Kluang - EDEN Malaysia

Eden Meeting 09th Aug 2009

2009-08-20T20:37:00.000-07:00

Present – JP, SY, Joyce, HF, Minn , YL, BY, KH
Minutes by JP.

1. Prayer

Father’s grace upon Esg to do His will for the town, His wonderful provision of working as ONE people towards blessing the community. May we in unity and faith walk obediently in doing His bidding. Thankful for the opportunities and openings for the ‘feeding’ programme and growing favour of the Lord amongst the peoples, may we be found faithful. Prayed for grace and covering for JP and Eden’s team in their work.

2. Helping Hands

Currently there are 32 families receiving equivalent of RM 100/month on food and provisions, delivered to them by JP and youth Ablaze. The focus of this project is for the poor and those single parents in need. It started with a couple of families which has since grown. This requires more administration and organisation.

3. Helping Hands extension (1Way as project name?)

A couple of projects that would extend this work further are in the pipeline. To facilitate this growing work (effectiveness, 1kluang work) JP asked Eden efsg to partner in this work. The hope is that this will free him to concentrate on delivering the service on the ground. Eden efsg will take responsibility and to cover the work; more rigorous governance and accountability with the aim of extending this to the community from 2011 onward.

This pilot project will focus on giving 200 kids for 2010 are as follows:

a. Uniform – Someone has given RM 10 K, each to receive a pack valued at RM 120/kid.

b. Kids to school – Provide RM 120/kid to assist kids on miscellaneous cost (stationeries, books, fees, etc)

c. Christmas party – Gather all recipients and families for a party where the above will be officially handed over; YB to be invited to partner at the function?

Dates to note

19 August @ 5 pm – system governance formulation

31 August @ 4 pm – food distribution, all welcome; contact Joyce for transport arrangement

Eden

2009-08-07T03:27:00.000-07:00

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Article by Kok Hwee

2009-06-19T07:06:00.000-07:00

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. John 13:34-35 (NIV)

Bud Wilkinson states, "If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team."

Some sports teams seem to embrace an everyone-for-themselves mindset. Others weave the attitude of subordination and teamwork into the fabric of everything they do. Notre Dame and Penn State don't put the names of the players on their jerseys. Lou Holtz once said, "At Notre Dame, we believed the interlocking ND was all the identification you needed . . . If your priority is the team rather than yourself, what else do you need?" Winning teams have players who put the good of the team ahead of themselves. They want to play in their area of strength, but they're willing to do what it takes to take care of the team. They are willing to sacrifice their role for the greater goal

Speak Up to Your Leader
Good leaders cultivate honest speech; they love advisors who tell them the truth.Proverbs 16:13 (The Message) Good team leaders never want yes-men. They need direct and honest communication from their people. I have always encouraged people on my team to speak openly and directly with me. Our meetings are often brainstorming sessions where the best idea wins. Often, a team member's remarks or observations really help the team. Sometimes we disagree. That's okay, because we've developed strong enough relationships that we can survive conflict. Getting everything out on the table always improves the team. The one thing I never want to hear from a teammate is, "I could have told you that wouldn't work." If you know it beforehand, that's the time to say it. Besides directness, the other quality team members need to display when communicating with their leaders is respect. Leading a team isn't easy. It takes hard work. It demands personal sacrifice. It requires making tough and sometimes unpopular decisions. We should respect the people who take on leadership roles and show them loyalty.

Consider Their Dream

Then He bought [Abram] outside and said, "Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be." Genesis 15:5 Most people who are dissatisfied and discouraged feel that way because they haven't grasped a vision for themselves. As a leader, you can help others discover their dreams and then get moving. You may already recognize much of the potential of the people you're leading, but you need to know more about them. To help them recognize the destination they will be striving for, you need to know what really matters to them. To do that, find out these things:

1. What do they cry about? To know where people truly want to go, you've got to know what touches their hearts.
2. What do they sing about? In the long run, people need to focus a lot of energy on what gives them joy.
3. What do they dream about? If you can help people discover their dreams and truly believe in them, you can help them become who they were designed to be.

As Nobel Prize winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn said, "The meaning of earthly existence lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul." The development of character is at the heart of our development, not just as leaders, but as human beings.

Meeting 13 June, 2009

2009-06-16T19:30:00.000-07:00

Meeting 13 June called to debrief on Leaders summit 5 - 7 June held in Penang Present: MLHT,LSY, Joyce, PHF, Paul, LKH

A. Reflection on the summit
1 Paul shared that he intend to spend more time on people development.
The language centre should be developed further, starting with English

2 Michael felt the summit gave him a good overview of EFCC nation building work.
Eden focus on youth and education connects with the large work
Summit showed progress on justice and education, these would be focus in the near future.
Church currently irrelevant, government does not seek its view.

3 For the summit, it reinforced Siew Ying's conviction that the church must GO to the community
Compassion and passion are characteristics of kingdom work
For the work to really make an impact, it must be Malaysian reaching out to all in the community
To start Tamil and BM speaking work next

4 For Kok Hwee, it further confirms Eden strategy and focus on community engagement via youth leadership development is the way forward for community transformation.
The testimonies of the life changing work at the Rifle range is something we can learn from
At the summit, it was great opportunity to network with leaders in youth and education work.

B. Plan of action agreed
1 Communication and connectedness
Eden shall work with Siew Ying to inform team members on prayer needs on monthly basis.

2 Eden Youth centre site interaction
Acknowledged importance of regular visit to the youth centre by team members
To promote this, language centre project was initiated
Each member encouraged to visit centre for information and participate

3 Small group prayer meeting
Once/every 2 months; Prayer dates are 13 July, 14 Sept & 9 Nov, all at 8pm @ Eden centre

C. Others
1 Refer family(women with 6 grandchildren) to Shelter. Paul Tam
2 Inform Eden board on the participation of Eden EFC sg. Kok Hwee
3 Plan visit to Rifle Range for youth adults. Kok Hwee
4 Champions to spell out their roles to facilitate operations. MLHT,LSY,Joyce, PHF, LJP, BY,Miin, LYL

minutes by LKH/15 June

EFCC Eden group - 2 April

2009-04-02T19:25:00.000-07:00

Dear All,

I hope all of you have a better appreciation of the work of Eden. It is at
an exciting stage of its development as it gets more into the community and preparing the young in leadership and service.

The objective of the EFCC Eden small group is to enable each of us to work out the leadership principles taught at the classes.

At our next meeting, we agreed on the following:
1. adopt on one aspect of the work for the group
2. name for the group - give your suggestions, it should define what EFCC sg role is or vision
3. meet at least once a month in one of the MLM lessons which ends earlier, the next meeting is 20 April.

Eden 8th anniversary charity dinner on May 2 promises to be a breakthrough event; the testimonies would be the highlight. Of course, it is an opportunity to show case the talent and energy of the young people of Kluang through Eden. So, encourage your neighbours and friends to come for the event. Let us Eden EFSG lead the way in ticket sales.

Regards,

Kok Hwee