2010年1月04日
校監及校長的來信

"Dear Mr. Siu,

Best wishes to you and all the coworkers of MOY in the New Year! May God remember what you have done in music for the young for the last several decades. Your concern and care for the young are amply demonstrated in your absolutely determined and voluntary service, including seeking donations for us for the musical instruments.

We have read most of the stories of MOY and yourself from your website. As we read them, our hearts were moved with, and touched by, the flow of the stories. We have begun to understand more and more what is all behind you, making you so immersed in music, conducting, training the young as well as the method, discipline and styles you have adopted in the training. Indeed we have seen all of these with our own eyes, which have proved to be very effective over the past several months in our school.

We would like to echo what you wrote about the first public performance of the orchestra of the NLSI Peace Evangelical Secondary School in their 10th Anniversary Thanksgiving Service. Your planning for the orchestra’s part, including the choice of hymns, inviting several talented singers and musicians to participate in the performance, placing the performance at the end of the service and finishing it with the Lord’s blessing, was very well received by all concerned. This did bring the whole audience to the realm of true and natural worship and praise to the Lord. Once again we express our heartfelt thanks to you and your team.

As a reflection upon your article “Hierarchy of Values dated 28/12/09”, we asked ourselves why NLSI Peace Evangelical Secondary School should set up or rather accept your kindly offered instrumental training scheme for our orchestra students. Is it purely to have something to be proud and to boast of? Definitely not. We do not have this luxury, or money, or time or effort. So what is it? The general consensus of our School Management Committee and our teaching staff is that our aim is to give our students a better opportunity to learn musical instruments, to perform, to mold their behavior, attitude and personality through learning and discipline, to build up their desire for, and confidence in, studies and learning and to be able to help others acquire what they have learned from the MOY’s training.

Through our observation during your teaching and rehearsing in our school, we feel that you are like the students’ father. You love them and admonish them and set yourself as their example. You are patient with their laziness, absent-mindedness, lateness, disobedience, hastiness and indifferent and naughty behavior. You train and correct them though sometimes you give them pieces of your mind when they do not behave well. But you give them chance to grow, to correct, to learn, to perform and to improve themselves through the performance in the 10th Anniversary Thanksgiving Service, which is the result of not a ‘miracle’ but rather a severe, persistent, consistent and superb professional training over a period of four months under your direction.

You took our orchestra students, free of all expenses, to Macau and Beijing, deserving or non-deserving. To all the participating students, the Macau trip was their first performance outside Hong Kong in their life. They were excited but were a bit scared. Nevertheless, the trip let them know if they worked hard, they would be given a chance. After the Beijing trip, students shared with their music teacher that they must work hard; otherwise they would certainly be left behind. They did learn a lesson! On the whole, both trips have pepped their confidence, self-esteem and ambition up.

What has made this current success of your and MOY training in our school? We believe that it is your passion for music and your love for the young which light up the students’ hearts. Students have increasing self-esteem, dignity and self-awareness of their inadequacies when they are practicing or performing with students from other schools or amid talented singers and musicians. They know they have to work hard if they want to fly high. We are fully aware that what we have now is no more than a restart, perhaps a good restart. There is a long way for our students to go. But you and your team are imparting a “dream” to them through your examples, a dream not unachievable. We look forward to further success under your direction.
Above all, we cannot forget that you frequently remind us of God’s hand in leading and guiding you in your music services to the young. We do hope and pray that the Lord will continue to lead you and MOY on the days ahead for the sake of the young and His glory.



Yours sincerely,

Leung Yiu-kuen, Principal

Pang Hau-chung, Supervisor
New Life Schools Incorporation Peace Evangelical Secondary School"

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