We arrived in Greenock, Scotland on Saturday. After lunch we were given flyers announcing the crusade, conference and rally. We left for the local park at nighttime. Crowds of people would be gathered there for their Memorial Day. The park was packed with adults, children, and teenagers. It was very dark even with the street lights on, and the weather was wet, and cold.
Right away you notice the teenage mothers pushing strollers, with plastic covers, and infants inside. My eyes were drawn to the teenagers. Young teenage boys walked in small groups in the street close to the curb. The beautiful fireworks banged, cracked, and popped across the sky, accompanied by military music. The flyers were handed out to teenagers and adults. We must pray for those teenagers to give their lives to Jesus Christ. The wayward life is a wasted life. Jesus gives new life and eternal life
That same night the Business Team leader talked to four teenage girls while the media team video taped them. He told them to get their parents to bring them to the Friday night youth rally at Town Hall. They stood close together and leaned on the park brick wall and giggled and laughed and said, “we will come.” At that moment I thought about the Gate at Times Square Church and the Christian teenagers, and how every Friday night they would bring their friends who do not know the Lord.
The next night we went to a worship service at Mt. Kirk Methodist Church. After the service the assistant pastor shared with us about why the young people no longer come to the church. The older adults are set in their ways, and see no need to make changes for the young. I told him, about the aimless looking teenagers we saw in the local park and standing by the train station, while we waited on Saturday night returning back to our hotel. He told us that there was nothing they could do. The female teenagers were having babies, so that they could get their own flat. He said, “The teenage boys usually leaves the baby and mother.”
Pray Times Square Church for the people in Greenock, Scotland, and especially for the teenagers and the local churches. Jesus, let those four girls go to the rally!!!
#1 by Lisanne at November 13th, 2009
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I think what the team of 230 of you have done is absoultely amazing. I’m from Port Glasgow High School and the team there from New York are so friendly caring and nice! and its taught me alot about Christianity, its not just this old tradition of sitting in the church on sunday and wasting your weekend, it’s a way of seeing things from a whole different point of view, and just believing there must have been someone who was looking out for us and still is - God, I grew up with an alcoholic dad and its like i have someone who will watch out for me when my dad didn’t,God can help me through the bad days and make me smile on the brighter one’s, The team im Port Glasgow High school has helped me realise a lot of things and actually helped me with a problem I’e been having this week with my friends, So thank you for helping me this week and i hope you enjoyed yourselves in Port Glasgow and Greenock and dont hesitate to come back soon
Love Lisanne 