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Sunday April 26th: Teen Challenge performed their musical “The Journey”
This performance was remarkable in every way. It combined images projected onto large screens on either side with onstage acting. A cast of 8 male actors led us with singing and speech through a young man’s walk from hopeless addiction to freedom. From a dream of stardom, through the trap of free drugs, via addiction to degradation, crime, and eventually prison we were made to feel the aching despair.
The drug-related death of a friend just at the end of his sentence brought the “hero” up with a start and enabled a Teen Challenge street worker to lead him to freedom in Christ. The physical and mental grip of drugs and habit were broken by the Jesus Who Saves to the uttermost.
A long scene at the Teen Challenge Conference Centre gave scope for actors to present their own testimonies and after the finale the actor of the central figure gave his own testimony which was so alike the one he had portrayed.
At a purely human dramatic level, the performance was thoroughly professional and would be a credit to any stage or auditorium. Here we a group of men once rejected as losers, druggies, down-and-outs, performing like trained actors. At the spiritual level it was proof of just how great is the saving, lifting, redeeming power of the Lord Jesus Christ. We stood and sang and clapped and rejoiced with our spirits uplifted, reminded again that salvation is personal and has no limit.
“Love lifted me,
Love lifted me,
When no-one but Christ could help
Love lifted me.”
This performance was remarkable in every way. It combined images projected onto large screens on either side with onstage acting. A cast of 8 male actors led us with singing and speech through a young man’s walk from hopeless addiction to freedom. From a dream of stardom, through the trap of free drugs, via addiction to degradation, crime, and eventually prison we were made to feel the aching despair.
The drug-related death of a friend just at the end of his sentence brought the “hero” up with a start and enabled a Teen Challenge street worker to lead him to freedom in Christ. The physical and mental grip of drugs and habit were broken by the Jesus Who Saves to the uttermost.
A long scene at the Teen Challenge Conference Centre gave scope for actors to present their own testimonies and after the finale the actor of the central figure gave his own testimony which was so alike the one he had portrayed.
At a purely human dramatic level, the performance was thoroughly professional and would be a credit to any stage or auditorium. Here we a group of men once rejected as losers, druggies, down-and-outs, performing like trained actors. At the spiritual level it was proof of just how great is the saving, lifting, redeeming power of the Lord Jesus Christ. We stood and sang and clapped and rejoiced with our spirits uplifted, reminded again that salvation is personal and has no limit.
“Love lifted me,
Love lifted me,
When no-one but Christ could help
Love lifted me.”
Sunday 10th May Morning:
Five more of our people went through the waters of baptism in obedience to the commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ. Five more indicated their death to “the law of sin and death” and their life in “the law of the Spirit.”
Their photo’s appear below in the following order:
Irving Smith, Josh Lewis, Michael O’Neill, Larry Challenger, Sian Pitt.
Five more of our people went through the waters of baptism in obedience to the commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ. Five more indicated their death to “the law of sin and death” and their life in “the law of the Spirit.”
Their photo’s appear below in the following order:
Irving Smith, Josh Lewis, Michael O’Neill, Larry Challenger, Sian Pitt.
Sunday 10th May - Evening
We were visited by our old friend Azad Rambali Singh, prior to his returning next day to his ministries in Northern India.
The heart of his message was “seek every opportunity to tell people about Jesus Christ and win them for Him.” Entering the property of a stranger to help him with his gardening was just one of his astonishing methods of creating such an opportunity.
See his page on this site and Azad’s just started website for more information about his work.
A collection at the service added £400 to the £75 Aberkenfig Bible Church provide every month for the vital work of preaching the Gospel among a people weighed down with poverty and the superstitions of Hinduism and animism.
We were visited by our old friend Azad Rambali Singh, prior to his returning next day to his ministries in Northern India.
The heart of his message was “seek every opportunity to tell people about Jesus Christ and win them for Him.” Entering the property of a stranger to help him with his gardening was just one of his astonishing methods of creating such an opportunity.
See his page on this site and Azad’s just started website for more information about his work.
A collection at the service added £400 to the £75 Aberkenfig Bible Church provide every month for the vital work of preaching the Gospel among a people weighed down with poverty and the superstitions of Hinduism and animism.
