Leafleting: 1 can paid off 100 leaflets
Heloowww helowww…..
Sorriii for "abandoning" this blog for a looonngg looonngg time… yesterday i met rusmin and he asked me why i didn’t update my blog again, maybe that’s because i rarely use the internet at home, coz i can’t connect the internet to my laptop, so i must use either my bro’s or my hozmate’s computer to get online. well…maybe because i’m a bit busy and lazy too…. hehehehe ^^;
Eniweeii… there’s a story that i wanna share here… You know that there are lotss of FREEDOM Mission happening in uni, and 1 of the ways to let ppl know abt this mission is by giving them leaflets! So we Pelitans were in charged of leafleting on Monday last week (8/8/05) @ 8am. I actually also volunteered for another leafleting @ 9-10am, so that means 2 hours for standing and smiling and giving the leaflets to anyone you hardly know and preparing to be rejected ^^; This was my first experience of leafleting, so i needed to prepare my mental too ^^;
After a looong decision who’s going to leafleting where, me and Glorya head off to the main gate at around 8.15 or 8.20. Not so many ppl at that time. At 8.40 ppl started to come, and we’re like playing the "cat-and-mouse" coz some ppl had seen us from far away and when they came near they clearly avoided us! Well… I’m a bit discouraged at that time, but i remember someone said to me that they were actually avoiding and rejecting God, not us. And sometimes I’m similar as them, just grabbing any leaflets without really pay attention to that. So i continued the job by saying to myself that this was my responsibility to God by bringing ppl closer to Him, so I shouldn’t grumble.
Later on, some Union ppl started to come and give the Union Week booklets, but they’re standing behind us, coz we got there first ( ha ha!) When none came at the main gate, we chatted a bit with the Union ppl, we gave them the leaflets and in return we received the booklets… it was a bit funny at that time… ^^
Before 9 o’clock me and Glorya had already run out off leaflets, so she went to the Chaiplancy again but there’re no more leaflets, so we’re giving away the FREEDOM business card.
By around 9.15 Victor and Andri came (they’re already finished), and the other CBS guys came and replaced us, so me, Vic, and Andri (who hadn’t anything to do, but yet still lots of new leaflets and business cards in our hands) decided to go to another spots. I was a bit tired at that time, waking up in the morning and standing up and advertising for more than an hour without really knowing whether ppl were taking attention or not, so only Vic who still giving the leaflets to ppl as we walking down the main walk. Again, we met some of the Union ppl near EE, and Andri (with his marketing skill!) said to them that we should’ve slipped the FREEDOM leaflets in the union booklets, and we’ll help them giving away the booklets, so both of us would get mutual benefits! hahahahaha….
Eniweii… we finally came to the benches outside CLB (Commerce Lawn i think), and Vic said we should give the leaflets to those who were sitting at the benches, so in that way they wouldn’t be able to escape from us ^^ hahahaha… I didn’t think that’s a good idea, and while I was still thinking, there’s an oz guy sitting there, looking at us. For a few seconds I was still standing idlely, and that guy’s still looking at us so many times. I didn’t know why, but i started to approach that guy and gave the leaflet to him. He seemed to be interested, and started to ask what’s it’s all about. So i told him abt the event Great Debate, the speakers bla bla bla, and I found out that this guy had been interested with the FREEDOM stuffs without really having anyone to tell him what it’s all about!! So I gave him the business card where he could see all the events happening, and I ended up chatting and asking him his faculty, and said that he can go to CBS and there’re bible studies based on faculties, and he said he’ll consider that and somehow i know that he’s not lying. Too bad that I didn’t ask his name or whether he knows abt Christianity or not, maybe by doing that i might be able to develop the conversation into the gospel, but yeahh… maybe God has another plan for him…. I want to meet him again, asking how’s he going, and seeing whether God is working on him. But i think that’ll be hard, coz now i hardly remember his face ^^;
I was really really really really encouraged at that time, knowing that even there’s only 1 person interested to the mission, that feeling can pay off all the tiredness, all the rejected-feeling of giving hundreds of other leaflets! Now i understand the mission ads that i saw on MYC, that we spent lots lots of money for the thousands of leaflets,posters,business cards,hoodies, and lots of ppl’s efforts, but "bringing 1 person closer to God is priceless".
That Monday, i had classes until 5pm, and somehow i was really really tired, maybe b’coz of helping the missions and having classes non-stop. But my soul is joyful,even until now, if I remember that guy and see that God is working through everything that we’ve done to bring His ppl coming back to Him… I’m thinking, what would happen if I didn’t do the leafleating that day, if I took the other way than the CLB Lawn, if i didn’t see that guy looking at us, if I didn’t make a decision to approach him and give the leaflet…….. Would that guy know abt the mission from someone else?? Would I be encouraged by this?? But I know one thing for sure,and I’m really happy that God involves me in His work!
Cheers! v(^0^)v
