Sorry-
Been away from my blog for a while as I got this bug that has been going around and had a couple of weeks holiday too.
Anyway, last Sunday afternoon, we, as Highgate, shared with other Pressie churches in our Hill regional grouping in a servant ministry among the tertiary students at the University here.
It was called the Cookie Run 2005. We had lots of cookies - home-made- we had a system of packers do their stuff brilliantly and we had one of the University Chaplains, some students from the Welfare Office and Student.Soul. These along with 5 churches had some 200-250 packages go out randomly across 'flat land' among the scarfies. It was a smooth op., but the greatest treat was to see the surprise at free homemade cookies being given. I know the chaplain has had some calls of thanks and had a chance to follow a pastoral contact. Our intention was to begin to overcome the 'problem of the students' image tha comes at times. We wanted simply to show grace and allow those ministering on campus to make the relational contacts, as much as us from the wider church here saying we care too.
I loved the sense of edge it has brought to those who participated, especially in the delivery. Maybe we can build on this next time. I hope we can. For me it meant giving people in our congregations a taste of the improvisational dimension needed in and for mission today.
You can also see pictures on http://www.ousa.org.nz of the Welfare guys who helped us and Greg the Chaplain.
