Immersion
One can’t deny that every time exposures are said to be conducted, different feelings are coming out. Minds are focusing on how the exposure or the immersion will come out as what it is expected. Perhaps this would be the reason why some students in ICTC would claim that immersion is a challenging experience. No doubt, it’s true. The clashing of feelings is undeniable.
I consider my immersion with the community in barangay Saysain in Bagac, Bataan as successful one. Three of my classmates, including myself, went there. I cannot deny the many meetings, tedious schedules, and the squeezing of every idea we shared just to come up with what is best for the people. This however, has proven me how a group can come up with the best decisions that we can work out. We worked as a team and the credit becomes a sweet welcoming of each individual’s personhood. All our efforts as a group have become a living witness of how we consider each person’s capacity and ability to merge as one. The openness had become our doors in accepting each other and eventually radiated it to the people in the community.
The Spirit moves us. We all recognized that if we put all our self into our pastoral trust, everything else will just come naturally. Our pastoral trust, building communities of Christians is never easy, as what people in the time of Paul have experienced. But the spirit of being “a Community” is what makes them grow as a nation. Today, this spirit continues to unite the community of Saysain. The Kingdom of God will be the very goal into which everything else is leading to that road. This community holds the very Jesus whom we see today as the Love, the very foundation in building the modern Christian communities in Bataan – KrisMa, Kristiyanong Magkakapitbahay. It is still a long way to go and we only finished the first half of the required number of days we will spend in the community but the initial result is positive and I for myself, am looking to this.
I can summarize my immersion at Saysain as a joyful one. It is joyful because our team, composed of four individuals, have become one. The beauty of becoming one brought smiles to every decisions we made. Moreover, I’ve seen the responses of the people that are so alluring to my heart. It is true that once you give your heart to the people, they too will show their hearts to you. Sometimes you have to let go of yourself and think only of the people whom you are serving. You don’t have to think or worry things ahead of you. You have to let go of your fears and doubts and anxieties in giving ministry to the people. You don’t have to think all things you want because the people will provide everything because they’ve seen that you’re giving your self to them. They are the one will be looking and attending to your self. The sharing becomes so alive that you go beyond what you expected. The spirit of Jesus is engaging in the very lives of the people and to my self. This is what I hold on to in ministering to the people. This is what I experience with them and I’m happy.
I consider my immersion with the community in barangay Saysain in Bagac, Bataan as successful one. Three of my classmates, including myself, went there. I cannot deny the many meetings, tedious schedules, and the squeezing of every idea we shared just to come up with what is best for the people. This however, has proven me how a group can come up with the best decisions that we can work out. We worked as a team and the credit becomes a sweet welcoming of each individual’s personhood. All our efforts as a group have become a living witness of how we consider each person’s capacity and ability to merge as one. The openness had become our doors in accepting each other and eventually radiated it to the people in the community.
The Spirit moves us. We all recognized that if we put all our self into our pastoral trust, everything else will just come naturally. Our pastoral trust, building communities of Christians is never easy, as what people in the time of Paul have experienced. But the spirit of being “a Community” is what makes them grow as a nation. Today, this spirit continues to unite the community of Saysain. The Kingdom of God will be the very goal into which everything else is leading to that road. This community holds the very Jesus whom we see today as the Love, the very foundation in building the modern Christian communities in Bataan – KrisMa, Kristiyanong Magkakapitbahay. It is still a long way to go and we only finished the first half of the required number of days we will spend in the community but the initial result is positive and I for myself, am looking to this.
I can summarize my immersion at Saysain as a joyful one. It is joyful because our team, composed of four individuals, have become one. The beauty of becoming one brought smiles to every decisions we made. Moreover, I’ve seen the responses of the people that are so alluring to my heart. It is true that once you give your heart to the people, they too will show their hearts to you. Sometimes you have to let go of yourself and think only of the people whom you are serving. You don’t have to think or worry things ahead of you. You have to let go of your fears and doubts and anxieties in giving ministry to the people. You don’t have to think all things you want because the people will provide everything because they’ve seen that you’re giving your self to them. They are the one will be looking and attending to your self. The sharing becomes so alive that you go beyond what you expected. The spirit of Jesus is engaging in the very lives of the people and to my self. This is what I hold on to in ministering to the people. This is what I experience with them and I’m happy.
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