Okay, this was what happened yesterday as promised:
The caregroup was going to meet at commonwealth MRT so that we can Evax the students at Queenstown Sec. I was walking away from my house to Harbourfront MRT station (Even waxed my hair until it seemed to look alot better than previous times) when it suddenly rained a huge downpour. (Which totally ruined my wax of all things) There wasn’t a warning. It started as a small drizzle suddenly and it got bigger and bigger over the next 5 seconds until it seemed like there was a torrential dispute between the gray clouds and the sky. I had to rush back home to get an umbrella which made myself later than I had already been. When I left my house for the second time.. it seemed that there was no rain anymore. The rain abruptly stopped just when I had my umbrella. I laughed.
After half an hour, I finally reached Commonwealth MRT. I expected to see alot of people but only Aaron and Chris were there. They were calling everyone who wasn’t at the station to come quickly, but it seemed that most of them either were busy, turned off their phone, or were sleeping. So we decided to amke our way to the school first.
We found Jon Liu at a bus stop further down the school and we decided to split ways. Me, Chris and someone whom I forgot his name (woops, haha) were camping at the entrance of the school, trying to Evax students who walked out. If you don’t know, Evax = Reaching out to the people to let them know about God. In this case we were trying to get people to come to the service we had tomorrow(which is today.) using cards that the church had given us. In the cards were details of the time and venues of the places we had to go for the event. We didn’t get much luck though.. but me and Desmond evaxed 2 groups of people together so I hope it wasn’t very wasted. I dunno about the rest though. We then went back to Jon Liu’s house to have our CG meeting.
CG meeting was okay. Desmond was explaining to us about a purpose in a life to worship God and we we can do to worship him. And how our sins have died along with Jesus who was cruxified. Jon Liu was going around being disgusting in the room lol. I can’t say if not you’ll be scarred for life. Haha.
After CG ended, everyone had christmas cards to write. Some of them even wrote 50+ cards, which shocked me. They said they wrote throughout the night until the early morning. I took some cards from Desmond so that I could evax at Habourfront/Vivo since I didn’t have any cards to write. I took a bus to the MRT station back with Clement. He borrowed my PSP while on the bus ride and he was playing it very “vigorously”. lol. We split at the MRT station though.
When I was at Vivo, I made a deal with myself that I would try to evax people before the sun went down. The sun was already a little dark, but I made the deal nevertheless. I decided to roam around the area to look for a good spot where it wasn’t too noisy and there were teens walking by. I decided to camp at the chairs outside the movie theatre cos the other places seemed to be too noisy. It was hard approachin strangers. I think I feel for what those people who are on the streets asking you to do a survey or something.
The first people I approached waved me away and started walking off as fast as they could before I could say much. I decided to make thing quicker for them by saying that I only needed a minute of their time. I then approached this orange shirted guy..
“Hey, can I have a minute of your time?”
“WHAT YOU WANT.”
Wow. That totally intimidated me. I forked out a question from my mouth, in which he just replied “No” And walked away.
Asshole.
That made me a little demoralised, but I didn’t want to quit. I started looking for easier people, people who seemed friendlier. I then spotted a duo of girls buyign something at the vendors right next to me. I approached them and did the similar routine. Though they declined, it seemed that as if they were more willing to stop by and listen to what I have to say. And the reason, as I have put together, was that they couldn’t go. They had to collect the item that they bought before they could. Which meant I could approach them without them walking away. I decided to use this to my advantage. Smart, smart me. (Not really. lol.)
The next person I approached was a guy. He looked pretty dishevelled and pathetic(in the sense of his clothing and facial features). He decided to listen to what I had to say, and I did what I could to tell him about it. even though I think I might’ve failed, I sensed a little sadness in his eyes. I found out that he was a school dropout after asking him a few questions. I had this sudden desire afterwards to tell him that Jesus loved him. That there is a God that cared for him. Maybe that could give him some light in his life. Hpwever, before I could go back, he seemed to have dissapeared. Damn.
With these experiences in mind, I decided to reformat my speech. I decided to tell them that Jesus loved them and hoped for them to come to the event. I had this huge desire to make their lives better, and to change their lives and help them in whatever way I could.
by the time I gave away all the cards, It was blue in the sky. Not very dark, so I guess I completed my deal. There were some people whom have been pretty memoriable both good and bad:
This group of guys who were obviously lying to me in almost everything. Their leader kept talking screwing with me and being sarcastic and stuff. I took it in my stride though. I gave them a card, but I think it was pretty wasted.
The last card, which I gave to another duo of girls who were from NUS. They weren’t christians yet, and it seemed as if they wanted to go. I hope they did.
After evaxing, for some reason, I called Sean. I asked him to pass the phone to desmond after telling him about the evax and I also told Desmond about it. Then he said “Thank God for you, Zach”. Which pretty much made my day. I don’t really get thanked for much things, so that was a really big thing for me. I guess I didn’t mind evaxing again if I could get that kind of appreciation. :)
And that’s about it. If you actually bothered reading. I can’t seem to keep things short so you’ll have to deal with it for a loooong time. haha.
