Through the month of October, we worked with Kompass Church. Drew was able to get in contact with Milan through their church from home, Life Church. Our main ministry consisted of going to high schools to teach English on Thursdays and Fridays. Those nights consisted of youth meetings. Sundays we went to church services and helped with children’s ministry in the afternoons. The rest of the days were spent hanging out with high-schoolers—building relationships and pouring into them.
ACET club meetings take place on Thursday nights and it is a time and a place where other high school students can meet each other and talk about issues that they might be struggling with- drugs, alcohol, sex, etc.
After the first ACET club meeting, Denisa, Daniela and Adriana asked if Ricki and I wanted to go get tea with them and they could practice their English.
The girls immediately became my favorite. They were so sweet and so willing to be open and honest with their lives. Daniela (16 years old and blonde) spoke of her passion to make cakes, learn English and play guitar and piano. Not to mention, she has a 25 year old boyfriend that she loves very much. Denisa spoke of her passion for ballroom dance and how her best friend is Daniela. Adriana is very sweet, funny and somewhat of ‘the odd man out’ at times because she smokes, drinks and likes to go clubbing (they call it dancing at the disco) and the other girls do not. I was not able to spend as much time with her this month due to a dancing injury where she fell, hit her head and had to be in the hospital for a week…. But she is doing much better now.
God kept on placing Denisa and Daniela along my path. God was in crazy, intense, insane pursuit after these beautiful girls. They had both grown up in the Catholic church but never had a desire for the Lord. Coming from a similar background, I knew that I could really relate.
One of the ACET club meetings, we split girls and guys. Technically, we are not supposed to be talking about God at these meetings or it’s not supposed to be as spiritual as it is on Fridays. The women on my team talked about various issues that were once a struggle in our lives. At the end, the girls were eager to talk about what they heard. They all said that we were brave women and wanted to know how God could help us through such things.
The following day was the Friday church youth group meeting. Daniela, Denisa and I were to meet after the meeting but they ended calling earlier and staying for the meeting. The girls were not upset that they came early and actually enjoyed hearing the sermon. They even introduced themselves to some of the youth leaders before leaving.
The following week I was able to go to one of Denisa’s dance classes and watch her dance. She has won many awards and has hopes to be a professional ballroom dancer. It gave Daniela and I time to have a great chat. We talked about how God changes people and how he desires a personal relationship with every single of one us. We talked about how he has changed me. We talked about sex and the importance of waiting until marriage. The entire conversation was completely unexpected but of course the Holy Spirit interceded and spoke the words that needed to be said.
The following day was the ACET Club meeting and the topic was “Why God?” -meaning why choose God when there are other gods to choose from. At the end of the meeting, they asked everyone to close their eyes and if people wanted to accept Christ as their Savior, they could raise their hands and pray a salvation prayer.
n Christ. I am humbled that he used me to bring them closer to him. I am blessed that he chose such amazing and passionate women to put along my path to remind me of his great love. I can only pray that they keep on growing toward the Lord and chasing after him as much as he has been chasing after them.how much our God is chasing after us and that he is relentless in his
pursuit. We should be chasing after him because he deemed us worthy and
chased after us first.
