2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
3 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Today was another great day of Bible Club... Our dismissal went great, and we had 132 children at HBC; 60+ alone in the 5-7 year old class! We had the great opportunity to talk about the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ today, along with a very powerful memory verse...
1 Timothy 2:5, "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;"
It was the turning point in our curriculum as we challenged each child that Jesus Christ alone can save us from our sins. It has nothing to do with our own works to earn grace or favor with God (Eph. 2:8-9; Tts. 3:5). Please pray that the gospel seeds would be firmly planted into good soil! Tomorrow is our last day of HBC, and then we will be preparing for the Sunday morning HBC parent service. Please be praying that everything will go smooth and that many parents will attend this Sunday.
Tonight we also had a great time at a soccer match... Earlier in the week we found out that one of the teens that came to the teen camp had a soccer match on Friday night at 7pm. We told him we would be there, and we went. While we were there, Jeremy Martin and I were reconnected with Rowan, a teenager from Mallow that we played basketball with one day last year after HBC. He and his friends quickly joined us in conversation for the entire match. We had a hilarious time together, and we also had a good small window of time to talk about some spiritual matters. Many of the people here ages 15-30 have walked away from the Roman Catholic Church and almost become agnostic or atheist, and this is exactly what we found with the group of older teens we talked with tonight. They were very surprised to find that we were born-again believers. I definitely got the impression that they have never been able to have such fun conversation and talk so freely with bible-believing Christians... Praise the Lord! We made sure to invite them to a small teen get together we are attending Sunday night at 6pm, so we are hoping to continue building relationships with them before we head home. Please pray for this open door!
In Christ alone,
-Stephen
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