From the States to Eastern Europe
Sean
This couple weeks back in Germany marks a brief pause in an otherwise very busy few months.
Back from the states, we quickly to turn around and head to London. YWAM is congregating in London during the Olympics for a unique opportunity to reach many different nations in one location. Our base already has outreach teams there and they have had many amazing stories of people coming to Jesus. While I am going with a band playing shows, we are hopeful we will get to engage people with the Gospel as well.
From England I leave the band to fly straight to Eastern Europe for three or four weeks to join a team there.
In the tiny country of Moldova, just north of Romania, our small Herrnhut team will be partnering with a few different human trafficking focused ministries already working in the areas of aftercare and prevention. One of the ministries runs prevention programs in schools there. Both this ministry and our team are hopeful that we can pull together fresh media to aid the ministry in communicating more effectively to at-risk youth.
In older times back in the USSR, when times were tough and all seemed lost: people knew that until death itself took them, they could still hold on to their hopes, even to their last breath. As followers of Christ, we know that when we die, along with the hopes we are holding onto, that our hope in Jesus is not lost, but in fact a guarantee coming into fruition. So, in the old USSR a phrase emerged that is still spoken in Slavic regions today. It is translated into English: 'Hope Dies Last.'
As a small group at the base taking steps to pioneer work in the area of human trafficking in Eastern Europe, and as the area of human trafficking can seem hopeless, we thought this a fitting name for our emerging ministry. The name serves as a reminder, to ourselves and those we serve, that when all else seems lost, we can hang on to an eternal hope in Christ. Please pray for safe travels, team finances, that good groundwork will be established as we are seeking to pioneer a ministry, and that God will help use our time there to its maximum effectiveness for His purposes.
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Back from the states, we quickly to turn around and head to London. YWAM is congregating in London during the Olympics for a unique opportunity to reach many different nations in one location. Our base already has outreach teams there and they have had many amazing stories of people coming to Jesus. While I am going with a band playing shows, we are hopeful we will get to engage people with the Gospel as well.
From England I leave the band to fly straight to Eastern Europe for three or four weeks to join a team there.
In the tiny country of Moldova, just north of Romania, our small Herrnhut team will be partnering with a few different human trafficking focused ministries already working in the areas of aftercare and prevention. One of the ministries runs prevention programs in schools there. Both this ministry and our team are hopeful that we can pull together fresh media to aid the ministry in communicating more effectively to at-risk youth.
In older times back in the USSR, when times were tough and all seemed lost: people knew that until death itself took them, they could still hold on to their hopes, even to their last breath. As followers of Christ, we know that when we die, along with the hopes we are holding onto, that our hope in Jesus is not lost, but in fact a guarantee coming into fruition. So, in the old USSR a phrase emerged that is still spoken in Slavic regions today. It is translated into English: 'Hope Dies Last.'
As a small group at the base taking steps to pioneer work in the area of human trafficking in Eastern Europe, and as the area of human trafficking can seem hopeless, we thought this a fitting name for our emerging ministry. The name serves as a reminder, to ourselves and those we serve, that when all else seems lost, we can hang on to an eternal hope in Christ. Please pray for safe travels, team finances, that good groundwork will be established as we are seeking to pioneer a ministry, and that God will help use our time there to its maximum effectiveness for His purposes.
I
AM
EXCITED
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