Students take to the streets in the Philippines
Campus Crusade teamed up with Pavement Project this summer to bring God's Word to street children in the Philippines. Two teams of students from Singapore travelled to the Philippines to learn to use the Picture Me process, and to meet street children. They visited an orphanage, organised a holiday Bible school and a party in the slum district of Payatas, and sent us this report:
 "We were equipped with the Big Green Bag, which combines psychological counselling with the power of the Word of God. God used the Green Bag process to give these severely under-privileged children a renewed sense of self-worth, simply through letting them know that he loves them. In the orphanage, at the four churches we visited, out on the streets at night, and even in the hotel during 'practice' sessions, God never failed to impress on us just how much he loved his children, and how much these poor children needed him."
It wasn't just the children who were changed by the experience. "Some of us went there to teach the children about God's love. Others went to further their relationship with God. But he used us in a far different way than we would have thought possible. Even as we stepped into the 'Papa John' orphanage to teach them about love, the Bible, hope, and prayer, they began showing us how it was done. Right at the heart of poverty in places like Payatas, where it was hard to imagine anybody living, there were churches and men and women who gave their lives to work there. They trusted God in a far more real way than most of us would have thought practical or possible. As we saw how financially impoverished they were, they showed us how spiritually impoverished we were."
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