Outreach Week 5
highlight this week was the Christmas event in Aranui, the poorer part of town. It was not as bad as we feared, were probably the really bad guys' still in bed only just crawling out of their caves at night and make the area unsafe.
There was a band, a bouncy castle, a clown, face-painting and a Hangi, a traditional Maori dinner (of which I was able to push me but when I handed out food). The children made their moves to the two rehearsed songs: "I want to thank you" - a modern song of thanks to God and "Theres somebody out there" - a kind of short dramas that people on the margins of our (?) society is and that there is hope in Jesus for them;
Claudia from the team still had a hip-hop dance with a couple of adolescents from the Baptist church and with our kids studied, the course was particularly well received.
The children had their joy at the bouncy castle and were really not so undisciplined, maybe I'm also a bit too dangerous dreing'schaut ;-)
On Wednesday were a few men of us still at the youth night, which takes place is actually very unconventional: At 18:30 we set off the room. It consists of a bed-sitting room, table football, snooker tables and a Playstation with a large TV. The walls are painted with pretty good and creative images. Most Maori are skilled artists and also very musical. So sang equally well with a few, when one of the leaders grabbed a guitar and we sang a few praise songs. There
program is none, it will just play and you have community. The only highlight is a witness, or a short contemplative theme, but does not take more than 10 minutes. Longer is not enough attention phase. This time I had the honor - I summarized briefly. At 20:30 was the fifth one.
The special that night is simply that we have community and talk to team members with the people and form relationships, so no instant solution, but genuine and sincere devotion. The only way you can reach the people who really clear when you're not real.
Speaking of real: a real old town has not even Christ Church, as you see in the pictures. This is only really old here the Cathedral (built 1864), but sprout around the skyscrapers, at least in the center. The city has a diameter of about 20 km and consists of single-family homes and about 20 hautpsächlich quite separate districts. The Scottish Influence can be seen the same, here the kilt is still (or again) fashion, but only for women. Frightening is that a resident said: Rather, she does in the Middle East in the night on the road than in Christchurch. The crime here has increased dramatically.
The door knocking was more comfortable than last time, this time Sabine and I went together. Most were not interested, but friendly. But a woman asked us into her house and told us their suffering. People are sometimes very lonely, surprisingly, almost no one knows its neighbors. And I always thought that the Kiwis are such an open-minded and sociable. It's not too often that people disappointed by the church, even hurt, and want nothing to do with it any more. It is so not the island of the blessed - who believes dreams.
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