The English team that are with us are doing the practical phase of their Discipleship Training School, the mandatory YWAM school that has to be done before being able to be a staff member with YWAM. It involves a lecture phase and a practical phase built around knowing God and making him known.
Yesterday, we went out into the community with invitations for a kids event (which is happening as I type this), an afternoon for adults (to happen tomorrow afternoon) and an invitation to collect the forms to fill in so that they can participate in the groups we have here. With these invites was some cake - so we handed out cake, invitations and talked to people in the community. But, what about this constitutes a blog post?
On our walk we encountered some of the local drug gang, selling drugs and what struck me as strange was that we were handing out cake to them in the middle of a few drug deals. It just seemed bizarre. We wanted to give life and freedom while they were dealing out death and destruction (Or certainly encouraging it). It was a good relational exercise with them though and we hope to return to them next week to offer them something a lot more valuable and sustaining than cake.