How am I going to survive Term 2? By the end of Week 1 it already felt like it was Week 4. To make matters worse, a ton of things are bugging me right now. One of those things have to do with the devastation going on in Japan. In school this week, all of our morning assembly devotions were about the tsunami in Japan, and about how people were affected and things like that. Fine, no problems there.
But then came along the announcement about The Methodist Walk, our school's goal to raise a whopping $200 000 to donate to the Methodist ministries (which means a lot of the money will eventually come back to our school) and how the class who raised a certain amount would be rewarded handsomely, and how we should all be super-enthu about this whole thing. Well, there's nothing exactly wrong with that, but somehow I'm bothered by it.
For one, why hasn't a donation drive for Japan been initiated among Methodist schools? Isn't saving lives more of a priority than refurbishing our already well-equipped schools, churches, etc? Imagine what a difference we could make if each Methodist school raised $200 000 for Japan. But instead of doing that, our goal is to raise that amount... for ourselves. It's just not right. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be a donation drive for Methodist ministries; rather our priority at the moment should be raising money for Japan. We can raise money to improve the Methodist ministry in Singapore any time, so can't we just focus on helping a country in need right now?
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