Hello My Fantastic People,
On Tuesday night I went with some friends to the Fuk Lam church on Temple Street. Temple Street as mentioned before is a tourist attraction, famous for its night market which sells a variety of knock off items at knock off prices, that is if you bargain with the shop owner. All around Temple Street are also seamy areas which have low, low, low income housing, and areas where homeless or (street sleepers) as they are called here congregate.
Every Tuesday night people from the Fuk Lam congregation go out in groups with cartons of food and water and distribute them to the street sleepers or those in low income housing. But what is more impressive is that they take the time to talk and befriend the people they bring the food to.
So meet Lin a 76 year old woman who gets by selling pens and other trinkets in front of a horse race betting kiosk. She cries every time in gratitude when we talk with her. Meet Pauline, another 76 year old woman who carries all her belongings with her when she leaves her abode, otherwise someone will steal them, it is so filthy and rundown, and meet George a 74 year old who lives in a tiny cluttered room in an apartment that has been subdivided into four other apartments. The people who live in this squalor share a dirty kitchen and bathroom. Rent for George is about $400 Canadian which is about half of what George earns in a month.
I know I have raved on and on about how great Hong Kong is, but the sad fact is that Hong Kong has the distinction of having the greatest discrepancy (gap) between the rich and the poor in the world. That should not be.
While I certainly don't agree with Godless communism, Godless capitalism is not much better. I think it is shameful that such a prosperous city like Hong Kong will not take care of their elderly and provide a decent place for them. If you are elderly and do not have family you are sunk here.
So pray for my new friends. It was a pleasure to get to know them. Pray for people like Mary and Raymond who go out week after week from the Fuk Lam Church to feed, befriend, and pray for the less fortunate. They are saints.
Have a great week.
God Bless You.
Love adios and peng on!
Dirk
Lin is the Lady in the pink.
Pauline.
George in his obode.
Jesus loves you.
On Tuesday night I went with some friends to the Fuk Lam church on Temple Street. Temple Street as mentioned before is a tourist attraction, famous for its night market which sells a variety of knock off items at knock off prices, that is if you bargain with the shop owner. All around Temple Street are also seamy areas which have low, low, low income housing, and areas where homeless or (street sleepers) as they are called here congregate.
Every Tuesday night people from the Fuk Lam congregation go out in groups with cartons of food and water and distribute them to the street sleepers or those in low income housing. But what is more impressive is that they take the time to talk and befriend the people they bring the food to.
So meet Lin a 76 year old woman who gets by selling pens and other trinkets in front of a horse race betting kiosk. She cries every time in gratitude when we talk with her. Meet Pauline, another 76 year old woman who carries all her belongings with her when she leaves her abode, otherwise someone will steal them, it is so filthy and rundown, and meet George a 74 year old who lives in a tiny cluttered room in an apartment that has been subdivided into four other apartments. The people who live in this squalor share a dirty kitchen and bathroom. Rent for George is about $400 Canadian which is about half of what George earns in a month.
I know I have raved on and on about how great Hong Kong is, but the sad fact is that Hong Kong has the distinction of having the greatest discrepancy (gap) between the rich and the poor in the world. That should not be.
So pray for my new friends. It was a pleasure to get to know them. Pray for people like Mary and Raymond who go out week after week from the Fuk Lam Church to feed, befriend, and pray for the less fortunate. They are saints.
Have a great week.
God Bless You.
Love adios and peng on!
Dirk
Lin is the Lady in the pink.
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