(The Interest)
“We care”: Serving other people with love!
We care is one of the events in Flash, a student’s activity in Faculty of Language and Arts, Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana (UKSW). This event has a sense to help other people. We care is held once year in early November by visiting nursing homes. Within this program, we held some worships, like a prayer, a praise, and a sharing.
Last year, Flash held
We Care event in
Panti Jompo Wreda.
Panti Jompo Wreda is located in Pancasila street, Salatiga. Ela Delila, as one of the committee, told that the event is for helping other people. Also, we care to the people who really need our help. We helped other people by cleaning their nursing home. We give some food and entertain the people at
Panti Jompo Wreda. For example, the committee invited the nursing home to sing a song. The committee and the nursing homes did devotions there. After they did the worship, they invited the grandfather and grandmother to eat food together. After that, the committee share their experience about the activities in Flash, like sharing about the lesson in the class and we have worship every week.
Also, the people in nursing home share their experience about their life. The experience that they could life in the nursing home. Their family taken them to the nursing home. Because their family could not take care with them. Because of that, they spent their life in the nursing home without their family. They need concern from other people. However, the people in the nursing home still have a faith to life. Ela Delila told that join this event can help her to be more patient with the grandfather and grandmother in the nursing home. Also, she could share about God in this event.
This event taught us how we should share with other people. By means of this event, creating a sense of caring and devotion to each other provides a spiritual experience to the participants.
Ike Gohora, the participant of this event told that the event had a good impact. She was happy joining this event because she could learn from the people in the nursing home. Also, she could share happiness with them. She wanted to do the service more often. She wanted to spend more time with them. Then, the people in
Panti Jompo Wreda felt glad to see us arriving their place. Because the grandfather and the grandmother felt comforted with us. They could do the another activities than the usual activities. In addition, we can do God’s decree in daily life, not only we join this event. However, we do the things that God’s want in our life, like, doing a good thing, honor with your parents, and do not bear false witness.
Anne Christabella Santoso
