Chan's Personal Blog

My youth pastor had decided to partner with UVIC's University Christian Ministries (UCM) representative to hand out some anti-stress kits at UVIC for tonight. A lot of people from my church had donated food and supplies towards assembling 200 anti-stress kits. The kits were paper bags that had some homemade cookies, a juice box, and some fruit.

So tonight I went up to UVIC with some people from my youth group and some people from the UCM to hand out these bags to weary souls that were madly studying for exams. My group hit the Engineering Lab Wing (ELW), the David Strong Building, Clerihue, and Cornett. I saw Zane in the ELW lobby, and Angus a little later (good luck on your guy's exam too eh). We did room to room searches for study cell groups that were cramming for exams. One of the rooms I breached was a room full of people writing an exam ... that was fun. Oops.

Anyways, for the most part, it was a moral booster to people. An army marches on its stomach after all. Most people were kind of shocked, then dumbfounded when we approached them bearing free food. We ran into a guy that revealed he was from Colwood Pentecostal Church, when he found out who we were.

One guy asked which group did we represent, and we said the UCM and North Douglas Pentecostal Church. He says, "Oh, I know someone that works at North Douglas, do you know (insert name here)? She works in management." My youth pastor, Geoff says no. He asks Geoff, "what position do you work for?" Geoff replies, "I'm the youth pastor." Shortly after he leaves. He must have mistaken North Douglas Pentecostal Church with North Douglas Distributors which is a food distribution company. I guess it makes sense though? Free food == free food from food distributor. He must be wondering why a food distributor would have a youth pastor on its payroll.

There were a few people who didn't want free stuff, because they felt other people would benefit more. There was one girl who said no, and when she discovered which group we represented she goes, "Bah, you Christian types." I'm thinking, fine.... sorry for wasting your time! Sheesh. The only thing we said was, would you like some free Christmas treats. Free food, how can you be offended by that? There was no preaching, no Christian literature, just a random act of kindness.

Anyways, it was pretty fun doing that, we passed out 200 bags. Time well spent.