Tuesday Fruit / Wednesday, March 14, 2007
I can’t believe my Sayang Blogged!!! I’m so proud of him!!! I second Steph, and thinks Qynn should blog more!
Let me give you a brief overview of certain things here that happens on Tuesdays.
Senior Student Lounge (SSL) is a lunchtime program that we run for VCE students whom are having their 2 crucial exam year in high school. It’s under the Youth Dimension (YD) banner and our Church FGAM banner. On Tuesday, each week, we provide kids with coffee/ Ice coffee. This gives them an opportunity to use the classroom to study, to chill, and people to talk to. Then, a couple of us from our church and other partnering churches, will provide volunteers whom will help to make coffees, and talk to these kids and play card games with them. The most frequently asked question is “Why do you come every week to give us coffee, and hang with us?” Isn’t that amazing?
Anyway, myself and Quent have done this for last whole year, and we developed a great relationships with a group of non-church kids there. It’s so cool. Couple of them heard that we were getting married, and they quickly came and congratulate us on the 1st day we were back to school. They were much more excited than the bride herself! Bringing me Wedding Magazines etc; and we chatted also about their life, boyfriends, family etc…it’s so cool to know that the kids remember you after the whole long summer holidays. Quent and myself have excuse ourselves from SSL, as we’ve now got more volunteers from our church to help out, which is so cool. They even beat GODZIMMER on his first game of Bluff!
Student Focus (SF) is also a lunchtime program, which runs at the same time as SSL, and it’s also a program of YD. SF focuses on lots of games tailored for hyperactive kids in the first two years of high school, Year 7 & 8. Unlike SSL, we are allowed to share the word of God with the kids after a good 20 – 25 mins of games. The kids goes crazy, and then they hang back to listen to the Word of God, probably the only venue for most of them. Quent and myself are now focussing on this program, as it’s new to us, and for me, I know lots of the kids that are in Year 7, as I taught them Christian Religious Education (CRE) in their primary school, during Grade 6. When I first got there 3 weeks ago, one of my previous student came up to me and said, she misses CRE, and Chris and myself; while some other kids just recognize me as I’m in the school teaching, and attending their events, and it’s always good to spot a familiar face; and I think that’s what makes Tuesday a great and fruitful day for Quent and myself!!
Although, I missed SSL, but I think I’m also enjoying SF, especially when we pray and believe for God to bring more kids to the program. Besides, I can always use SF games for CRE classes and Sunday School!
How have your week been?
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
