Dan & Suzie Potter writes....
As we pack our clothes, props, travel office, and leisure items (we didn't get to those at all yet) again . . .�
We wonder how do we pack away all the memories from a great TeenStreet Week in Malaysia?��
How do we take along the 350 faces from 14 distant countries and places?
(Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Philippines, Myanmar,�South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Germany, UK, Sweden, and 2 more)
How can we remember to pray especially for the young people who made new commitments to Jesus?
or committed to live the "Metamorphosis" . . . continually being transformed to "BE pleasing to God!"
Many of these teenagers go back to countries steeped in Islam, Budhism, and Hinduism.
For some it is very difficult to stand for God back home and TeenStreet has been an oasis for them.��
One 14 year old boy from Malaysia we had supper with last night is the only non-Budhist in his family.
He became a Christian as a result of one of his friends (from TeenStreet last year) who invited him to his church and told him about Jesus.
Now he loves Jesus, but only has a few Christian friends in his church, and finds life very difficult.
Another one told us how it is illegal for him to share Jesus with his friend.
Yet we are calling these teenagers to be "salt and light".
When has Christianity really ever been safe?
"just a thought . . . "
It is interesting that Jesus lets us choose who gets to hear about him and who is forever lost.
If people never choose Jesus, it's their fault.� But if they never hear about Jesus, it's our fault.
Metamorphosis was all about "flying", living your live in a way that is pleasing to God and reflecting it out into our world.
Please pray for these teenagers as they journey back to their "real world" with real problems and real successes.
Most of them stood this morning in declaration that they are willing to be used by God to go anywhere, do anything, anytime for God.
That's a big commitment . . . those are the kind of commitments that change the world.
Please pray as most of these teenagers come from homes where it is far more important to have a good job, the right education, and look good.
This makes it difficult, because God is telling some of them to take on a very different lifestyle in order to serve the sick, poor, and hurting.
posted by TeenStreet @ 8:26 PM
2 Comments:
this pic should be taken by half cos cant even see wer the people actually are...i hope next year wont be like this...haha
it was an awesome week.....came in so 'not knowing what to expect' and the head filled with all nightmarish ideas of failing to communicate with my own Net.
Found out it wasnt about me at all.It wasnt about what I had to give at all.
It was about choosing to be there..and letting go to let Jesus do what He does best>>>>>>>>loving people....
Awed by the team and the effort they put in...and while none of this is new to them...just want to say.......even if you have done it for the 100th time....many were blessed at TS 2006...I know, ..I was one of them.......too many memories to pack.....but found even though TS is over, what began there hasnt ended, it has only begun.
Visited a blog site set up by one of my Net members only this evening ....a very personal and honest account of coming for the TS two years running and finding it boring this year - deja vu-ish - to start with, but going home, realising no two teenstreets are alike...and we DO always make a difference just by being there.....
That lst line was a quote.
Thank you TS team,all of you....
And for the Malaysian part of the team......we really need to follow up wherever we are....
Let's put out resources together and morph together.....
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