Last night we had the priviledge og attending the youth/young adult service at Baptist Church Hyderabad. This is a service similar to Kairos, with skits and testimony added. About 100 or so youth gathered to worship on this Monday night, as they do each week. One girl called it a festival as she gave her testimony of being from a Hindu family and attending this service for the first time. How did she get there? A friend invited. Hmmmm, what a novel idea.
Jeremy was the speaker tonight and used his unique personality and sense of humor to relay an awesome message of how God always sees things at the end of the story from the beginning. He found a great way of bringing the point accross.
After the service there is the mass prayer. This is where anyone that wishes goes up onto the platform and sits in a circle as they share their prayer requests and concerns. I tried to count and I think there was close to fifty people praying. Many were so open about what they wished to bring before God.
I titled this the future of India, this is the reason. Through out the night we saw young people that are trult and wholly soldout to Jesus. It was very rewarding and inspiring to see how they express their worship. All through this week we have seen how these young people live their faith, they don't just tell you they follow Jesus, they show you Jesus through their actions.
So many lessons can be learned from the youth and the rest of the people we have been in contact with. I think the future of Jesus in India is in very good hands. God has chosen the right people to work in this place. I just hope that we as a team can somehow find a way to bring accross what we have experienced and learned.
The one word that everyone keeps using is surreal, so we have to process everything and find a way to realy it to all of you.
The future of India looks very bright from a Christian standpoint. I definitely feel this a worthwhile partnership. I look forward to returning and seeing how things have progressed.
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