What did we do there? The youths part 2
Of course, not everything is always cheery and dandy. Real life has its bumps and humps. (okay..i don't know what's with the rhyming craze..)
There was a minor disagreement on the youth camp, 1 night before the camp was about to start. I shall not mention names, but to share what happen...not because it's a nice thing to write about but only to show how different the problems of ministry in Cambodia is compared to home.
The disagreement was about the number of youths that would be allowed to join the camp.
You'd be probably going.."huh?" cuz...
Why would there be a disagreement on the number of youths joining a camp rite?
The more the better? Don't we struggle to even reach our targetted number of participants every camp?
Yea, that was what I thought.
You see, resources are scare in Cambodia, so much so that each pastor can only invite a fixed number of participants for the camp. There is a lack of housing for the camp to accomodate 180 youths. Some of the youths slept in the church, in the mission house, in the missionary's house AND....in church members' houses.
I am just so amazed that the people there would open their houses for 10 (yea, 10 teenage strangers for each house!!!) to let the youths stay and sleep! Even more amazing when you take into consideration that Cambodian houses HAVE NO ROOMS! Cambodian houses ain't very big either!
Sleeping in your own home with 10 youths whom you never met before? Sleeping in 1 room with 10 youths you don't know? I would hesitate to even have 3 friends over in my room... what more 3 strangers to share a house with me? Or 10 strangers to share a room?....
Really generous of the people there...my heart just melted when I heard about this...
Anyway, the disagreement came about because a youth leader told the pastors that it's okay to fit in a few more participants for the camp. But because there was just no place to house the participants, our missionary had to say no. It was hard to say no, but the missionary had no choice. The youth leader was disappointed because he wanted to give more people a chance to join the camp.
Can you imagine if there same thing was to happen in Malaysia? Turning people away because we have no room? Going overquota?
Youths who desperately want to come so much but just can't?
In the end, there was no choice but to stick to the quota.
But thankfully the disagreement was settled.
You know, in some sense I wish that such "disagreements" would happen in Malaysia; CF or church...of course not because I love to argue...but rather, it would mean there's too little room for too many people. Where we won't even need to ask people to come, but people would be so eager, lining up, anxiously waiting to come to church, cf, conferences, camps etc.
There was a minor disagreement on the youth camp, 1 night before the camp was about to start. I shall not mention names, but to share what happen...not because it's a nice thing to write about but only to show how different the problems of ministry in Cambodia is compared to home.
The disagreement was about the number of youths that would be allowed to join the camp.
You'd be probably going.."huh?" cuz...
Why would there be a disagreement on the number of youths joining a camp rite?
The more the better? Don't we struggle to even reach our targetted number of participants every camp?
Yea, that was what I thought.
You see, resources are scare in Cambodia, so much so that each pastor can only invite a fixed number of participants for the camp. There is a lack of housing for the camp to accomodate 180 youths. Some of the youths slept in the church, in the mission house, in the missionary's house AND....in church members' houses.
I am just so amazed that the people there would open their houses for 10 (yea, 10 teenage strangers for each house!!!) to let the youths stay and sleep! Even more amazing when you take into consideration that Cambodian houses HAVE NO ROOMS! Cambodian houses ain't very big either!
Sleeping in your own home with 10 youths whom you never met before? Sleeping in 1 room with 10 youths you don't know? I would hesitate to even have 3 friends over in my room... what more 3 strangers to share a house with me? Or 10 strangers to share a room?....
Really generous of the people there...my heart just melted when I heard about this...
Anyway, the disagreement came about because a youth leader told the pastors that it's okay to fit in a few more participants for the camp. But because there was just no place to house the participants, our missionary had to say no. It was hard to say no, but the missionary had no choice. The youth leader was disappointed because he wanted to give more people a chance to join the camp.
Can you imagine if there same thing was to happen in Malaysia? Turning people away because we have no room? Going overquota?
Youths who desperately want to come so much but just can't?
In the end, there was no choice but to stick to the quota.
But thankfully the disagreement was settled.
You know, in some sense I wish that such "disagreements" would happen in Malaysia; CF or church...of course not because I love to argue...but rather, it would mean there's too little room for too many people. Where we won't even need to ask people to come, but people would be so eager, lining up, anxiously waiting to come to church, cf, conferences, camps etc.
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