Wow what an incredible week of mission we had in The Netherlands! As The Message partnered with Youth for Christ, we got to take power-packed lessons and truth-filled music from OTC into schools across The Netherlands sharing the hope of Jesus – and the response was amazing!
In each school, young people heard about how loved, accepted and valued they are. As OTC got to share their personal stories of what God’s done in their life this opened up some amazing conversations with students.
On the Tuesday, OTC were in a Christian school and as Gina shared the gospel, many young people recommitted their lives to God or gave their lives to him for the first time! After the session, the school allowed OTC to offer to pray with the students and one lad, Pieter, came to chat with band member James saying how much he related to his story. Pieter shared how his parents had just split up and that he’d been turning to drinking and drugs to cope but knew this wasn’t the plan Jesus had for his life. As James prayed and spoke truth into Pieter’s life, he invited him along to the end of week evangelistic gig to find out more about Jesus.
Throughout the week, OTC met over 880 students and invited each one of them to the gig. Despite the snow, 185 young people came along, heard the gospel, and more than 50 responded.
One young person that responded was Aleid. She got chatting with the team and told them her life growing up had been difficult and that her dad had sadly died recently. As Aleid shared with the team, she said that she’d started to be more curious about God because she’d had a dream about him after her dad had died and came along to the gig so that she could heard more about who Jesus was. When she heard about the love and peace Jesus offers, Aleid responded to the gospel and accepted God into her life!
It was an incredible week and schools are already reading out to the teams to book another programme in the future.