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O-Week Cold Turkey at Uni

So yesterday afternoon I tweeted:

Did a day of ‘cold turkey’ on the main walkway of UNSW. Really exhausted now but had some good conversations.

Got a reply from Big Al a few minutes later:

@scottyang cold turkey.. ?

So… What exactly does cold turkey mean, especially in my context?

I cannot remember where the term “cold turkey” was from, but I guess it would be familiar with the gangs at Unichurch or Campus Bible Study at UNSW — especially if you have done some SOCM courses (oops, way too many jargons already). It basically means doing street evangelism with complete strangers — and in my context, on the main university walkway during O-week. Another phrase for it — “library lawning” although as an engineering student back in my days, library has never been my territory :)

O-week 2009 for UNSW kicked start yesterday so I took a day off from work to get on campus to do pamphleting and chatting with whoever is interested to come to Christian church on campus. I had a few good conversations and I think one guy from China where I talked to near CLB might actually understand the gospel for the 1st time!

Another thing I have realised — I am probably getting too old to do this. Body is still aching…

Category: Christianity | Tue, 24 February 2009 5:30 pm
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Posted by Leo on Tue, 24 February 2009 9:40 pm

ha, me going to Macq U on Wed. but i already played 1 hr of basketball today (i havent done any exercise for about 3.5 years)…..


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Posted by Joseph on Wed, 25 February 2009 9:59 pm

Good work :-)

Last time I did something like this was the Reachout 2000(1) program run by LWFCI(2) during the 2000 Olympics.

It was interesting being on the streets mainly with people from USA, they certainly have a lot more upfront approach that Aussies in general.

Also interesting to see how “street evangelism” has declined or changed a lot since the 80′s when it was certainly a lot more “in fashion” for want of a better phrase.

1. http://pandora.nla.gov.au/nph-arch/2000/S2000-Oct-19/http://www.wesleymission.org.au/reachout2000/index.html

2. http://laywitnessesforchrist.com/


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Posted by Al on Tue, 3 March 2009 9:26 am

I would have replied earlier but the universe & Twitter conspired against me and I didn’t receive your Twitter response.

How do you find people at the university in general when you approach them cold? Not knowing any better, I’d imagine you’d get a really high percentage of people just brush you off and keep on walking?


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