Malaysian Care 2010 Theme:

Launch out into the Deep

The dawn of the second  decade in the new millennium is very important for Malaysia as the nation prepares for the fulfilment of its Vision 2020 in the midst of rising new challenges.  Likewise, we sense the spiritual significance of the time and that coming important date as Malaysian Care would be 40 yrs old just before 2020.  

With that, we felt that it was very appropriate that the Lord placed upon our hearts that our theme for the start of this new decade is “launch out into the deep’ (Lk 5:4)

Some new pioneering projects like the ‘inclusive education’ for pre-schoolers, intensifying capacity building of some partners for strategic regional training and increasing partnership efforts outside the Klang Valley including East Malaysia have already started.   A strategic planning process has been initiated since last year and some major organisational changes have just been decided on.  We believe that we have begun to launch out into the deep in our ministry activities.

Yet  I reminded my colleagues, when Simon Peter responded to Jesus’ call to launch out into the deep, it was not his professional training or wide experience that caused him to do so nor the expectation of good results from excellent planning.  In fact, what Simon Peter did was against all natural experience, training and good judgement.   It was what I described as ‘supernatural obedience ‘ that brought ‘supernatural results’, something that is only seen in radical discipleship.  

As I recollect my 12 miraculous years’ journey in leading the staff team, I am thankful for the wonderful colleagues, Board members, volunteers, prayer partners and others who have together helped the ministry grow.  Yet I am reminded that it is by God’s grace and a growing trust and obedience to the Lord that have sustained and brought us this far, with miraculous results and intervention along the way.   No doubt we need good people and efficient systems and we praise God for that.  But we needed more radical discipleship and the Lord’s supernatural intervention in challenging times and increasing spiritual warfare.  We also need fresh revelations through ‘deep waters ‘  as the Spirit calls unto the deep, the deep things of God (1 Cor. 2:10).

The call is to follow our Lord to be ‘fishers of men’ more than just excellent fishermen as we launch out into the deep.  At times, we need to ‘supernaturally’ throw away and walk away from what we know to  ‘supernaturally’ do what we do not know so that the resultant glory will truly belong to God.  

Lee Chee Loi
Executive Director

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