Day 7: Tinca Concert Outreach

Dear Family & Friends, we are sorry for the late update. We have been doing ministry late into the night, and we were not able to blog. But here is the update on Day 7:

Park Outreach:
At the Park Outreach this morning, we (Jordan, Noah, and myself) met Tolevo, a 22 year old young man waiting for his appointment to get a driver’s license so that he can get a job in the city. For some reason we talked about his family life, and that brought to our attention the hurt that Tolevo stored in his heart – Tolevo’s mom died when he was 14.

During our conversation, we talked about how God relates to his grief because his son Jesus was to die on the cross to pay our debts, so that we could have a relationship with him. He started choking and in a few minutes, asked us how he could have a relationship with God. We couldn’t believe how ready Tolevo was but God did.

CP2: Girl’s Purity Talk
Talk about being flexible, we put together a craft, bible study and question/answer session about two hours before the talk. (This event was not something put on paper earlier.) A group of 9 students were assigned to be a part of this Purity Talk. Song of Songs Chp 4, particularly about how the King built his carriage and his prep to meet his bride on the wedding day, and the character of a noble woman was what the LORD put on my heart to share. The craft at the end was to symbolically remind them of a commitment they can can make to the LORD, to keep their mind, heart and body pure. We asked the LORD together to use us, and our shortfalls to bring his son’s life deeper into the life of the orphaned teenage girls.

Concert Outreach at Tinca:
In the evening we went to Tinca city to invite Tinca-nites to come out for our evening concert. Our students met and befriended a group of young men at a shell station, and they were easing the conversations towards the gospel. Andre and Cristi were brothers and they came out to our concert with 15 of their friends. Please pray for this group of young men.

The evening concert was a blast. We have close to 250 people at the concert. A contemporary gypsy band came out to play, and our crowd started rocking to the Christian Music. We had a good time of ministry with the young people from the village and from the city of Tinca.