{"id":154,"date":"2015-07-21T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiagatewaytraining.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2023-08-01T08:40:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T08:40:49","slug":"humbled-to-serve-their-friends-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiagatewaytraining.com\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Humbled to serve their friends in\u00a0need"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Amanda Mason<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full wp-duotone-unset-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"548\" height=\"301\" src=\"https:\/\/asiagatewaytraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Kenosis_Home_AGT.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiagatewaytraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Kenosis_Home_AGT.jpg 548w, https:\/\/asiagatewaytraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Kenosis_Home_AGT-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The skinhead smiled at me with a gappy smile of recognition. \u201cI see you at the seminary. I go there to work,\u201d he said. We had just arrived at the Kenosis Home, a drug rehabilitation centre in Mantin, run by Christians on Buddhist land for the benefit of any.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was our Asia Gateway field trip, and though I had seen this man daily at the Seminari Theologi Malaysia in Seremban, I would not have guessed he was in work therapy, that he had been to jail nor had I any suspicion that a large portion of the labourers maintaining the property were reforming addicts who lived together amidst an orchard of durian trees, goats and daily Bible study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The young men shared with us their testimonies of (failed and ongoing) efforts to reform and mentors who shared the gospel. I don\u2019t know how they will fare in the future, but I thank God for His provision \u2013 labour for the seminary, for Kenosis and for personal transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One young speaker decided to join us on a visit to a nearby hospice. There, he sat beside a man he had known as a fellow \u2018student\u2019 at Kenosis Home. His friend\u2019s body had become weary with HIV and he expected to die in the hospice. For this moment, however, he enjoyed a friend\u2019s company. Later he would look forward to the social interaction of Bible study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He spoke with the wisdom of experience: \u201cWe addicts are the only ones humbled enough to accept the lows our friends face.\u201d This is why many rehab centres are staffed by graduates of Kenosis\u2019 18-month rehabilitation &nbsp;programme, reformed addicts ministering God\u2019s grace in a way only the blessed needy know how. It was not shrewd evangelistic strategy but basic human friendship, demonstrated regularly, that would most powerfully effect force of God\u2019s work in their lives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"548\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/asiagatewaytraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Kenosis_Amanda_AGT.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiagatewaytraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Kenosis_Amanda_AGT.jpg 548w, https:\/\/asiagatewaytraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Kenosis_Amanda_AGT-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Amanda\u2026feeling thankful for God\u2019s provision<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Amanda Mason was one of the 12 students of Asia Gateway Training Level 1 who visited the Kenosis Drug Rehabilitation Centre on July 4. 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