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 mans’ 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.”



Easter 2009: Our Good Friday Service included a presentation of “Portraits of the Passion” which comprised scenes on the screen with a four person narration of the events of the Last Supper; Gethsemane,;the Trials before High Priests, Herod, and Pilate; and the Crucifixion.

On Easter Sunday we once again celebrated together the Resurrection from the dead of the Lord Jesus Christ. After the service we enjoyed a family meal together.

The previous Sunday, 5th April, three of our members went through the waters of baptism in obedience to the command of the Lord Jesus, identifying themselves with his Death and Resurrection.

“He who honours me before men, I will honour before my Father in heaven.”

Below are photos of the baptisms of Ivor Lloyd, Rob Fuller, and Matthew Kinsey