Asia Pacific Jamboree Experience

I was privileged to be part of the recent Asia- Pacific Jamboree in Mt. Makiling.  It was well attended by 21 countries.  I was invited to join the International Service Team (IST) Staff.  After the Christmas Camp I conducted with Manila Council 2008.  During this camp, many were blessed especially the area on spirituality where we inserted to be part of the program.

So, I was asked to lead a section of the Prayer Hill on Protestant religion.  The Prayer Hill is a spare-time activity of the Jamboree, where all religions gather together to showcase their respective beliefs to the participants.  Scouting gives emphasis on spirituality.  The first duty of every Scout is Duty to God.

In this Jamboree, I was quite hesitant to ask for financial assistance from church leaders but God was very faithful.  I was able to get 2,000 pcs of gospel foldable cards.  I thought this was enough.  And comes December 23, when a received a phone call from Joshua Young who would also be an IST staff for the Jamboree Balita.  He informed me that he is sending 10,000 pcs of armlets with the five colors of the gospel on it.  I felt so blessed and know that God wanted this evangelism activity to push through, and use us to bless and harvest souls for Him.

Supposedly, I have a team of 5 but two later was not able to make it.  The four of us and another Scouter for a Methodist church in Cavite worked together in sharing our faith, assuring the Scouts of the gift of eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ.

Praise God a total of around 6,000 accepted Jesus to be their personal Savior.  Out of 13,000 participants, 6,000 is not bad I believe.  I praise God for such an opportunity.  We were sharing the gospel by batch every 5 to 7 minutes.  It was my first to do such evangelism work.  And I am very blessed.

Years ago, my personal objective why I continue to stay in the Scouting Movement was to be able to lead more people to Christ through Scouting.  And for the past years, I came to realized that God has been answering my prayer.

God is indeed in control of all things.  Everything is fulfilled according to His set time.  Praise the Lord!