{"id":301,"date":"2015-07-20T13:40:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T13:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kenosis.org.my\/?page_id=301"},"modified":"2017-08-07T15:24:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T15:24:33","slug":"the-samaritans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kenosis.org.my\/index.php\/the-samaritans\/","title":{"rendered":"The Samaritan Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"rev_slider_4_1_wrapper\" class=\"rev_slider_wrapper fullwidthbanner-container\" style=\"margin:0px auto;background-color:#E9E9E9;padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;max-height:350px;\">\n<!-- START REVOLUTION SLIDER 4.6.5 fullwidth mode -->\n\t<div id=\"rev_slider_4_1\" class=\"rev_slider fullwidthabanner\" style=\"display:none;max-height:350px;height:350px;\">\n<ul>\t<!-- SLIDE  -->\n\t<li data-transition=\"random\" data-slotamount=\"7\" data-masterspeed=\"300\"  data-saveperformance=\"off\" >\n\t\t<!-- MAIN IMAGE -->\n\t\t<img 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the Gospel by feeding the poor and seeing the face of Jesus in those who are hungry not only for food, but also for love and compassion. Each week, teams of staff and volunteers will prepare meals, deliver and serve to guests at YMCA Brickfields and Trinity Drop-In-Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>BACKGROUND<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">The Samaritan Ministry originally started as a street feeding project in Brickfields. <\/span>Brickfields has a mixed population of mainly working class people. It has many social ills\u00a0typical of a large city such as drugs, street violence, drunkenness, destitution and\u00a0homelessness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">From the launching on 27th August 2007 there were only 18 guests, and now there are about\u00a0130+ guests every Saturday. While in the early days there were many\u00a0of visually challenged people resulting in the\u00a0laying out tables and chairs for them, the demographics today have changed and there are\u00a0more street people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A typical <b>Saturday <\/b>would start with volunteers turning up before <b>1.00 p.m<\/b>. followed by a briefing for them at 1.15 p.m. This is followed at about 1.25 p.m. with a time of singing and a short message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is also\u00a0a growing number of East Malaysians volunteering\u00a0on Saturdays with songs of praise in Bahasa Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A medical team is available and it sometimes serves up to 30 patients every week.\u00a0There are student volunteers from the Methodist College Kuala Lumpur who come in to do their Community Service projects over 15 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">PURPOSE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To show Christian love to the poor, distressed, underprivileged and drug dependents by\u00a0providing them :<\/p>\n<p>1. nourishment<br \/>\n2. medical aid<br \/>\n3. counseling<br \/>\n4. spiritual support<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">WHEN &amp; WHERE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Every <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Saturday<\/span> (irrespective of rain or shine) from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1.30pm to 3.30pm <\/span>\u00a0at the <strong>YMCA Kuala\u00a0Lumpur<\/strong>, Brickfields.<\/li>\n<li>The Samaritan Ministry also serves the homeless street people at the <strong>Trinity Drop-In-Center<\/strong> on every Thursday, 5.00- 7.30pm.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>HOW<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1. Provide and serve hot meals and drink.<br \/>\n2. Provide basic medical aid.<br \/>\n3. Provide counseling<br \/>\n4. Fellowship through songs, prayers, music classes and board games.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1. By volunteering to help us serve.<br \/>\n2. By sponsoring a meal.<br \/>\n3. By donating medicine and books for children.<br \/>\n4. By providing music, fellowship<br \/>\n5. By funding \u2013 all finances are handled by the Social Concerns Committee of Trinity\u00a0Methodist Church PJ. All donations to be directed to TMCPJ where a receipt will be issued.<\/p>\n<p>Cheque donations to be made payable to :<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrinity Methodist Church Petaling Jaya\u201d designated for \u2018The Samaritan Ministries\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>HOW YOU CAN\u00a0WORK AS A VOLUNTEER<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1. You will be assigned into a small group of five.<br \/>\n2. Servers will help to dish out food or make drinks and serve them individually.<br \/>\n3. Doctors or nurses will be assigned duties separately.<br \/>\n4. Be present at 1.00pm for duty. Wait for instructions before doing anything.<br \/>\n5. Dress code to be simple and comfortable. No ornaments or heavy jewellery.<br \/>\n6. Car pool if possible.<br \/>\n7. Giving cash gift to the people coming is not encouraged.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>FOR FURTHER INFORMATION<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Contact :<\/p>\n<p>Mr Paul David,\u00a0The Social Concerns Committee Coordinator of \u00a0The Samaritan Ministries,\u00a0Trinity Methodist Church Petaling Jaya<\/p>\n<p>OR<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Richard Lee of Kenosis Home<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":440,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenosis.org.my\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenosis.org.my\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenosis.org.my\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenosis.org.my\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenosis.org.my\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenosis.org.my\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenosis.org.my\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/301\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenosis.org.my\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenosis.org.my\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}