SOUTH ISLAND

OUTREACH 2012
ICPE MISSION - NEW ZEALAND

JUNE 2012

We departed on Friday, 8th June 2012 for Christchurch in high spirits! After 4 months of intensive preparation, we were finally embarking on the outreach which we had all been waiting for! We left the monastery with expectant faith knowing that God would use us powerfully to bring His love to all that we would meet.

Go and preach the good news to everyone in the world. Mark 16 : 15

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On our way to Picton, we had a divine appointment with a family onboard the ferry. It all began with a casual request for one of them to take a photo of us. In no time, we were n do for the family sign language dance, What faith ca dancing the g start to our outreach! praying for them. What an encouragin and

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Door Knocking & Park outreach

On Saturday, 9th June 2012, we began our very first outreach with door knocking. We assisted the St Vincent de Paul Society to distribute bags of snacks to residents of a housing estate. We also took this opportunity to invite the residents to a nearby park where we held a mini outreach concert. We had an extremely encouraging turnout and it was a spirit filled time of Praise & Worship, testimony, sign language and flag dances and fellowship.

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Youth & 1st Holy Communion Outreach

On Saturday, 9th June 2012, we had the privilege to teach the youth and 1st Holy Communion children of St Bernadettes parish about U-Turning back to God and Gods love for them respectively. The youth and children were really attentive and receptive to our teachings and we had a great time sharing our faith with them! Many of us were really touched by how God worked so amazingly during the sessions.

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 The JOY of the LORD is your strength.

Nehemiah 8 : 10

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Outreach to St Bernadettes school

On Monday, 11th June 2012 we had an outreach to the students of St Bernadettes school. We took the opportunity to share with the children about the Joy of the Lord. We taught them that this joy of the Lord is bigger and last longer than happiness! The children were indeed a joy to teach as they were so eager to learn about joy! We had lots of fun acting out skits, dancing and singing as we taught the children about joy!

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 Let the little children come to me

Luke 18 : 14
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0800-Hungry (Food Bank)

We were very privileged on Monday, 11th June 2012 as we had the chance to help a non-denominational Christian non-profit organisation to pack food parcels for the homeless. We helped them with the sorting of their newly arrived stock of food too!

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Food Bank

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St Bedes College
On Friday, 15th June 2012, we had an outreach at Our Lady of Victories and St Bedes college. It was an awesome experience for all of us as all the children and youth were really energetic and full of life! We taught the students at St Bedes about Gods love and we made use of the sign language dance Testify to Love to help get the message across. As for Our Lady of Victories, we taught them about the Joy of the Lord and made use of 2 childrens skits to get the message of joy across to the respective age groups.

Our Lady of Victories

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St Bedes college Our Lady of Victories

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Red Cross
Thursday, 14th June 2012 was a day of helping out at the Red Cross in Christchurch. We were divided into smaller groups to help the Red Cross in various ways. Some helped by doing data entry work, others packed emergency torch radios while others delivered emergency preparedness kits to families who had requested for it.
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