Mother's Day with Gurmit Singh

On Mother's Day, we had the opportuniy to hear Gurmit Singh sharing his testimony in our Church. Despite his fame, Gurmit hardly takes pride in his own success. A very humble man.

Although already well-known that he is born into a Sikh family, many still thought he looked "very Chinese" - but, in fact, he is a cross between his Punjabi father and his Chinese-Japanese mother, who had become his main mentor at home.

Here is his testimony:
"I always thought our mother was like a super-mother. She was the strongest woman in the world, who could work 24 hours a day without feeling tired at all," he said.

"Therefore, when the specialist told us that Mother had cancer and it was lready very advanced into Stage Four, I was devastated. "Mother had only six months to live. Her health was deteriorating fast. It was obvious that we were sure of losing her."Back then in 1984, he was only 19 and still single.

"I knew my parents loved children. I wanted my Mother to live on to see her grandchildren, hold them and play with them. I prayed for a girlfriend, and before long, God found me a girlfriend, who later became my wife," he said, referring to his Chinese Cantonese wife, Melissa. "Together, we have two lovely children, Gabrielle and Elliot."

Mother lived for another 16 years. Gurmit was quick in attributing the miracle of his mother’s healing to God’s answer to his simple prayer. "Even the doctor was surprised when he carried another test on my mother. I remember his face as he told us, `Gurmit, whatever you are doing outside of this hospital, please continue on. We have checked for the spread of her cancer cells, and they are totally gone!’"


In 2000, when Mother’s cancer relapsed, initially, he was angry with God until he heard a still small voice saying: ‘Gurmit, remember that little prayer of yours 16 years ago? I have kept her all this while so that she could enjoy her grandchildren.’"

He traced back his faith in God to a rally by a renowned evangelist and faith healer, Reinhard Bonke. "Before this, I used to be a brother who slapped his sisters. When they claimed that they had become born-again Christians, I used to persecute them," he said.

"But that evening of 13 November 1985 at the stadium, with 60,000 other people around, I felt like I was alone, and I heard that little voice, just calling out to me, `Hi!’ I knelt down, prayed and surrendered my life to God," he said.

WANTING TO DO MORE THAN THE USUAL

I always get excited when it comes to elections. I guess it comes from my very first awareness of elections way back in 1969. I vividly recall that some opposition parties had won, there was a lot of celebration followed by some unpleasant events, but the best thing of all (as a primary student then) was the longer break of holidays that we got to enjoy.

After attaining the right age for being a registered voter, I have never failed to fulfill my responsibilities as a Christian and a loyal citizen of Malaysia to cast my vote at every general election.

In this year’s General Elections, I had decided to want to do more than the usual. I availed myself to be a volunteer with the Democratic Action Party - Seputeh constituency operations centre. I was given the opportunity to be one of their trainers for Polling and Counting agents. Besides that, I also had the opportunity to be both Polling and Counting Agent representing DAP on polling day itself.

So why did I decide to be more involved in the General Elections?

At the end of the training session, I would mention to each agent that the role they play would be an important part in the actual undertaking of the polls. In fact it would be the most vital part of the entire process ensuring that elections were conducted in a clean and fair manner. I would remind them that it was for this very purpose, every agent should know their functions clearly, carry them out well, proudly and effectively, not only for the Party they were representing but even more for the country as loyal citizens of our beloved land, Malaysia.

There were other who had similar experience during the recent elections. Check it out...
http://themicahmandate.org/experience/ruju1.shtml