It is the time of the year again. The time of the year where you can hear Christmas carols being played at every corner you turn. People swarmed to the shopping complexes like bees being drawn to honeycomb. This is the time where gifts are being exchanged but minus the true meaning of giving.
In times like this, our DJ3CG decided to make a difference to bring the true meaning of giving, the gift of love. Joy to the world, a new King is born today, the angels sing. 
God has given us His Son, humble, born in a manger so that man may live forever more. To spread the true meaning of Christmas, DJ3CG has decided on our very first Christmas caroling. Bringing the good news that Christ is born to 4 families.
We gathered at our CG leader’s house at 7.45pm on 22nd December 2008. The children were excited as this would be the first time they went caroling. After a short briefing, we set out to our first house which belongs to Juat Heng and family. We were quite nervous as we had only practised twice for the past two weeks. Anyway we sang our hearts out, said a prayer for the family and read a Christmas message from the bible. The verdict – we passed with flying colours I think 
Anyway Juat gave us some constructive criticism and that has helped us improved our singing at the next three houses.
From Damansara Utama, we went to Pastor Siew Woh’s house in Damansara Jaya. With smiling face, we were greeted. We sang, said a prayer and a Christmas message, we left but not before recruiting Pastor and his wife to join us.
From there we went to Yew Lai’s house just across the road, we were given a warm welcome and again we sang. I think we got better from one house to another. Again we did not let the opportunity pass us by. Yew Lai ended up following us to the next and final house.
It was already about 10pm at night when we reached our final destination but no one was complaining. Everyone enjoyed the caroling so much so that time did not matter anymore. Our final destination was the highlight of the day. The host Angie and JJ Lim had promised to throw us a feast and a feast it was indeed. We sang with all our might knowing that great food was waiting for us. For the grand finale, we sang an additional verse of the song “We wish you a merry Christmas” that went like this, “we won’t go until we get some” Yes we got more than just “some” . I have yet to receive the photos. Will upload them when I get them. Look at the way we eat. I am sure you will agree that the food was not good. It was fantastic!
This will definitely not be the first and our last caroling. You bet we will make it a better one next year. Want to invite us to your home next year?
Here are some photos which I have received.
Group photo at JJ’s home. Guess who is at the hole on the staircase?
Food glorious food!
Posted by Lam Seng
