Richmond AOG Church has been extending work of friendship out to the community in Richmond. In conjunction with Christmas, the church organised a Block Party for the community. The whole street in front of the church was blocked and booths were set up to pamper the community. Food wise, there’s free BBQ, free Snow Cup, free Donut and etc. Non-food wise, there’s free face paint for the kids, free ladies’ pampering session, free petting zoo as well!! It’s the way the church say to the community, “We care for you all and we want to make friend with you all.”
The agenda for that day was:
1000-1130: Church service
1300-1600: Block Party Set Up
1600-1800: Block Party
1800-1930: Christmas Carol Concert in the Church.
Flora and I volunteered to help setting up the block party. We took about 30 minutes finding around what can we really do to help and really enjoy it. We tried moving tables and chairs, moving musical instruments. We also tried tying up balloons. I even sipped Helium to listen to how I sound. 
And I sounded so funny. Then finally, out of the blue, we were called to help in frying donuts. To me, it sounds fun and we decided to stick with that job. So, our job was to fry 500 donuts. Yup, 500. The donuts were made-ready. Just need to fry them in a deep fryer.
Before we started frying, we were briefed about the potential danger of the job. The way it was explained to us sounded like we were dealing with a nuclear silo. I appreciated their concerns but…. anyway, let me not go there.
Hehe…my experience working in KFC (yup, Kentucky Fried Chicken) can be put to good use. I used to fry french fries, wedges, nuggets, burger patties etc during those time. So frying donuts shouldn’t be that difficult. Ok, let the pictures do the talking.
Flora in action.
The made-ready donut from the box.
Fry for about 1.5 minutes and mix it with sugar.
Ready to serve
After the hard work, we joined the block party.
The block party
There’s musical band.
One of the lamb from the petting zoo.
There’s one important thing that need to be highlighted. Melbourne had been raining since Friday evening, the whole of Saturday and the whole Sunday morning. The little faith of me was asking about the damage the rain could do to the whole event. But during the service, the senior pastor, a man of faith said, “We’ll pray that God will hold the rain and the weather will be nice for the party to get going.” True enough, after the church service, the sun began to come out, blue skies started to be seen. and it sustained throughout the whole event!!! God is marvelous and awesome. Glory be unto Him.
It was a tiring day. We reached home around 2045, prepared our dinner and ate at around 2130. But it was a lot of fun and I pray that in the light of Christmas, the message of the true meaning of Christmas and the God’s love can reach the heart of the community. Amen!
December 15, 2008 at 9:08 pm
wow, that’s so fun!! Am glad you guys had fun.. Missing u this year at christmas.. =P We’ll be having a christmas thingy in subang parade – invited to be part of our subang MP’s community celebration. Mat, remember the subang parade do 3 years ago? well, we’re gonna try to do a re-make.. =) take care, blessed christmas!