Love in Action – we received

Creating Love in Action has been an incredible journey for me (Stuart). As we promote the story my own understanding of what putting love into action looks like continues to grow and be challenged. This week my family and I were at the receiving end of love being put into action. We were en-route to the UK and stopped off in Singapore to break up the journey. On the second day our son suddenly got sick. He got progressively worse each hour until eventually we decided to take him into hospital. He was later admitted to KKH Children’s Hospital. The care we received was nothing short of excellent.

On our second day in the hospital (my wife and I took it in turns to stay overnight with our son), we received a telephone call from Pastor Ming of City Harvest Church, Singapore. Later he came to visit us in the hospital. He bought gifts and organised a youth worker to sit with our son to give my wife and I a few hours together alone to have some dinner as it was our wedding anniversary. The next day Andreas and Marie from City Harvest came to visit us. 6 days later we were discharged from the hospital. We were originally meant to leave Singapore on Friday 4 December but with my son not being well we extended our stay until Wednesday 9 December. This meant also extending our stay at the hotel we were staying in, however they were fully booked from Monday. Again, Pastor Ming and our new friends from City Harvest stepped in to help. They searched for a new hotel for us and put us up in the Swissotel in downtown Singapore, even ferrying us from one place to another.  One amazing blessing after another.

We are reminded that even when we are in a foreign country where we think we do not know anyone, we still have brothers and sisters in Christ willing to extend a hand, in love. We are so grateful and feel so incredibly blessed.

Thank you City Harvest Church for putting love into action. www.chc.org.sg