Extreme Soldiers are Totally Forgiven!

Torquay just keeps taking me out of my comfort zone - and I am loving every second of it!

Many of you know that evangelism isn't exactly my spiritual gift. In fact, I really struggle to do the whole - You should be a Christian thing. It's not that I don't value people who are evangelists - I value them heaps! I just don't feel comfortable doing it. I'm more a "get alongside" my friends and let my life bear witness to Christ sorta girl. I'm much more comfortable journeying with someone who's already made a commitment than asking someone to make one in the first place.

But being part of a church plant, you just don't have that luxury. And the more I work alongside Catherine, Phill, Lyndel & Simon, the more I'm inspired to share my faith with people and jump out of my comfort zone to talk about Christ.

On Tuesday we started a new "Journey's" group with some of our mums from mainly music (the preschool kids & mums music program we run). Two mum's who are not-yet Christians came along - and two other mums who are already Christians are going to go along and join Catherine in taking part in this group - exploring "Is there a spiritual side to me and if there is a God, what does He look like?" type of issues. I go along and take care of the children so that they can be completely focussed on the group. And hearing Catherine talk about it afterwards compelled me to pray about what God wants me to do for our children at Torquay.

The scary thing about asking God what He wants is that He will actually tell you! And He told me that I'm to do an old-fashioned - do you want Jesus in your life - sort of session at Extreme on Sunday night. Asking the children if they would like to make a commitment to Jesus. Do you know how much that freaks me out?! I mean really?! Honestly?! I'm absolutely packing myself! But I know it's the right thing to do, and I know that God wants me to do it, because we are inviting children to become Extreme Soldiers (Junior Soldiers) and naturally they need to be Christians before they can do this.

Essentially I'm asking for prayer. If you have a moment - please take some time to pray for the children who are coming to Extreme Kids on Sunday night. Pray that God will give me the words to say. Pray that God will be preparing the hearts of those kids who are not-yet Christians to be open to the message. And pray that the kids that have already made commitments might be able to help the new ones along in their journey.

I'll keep you all posted! AGH!!!