I attended the most joyous home-going celebration today. My dear sister and former WCCCC advisor, Susan Leong, went back to the Lord on June 20th, 2007 and today we celebrated her home-going.
I arrived at SFCAC about 5 minutes before the start of the celebration and was told that I had to hurry up coz the celebration was starting. The mood started out pretty somber but soon after, we realized that we weren’t attending a funeral but a celebration of Susan’s life. We sang Susan’s favorite hymn, "Great Is Thy Faithfulness” and we saw a video clip recorded prior to her home-going. In the video clip, Susan shared with us how she came to the Lord and why she loved the Lord. She also invited all the non-Christians there to believe in Christ, Jesus. It was very touching and most inspiring. She has once more inspired me to store up my treasures in Heaven rather than here on earth where things will perish.
After the celebration was over, I turned around and saw some “old” friends like Carl and Christina Wong and Rene Chung from LA and Julia and her family from Orinda. In addition to the real WCCCC old-timers, the not that old-timers like Hans and Winnie, Calvin and his new bride, Sam & Virginia, Lorsen and Jamie, Jusson & Liz, Claura & Winson, Felicia, Johnny, Peter, Eddie, Jim and Christine, Wayne and Kelly, and of course my buddies Johanna, Fiona and Charlotte were also there. It was so good to see friends I haven’t seen for so long. I thank God that He uses this wonderful opportunity, at Susan’s home-going celebration, to bring old “comrades” together to remember how Susan has touched each one of us.
Immediately following to the home-going celebration, all of us were invited to the celebration lunch for some of Susan’s favorite food. There were meat, chicken, seafood, veggies, soup, chow-mein, plus her most favorite carrot cake and Coldstones Ice Cream. At the lunch table, we sat with Susan’s care-giver/former assistant and it was so good to know that she’s now going to church because of Susan’s life testimony. The food was great, deserts were most delicious and the fellowship was most uplifting. We all shared with one another how we met Susan and how she has inspired, charged, challenged and encouraged us.
I will miss her for now but will see her again when I get my chance to join the Lord. Susan planned every little detail of her home-going celebration from what song to song, which scripture is to be read and all the way to what ice cream she wanted her loved ones to have at her home-going celebration lunch. She has set an excellent example to all of us on how we all should celebrate our own home-going. It was indeed a celebration because we celebrated her life and the love she had for us.
What a way to celebrate life! What a way to celebrate a new beginning of forever with the Lord! May God bless Susan's family. Praise the Lord! Praise the Living God!
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