Above the Din

Here is an interesting situation I have never been in before. Uli and Toussaint moved to a new house a few months ago and now live right by an orphanage/dormitory. Some of the kids there are real orphans or their parents can’t take care of them, others can’t get schooling the remote villagers and so come and live there. Uli and Toussaint have really taken to heart the kids, especially the real orphans and help them in many ways. They’ve started a weekly chapel time on Sunday nights at the orphanage. It’s a time of prayer and worship. I wanted to go to one and this past Sunday Toussaint said I should come and share. I was real excited and nervous. I can preach before huge churches, but with a small or large group of just young people like me I get nervous! I prayed and God gave me a message, one that had really blessed me from 2 Corinthians 5:19, how God doesn’t hold our sins against us for now, so that we may come to Him. If He did impart our sins against us we’d be dead! I shared with this the parable of the workers hired at different times in the day in Matthew 20. The youth from little children to late teens, listened so quietly. What was the hard part was prayer. The group is made up of many church goers, some to the Assembly of God others to the Catholic church. Well when I prayed to open, the Catholics start praying the Rosary, I think or something like it. Well I prayed loud and go through. At the end I prayed to close and it seemed their courage had grown and mine diminished, I wondered if anyone beside the front row could hear me. After words I was confused, I didn’t know whether to be sad or mad! These people couldn’t they relax. I mean nobody I’d ever met would pray their own pray out loud while I prayed. In the end I couldn’t get mad over it, there was not point, I could only be sad. These young minds so easily swayed by such a heresy, that they had to pray that prayer whenever prayer was being held, just to get into Heaven or at least purgatory (in their minds). I pray the message planted some seed in their minds. With the story of the workers I shared how it was the hirer who went out to get the workers, that He brought them in, they did nothing but accept the call!