{"id":4867,"date":"2020-02-02T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ech.org.hk\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2020-12-23T15:39:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T07:39:30","slug":"nothing-new-under-the-sun-sharing-from-vivian-law-superintendent-of-evangel-childrens-home-about-the-newborn-baby-abandonment-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ech.org.hk\/en\/nothing-new-under-the-sun-sharing-from-vivian-law-superintendent-of-evangel-childrens-home-about-the-newborn-baby-abandonment-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNothing New under the Sun\u201d &#8211; Sharing from Vivian Law, Superintendent of Evangel Children\u2019s Home about the Newborn Baby Abandonment Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:28px\">On the opening monument of Evangel Children\u2019s Home, it reads: Jesus said,&nbsp;\u201cLet the little children come to me.\u201d It is so true\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At about 5 am on February 2nd, Moon, a night duty staff, reported that there was a baby outside the front-gate. I really had no idea. After clarification, I realized that someone had abandoned a newborn baby at the door! Why are the \u201cplots\u201d of the fifties and sixties still happen today? After a while, there was a lady passing by. Her emotion seemed to be out of control. She slammed the gate, shouting that a baby was crying and why was there no one taking care of? Knowing that she is a Christian, I comforted her that as God let her be an angel passing by; I trust the baby would be saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I walked towards the \u201cRecycle Hand Bag Object\u201d, where the crying sound was from, in a trembling mood and discovered there was really a newborn baby, wrapped in a cloth only. She cried out loud, stretched her legs, at around 7 pounds. The lady next to me was not calmed down yet. On one side, I said to her, \u201cYou see, the baby has such a strong vitality! She will definitely grow up healthily.\u201d &nbsp;On the other side, I asked a colleague to take an umbrella to cover the bag to protect the baby from the wind, and took a towel to wrap around the bag. The temperature was only about 13 degrees Celsius. &nbsp;Thereafter, an ambulance arrived and it was finally safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, I was informed that the lady who was suspected of abandoning the baby wandered for a long time along the road at the front gate as early as around 3:30 am, and she finally pressed the door-bell. Not until someone answered the door, she left then. I believed when she brought the baby to Evangel Children\u2019s Home, she trusted that this Home should be a place with love and care. Suddenly, our home was on news that day. I hope God \u2019s name will be exalted. When people have no way out, God will open the door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next day, a colleague told me about what a child living in resident care home, awakened by the slammed gate noise talked about the case. When she knew that someone had abandoned her baby at the front-gate, she said, &#8220;That mother really loves her baby. It is because she knows she cannot take care of her; she chooses the best home for her and that is why the baby was put in front of the Evangel Children\u2019s Home.\u201d However, I feel bad with this sharing, and very true, it is more or less a portrait of the child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Daily Devotion and Bible Verse on That Day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cBut the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.\u201d<\/p><cite>Jeremiah 10:10 (Union Version).<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>What I have also received is that God is graceful and merciful. His grace is sufficient and His mercy endures forever. May the work of our hands be sacrifices to God&#8217;s delight. 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