Here we go again... Who Loves You?

It's a long time since I wrote on here... so please accept my apologies! The craziness of February has also left the Pais: North Coast's facebook blog has also been neglected. In order to catch you up on all that's gone on I'll start by posting Tamara's blog about the 'Who Loves You?' mission week. She says everything I wanted to say, but writes it better than I do (how sad is that... a German writing better than me!). Enjoy! - Lauren x

Hey folks!

The Pais team is back with a blog after a truly exceptional week of “Who Loves You?“.
Not only did we visit four schools in the area, doing assemblies, lunch shows, lessons and prayer spaces, but also closed the week in two spectacular events with DJ Jarva Knight, a non-alcoholic cocktail bar and two poignant messages, communicating the gospel to the young people.
During the week we really learned again to appreciate and use the power of prayer and we want to thank all of you who supported us in their prayers. Every person who came to the prayer meetings in our churches during the week really encouraged us and we are sure that each prayer made a difference.
The overall topic was – surprisingly – God’s love and it was so great to have the opportunity to tell around 2000 young people of the unimaginably great love God has for them. When we asked the students in several RE lessons who loved them a great amount of them wrote down God and/or Jesus and we really pray that this knowledge might change their hearts and lives. During our “Love or Hate”- lunch show we learned that it is inevitable to not make decisions and that the most important decision of our lives might still lie ahead.
On the nights of the events 7 young people made a decision for living their lives with Jesus and many were interested in taking away more information. We are very excited about starting a follow-up study on what being a Christian really means on Wednesday afternoons in Exodus.
A really amazing and encouraging story reached us when we heard of a girl who was giving out ice-cream to people in Portstewart, following the motto of “Because You’re Loved”! And this is actually the perfect opportunity to get excited for the Dared to Love-mission in March – we are expecting great things to happen and lots of love to be shown.

Thanks for reading our team blog once more – watch out for more and be blessed!
Tamara