Reach Out!!
What can I say, Reach Out has been a complete life changing experience for me and has brought me closer to Jesus than I could ever have imagined!
For those who don't know what 'Reach out' is, it was a week for children from 1st year to upper 6th to reach out into their local community and touch the lives of others. We done litter picking, carwash, made hampers and delivered to the elderly and people who we feel needed them, made bracelets for children in Africa and put alot of smiles on childrens faces. In between of all the community work we worked on the children with their relationship with God. We had dramas, powerpoints, bible readings and heart touching talks, but the main way we got through to the children was with 'Small groups'. Each leader took a group of about 4 or 5 kids and worked on a one to one level and got to know where each child was with God (mainly my group prefered talking about other unnecessary stuff and in the end I had to bribe them with fruit pastilles to keep them quiet).
So much effort, enthuasium and love went in to making this incredible week, all my thanks and gratitude goes out to all the leaders, each and every one of them has touched me it is so clear to see God working through their lives. Also a major thanks to all those people that donated money, food and items for the hampers (especially Nessey, that Jam looked B_E_A_utiful) and all the poeple who worked behind the scenes to make the week complete.
Just a personal thank you to Alex Evans, it was from her head where all this came from and she has been a great role-model for young christians.
My faith has been renewed in the mighty saviour and i thank the Lord for blessing me with Reach out.
For those who don't know what 'Reach out' is, it was a week for children from 1st year to upper 6th to reach out into their local community and touch the lives of others. We done litter picking, carwash, made hampers and delivered to the elderly and people who we feel needed them, made bracelets for children in Africa and put alot of smiles on childrens faces. In between of all the community work we worked on the children with their relationship with God. We had dramas, powerpoints, bible readings and heart touching talks, but the main way we got through to the children was with 'Small groups'. Each leader took a group of about 4 or 5 kids and worked on a one to one level and got to know where each child was with God (mainly my group prefered talking about other unnecessary stuff and in the end I had to bribe them with fruit pastilles to keep them quiet).
So much effort, enthuasium and love went in to making this incredible week, all my thanks and gratitude goes out to all the leaders, each and every one of them has touched me it is so clear to see God working through their lives. Also a major thanks to all those people that donated money, food and items for the hampers (especially Nessey, that Jam looked B_E_A_utiful) and all the poeple who worked behind the scenes to make the week complete.
Just a personal thank you to Alex Evans, it was from her head where all this came from and she has been a great role-model for young christians.
My faith has been renewed in the mighty saviour and i thank the Lord for blessing me with Reach out.
posted by Justy at
8:41 AM
2 Comments:
Heya!! Well this is a pretty cool idea! Plus love the fact that we can few this while sitting in sunny spain! lol!
Well justy i´d just like to say that u have been a real inspiration to me (esp during reach out!) I love the fact that you are sooo open to letting God impact your life and you trust in Him 100% to guide you through your life! your passion and enthusisasm for the young people was amazing to watch! your a great guy who i pray for that God will continue to truly bless you in your walk with him! its a pleasure to have you as a great friend!!
Love ya, Alex xox
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Anonymous, at 4:35 PM
Was great to see God working in and through you. Always amazes me when you serve God on a week like reach-out, hoping to share your faith with kids, God uses that experience to deepen and grow your own personal faith. It was awesome as a team to witness that in eachothers lives as well as that of the young people who came along.
Anyway Justy, great to see you've got the blog up and running, Gods hand is evident in your life, your an awesomeambassador for Christ. Keep the faith man, God bless
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Colin Foreman, at 2:42 PM
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