6th August, 2006
Hospital Visit Report (extracted from Roland's mail)
Participants: Shirley Moy, Benji, Cindy Chan, Yueh Nee, Alex Teh, Lionel Koh, Jason Nga, Patras Masih, Andrew Khoo, Shiao Yen, Phei Phei, Deborah Nga, Jason Lee, Helena Wong, Ai Ling, Roland Tang
Time: 4:30pm to 6.30pm
The Group who visited the GH on Sunday (08/06)
Purpose and Objective
To bring a group out to be exposed to doing evangelistic efforts in the hospital, for the zone members to work together, share the Good News of Jesus in the hospital, and hope to those who were losing them. The work consists of primarily 3 cell groups (A2J, Jars of Clay and Zion). We also had the pleasure of Benji (CGL for Desa-U) to support the work.
The Evening
The group first started assembling at the front of Pekaka Square, at the foyer, from 4pm. We were slightly delayed as some came in late. The briefing was done by Roland at 4.25pm, and these were the points:
The visit is to see the needy in the hospital, to share the Good News where possible to the patients
To bring hope to those who were losing them
Before we departed from Pekaka Square, we all prayed, holding hands, to ask God to grant us boldness and strength to share the Good News and the hope that abides in us. We also prayed for unity, that there would be no confusion from the whole arrangement, but the complementing of strength, one for another.
We arrived at the hospital at 5.10pm. This is where the pairings were done.
The pairings are:
Jason Nga & Tan Phei Phei
Shirley Moy, Yueh Nee and Jason Lee
Benji and Ai Ling
Deborah an Helena
Lionel and Alex
Cindy, Andrew and Shiao Yen
Patras and Roland
We were divided to the different floor of Block C, where the general ward was. Lionel, Alex, Cindy, Andrew and Shiao Yen did the children’s ward, while the others focused on the adults.
There was quite a fair bit of ground covered. Many patients were ministered to. Many prayers were offered for the patients, to ask for God’s healing and His salvation.
Some highlights:
1 salvation recorded – an Indian man named Selva Kumar
16 prayers lifted for the sick and needy
6 of the children were prayed for/over
Lowlights:
5 refused prayer, because of the faith incompatibility
Insufficient time (time management, and also visiting hours limitation)
What we found from the visit?
Most patients we approached were open and willing to share, because they needed someone they could talk to. (Generally, we approached those who were lonely)
Some of them have been in the hospital for quite sometime, perhaps 1 month or even months. We managed to find Helen (the girl from Wesley in coma) – she seemed more receptive, when asked to be prayed over, she blinked her eye.
One woman had a lot of needs (looking for clothes and pampers) as she had some urinary problems (always wetting the bed).
What can we do better?
For certain, we needed to improve on time (punctuality). It would have been better if the visiting hours were longer. And of course, if we observed time.
Language – Some pairings did not have strong language commands in the dialects (especially Hokkien). Need to work on this.
Prepare name cards that would point patients to the church, for some form of follow up to be done.
A little gift for the patients would be nice.
Mental preparation – adequate training to be given before the visit would surely help to cover more grounds.
We noted that there were lots of needs. Some patients asked for material support, to aid their need. Some sought prayer. We managed to pray for at least 1 Malay man, and shared the hope of Jesus.
Conclusion
This is surely an opening by exposing the many facets of ministry in service, to open to the ministry of evangelism.
By means of this, it is hopeful that it would spur or motivate us to more evangelism to the less fortunate in the near future.
Prayer
Father, we thank You for a wonderful and fruitful ministry with the patients in the hospital. Indeed we know that You were with us, and for us, to help us and guide us in what we needed to do. And now we give You praise, because we have heard so many testimonies of Your faithfulness. Thank You for being our help in the time of need, we are grateful. We ask that You will continue to inspire us, and move in us with compassion to bring hope to those who are in need of hope in the hospital. Move our hearts, that our hearts may beat with Yours. We thank You, and pray all these, in Jesus most precious and wonderful name, Amen!
