My Two Cents//Meus duos cents:412 Unlimited

There was one BSF class that I went recently that triggered this thought of mine.You see,I'm the early bird of the class and I got a chance to talk to Aunt Josephine(who BTW is very cool!)and we touched the topic of my GBC youthgroup.

She asked what's my opinion of 412,well...after some clear thoughts since I did not quite catch what she meant by that,I could say that 412 has many cliques.

This is true;Spare some time to come to our youth meetings on Sunday 9am and you can get a better picture of what I mean.Aunt Jo also told me that some of the teenage S&D of her friends felt that the youth group were not welcoming enough and they're not really keen to come for our meetings.That may explain the steady decline in attendance in our youth.

From what I could observed there are certain types of cliques mainly the supposed "high-class" girls,boys who thought they were cool,there's even cliques of people who are active in the youth too!!But the most saddest part of me are the "rejects" clique.Not because they are cliquey but because there's no one who talk to them.

Besides them,there are also those stray people that does not have cliques and they soon formed their own gang along with those "strayers",talk about being social animals.There's also this guy by the name of Albert*(not his real name)who unfortunately looks like he is in his own world..true there are times he acts quite weird but what's really sad is people look down on him alot.One of the reasons may be he ask alot of questions(some of them kinda rediculous) but that's the way he is.Right now I'm beginning to see the picture: Don't change someone just so he pleases you,but change your attitude towards him and accept him for who
he really is(In God's image)..I felt alot more better and I can tolerate him more and accept him for who he really is.

Sadly,that isn't what people always think about him..or any of the "rejects".I personally feel that members in 412 should reach out to this people.Not that you must be friends instantly but make them feel welcome.Sure,I may sound like a hypocrite,fine whatever...at least I have the guts to admit that!

Finally,I hope whoever from 412 read this blog,I really hope you all give a nice knock to your head after reading this,cause I decided to be more friendly to new-comers and will try my best to make them feel welcome one way or another.Cause "if no one else will do,wh0 else"?

I hope this is God's will!