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Movies, popcorn and Jesus.
What do they have in common?

What do these have in common: Double Cream, Sweet, Salted, Salt and Pepper, Salt and Chilly, Chocolate, Strawberry, Orange, Melon, Salt and Chilly? Well, they are all different Pop Corn flavors, made in China of course!

Every Saturday, a group of up to 15 young neighbours, children of China Little Flower, come to our Oblate apartment from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. From 3:00 to 3:30 p.m., with the help of Scholastica and Luc Young, they read some stories in both English and Chinese from a little Bible Story book.

Luc Young, Scholastica and some of our young neighbors

After reading the stories, questions are asked to see if they have understood the stories. No need to say that question time can be quite a rowdy and noisy time as each one of the young children would like to answer the questions before the others.

From 3:30 to 5:00 p.m., it is party time with lots of popcorn. No matter which flavor is served, our young friends see to it that nothing is left in the serving bowls. There is also lots of fruit juice to go with the popcorn. Popcorn is always associated with movies, so every Saturday we see a movie together with them.

Scholastica and some of our young neighbors

As for the movie, I wish, their taste was as easy as their taste for popcorn. The reason for this is that there is always a little shouting contest among the kids as to which movie to watch. But, as they finally compromise about the choice of the movie, things gets to calm down a little bit, but not quite as very often, the movies get them pretty involved and excited.

My being with them every Saturday gives me a chance to watch movies I have never watched before. Sometimes, I do get to watch again some movies I have watched years ago.

My most memorable experience was watching the movie Narnia with them. Thinking that the movie would have been difficult for them to comprehend, after the movie, I asked them about Haslam the lion, and who does Haslam the lion remind them of. They had no problem to tell me that Haslam reminds them of Jesus, his sacrifice, his death and his resurrection. I was taken aback to say the least.

These youngsters are part of the two dozen children with disabilities who live in foster homes organized by China Little Flower. Two foster parents live with and care for the children providing a homey atmosphere.

Luc Young and some of our young friends

Apart from entertaining them, the Saturday gathering at the Oblate apartment gives them also some kind of spiritual nourishment. It also gives the foster parents a little break from them even if it is only for 3 hours.

Finally, due to a generous benefactor from Hong Kong, popcorn of all flavors and fruit juice never lack for our Saturday little gathering.

Luc Young