Soul Survivor- day two

Now admittedly this is a late entry for yesterday but better late than never as they say! I was a bit cynical yesterday, which was probably due to the fact that my youth group weren't really engaging and some were misbehaving. things are getting better now though, so I feel a bit guilty about being so down about the whole thing. The evening meeting last night was interesting delirious led 'worship' but it was a bit more like a gig- not that I'm saying that is a bad thing, in fact I quite enjoyed it. Dave westlake delivered the message (Luke 10-good Samaritan) and it was good what was interesting is that in the midst of the talk the next branch of the Soul Survivor corporation was unveiled... Soul action. The aim is to reach the "last, lost and least" through developing and resourcing a new generation of disciples. as you would imagine with soul survivor this isn't just an abstract concept they have a cunning plan to do soul in the city 2009 in Durban, south Africa. They want to get 4,000 kids out there to help out and 'meet Jesus' in those they help...hmm Its a big plan and it was great in Manchester and apparently good in London but I think this is getting a bit dodgy. At the iasym conference nick shepherd presented a paper comparing soul in the city to a package holiday. The similarities were numerous but I think they increase greatly when you do the whole thing in Africa... The customer pays, flies in, sees the foreigners, dabbles in a bit of a cross cultural experimentation and then goes home, leaving behind those he/she met. In London it seems somewhat excusable, But with this I'm not quite so sure. The west already lives off the back of Africa, surely the church shouldn't be doing the same?