A venture into the Heartlands

Hi campers!

If you didn't already know, as part of our outreach program we distributed FACT Camp flyers to the blocks surrounding our church. For those who were not there, let me give you a brief summary.

On sunday afternoon and the following saturday night, a group of us (campers like you and me) made our way around the neighbourhood distributing flyers to the doorstep of eacdh household.

It was an experience that would have been reminiscent of our Love AMK projects many years ago. Back then we did surveys and gave out love gifts of daily necessities to the households. This time round our purpose was a little more concentrated and our goal was to reach out and invite the youths to come for FACT Camp, so they can make friends and hopefully encounter God in the process.

It was scary. Not particularly the giving out of flyers but at the moments when the doors were open and you had faces staring back at you. Sometimes you wonder if you'll encounter those one in a million case where people get violent or start shouting. There were a few instances I felt like it would be okay to just skip a house. But I realised, I did not have the right to decide who will have access to the gospel or not. And also if they reject me, it is Christ they reject, not something personal.

Overall, it was a great experience that was over all too quickly. It was great partly because we were doing God's work. The other part was that we did it together. Regardless of gender, age or cell group. Its unexplainable when we do God's work together. There is a unity that you can't build up through more mundane events.

With that, I end this report. Hopefully some of you out there will agree with some of the things I have said. Take care people! And remember to keep preparing for camp!

-Alphonsus-