Encouraging Signs

I sat in on a youth workers' meeting this evening and was so encouraged with how God is at work! One of the things that I'm most excited about is the intiative that Luke Royce is taking to plan a worship and fellowship event for Christian young people in Luton (on top of his key involvement in Momentum). This is a guy who, just a year ago, absolutely shuddered at the thought of actually leading people in worship with his newly-formed guitar skills. Now, he's wanting to gather the Christian young people of Luton to lead them in worshiping together and praying for one another! Fortunately, he's working with another young person from another church with the same vision and it really looks like it's got a great chance of coming together.

There are also two additions to our youth worker team, "Maz" Royce (Jason & Luke Royce's sister) and another young woman named Angela. Maz has done a fantastic job with administrative details for the team, as well as breathing new life into Friday night "Fusion Cafe" for the purpose of helping our young people share Christ with their non-Christian friends. Angela has worked hard to launch a special evening event to bring together adults and youth in the church for fellowship. She's also been instrumental in moving "Sudden IMPACT" (now called "IMPACTuesdays") ahead with new ways of building the faith of our young people through interactive prayer and scripture meditation/study.

Of course, our other youth workers who have been there all along (like Paul, Tina, Rhoda, and Bruce) continue to be faithful in pouring their lives into young people and making things like Momentum move ahead with creativity and effectiveness. And I haven't even begun to talk about the fresh new work that we're seeing God doing in young people like Jon West, Nick Willis, and Helena Bernard, just to name a few!

All this good stuff is making it all the more difficult to leave!