The past few days of camp have been great. Lots of great relationships are forming, and kids are hearing a clear message of the love of Jesus Christ. Today, Erik and I had the privilege of listening to recordings of Taivan's club talks while he translated them to English. We were impressed with the clarity and content of his words.
His first talk was simply focused on the fact that God exists. Many of the Mongolian schools are required to teach big bang theory and evolution as fact. Atheism is the norm. Taivan attacked this falsehood head on by showing a video containing incredible views of God's creation and sharing details about the complexity of the universe that simply couldn't have come to be by any accident.
His second talk was about the night that Jesus calmed the storm. He shared a storm from his own life, from a time when he was failing out of university while trying to help his mother pay bills. But when he gave that over to God, he graduated with straight A's the next year. This seemed to connect with many of the kids. Taivan let them know in no uncertain words that Christ can calm even their storm.
Tonight, the talk was on Jesus healing the leper in Mark. Taivan focused on the compassion of Jesus this night, rather than his power, as he had the night before. As I type this, kids are sitting in cabin time, in sacred space, discussing the implications God's existence has on their lives if he is in fact powerful and compassionate.
This post-club cabin time is one of my favorite times. It's when I know that God is moving, doing work that no one can see. It's a sacred space, a holy time, anointed by God himself. At the leaders' meeting today some of the leaders shared about their cabin times. They are going great. Kids are coming to realize that Jesus is the Savior of the world, as some have already confessed. The fields are ripe in Mongolia. I'm so humbled to be among the workers of the harvest.
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