To follow up after summer camps and keep the momentum, we planned our Big Fall Outreach Project - the Date Talk weekend conference for youth. We rented a nice facility in Carpathian Mountains for three days.
Conference preparation was no lesser job then the conference itself. We hanged many posters and handed out thousands of flyers. We went on campus of Lviv’s largest university (31 000 students) and were personally inviting students. On the photo above you see Britney and Max doing a skit incinerating a fight between husband and wife to draw a crowd of students so that we can hand out conference invitations.
The project was a success. There were 38 people total, few of them were new. By the tears on the eyes of some, I saw God was working in their hearts. Listening to students’ feedback and reports of their parents, I could tell, the conference has deeply impacted the souls of students.
We divided our conference into five sessions, each followed by small group discussion. We also had a lot of fun together, games, dramas, prises, making and shooting the potato canon, hikes, and hotdogs on fire at night. After the conference we took the students on a tour of near by Mukachevo Castle.
This high quality project has increased the level o respect and prestige of our ministry in the eyes of the students.
Besides achieving the main goal – reaching the lost with the Biblical principles about the relationships and dating, there was another blessing. Making a conference like this has caused a huge growth and built-up of our Youth Ministry Team. Half of them are young believers. Responsibilities for leading groups, games, dramas were very beneficial for their maturity.
