20 - 22 February 2009
Kota Bahru Health Program

Made up of mainly elderly believers, the Kota Bahru SDA church is a warmly and welcoming church. Despite only a third of its members being young adults and youths, this church is an energetic one and a pleasure to worship in. Planted in the midst of a Muslim dominated state capital, Kota Bahru church thrives to be an icon in the community through acts of kindness and cheerfulness amongst members.

The 2-day Health Program took off on Saturday during Sabbath school with a firm outline of the Mission’s vision regarding health and evangelism, “Tell the World, Every CHURCH a Community Health Centre”. Mrs Jane Yap (Health Director-PEM) delivered the goal of seeing all members come together and make Jesus Christ relevant in the community. She highlighted that through simple yet significant programs such as Charobix, health screening, cooking demos and hydrotherapy the church can penetrate non-Christian territories where witnessing is not permitted.

At 14:00Hours, after a healthy lunch the ACC team conducted health screening for church members, and a notable four non-members. The screening included full body appraisal and blood pressure check. An hour long interpretation of results followed thereafter before entering a 30min health lecture. To culminate the activities for the day, Rose and Osward conducted a 3-menu cooking demo. These simple breakfast menus were greeted with excitement and approval. It was indeed inspiring to see majority of the church members’ patiently follow through all the programs till evening-fall.

Early Sunday morning, as all roads led to the town centre for the 1st working day of the week, our enthused members found their way to Jalan Hamzah for a morning Charobix session. At 8:30am sharp the Charobix rhythm pierced the air and everyone’s limbs were in motion. It took only 45min to get the people sweating, and the zest was encouraging. At the end of the exercise, the young people were gathered and encouraged to start regular Charobix to create a pool of non-Christian friends to whom the church can reach out to with God’s love. God works in ways we can not comprehend. This health program could be the gateway for lost souls to find their way to Christ.