Fondacio Asia Conducts Summer Camp in China

Following is the correspondence from Alice, of IFFAsia, who is currently leading a mission team in China.

Fondacio Asia is conducting a Summer Camp in China! The camp is organised by a local diocese for university students and youth in the parishes since some years now.

The theme of this year’s Summer Camp is “Youth, Hope of Families”. Topics include self-discovery, experiencing God, the meaning of love, the importance of family, and bringing hope not only to family but also to society.

The guiding text for this camp is: "You are the salt of the earth and the light of the world".

Schedule for the camp is as follows:
July 20 - 24         Leadership Training Camp (for 80 youth leaders)
July 25 - 31         Summer Camp (for 400 university students)

The team of animators composed mostly of former IFFAsia students from China (Wendy, Becky, and Lina) and from Malaysia (Mag, Nina, and Cecilia), and Alice has been sent on this mission trip to China. It is the first time for most of us to be sent here. The food, water and weather need adapting to. Some of us need to take extra care in terms of what we eat. Thank God, we feel very much being led by the Spirit and our sense of dependency and docility seems heightened.

Now, all of us are so much into speaking Mandarin. I feel that the team is doing well, and each one seems to be improving each day. God is truly with us!

To symbolize our solidarity and communion as one community, we carry the candle from the Fondacio Congress 2008, and will light this during our sessions and prayer time.

We ask you to be with us during this time. Please pray for us. We ask for the grace of docility to the Spirit and communion within our team, with the Church and the community.

In the spirit of mission,
Alice


We encourage each one to pray, most especially during the days of the summer camp, for the success of this mission trip and the well-being of everyone in the team.

Word of the Month (July 2010)

Luke 10: 25-37


Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he said, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?" He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself." And he said to him, "You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live."

But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan while traveling came near him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, having poured oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, 'Take care of him; and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you spend.' Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?" He said, "The one who showed him mercy." Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."