Reflections on My Time at the Crisis Control Ministry
Yesterday myself and nine other people visited the Crisis Control Ministry. I was left with some mixed emotions after my three-hour visit. I learned what the aims of the minsitry were and also how they go about meeting these aims. The Crisis Control Ministry helps those people who have hit a bump in the road, they get them to the other side with food, medicine, and consultation. Our time at the ministry was spent with a brief introduction and Q&A section that gave us a great overview of the work they do. I would have liked to have had personal interaction with people who have either used and benefited from the work of the ministry or currently using the ministry. This would have allowed us to make a personal connection with the charity. We would have become attached to the charity by our heartstrings. We would feel in our souls a heavy weight that could only be lifted by our service. I did not feel this. What I felt was dissapointment. I truly did and do believe the work the charity does is important, but I didn’t feel the hurt and the desperation they were telling us about, because there wasn’t anyone there to tell us how it felt and what the impact was on their lives that the charity had. What we did was sort cans. These can sortings are not how I would like to help the community. I understand the importance of sorting cans, I was happy to do that, but I would have liked to have done more.
