CYA Action Update 1998 (April)

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~FOUNDATION By: MON SAMSON Peso devaluation ... Increase in Market Prices... No Water ...

If we are to believe doomsayers, there's no other way for our country to go but down. Add to this bleak scenario the fact that our own efforts in CYA encountered numerous challenges this past school year: Difficulty in Evangelization. Decrease in CLS turnout. No Response.

Not to be disheartened, we in CYA continued to push on. It has always been the case that amidst challenges, our merry band of followers aren't ones for backing down. Staffers spent more time on campus, Big names like Jake Yap, Raoul Roncal and (ehem) Mon Samson handled the CLSes in the different units. Not only did we conduct more classroom presentations, men's camps ana Crossroads retreats, but we also came up with' innovations of the things we were already doing. Our men's events included traversing, rappelling, snorkeling and even paras ailing. And who can forget the partycum-talent's night that took the place of the traditional barndance? Along with all these were the things that we tried out for the first time like the Leader's Forum, the Committed Members Retreat, Men's Exposure Week to the brothers' life in the Servants of the Word and so much more. Whew! Looking back, I could say that we did a lot in the past year and yet, the results were not as much(at least based on what we can 'see'). Mulling over this reality, it was during Advent of 1997 that I fmally understood what God had been wanting to say to us as CYA. Even as we try to do new things, our goal is simply to widen our reach, to increase our opportunity for initial contact with people. Everything else remains the same. Back to the basics. Person to person Evangelization (PPE), radical living, relationship with God - our essence in CYA, the foundation for who we are. Continued on page 2

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