AS WE CELEBRATE OUR TENTH YEAR AT OUR NEW COMPLEX, RECONSTRUCTED AFTER THE TSUNAMI DEVASTATION, I TOOK A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE THANKFUL FOR ALL WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE FOR US SINCE THAT UNFORGETTABLE AND EPOCH-MAKING DAY IN OUR LIVES. THESE PICS ARE FROM MY VISIT TO THE WHITE HOUSE AT THE INVITATION OF THE THEN PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH WHO HONOURED ME WITH A MEDAL OF COMMENDATION (FOR SERVICES RENDERED TO THE VICTIMS OF THE TIDAL WAVE) IN THE PRESENCE OF SENATORS, CONGRESSMAN, THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS AND THE PRESIDENT OF INDONESIA. I HAD THE SINGULAR PLEASURE AND PRIVILEDGE OF WITNESSING TO THE AUGUST GATHERING, OF HOW THE LORD’S HAND SHIELDED AND GUIDED US, DURINGÂ OUR MIRACULOUS SURVIVAL, WHEN THE TSUNAMI WAVES OVER-WHELMED OUR COMPLEX. AFTER MY BRIEF SOJOURN IN THE US I RETURNED TO SRI LANKA TO CONTINUE MY SERVICE TO THE POOR AND THE LESS FORTUNATE AND FULFILL OUR LORD’S MANDATE, BY “CHOOSING RATHER TO SUFFER AFFLICTION WITH THE POOR, THAN TO ENJOY THE PLEASURES OF THIS WORLD FOR A SEASON;” “If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings nor loose the common touch,…..You’ll be a man my son!”…(Kipling).
– Pastor Dayalan Sanders.
