Better in than out?

Photo King's House last night, with faces blobbed-out for Child Protection reasons

What else can I say but it never ceases to amaze me how good God is. Again last night we arrived at The King's House and there was a crowd outside, (they were a quarter hour early again), and they waited another 15 minutes while we set up and prayed. The point is, I guess, that this is surefire evidence that they long for something do do. This isn't the hopeless crowd that many adults would brand them. Neither are they perfect little angels. They're just KIDS, some of whom find relationship with adults a little challenging.

Last night, through the Lord's provision, we had five adults, plus Eric on hand if we'd needed him. George was with us, talking about God, Richard and Michelle playing Jenga with some young lads, and Mary thrashing them at cards as well as lots of snooker/air-hockey and table football. We didn't have pizza last night as a general offering so the kids brought in their own chips and the like. Naturally we had drinks for them. 

This is such a simple thing to organise and do - and it's much more fun than moaning about the way that young people 'aren't what they used to be'. I was young once and can certainly testify to that last statement - my knees are far from what they used to be.

Pray for next week please, as Eileen, Knaphill Residents' one-(wo)man mover and shaker, has organised a meeting at The Vyne to discuss moving forward using that larger facility in a way that's similar to what we've been doing for the past few weeks. 

If numbers continue to grow at the same rate as we've experienced since opening only three weeks ago then we'll need the extra space that The Vyne has to offer. However, and there's a big however, The Vyne will only work IF there are enough volunteers to cope with large numbers. That's where prayer is needed. We know the young people benefit from the provision of facilities; they wait outside in the cold for half an hour, which is proof enough - and this despite knowing that someone is likely to talk 'God' with them. BUT, if there aren't enough volunteers to help run The Vyne, then that facility won't be able to function and KRA could be left with having to limit the numbers of kids - which misses the point, unless of course, we've already peaked at 17. Please do pray.

Outside Light has committed to have one person inside The Vyne each week whick leaves other OL volunteers to go out still and walk the streets - to see who is out there and try to get them back to The Vyne. Hopefully there will be secular volunteers based at The Vyne as well, but we'd love for some of our Christian brothers and sisters to come along too and help out. 

Young people are the future of our country. It's time we adults realised that. It's something that I tried to remember last night when our closing time 9pm had passed and they were reluctant to leave. After praying, we didn't get away until 10.15 :o)

Lots of love

John