*Sharing form Mejo(Jesus Youth Bangalore on his recent Outreach to Raichur)
Dear Brothers & Sisters,
@Raichur...
Epilogue:
Some reflections:
2. Outreach childsupport is just a tool, but we have to reach out there, and have to share with them the culture of fellowship, prayer and all our moral values we are holding.
Most importantly.
1. We need a big task force to do the jobs related to child support ministry.
Dear Brothers & Sisters,
Just sharing the experience we had while we went for the verification of outreach child support. As you know, it was on short notice , and we started preparation only Saturday evening. I was in the middle of shifting my home to a new one.
We had an initial meeting in the house where Deril, Jaison and Antony is staying and just briefed the project overview and the motive this trip. With a few hours in hand, We(myself and Malcolm) went to buy tickets and got stuck in heavy rain. I felt like, our enemy really got disturbed. The road was just like a river, but we had no time to wait any more, so just proceeded to one internet cafe, to get the printouts of verification forms and address list. We got the printouts and arranged them in correct sets. Finally travel time confirmed in Rajahamsa at 9.30 PM.
We(Deril, Jaison and Antony) started by 8.15 around 1hr late from our planned departure :) Still we reached in time @ majestic,Bangalore to catch Rajahamsa.
@Raichur...
By morning around 7.00 AM we reached @ raichur bus stand, and we started our journey to Jawelgere, that is around 75KM away. We got great support from Bishop Henry(Bellary diocese) and the parish priests(Fr.Morris and Fr.Basil) of Jawelgere. We reached @ jawelgere parish by around 8.30PM and the priests arranged accommodation and food for us. After the holy mass, we started our local travel in 3 bikes to the interiors of the parish. The locations of each house of the students were really far, and Fr.Morris travelled with us all the way.
Finally we completed the verification of 15 students, just half of the planned number. While reaching the end of the day, we got more attached to the local children there and in the evening we had a really nice time with the children there. So many children were there at parish ground, they sang and danced along with the tune of “Yes lord, Yes lord yes yes lord :)”. Finally they gave a warm farewell to us.
Again it’s the time of Lords intervention :)
After all these, actually we were really running out of time. Our return bus was at 9.00 PM. We have to catch this bus from Raichur that is around 75KM away from jawelgere. We got bus to raichur only by 7.15 and logically it was for sure, we will not catch the Rajahamsa to bagalore . I was telling to Jaison that, we did our part to our best, now sit and relax; God will make a way to home. I was sure, that our loving God will make a way. Then on the travel to Raichur Antony met an uncle, who is working with KSRTC and through him, he got the phone number of the conductor of the Rajahamsa we were supposed to travel in. He called the conductor and told him, we are on the way can you wait for some time. Then he said like, they can wait up to 1hr if the passengers co-operate. Finally we reached @ raichur around 15 min late, all of them were waiting for us and as soon as we got in and the bus started.
Epilogue:
I had no option to take a half day leave, or being late in office Monday morning. Because, it was critical for me. Deril already had some attendance issues in his college. We were expecting deril will lose one more attendance, and I was thinking of how to tackle my absence in the morning session in office, but HIS grace again helped us in reaching far earlier than we expected and got plenty of time to go to office, class and to our own things....
Some reflections:
1. These are the places, where we have to reach out.
2. Outreach childsupport is just a tool, but we have to reach out there, and have to share with them the culture of fellowship, prayer and all our moral values we are holding.
3. In the name of this project, we are getting an entry into interiors of Karnataka. I welcome every ministry to reach out.
4. It’s the high time to break our comfort zone being in our own JY circles.
Most importantly.
1. We need a big task force to do the jobs related to child support ministry.
2. We need to bring up some JY groups there, because, we need somebody to coordinate things there, other than somebody travelling from Bangalore for 10hrs.
Thy will be done,
Mejo (Outreach Child Support Team)
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