Planting Seeds
Every year since the day I was born, we have always gone back to my parents’ home town for Chinese New Year. It is something I look forward to every year and as a family we enjoy coming together and catching up with relatives with whom we rarely see. My relatives are wonderful people. Upright, kind, moral and pillars of leadership in their society.
My parents are the youngest of their generation - considered the ‘babies’. So when my parents became believers in Christ, they found it difficult to share with the ‘elders’ in our hometown purely because of their seniority. Admittedly, it is hardened ground but we do love them so very much.
Once I graduated from college, and started working, I came across some material in my quiet time by Scripture Union. It was a trendy quarterly youth magazine which had interesting articles about life. If we could not reach the older generation, why not the younger generation? So, I paid for an anonymous gift subscription to my youngest nephew in my hometown. He was only 12 years old at that time. And renewed the subscription every year thereafter for the next 8 years.
Last year, when my nephew came back for his summer break from the US, he told us he had accepted Christ. The first from our hometown to do so. It turned out that he came in contact with some Christian youth while doing his pre-u. And when he went to university overseas, he started taking religion classes and discovered Christ.
During his last visit, I asked him if he remembered receiving the magazines, and he said ‘Was that you?’, it was his first introduction to Christ. We never know how God speaks to the lost, but as long as we are faithful in planting seeds, He will make Himself known.
Amy Lim
Full Gospel Tabernacle, Subang Jaya
