From the Medical Ministry
On the second and fourth Sunday of every month, you will find in the unlikely place of the car park basement of Wesley Methodist Church Klang a group of women and men gathering here to minister in their own way to some workers who come from places as far away as Nepal, Vietnam, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. These are the migrant workers who have come to know of these facilities through friends or through the grape vine that there is a place they can get some help for their medical problems or maybe, just a sympathetic ear to listen to their problems whatever, it maybe just a question of loneliness or frustration or exasperation with working conditions or even cases of unscrupulous employers who do not pay their workers. Some medical problems are beyond the help of this rather ad hoc arrangement of medical facilities but even then these men and women can give a helping hand in directing them to the proper places where help can be obtained. Sometimes legal advice is also sought and where possible that can be arranged too.
Food and drinks in the form of biscuits and coffee or tea are also available. Nothing fanciful. Looking at these groups of women and men, one wonders what is it that makes them volunteer and come regularly and zealously at that. They are mostly mature men and women with an occasional young one thrown into the mix but the group seems happy working away without a murmur and usually laughter and smiles and happy communications seem to be the order of the day. They are a mixed lot this group, of various nationalities, Indians, Chinese and even an occasional European! And sometimes from the migrant workers themselves some expertise may be offered. This group works steadily serving and ministering and dispensing medicines and advice efficiently and by seven in the evening it is over and the chairs and tables and the boxes of registration cards and medicines are stored away until the next round.
They have done two solid hours of work totally voluntarily having started at 5.00p.m. At the end of the day everybody goes off on their way to resume their own lives again. But deep down in their hearts there is a satisfaction that is not easy to describe. It can only be said that it is akin to the joy of the Lord. Yes! These men and women come from different churches with different denominational backgrounds and even different languages and cultural barriers to surmount yet when looking at them work together toiling under some harsh and difficult conditions one cannot but wonder what it is that brought them together like this giving what they can in terms of time and service and joyfully at that. Yes, this is the wonder of it all, to serve unselfishly and give something back in action because of the deep conviction that we have received so much and that we can never repay no matter how hard we try. The little medicine, the little time, the little expertise. The care and the love is so little we can only wish it would be more. If all this can bring but one soul into the Kingdom of God then it is more than enough to justify the time and effort.
Our medical clinic is open to all and whoever feels that this is the way to spend an evening with us then please don’t hesitate to join us. We are a happy band of men and women just serving and enjoying ourselves.
God Bless.
In His Service,
Dr. Goon Swee Fook
