Service Ministry: A Time Well Spent for Humanity

Cris T. Zita, LPT, MAEd

They say that the family is the basic unit of the society, and it is the first school of all children. Let me share to you this simple article about a man who devoted his time in service for humanity. This person grew in a simple family with simple dreams. Most of his elementary days are spent in school and at home — playing, studying, and other stuffs that a young boy does. When he reached high school, he worked part-time to earn a little for him to support his needs until he finished.

To continue his dream of having a College Degree he entered as a Student Assistant in the school where he studied. He needs to be in school at 7 in the morning, and every hour he needs to go up a four-storey building to check if teachers are present in each classroom. After his day routine, he goes to class from 5 o’clock in the afternoon until 8 o’clock in the evening. Aside from his daily routine in his work and studies he got engaged in a youth civic organization until he got into the Youth Ministry.

From this ministry, he found new sets of friends who just like him are happy in serving the youth. They go from one place to another to teach simple bible lessons in relation to daily lives of children and youth and of course they prepare games to make the children enjoy. Likewise, they go uphill to reach out to the Aetas who lived in the mountain and share some time and some goods as a part of their usual activity. It is with this ministry where he got the chance to be one of the millions of participants in 1995 World Youth Day which was held in our country. Everything went well, and he was able to finish and earned his degree in Bachelor of Secondary Education major in English. When he was already working he thought that everything will change, and he will just focused on his work — teaching.

Service and ministry is truly in his heart. He was invited to be a guest in a local youths radio program wherein the content of the discussion are bible contents in relation to the youth, and other values oriented issues. After that guesting, he got interested and became a regular contributor / researcher / broadcaster. Every Sundays he needs to travel for almost two hours to reach the radio station, but it seems like he never gets tired travelling and sharing for experiences and ideas for the youth of his province without being paid and spending for his travelling expenses.

While he was actively part of the YOUTH ON AIR radio program another ministry caught his attention the Basic Ecclesial Community — a bible-based community engagement, discussing the values, lessons from the bible and meaning of life. He became a Youth Formator of the Basic Ecclesial Community again serving youth and leading youth to be good Christians and good citizens. He did the two ministry for youth with joy and happiness and never get tired. In 2005, he got married and became a family man. He moved from Pampanga and settled in Batangas where he and his wife started a family. He thought again that his ministry finally ended because he is new in the place.

God called him again and together with his wife they were ask to join a barangay church support group. Again his belief and his optimism was tested. The group they belong had a project of constructing a new and bigger chapel to accommodate church goers in their community. They started with nothing, with the cooperation and unity of the members and dedication to make their project a reality, they thought of different ways on how to start and make it possible. With God’s guidance they were successful and was able to put up and construct a bigger and much comfortable chapel for their community church goer. Until now, he shares, either small amount of money for students who need financial assistance; part of his time for those who needs to confide with him and asking for his advice; volunteering during the eruption of Taal Vulcano as the Coordinator for the Food Needs of evacuees in their school, etc because he enjoys sharing and caring. Really service and ministry comes together, we don’t need to talk about religion, we need to believe in ourselves that we can make change through our simple acts of kindness. We may not have all the 3 T’s in life — Time, Treasure, Talent — but by just sharing one of these 3 T’s we can make a difference. Hope you were able to appreciate the simple service-ministry of the person in this article and that person is none other than ME.

CRIS T. ZITA, the writer of the article.

Again with GOD nothing is IMPOSSIBLE always think of I aM Possible.