Yesterday evening we had our first youth service! There are always kinks to work out for the next time but we both think it was a great success!! We had lots of new faces, about 55-60 youth in total and everyone seemed to have a great time.
Greeters at the door - Brian and Steve - we gave out chocolate bars to the first 50 people who arrived (a secret ploy to get people there on time!)
We opened the doors at 6 pm and started the service at 6:30. Before it started people were free to play foosball and hang out.
Our friend Ruslan was the MC for the service:
Vanya from our church and a band from Molochansk (city south of Zap) that he recruited for the evening:
Steve and Vanya sang a song together:
Steve preached on why bad things happen in life:
The service was until 7:30 (an hour) but afterwards we stayed open until 9 (10 actually!) for people to hang out. There were cookies, coffee, tea, foosball and ping pong to play.
Our flyers that we were handing out:
Our next service is planned for July 19th but there are some major kinks to work out - like who can do music seeing as how Vanya and his wife might be travelling to New York for six months. We hope that the next one will be even bigger and better and that we can get the message out to even more kids! God loves these kids and some of them have never even given Him a thought. It makes for some interesting conversations and tough questions but we've seen some of them come a long way since getting to know them, and we want to continue that.
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