Well the past week has been amazing and especially these last couple days, but I think I will just blog about some of Thursday, Friday night and Saturday. I am in the group working with the students at Crosspoint. Every night we are able to go and spend 2 hours with the students getting to know them and building relationships. On Thursday and Friday we decided that we would focus on sharing with the entire group for at least a few minutes. Thursday night went better than we ever expected. Some students ended up coming in the prayer room and praying with us. Now, these students are pretty rough smoking, drinking, cussing, etc. It is pretty hard to get them involved to play goofy games or sit still for more than 10 minutes. The girls that came in the prayer room were ones that we can NEVER get to play any of the games. This was a total breakthrough and blessing. The next night we were so excited about, we planned to have a Brendon share his testimony and play a game that would help us understand and get to know the students even more. We set up times for us all to be praying throughout the entire day for both Kairos and Crosspoint. We get to Crosspoint and all the students were there waiting for us, but then a majority of them leave and say they will be back in a few minutes. 20 or so minutes later we’re still waiting on them to get back. This was discouraging to me and I kept asking some of the girls where they were and they said they would be back soon. I was becoming really upset and kept praying. We knew they were probably out somewhere drinking so Adam and I decided to go find them. We found them behind a building near the church and asked them to come back because we wanted to hang out and spend time with them. They all ended up coming up to the building as soon as we asked them. We started playing our game, where we passed a ball around and whichever question (we wrote questions on the ball beforehand) their thumb landed on they had to answer. They kind of joked about but when some of them were asked some of the harder questions it was obvious that they were really thinking about it. After we had played the game I told the guys they could pick one guy to share something about themselves and the girls could pick one girl. It ended up that in the end 4 or 5 people had shared and the kids were still listening 45 minutes later. I had told the kids that whoever was the quietest or listened the best would get the soccer ball. One of the guys, who hardly every sits still or is quiet, did not talk the entire time so I gave him the soccer ball and he was so excited. The students seemed like they really listened to what we had to say and took it to heart. A few even asked us questions afterwards and some prayed with us. It was absolutely and totally a work of God. That night some of our girl leaders stayed for the girl’s sleepover they were having. It was good just to spend time with them and talk to them. Ewalina picked us up at 8 o’clock the next morning to arrive back at Murlough House and leave for Belfast and the north coast at 8:30 with about 2 hours of sleep. We stopped for fun shopping in Belfast and to see the capital building. Then we went up to Giants Causway. It was absolutely beautiful even though it was wet and cold. It has been an incredible week of God working through all of us and showing us his beauty in creation and others. This trip as truly showed me how important prayer is and how awesomely it works!
-Courtney Cheuvront
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