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From: “Brenda Lange” Subject: Blog, Oct. 19, 2013

YOUTH NIGHT DRAWING TEENS TO CHRIST

Melis­sa Olmes­dahl and Car­l­i­tos Jorge, our 2 Youth Lead­ers, pro­vide a great Fri­day night pro­gram to an ever grow­ing crowd of over 80 youth. Eric wired 12 volt lights into our Bala­ma church so the town’s teens can have a fun, Christ cen­tered educational/games pro­gram instead of walk­ing the streets.

Youth puppet.

Carlito Jorge leads Youth Night program: He and Nito, the lifesize puppet, have a chat.

 Youth puppet night

Bertino hides behind the suitcase.He is having fun performing the voice of Nito, the puppet.

Last night, NITO, my life-size pup­pet, per­formed a pro­gram to explain how Christ is the LIVING WATER. Sports Direc­tor, Berti­no, hid behind the suit­case, pro­ject­ing his voice so the kids thought Nito was real­ly speak­ing Makua! All the teens were total­ly focused on the puppet’s sto­ry as they were fas­ci­nat­ed with the pre­sen­ta­tion. Our Youth Pas­tors are becom­ing much bet­ter at “flow­ing with the Holy Spir­it” as they reach out to cap­ture the hearts of these young folks. Four young ladies came to Christ last week, and Praise the Lord for the many new faces seen this week.

AWANA “TRUTH SEEKERS” PROGRAM COMES TO MOZAMBIQUE

Awana teaching teachers.

Lar­ry Friend teach­es our BBC Pas­tors with the help of Bush Bun­ny Bren­da pro­vid­ing translation.

Thanks to Lar­ry Friend from Awana Inter­na­tion­al, USA, the Bala­ma kids will now increase their Bible knowl­edge through this AMAZING Bible pro­gram for kids who can’t read. TRUTH SEEKERS com­bines lots of visual/verbal Bible lessons with the famous AWANA games, played on the AWANA games court that we hand paint­ed onto our bas­ket­ball court.

Awana games

Lar­ry’s stu­dents have a great time learn­ing the games they will be teach­ing as they deve­l­ope the AWANA BIBLE CLUBS in the vil­lages they serve.
Larry’s “stu­dents” this week (seen enjoy­ing the games as they learned to play them) are the mem­bers of our Bush Bik­ers for Christ, preschool teach­ers, and Youth Lead­ers. These 13 stu­dents will be our core group who will train oth­ers to help them devel­op AWANA BIBLE CLUBS in the 34 vil­lages where we have church­es and youth pro­grams. It will take a few months to get more lead­ers trained and the pro­gram going well, but we know beyond a doubt that ABUNDANT FRUIT will come from teach­ing the chil­dren the Bible from GENESIS to REVELATIONS in an order­ly fash­ion. At the same time, they will be learn­ing respect, dis­ci­pline, obe­di­ence, and hand/eye coor­di­na­tion via the AWANA GAMES.

A SPECIAL THANKS TO LARRY AND ALL THE AWANA INTERNATIONAL STAFF WHO HAVE MADE THIS POSSIBLE.

FYI: This pro­gram has been 3 years in the mak­ing for Mozam­bique, as Truth Seek­ers is a very new part of AWANA Inter­na­tion­al. We are super grate­ful to be the first to try it in Mozambique!

Bless­ings, Bush Bun­ny Bren­da and the Bala­ma Staff Eric Dry Melis­sa Olmsesdahl