High School Ministry

I had been forewarned several times by my leaders that I would be stretched during outreach. That I had to get over fear of man, fear of public speaking and fear of making a fool of myself. Luckily enough I don't really struggle with the latter as it is.... but yesterday I understood why.

Yesterday my leaders, Tessa and Sai, decided that they wanted to challenge us in our independence and leadership- so the would not be doing anything or going anywhere with us. This was fine, we have Zack who acts as leader (for he is the only male) and he can take charge just fine. Not that we even need appointed leadership, for we all get along just fine. But here we go, the 7 of us in a van, with the knowledge that we would be doing a program at a high school. 45 minutes later, we walk through the doors of a high school auditorium and are standing on stage with over 1,500 students staring down at us expecantly. The only background knowlege we had about this school is that the previous day, one of the students had stabbed and killed another student. How do you address an audience like this?! Well, we didn't have much time to prepare, so we just went with everything that we had and by the end of the program, I had performed a hip hop dance, sang a hip hop song, played my guitar and led worship in another language and shared a piece of my testimony-- all before lunch. Yep, just another day! I wish I could say I had a good attitude doing all these things, but that wouldn't be the full truth. I kicked and fought all the way up that stage as I was being told I had to play the guitar- and that I didn't have a choice. It turned out ok, yet three songs in I broke a string- and I have no idea where I'll be able to get that fixed.

But the important part of this day was not the program, or in what ways I had to step out... it was that afterwards my friends and I were swarmed by students who wanted to talk one on one, confess some of the things they were doing, and even commit their lives to Jesus. I personally prayed for 4 girls to bring Jesus into their hearts-- and let me tell you, their desire was legit. Amazing things are happening here in South Africa.


Another update to come soon- we're off to another high school in ten minutes to do a skit.