r e s t o r a t i o n for the nations //: Munich // April 16

In the past week, our team has spent quite a bit for our time with he youth from the church. On Friday, April 17th, our team spent the afternoon fellowshiping with each other and picking up from the shops for our next stop. That evening we headed back to the church to participate in the church's weekly Friday evening youth service. Jonny spoke to the group about evangelism. He explained how, when we talk to people about Christ, rather than using a bunch of "Christian Words" like "grace" or "sin" we should just tell people who Christ is to us and what that means. After Jonny spoke, he gave people to opportunity to receive prayer if they wanted. So our team were able to pray for quite a few people.

The next day we set out and headed to the centre of Munich with the youth from the church to do some evangelism. Without us knowing beforehand, there was a huge gathering of people for political reasons in the centre. Once everyone arrived we began to pray, thanking God for the opportunity and the time He gave us to be able to go out and share, we also invited the Holy Spirit to come and join us. We then split into teams of three or four and headed out, with one team interceding at our meeting point. The teams spent the next two or three hours walking around the city, sharing, blessing and bringing joy. When the time was up we met up again, and shared stories of how our afternoon went and before closing in prayer. We headed back to the church for a time of worship and fellowship. The church blessed us with pizza for dinner.

On Sunday morning, some of our team were given the opportunity to lead two groups from the Sunday School, the 7-11's and the 15-17's. When the service was done we then went out for lunch with the youth from the church, and then went to the English Gardens, where we relaxed and hung out. This included a few games of American Football and soccer. We then headed back to the church for dinner and more fellowship.

On Monday 20 April one of the team celebrated his birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JONATHAN!! To celebrate, we went out as a team to a nearby Bavarian restaurant for lunch. It was a great time of relaxation and celebration. After lunch we went to buy balloons for our time of evangelism that evening. We then caught the tram into the centre of Munich with the balloons. On many of these balloons we'd written words of encouragement. As we walked around the city centre we asked God who we should give these balloons to.