are unproductive, but no one bothers to grow fruit trees. We are also blessed with so much sunlight and rain, yet the country still has to import food from other countries.

Just look at what they have produced! Click to view:

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Now, I was just talking about the idea of using the land around a particular church. Guess what? Now, Lovelle has offered to meet with the church people to see how she can assist them.

Lovelle has learnt about the 200 square feet square concept for End Times food security. Divide the land into four smaller squares. On one plot, grow vegetables; on the second plot, grow fruit trees; on the third plot, rear quails (instead of chicken) for the meat and eggs; and keep the fourth plot to rear fish. This, according to her, is self-sufficient.

My idea which I shared with the church earlier was about bringing together their senior citizens (especially those whose children leave them at home during the day). Let them have their tea, fellowship, perhaps, a game of chess together. Do some simple horticulture to keep themselves occupied. Create some job opportunities for them, especially for the older ladies who can still drive around to provide pay-as-you-ride services to the community. This will give them some form of income while making themselves useful.

Let's pray and see what can come out of this idea. Hope that more churches blessed with land would do something productive with their premises on weekdays.

To encourage you, read this blog post to see what the others have produced. END.

As this is a blogpost, I have not spent too much time polishing up the English.

What to do with the stateless people in Malaysia?January 04, 2023

By Stephen Ng

Malaysia has only two options to choose from: either kick out all the stateless people from the country OR to give them a new lease of life and allow them to contribute towards the economic development of the country.

Some of them have parents who may come from Thailand, Indonesia or the Philippines, but growing up in Malaysia all their lives, their parents’ motherland is just as alien to them as an earthling landing on Mars.

Sabahans often begrudge the infiltration of Filipinos into their territory, but can anyone tell me who exactly is to blame if our borders are so porous to both neighbouring countries.

We are to blame

Is it because of corruption? If yes, what has the Government done all these years to arrest the problem?

Didn’t we have the Royal Commission of Inquiry and most of us know about Project IC, but no one has been criminalized for it, why?

After the RCI, people are just lukewarm and keeping quiet, instead of suggesting that the government should do anything about it.

Even if a few people pick up their pens to speak, would the voice be loud enough for the government to take the suggestions seriously?

Malaysians have themselves to blame for the problem of statelessness either through human trafficking or our porous borders.

Think About Their Future

Some young people are less fortunate as their parents did not have the means to obtain citizenship, either through the legal or illegal channels.

Some of these children born in the country are raised here their entire lives. Without citizenship, what will become of them? Without an education, will they instead turn into thugs?

Please think of the future of these young people who will still be living in our midst. Think of them as your own children, if some day you have to flee the country with your children.

We are all sons and daughters of Adam, from the three main stocks of the human race. Whether “Caucasoid,” “Negroid,” or “Mongoloid,” our blood types are basically A, B, AB and O groups. It is red, not green or yellow.

Therefore, I appeal to all Malaysians, especially the Unity Government now under the leadership of Anwar Ibrahim, to just give stateless people, especially the younger generation their blue Identity Cards and allow them to have a future and contribute towards the development of the country’s economic growth.

A word to the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Azalina Othman Said: the stateless issue does not only affect children who were born overseas to Malaysian mothers, but also young and old alike born and raised in Malaysia without citizenship.

All Members of Parliament should start looking at the Hansard dated 30 January 1962, and study how this amendment to the Federal Constitution has brought so much pain to the stateless people.

It is time to embrace the plurality of our social fabrics and build a rainbow nation like South Africa after the dismantling of the apartheid regime. We are already three decades behind the nation which Nelson Mandela rebuilt based on reconciliation.

As fellow Malaysians, we can capitalize on each other’s strength to compete with the rest of the world and become the next Malaysian Tiger, altered from its original moniker after a Sarawakian brother told me why Sarawakians feel they are left out in this country they are part of.

So wonderful to see the fruits of their labour

After reading my blogpost, a brother whom I met at a Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship, Freehold Tan wrote: "I agree 100% with your suggestion. I've forwarded your article to my church group and FGB group., hopefully everyone will plant some papaya trees in their compound. God bless you!"

It was encouraging to read that seven years ago, he helped a friend to plant a durian orchard in Hulu Langat. Now, the orchard has 50 trees of Musang King, 20 trees of Teka and 10 trees of Black Thorns. The trees are fruiting now.

Two weeks ago, I harvested one kg of chillies.

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Another sister, Grace Wang sent me pictures of what she has been cultivating. She wrote, "Today's harvest." Her husbands supplies an organic agroproduct to farmers which helps to improve absorption of nutrients in the roots.

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A sister from Sarawak, Hellen Gurmek who studied theology together with me, responded with a photograph of the durians which she has just harvested. The trees are a legacy from her late father's efforts.

She then sent me another picture to show me the joy of having her harvest of soursop. Anyone cares to try?

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Some of Hellen and her husband, Kenneth Silek's plants also produce beautiful flowers which are edible.

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It is so amazing to see the responses from more people. A sister, Esther Lim also sent me some pictures. She has also started planting some melons from a flower pot.

Melon grown in a flower pot

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