Alright, So I am not much of a writer but I recently took a 1 week trip to The Bronx NY that changed my life and I just have so many stories to share and things to say about that trip that a blog seemed like the only reasonable way to get everything I wanted to tell everyone,out. That is without spending the rest of my life talking about it. So here we go!
This will be short because I really need to get some sleep. So this will be just a quick explanation about what I, a 16 year old girl from the Washington D.C. suburbs, was doing in an area like the South Bronx.
My youth group from church took a trip to partner up with Children's Bible Fellowship (CBF) based in Carmel NY, about an hour north of the city, and The Revolution Church located in Hunts Point, South Bronx.
CBF runs two summer camps in Carmel. One, Camp Joy, is a camp for kids from the inner city, most all from families living in poverty, and who otherwise wouldn't get the chance to experience a summer camp.
The Other, Camp Hope, is geared also towards kids from the inner city, however, Camp Hope is for kids who are typically outcast and scorned by society where they are from, it is a camp for the Mentally and Physically handicapped.
All the campers are sent to camp on money donated by the generosity of others, they don't have to pay anything. A large number of kids who come to the camp have never been out of the boroughs of NYC. A few of the campers are from the projects of Jersey also.
The camp is where we stayed for lodging, so for 2 of the days we spent time doing various jobs around the camp. But there will be more about that later on.
The Revolution Church was our other "base" in the city if you will. Revolution Church is also supported in part by CBF.
The Revolution Church is based in Hunts Point South Bronx, It meets currently in a small rented space Located in downtown Hunts Point on Lafayette Ave, and Longfellow. The Revolution Church is an urban church that reaches out to the many hurting people in the Bronx. The need in the Bronx for a saviour is huge! The Church works to reach out and share God's love with the community and has been blessed with some great growth over the past few years. The church is made up of Pastor Jeff and his family, Jon who works for CBF, pastor Bryan and a few others also help out. This is the "staff", most are volunteers. There are also a few members of the church who are very involved who are from Hunts Point.
We did work in the city with pastor Jeff and some of the other members of Revolution church.
Most of what we did in the city was handing out tracts, giving meals to the homeless, doing shows and performing for kids at the park and doing outreach with them, and singing on the subway and Staten Island Ferry.
We also went to the Sunday service at Revolution, and the Wednesday service at Beacon Bible Church in Kingsbridge near Harlem, and the Thursday service at Revolution church.
So basically most of our work on this trip consisted of reaching out and loving those who didn't have a whole lotta love in their lives.
Over the next few post I will share a favorite story or two from each day and a basic outline of what we did each day.
Well that is all for this post.
So Thanks for reading!!!!!
Abby
