From Dusk 'Til Dawn – Youth Evangelism in Action

teachermum

It is so nuice to see someone understand the long termnature of this. I have done loads of youth work, few obvious conversions, many lives better led and yes, people going to church now twenty and thirty years later as a result of a number of us interested in them. At the church of my youth (Wimborne Monster if any know it) we didn’t go in for the spectacular conversions of other local churches, but many lives well lived and few who found a way to Christ have drifted. We shoulod never hunt souls like they are a fox.

I now teach at a sixth form college where I work with teens. Some would say as nobody is converted that this is not Kingdom work or whatever the current phrase is. However when up in Cambridge at a debating final a previoud debater told me all about his drug use and previously chaotic life and now his happy life at Cambridge (off poor GCSEs for obvious reasons) and said “You literally change the world”. I had read in a Lent book about Vincent de paul and his little red dots and I realised they are my little red dots. All the teenagers I have worked with over the years faithfully as teacher or youth leader, from when I was little older than them. I have not been “rewarded” with obvious expressions of turning to Christ or whatever but lives can be subtelly changed when I let God work as you did and seeds of something longlasting and worthwhile rather than a rapidly made and rapidly forgotten converstion are laid. We may never see the results fo course.

Bless you in what you do. It is so important.

teachermum

It is so nice to see someone understand the long term nature of this. I have done loads of youth work, few obvious conversions, many lives better led and yes, people going to church now twenty and thirty years later as a result of a number of us interested in them. At the church of my youth (Wimborne Monster if any know it) we didn’t go in for the spectacular conversions of other local churches, but many lives well lived and few who found a way to Christ have drifted. We should never hunt souls like they are a fox.

I now teach at a sixth form college where I work with teens. Some would say as nobody is converted that this is not Kingdom work or whatever the current phrase is. However when up in Cambridge at a debating final a previous debater told me all about his drug use and previously chaotic life and now his happy life at Cambridge (off poor GCSEs for obvious reasons) and said “You literally change the world”. I had read in a Lent book about Vincent de paul and his little red dots and I realised they are my little red dots. All the teenagers I have worked with over the years faithfully as teacher or youth leader, from when I was little older than them. I have not been “rewarded” with obvious expressions of turning to Christ or whatever but lives can be subtelly changed when I let God work as you did and seeds of something longlasting and worthwhile rather than a rapidly made and rapidly forgotten converstion are laid. We may never see the results fo course.

Bless you in what you do. It is so important.

teachermum

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