Donevan Impact Feb 5th
Today we had our first Impact at Donevan High school since the exams last week. We started the second session of a series called I AM Getting To Know God. Today’s session was about “When Bad Things Happen”. It consisted of someone sharing a testimony about how her mom was diagnosed with cancer and quickly got ill and soon after died. The young girl sharing the story is talking about how she got angry with God but rather then to run away with the anger, she ran to God with it! we had really good conversations after. one of the questions in the lesson was “If God is such a loving God then why do you think there is suffering?” It was really cool to hear what everyone thought. I challenged my gorup by asking them to ponder on this statement, “Without suffering, there is no compassion.” I told them it was like there would be no need for food if there was no hunger. The fact is that this is the land of the dying. We are not meant to stay here but to move on to Heaven where there IS no pain, sickness and death. We have to make sure that our hope is in whats to come and not in earthly things such as relationships, wealth etc…
Wow, love the thought on compassion and suffering. Never thought of it like that before. You guys are doing some incredible things in that school.
Thats awesome Phil!!!! I wish they had this when I was in high school. Hopefully you can get into every high school in the city!!! This is a great way to reach the students and give them a safe place. Keep up the amazing work.
Love your picture on the link from the church website to your blog. You look great!!!!
Thanks for all your prayers. God is moving!!
Blessings
Andrew
Yes, God IS doing awesome things at Donevan! we are hoping to reach out to more then 1 school. It has been reaaly hard to get in to toher ones. It has really been the favor of God to actually get into Donevan. We are believing fully that the favour of God will be upon us in order to get into all the highschools in Oshawa
Great to hear things are going so well in Donevan. I know when I was there for the talent show (we ripped it up!) we were well received by everyone, including the staff. Awesome things are happening there.