Winter Warmer

121@ VMA, together with the Youth Network, ran Pretoria North's first Winter Warmer. This was a community initiative to collect clothes for those in need over winter. Our intention was to have a far greater reaching impact than we did, especially on the youth. We had imagined this to be a youth initiated event, which would help the youth to see their community responsibility. We had imagined this to include a major evangelical outreach which would really change lives. We had imagined something big, that would leave Pretoria North shaken forever. Instead, Winter Warmer was a small event, with only a little publicity, short reach, and minimal impact on the youth. Again and again, at 121, we are learning that we need to be faithful in the small things. We wanted to transform Pretoria North High, and God gave us the detention class. We wanted to reach hundreds of parents through Konings Kinders, and God gave us a handful. We wanted to work together with all youth organizations in Pretoria North to reach thousands of young people, and God gave us a small network and a small impact in the community. And through all of this He is teaching us and growing us to be more submitted to His will, more alligned with His plans. What a difficult path this can be to walk, and yet we trust that the end results will be so much greater in kingdom terms that anything we could imagine.