Elshaddai has been a blessing to me as much as I’m a blessing to the migrant community whom I serve. Every step I had here has been a humbling and a new experience for me to learn and adapt. As my leader once told me to pray a prayer that goes like “Lord, I pray that I can endure discomfort so I can grow and seek your strength every day to serve where you’ve placed me”
I come from a corporate background and I know that I didn’t stumble upon Elshaddai as an accident. I learned to understand God has placed me here for a reason and there was never a day I found serving these children a burden or meaningless. This is my 3rd year serving here and I’ve recognised strength and received opportunities which I know I wouldn’t have elsewhere. I never searched for anything more as God has always provided enough for me through my ministry at Elshaddai. The contentment and purpose in what I do here has kept me going for a long time.
I’ve realised that I don’t merely “work” or do a “job” in exchange of money at Elshaddai. Everything that we do here we do it with one intention. Grateful to know that I’m a part of a team whose vision is to transform lives by supporting the migrant community wholistically and most importantly to demonstrate the goodness of God and bring it into their reality most importantly to be a part of a change that ignites from within.
Elshaddai has been a blessing not just for the migrant community but for me as a young Malaysian serving in this ministry. The leaders have always made me feel seen by encouraging me to pursue higher education to serve the community with my full potential and to equip them with the best. I don’t have a background in teaching in fact I started with the coms department at Elshaddai and I exposed myself to the learning centres and the students and I felt deeply for the needs which aren’t met. I thought I could have a huge impact by serving on ground and attach myself to one of the learning centres in Klang. Well, it has been 3 humbling years faithfully and generously serving the students and teachers there. Elshaddai has supported me in various forms in order for me to serve joyfully.
Elshaddai has once been a place I never heard of and now it has become my home as it is to many others. It’s been one of God’s greatest blessings in my life thus far.
