evangelism...maps...young people... the move of God

we are in a city called jebel. there is only one very small evangelical church in the city. can you imagine that? only one church. the rest are mosques and a greek orthodox temple. we heard the prayer call at 5am this morning. i put my prayer shawl on and just laid under it and prayed. wow. but there are some really awesome believers here, the family we are staying with for instance...so divinely appointed by God for major evangelism to impact the country. of all the people we could have stayed with, we are staying with people with a real heart for real work and real results for the Kingdom. they have a map of Bulgaria in their living room (and you know we totally dig maps) so we all gathered around it and prayed. God really poured out blessings during that prayer time. this morning we are going back to the church where we had a missionary conference yesterday.

there are so many young people here. you can see in their faces that they have nothing to live for. they need life, they need vision, they need purpose. and the hardest thing for me is, you can't even talk to them because of the language barrier and so you just kind of sit there and hurt for them. i've asked if anybody is trying to reach the young people. the answer was no. i'm looking around and seeing a whole generation of young adults and nobody's trying to reach them. i almost lost it in the restaurant.

what are we going to do? we have to do something. somebody has to do something. we have to let them know there is more than cigarrettes and alcohol and sex and emotional highs. you can still feel the oppression from communism... you can still feel it hanging in the air. this kind of bland, flatline feeling...gray, nothing. and when you look into a beautiful young face and see that gray thing hanging in their eyes it is unbearable. it is awful.

but i know God will not let it stay like this. i know He is planning a massive overthrow all over the earth and young people everywhere are going to be saved and set on fire by the Holy Ghost. that is my comfort. it's not far away. it WILL happen. and i'm saying yeah God, do it here. Whew and what a beautiful thing it will be. i don't know how He's going to do it, but i know that He will. so i'm waiting to see it. and today in the church, elaine wants me to share some of this...so by God's grace i will say whatever He allows me to say.

amen.