It’s summer time in the state of New York and young people and missionaries are rallying up their army to evangelise and reach out. There are no walls, there is no denomination, there is only hearts of willingness of reach out and touch the community in the name of Jesus.

This article published in the New York Times feature the many lives of young people from different churches and backgrounds reaching out to the community of New York. Youths from the New York School of Urban Ministry, Guts Church, New York Urban Impact and from other states in the U.S have gathered to be sent as missionaries in their own land.

Urban Impact, a Christian ministry run by the Rev. Larry Holcomb, which has its headquarters on West 44th Street focuses on working with Muslim immigrants. “My personal mission on this trip is basically to bring back credibility to Christianity,” Mr. Beggs, a volunteer from Urban Impact said, “so that we’re not so much seen as, you know, goofy churchgoers from the South that can’t relate to the city, because how I read Jesus in the Bible is someone who is very much involved with the working class and the city and who is all about justice.”

And that’s exactly what all of these churches are doing. And doing it well. Urban Impact conducting English classes for West African immigrants in Bedford-Stuyvesant, some have chosen to serve the homeless by giving them a clean place to stay and food to eat, while some held excursions which are a powerful part of the draw of missionary work in the city. One team from Kalamazoo, Mich., planned to take in a Yankees game and the “Graffiti” exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. Some have also focused on a certain spot where homeless people are more likely to gather and do something about it. There was team from Kalamazoo distributing steaming bowls of stew and clothing from the side of a van from the Queens-based Street Life Ministries, while another, from a tiny town in Pennsylvania, passed out cards bearing directions to CityLight Church, on East Seventh Street.

Christians from all over the States is seeing a need in the heart of New York and various cities in their nation and doing something about it. The hungry is fed, the homeless is given a place they can sleep and the widows and orphans are starting to believe that someone loves them.

Click here to read the whole article and I pray that by doing so, God can put a burden or a word of what you can do for this nation of Malaysia. Jesus came, and He had compassion for the people. Also do visit some of these sites and see what some of these churches and ministries are organizing and planning to do in their city.

New York School of Urban Ministry
Guts Church
Urban Impact New York