A day of open doors and answered prayers!

Today was a beautiful day of experiencing the amazing ways God can work, opening doors and bridging a community together through ways we don’t understand.

This morning our team gathered together to pray, talk and share about our different ministries. We spent time lifting up our community as well as the local Warden Woods Community Center. This community center is in the heart of the community and is a location we would love to be able to run our programs out of and be more connected with to work alongside.

There is a bit of a court battle currently going on to do with this community center and we have continued to pray for opportunities to partner with them. This morning we were particularly praying for the youth worker who is being forced to leave (due to contracts) even though she had a heart to stay and continue working with the youth people. We prayed that she would not be discouraged and that God would provide for her as well as for her salvation for my co-worker was going to present the gospel to her.

Next in the day I headed over to Warden Woods Public school to run a cubing club over lunch hour for grades 4, 5 and 6. Recently I found out that the vice principle of the school is a Christian and attends the church we run program out of. As I walked through the hallways of the school I was filled with joy as kids ran up to me, boys I suspended from camp for Tuesday and Thursday (due to them fighting) came running to tell me that they were for sure coming on Friday. I was amazed at the open doors and networking that was happening as we met new kids.

After camp tonight as we met back at the community center to debrief the team where we heard from the youth worker that at 2 p.m. that afternoon was called into the office and was asked to stay. She agreed! What a complete turn around! 

My co-worker was able to share with her that we had prayed for her early that day. She was amazed and asked why and then proceeded to go around telling everyone that we had prayed for her. Kind of reminded me of how the lame man went into the temple courts praising God! She wants to meet with my community center and discuss how we can work together more and do big things in this community!

Such a quick obvious answer to prayer that had others giving thanks to God! Please continue to pray for Warden Woods Community Center. For more opportunities to work together, please pray for this woman’s salvation as we desire to share the gospel with her! Pray for big things to come out of the bridges forming within this community!