Carys works with 'Kidz Klub' in New York

March 2005

Carys has flown to New York to work with 'Kidz Klub', an organisation which reaches hundreds of children each week with the gospel message. She will be staying there for four months and will be helping with the children's work and youth clubs and visiting the parents of the children. Carys was very involved in the 'Kidz Klub' which ran in Swansea and has been looking forward to working in New York where it all began.

 

April 2005 - Newsletter from Carys

'I arrived safely! The first week was just hanging around, we didn't do all that much, the influence on the first week was that we would all bond, and that we did, we all get on really well, everyone here is sooo nice, we are like a family, it's great.

Then the second week was hardcore training, and yes... I do mean HARDCORE! We'd wake at 7.30 every morning and not finish until 7, it was crazy!

Then last week was our first week of sidewalk Sunday school, where they take Sunday school every day of the week out to the streets!!

It's amazing! Tuesday to Friday or Saturday for some people, straight when the kids come out of school, the music is blasting and we're shouting on the microphones! It's all crazy!!

We got assigned to our own sites, some are in the Bronx, some are in Harlem, Chinatown or Queens. I am lucky enough to be right next to the beach but it's full of gangster surfers.

The children are really amazing! When we go and visit the kids on a Friday they just hang off you. I was placed in a new site, somewhere sidewalk has never been before so they don't really know us at all but they still invite us into their houses and throw their kids on us!

I'm really enjoying myself and the time is going so quickly, I'm just going to enjoy every minute of it!!'

PRAYER POINTS

  • That I will enjoy every experience that comes my way.
  • That I will be safe in every situation.
  • That God will use me in the way He wants to, and with the people He wants.
  • It will be made clear where He needs me next year.