Seeking the Health of Daly City

by Janet Sun, Chinese Cumberland Presbyterian Church

An answer to prayer, the vision of having a health fair was inspired by our experience with the GUM-coordinated Mission Street Health Fair three years ago.  We’d been asking God to bless Cumberland Presbyterian Church to be a blessing, expanding His presence by strengthening local ministry in our community. So last year, we geared up our planning team and hosted our own diabetes fair on our Daly City campus, along with Primera Iglesia Bautista de Daly City, Grace Fellowship Community Church (GFCC), and Redeemer Community Church (RCC).  That day, we served over 70 people, with about a fifth receiving a consultation from a physician.  There was one person who had insurance and regular access to healthcare but said, "None of my doctors have the time to listen to me!  I came here so I could find someone to listen!  I came here to vent out how broken healthcare is!"   We also prayed for people and, praise God, three accepted Christ as their Savior and Lord.  The fair indeed challenged and mobilized our congregation to reach out.  In the end, we all felt blessed by the experience of working together in one purpose…to serve God and His love with our community. 

After this experience, we sensed God wanted us to serve Him in this capacity again this year.  With desire this time to “bring the Church to the community,” we are planning a community health fair at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School.  Why there? God has been opening doors for us and we’ve developed a good rapport with the principal and teachers.  They’ve let us rent space for our Sunday School class.  And it is the “community” we seek to serve.  

Please pray for God’s wisdom as we plan; for the provision of volunteers and community resources, for our partnership with GFCC, RCC and GUM, for our relationship with the new principal, and for good weather on October 15th!