On 9th Oct, we've organized a one day youth seminar -RESCUE for the young people in our city.
Addictions, suicides and death have increased rapidly these years in our City.
The news headlines are shocking, Drugs caught in a School, a 9 year old caught up using drugs in a school, drugs in pubs... and many others. It's really shocking for us, 'cause our city of Visakhapatnam is called, THE CITY OF DESTINY. But now, our destiny has become more towards death and destruction, shockingly, the majority of victims are young people and teenagers.
So God inspired us to organize a youth conference on these topics- Drug addiction, sexual immorality, pornography, intimacy dis order and mental imbalance. Point blank! Especially to the Non- Christian youth. First of it's kind, Church addressing the social issues openly. It was not a revival meeting, not a healing crusade, not a power ministry, not any Christian kind of meeting. Many of my friends and Pastors discouraged us by saying people may not turn up especially the young ones. We prayed, stick on to God's word, had simple publicity. To our surprise, 173 young people have turned in. College students, employees, and Christian youth. Wow! Good music(all Christian songs), and choreographs kept up the mood. We showed them the problem, the consequences, and the solution. No dos and don't s. An open invitation of hope. When given an altar call of how many are involved in the pornography and sexual immorality and want to come out of it, 95% of them lifted up their hands up!!!
They prayed, repented for their sins, asked Jesus to come into their heart and went home with confidence of The Holy Spirit helping them in their daily situations and challenges. So simple, so pure are their renewed faces and what a glorious scene it is to see people accepting Jesus as their Savior, their minds being renewed and youth taking a paradigm shift to lead a holy life from now on. A must see scene. Please CONTINUALLY up lift these young people in your prayers.
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