God Was About To Do Something Way Different

Hi all! We'll today was like any other Tuesday, the team got up, got dressed and we started the day with our daily bible study in the morning. We then started to load our sound equipment into the car to make the trip to Monument Park High School in Kraaifontein in the Western Cape, where we do the CSA (Christian Student Association) period every Tuesday.

But today turned out not to be like any Tuesday before it, you could feel that God was about to to something WAY different!

We set up the sound, made sure everything was working, then we started to pray and worship for the short time we had before the period started, but I can tell you that it was AWESOME, we were praying for probably about 15-20min, but you could feel the atmosphere of the school shift, if that makes any sense, like an athlete taking in his place just before the starter gives the signal. So the bell went and the kids started to pile into the hall, about 1200 of them. We started like always, opened in prayer and then showed our latest episode of Miffbusters, just to get their attention, then we showed Louie Giglio's DVD Fruitcake and Ice Cream, where he reads from Ashley's journal. It wasn't long before there wasn't a dry eye in the house, seriously if you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and watch it! As the dvd finished, Gerhard (our team leader) went on stage and talked about God's amazing grace, and how even if you feel God cannot love you, He still does. Gerhard then asked that everyone close their eyes, and he proceeded to make an altar call, asking anyone who wants to get to know Christ and needs His grace and salvation to just put up their hands, probably about 200 kids put up their hands, which I think was kinda impressive. But then he asked them to be bold, and challenged those who put up their hands, those who want to accept Christ into their lives to stand up, now I have to admit at this point I was thinking, "no way, no way they are going to get up, this is a public high school!", oh and I have to add that the ENTIRE school was in the hall. Gerhard said he was going to count to 3, and then wanted them to stand up and make that statement. He started to count, 1, 2, 3. . . when he reached 3 a handful stood up, then, 1second later, 90% of the school stood up! That's about 1000 students standing up to acknowledge and receive Christ! I mean if that doesn't blow your mind nothing will! We were so overwhelmed the entire team started to cry, myself included. Gerhard then continued to lead them in prayer to receive Christ. Afterward so many of them came to us, just asking us to pray with them, most of them with tears running down their cheeks, it was AMAZING to see what God did in that school today!

So I hope this story has touched you as it did us today, and to the students at Monument Park High School, WELCOME TO THE FAMILY GUYS!

Stephen