Yesterday, we went to Taiping, a small town away from Ipoh, which took us about an hour drive to celebrate a birthday and this person whom we travelled so far to celebrate a birthday is none other than the person in the photo. He is Deacon Thomas. If you look at the title of my blog today : God's gift, I have story to share today with you. This man, about 40 years ago, living in an almost God forsaken place was given a 2nd chance to see, to experience beauty. A missionary couple came from Sweden and they saw his plight. He was going blind. This couple wanted to take the boy back to Sweden for treatment but there were some paper complications and finally they adopted him.
Today he is a deacon in Sweden and he has helped the church where he grew up in : Larut Matang, Taiping. He has personally seen to the renovation of the dilapidated church and anyone walking into the church today would never know how poor the church is. The members are odd job workers, near failures in life, drug addicts, alcoholics and single mothers as well as one or two abandoned families. It isn't easy to take care of this church but the family ( Deacon Thomas' family) who takes care of this church are really praise God worthy people. Whatever Thomas and his family have received, they give back 10 fold.
Here his sister and niece are putting candles on the cake. It was a lovely fruit cake topped with cheese icing. We ate a lot especially my daughters and I. Anyway, we had a real sumptious meal : fish, crab, cuttle fish, prawns, chicken and vege. I have never taken so much of sea food in life. For your information, the place we went to have our dinner is in Kuala Septang, Taiping. It was once a port but now a fishing village so the catch they brought in is simply fresh and hmm....delicious. For the locals; Malaysians, please try out Kuala Sepetang. The price here is not as expensive as in Tg. Tualang and Bukit Tambun. And we have three wonderful restaurants. I can't tell you which one is better, you have to try them out one by one.
Deacon Thomas - a happy and generous man.
Here is where they bring in the catch.
The fishing boats.
The scenery at the fishing village.
