Bookstall and Youth Group
My shift at the bookstall on Saturday morning went well - after almost two hours of not much happening at all (since it was still too early in the morning to have many people pass by), the last half an hour saw three interested people come to the stall to talk and take literature, including one who had just started reading the Bible a couple of weeks ago but hadn’t understood much of it so far. Pray that these people will indeed come to one of the church meetings, as they said they would. It was good to do the shift with the person that was converted last year after watching “The Da Vinci Code” with one of the cell groups. It was his first bookstall, and then in the shift after ours there were some of the people in the new young adults’ group who manned the store for the first time. There was a lot of enthusiasm for this form of public witness amongst them, which is good because some of the “older” generation, that have been doing bookstalls for a decade or two, are a bit less keen to dedicate the time to it now.
Then in the afternoon we had the teenagers at our house, where I led the last study of the year for the group. Next Saturday there is the second combined teenagers and young adults meeting - everyone at our house for games, a pizza, a video and then discussion. Pray for that meeting. The following Saturday will we be going to Sicily, then there is a pause for Christmas and New Year, and we will restart on January 12th.