Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Hi
guys poey here. I'm a bit confused about the new Blogger layout!
I
haven't been around quite a lot, so this is kinda an update/sharing of whats
happening with me at the mo. I haven't been around alot the past few Sundays
because of my overseas CSP project that i'm organizing for fides for the end of
the year, and its something i haven't really told you guys about! sadly, i
won't be around next sunday as well because of more fundraising, hope you guys
understand :/
anyway,
i wanna tell you more because its smth i haven't really done so (i realise i'm
rather terrible at communication). The project's called Project iLove3,
organised for Catholics in SMU and the non-catholic affiliates: their other
halves. HAHA. We're going to a small village called Gia Bac in Vietnam, 7 hours
north of Ho Chi Minh city. We're working with the local NGO to build and stock
a library with English books as well as build external kitchens. cos now they
cook over open fires in their rattan houses. dangerouss. So mainly what takes up
my time is fundraising, we're aiming to raise 9.5k!
So
our fundraising efforts have been to go down to the individual churches (SFX
reject D:<) to sell some postcards/stickers we designed as well as ask for
love offerings. We've been to SPP, QOP, STC and SMOTA and next weekend we're
going to St. Annes, Nativity and Risen Christ. We went for Humanitarian Forum
and Fair too. So i've kinda been a church nomad in the past month, hopping here
and there. It's been a tiring but rewarding experience, and I recall how we got
donations for our own mission trip. God really provides. 9.5k is quite
substantial amount and before this weekend, we had raised about 5k. But over
two days at SMOTA we raised 2.5k (1.1k from evening mass on saturday alone!)
which is DAMN AWESOME. Praise God for all the generous parishoners who
supported us :)
Something
i want to share with you guys is this incident at QOP which is quite a
laidback, old church. Fundraising wasn't going particularly well that evening
and I was pretty sians :x plus the fact that I'm actually a rather
passive person who is pretty scared of approaching people. So after mass the
crowd was dwindling pretty fast and there was this aunty walking by herself out
of church quite far away from our booth. Somehow I was prompted to run after
her and ask her to buy stuff. And then she took out $50 and donated it as a
love offering!
What
got me going was that if I had never run after her to approach her, she would
have never donated us the $50. And what a big difference a seemingly small
action made, and especially for an
action that wasnt my usual behaviour. God can call us to die to ourselves in
very small ways that have big outcomes. And these are small things we wouldn't
think twice of! I was reminded of this situation again a few weeks later at
Fides when this new girl (yay new people!) said she wouldnt have come if not
for her friend who asked her, although she had been meaning to go for very very
long. Another small action with big outcomes.
All
this reminded me of the bible passage "if you have faith the size of a
mustard seed, tell the mountain to move aside and it will listen to you". Only just a little bit extra faith is required for us to go that extra length. Just suck it up, declare "GOD PROVIDES" and go for it :D From
this Sunday’s gospel, discerning the small things that God asks us to do is
just as important as the “big decisions”, not for us but more for others.
So
yes that’s been my life for the past few weeks. This weekend I’ll be at St.
Annes but I’ll try my best to come for Friday sharing J Talk to me! I feel the Log
<3 when u guys do :D