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When someone gets married, we can be sure the topic of conversation with others for the subsequent weeks will be on their marriage, how they met, and everything about each other. When a mother delivers her newborn baby, her pride in her baby will overwhelm all topic of conversation for the next few weeks, if not months. Anyone meeting this mother will surely coo over the baby, listen to the mother’s stories and share her joy.
Sometime in 2003, the late Fr John Gnanapiragasam put together a team of eight to ten Catholic laypersons , and invited us to participate in the Anglican church’s Alpha course. We were told to be open-minded and participate wholeheartedly, rather than attend as an observer. After experiencing for ourselves the “power” of Jesus in the Alpha course, Fr John shared with us his plans to introduce Alpha into the Catholic Church in Malaysia.
In subsequent weeks, during follow-up sessions, I witnessed first-hand some “transformed” people, bursting with joy, sharing their excitement and exhilaration when they went back to work or at home, how they found themselves talking non-stop about Jesus in their life. It felt like they were young again, just newly married or had just delivered their first-born child.
By then, other dioceses in Malaysia had gotten wind of the course and wanted in. We received invitations to help launch the Alpha course in Penang Diocese and in the Archdiocese of Kuching. A similar two-weekend pilot run were conducted in Kuching on June 2005, and in Ipoh on November 2005, attended by participants from Taiping and Penang.
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