Impact Vancouver Day

Rylie, Brent, Sean, Caroline, and Kelsey

Today we had a project called impact Vancouver day, which made it sound really intimidating. As a group we were pretty much told that today we were to be creative and do something to impact Vancouver… now that seemed kind of scary and pretty intense and as a group we were left thinking how can we do something to actually impact Vancouver.

We sat in a coffee shop pondering ideas and we came up with a few good ones we could run with but we decided on one, which we did and it turned out so well. What we did was take papers, fold them up like little letters and we wrote on the front of them and we wrote on the front of them “show love” then inside was an encouraging quote, or a saying, or a joke, or the idea of people opening it and treating themselves and someone else to coffee. We wrote on the back of them “you are loved”, and then we stuck them all into little envelopes and on the front of the envelopes wrote, “this is for you”. Once we finished creating our plan we put it into action, and it was so exciting!

We had decided earlier that we wanted to do something on the trains and so once we were all ready we each grabbed a pile of envelopes, which we made a hundred of! Then we headed to the train station bought a two-hour ticket and we hopped on the trains. It was so exciting it felt like secret mission because we were being so sneaky. What we would do was sit down and while we were sitting there put an envelope on the seat, then when the train stopped we would get off and move to another train kart. When we were getting off we would sometimes hand someone an envelope. It was really cool. Some people were confused, some people rejected us, and others were so willing to accept. It was neat to see the people picking up the envelopes that we had secretly lest on the seat. One guy looked at it so long while we were riding on the train, then as he left he discretely picked it up. Which was rather exciting.

Our day was really neat because we just wanted it to be all in Gods hands. We knew in one day we really wouldn’t be able to change Vancouver, but with the help of God we could make someone else’s day or maybe challenge them to think. We like to think that God had a huge hand in giving the envelopes away to the right people. We didn’t know what the envelopes said specifically in each one, so we never knew who was getting what, which we thought was pretty sweet since it was all up to God. And that’s how we decided to impact Vancouver.