Keep Growing. Keep Glowing!
Dear members and all well wishers of the Mission, it is with great pride and happiness that I bring this good news for you. The Mission and our mission work seems to be shifting into high gear. More and more people, more and more gurdwaras are coming on board and giving us their support. It is only such a short time that we started mission work; March this year tot be exact. But the success we have achieved this far is nothing short of phenomenal.
Our April tour of the seven gurdwaras in Sydney was so well received that even now the sangat is still talking about it. When I was there in Sydney for the Sikh Youth Australia Leadership Camp last week, the president of the Revesby Gurdwara came to meet me. We had lunch together. He wanted to know if we could come every year if they were to sponsor our tour. As you all know, we have had similar receptions everywhere we have gone in Malaysia. We have been blessed by Waheguru Ji with success in serving the sangat at home and overseas. This is all because of the greatness of the sangat, who overlook our shortcomings and are praying for our success.
On our last Kirtan-on-Wheels to Perak on the 4th and 5th, we were very honoured by the wonderful reception by the sangat that was given to us by all the nine gurdwaras on this yatra. The sangat of Menglembu even hired their own bus to join the yatra, so we had three buses. It was awesome. When we got home to KL, the sangat was so excited that they were already demanding that we announce the dates for the next yatra! We have already decided on the destinations. Just waiting to confirm the dates and Veer Hardeep will soon make the announcement. The sangat is going to love it.
Even more good news. Last night we did kirtan at the Kampong Pandan Settlement Gurdwara Sahib. The Bhenjis who had come from there promised that in all future yatras, one special bus will be organized by the sangat there for their own sangat. This is fantastic. Also, we received so much support from the President Sahib and the Granthi Sahib Ji, Veer Harjit Singh, who highlighted in his closing message how important the work that the volunteers in the Mission were doing. The President Sahib (name withheld for privacy) also did a very noble thing by sponsoring the cost of all the langgar that was to be served to the public for the ‘Meals-on-Wheels’ for the 12th July.
A vote of thanks for the Committee and sanggat of Kampong Pandan Wadda Gurdwara Sahib that has also joined the Mission to prepare meals in turn with other gurdwaras, to be delivered to the public on Sundays. Veer Jasbir Singh of Great Eastern Life has been instrumental in coordinating this seva. I also wish to point out that the committee of this same gurdwara had in April donated RM 1500 to the Malaysian Sikh Band to show their support for the band’s contribution to the Sikh community.
We have also been blessed by the joining of Veer Baldev Singh Ji (and his two sons), who helps pick up the meals and the drinks from the gurdwaras and homes where the meals are being prepared, with a one ton truck that he borrows from another Sikh brother. It is our prayer that more and more brothers and sisters will come forward to serve in Mission Sacha Saudha. There is a job and a role for everyone.
We are also blessed to have teamed up with another brother (identity withheld for privacy). Actually, Veer Ji is well ahead of us. He actually has bought and dedicated two large vans painted in our Guru’s colors of Orange Kesri and carrying the Holy name of Baba Guru Nanak. The best part is that his team is distributing meals every day at between 15 – 18 locations where the poor and destitute live. This is amazing. The Mission is looking forward to meeting up with Veer Ji to see what we can learn from him and his team so that we can improve our seva. Now Veer ji has offered us one van to use on Sundays.
So I hope that all Mission members can see that as we aspire to rise up to serve the Holy sangat, our gurdwaras and our Sikh organizations, Baba Guru is sending the people to us who are going to teach us how to be better at the seva we wish to do. Just like when we started to plan an increase in our water cups from ten cartons to twenty, Baba Ji sent us Bhenji Jessvinder Kaur from Mydin to join Mission work. Today she supervises all our water needs, not only arranging the purchasing, but the delivery to our Mission premises for storage till use. Waheguru! If anybody still doesn’t believe that God and Guru is not with us, better look again. Almost everyday, we are seeing a new miracle. People are just joining in from everywhere.
Latest news as of ten minutes ago: Port Dickson Gurdwara has welcomed us to hold our next and upcoming ‘Fathers and Sons’ Camp for the members of the Mission Sikh Student Fellowship, on the 20th and 21st of September. They have also volunteered to prepare the langgar for us. I take this opportunity to offer them our wholehearted thanks for their kindness and generosity. It will be a great camp. We will even invite some of the dad’s from Port Dickson to join us. That will be great.
As we continually seek to improve ourselves and our seva, let us work harder to serve the gurdwaras and the Sikh associations of our country. We can help them whenever manpower is needed. As life members of Sikh Naujawan Sabha, we are already deeply entrenched in Sabha work. Let us also offer ourselves to the other organizations in whichever way we can, so that we can become more useful and can help them achieve their organizational objectives. Always remember our slogan – T.E.A.M. – Together Everyone Achieves More! Keep Going. Baba Guru has much more blessings in store for all who shall serve selflessly.
Celebrate your Sikhi. Celebrate the benovalence of the sadh Sangat. And rejoice in the blessings of Akaal Purakh Waheguru.
Satnam.
