Saturday night we held our second #justyouth church service/drop-in at New Hope Church. This one was a huge success, we worked really hard all week praying and preparing and were really excited for it. We also noticed a number of spiritual attacks during the week leading up to Saturday so this told us that we were on the right track with this and we were really praying for the specific people to come to hear the message Steve prepared.
We kicked off the service with some live music provided by a band from Molochansk, south of Zap.
We then did a karaoke competition for something fun and to get people involved.
There was a skit by two Young Life friends of ours.
And Steve gave a really strong message on the existence of God. He used some science facts to show the intricacies of how we and the earth are made and shared some stories from our lives to show how real He is to us.
We had a bit smaller of a crowd this time, about 40 kids - but we knew that each one of them was supposed to be there and were the ones we were praying for all week.
Afterwards we had coffee, tea, cookies and played games - foosball, ping pong and card games.
All of the leadership team walked away at the end feeling really good about how it went. The atmosphere was completely different than the first time (not that the first time was bad at all!) but it just felt intentional, relaxed, filled with the Presence of God and just so alive!!
Thank you so much for all your prayers and support!! Our next one is planned for August 16th and our biggest concern is being able to find a band for that evening so prayer for that, as well as the youth that attend would be really appreciated!!
We are taking off on the train this evening headed to Spain for the G42 five year reunion and are looking forward to some family time and a chance to relax a little bit before coming back here for the rest of a busy summer.
**Photo Credits to our friend Sasha who is a professional photographer and was kind enough to take these for us**
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