Right now we're sitting in the Budapest airport, waiting for our connecting flight to Amsterdam in a couple hours. It's 8:00 in the morning and we've been up since 4:00 to get to the airport in Targu Mures (where we very nearly weren't let on the flight because the ticketing agent didn't know what to do with our e-tickets! That got us praying quickly and fervently!).
The Praise Party was yesterday evening and a fitting conclusion to an intensive but fulfilling week with the 15 students who attended the Call2Worship course. We heard precious, intimate love songs to God, vibrant evangelistic songs, a swedish folk song (it was great, Martin!), Romanian poetry set to music (thanks Adela and Narcisa!), and spontaneous Spanish praise (you're awesome, Selina!). Soon I'll upload some to my website, so check that soon.
And this was the way the new YWAM base in TgMures was inagurated! What a wonderful start to the ministry.
Please keep praying for Jerry and Carmen as they establish a YWAM ministry with a focus on worship and youth. They hope to have another C2W in Romania this summer and again next year!
As I have a few moments here to reflect upon this past week I see the faces of hungry, young hearts who have been delivered from evil in many forms. They sat and listened, hour after hour, taking copious notes and some of them with tears in their eyes as the Holy Spirit revealed His truth to them. We laughed during some of the practical applications and cried at the foot of the cross together. My staff team was wonderful, gifted, mature, and ministered in the power of the Holy Spirit - encouraging, praying, speaking words of life and truth and just loving on these young people. It was a powerful combination to have such an age difference (any one of them could have been my son or daughter, biologically)... it seems that many youth lack good examples in the older generation. They need spiritual mothers and fathers in the faith. God knew!
So, I return to my little home in Holland, bone-tired but satisfied and with a singing heart full of gratefulness!
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