Well, much has happened since our last post. We are getting into the regular pattern of the school year, so we haven't posted much lately so that we don't get too redundant on our post. Almost every week, we travel out to Negotino for our youth meeting. Things are going well there. We have around 5 students coming on a regular basis. Each week, we try to add another element into the service to make it more like what we want. We have a good friend from Veles, named Borche, who comes out each week to interpret and help out on the praise team. Dustin plays guitar and sings, Brittany is on keyboard and vocals, and Borche helps on bass or guitar. It is challenging to concentrate on playing and singing words in Cyrillic at the same time. We try to learn a couple of songs for each service.
We arrive each week early to have guitar lessons with two of the teenagers in our group. Our hope is to teach them until they are comfortable playing on the team with us. So far, everything is going well with the lessons.
Our youth service consists of some worship, a game, some Bible quiz questions, preaching and prayer. We are teaching a series called "Kingdom Living." Last week, we talked about being a servant. In the next few weeks, we will cover the topics of prayer, fasting, worship, giving, and talk about what the Scriptures teach us about how to live in the Kingdom of God here on earth. We are excited about being able to work with these young believers.
We have had the great opportunity to meet many of the believers and church leaders throughout the country. It is exciting for us to feel more accepted by them and feel like we are actually a part of what is going on here. We talked with some of the leadership about an idea that we had for a short winter teenager camp, and we have scheduled a three day event in January that we will help coordinate. It is very exciting to be a part of the team. Pray that our numbers will grow so more will be reached.
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