A heart for the youth.

On Wednesday September 24th a group of 25 danish teenagers and 5 teachers from a christian boarding school came to the ship. Me and 5 others were to put on a program for them. We wanted to show them the ship and what we do on the ship but also challenge them. We have notice that in the society here money is very important. Everyone is very well dressed and it seems as though everyone is well off. So we wanted to challenge the group by asking them where their security lies. Most danish people put all of their security in money, if they have money then everything is okay. We wanted to show them how much they have compared to other people around the world. We also split them in groups and and each of us shared our testimonies with a group of about 6 or 7. I share with a group and at the end they didn't really talk, they didn't want to talk about it but during my testimony I could see in some of the girls faces that they were hurting. my heart broke for those girls. I wanted to talk to them so bad but the language barrier made it so hard. The kids could understand a little English but we had to have translators the whole time, its hard to have a intimate conversation with someone when you have a translator in the middle. So I didn't get the chance to talk to those girls but I know that I still made some sort of impact on their lives. So after the testimonies we gave them a tour of the ship, this was their favorite part. After the tour it was time for them to leave. It was so cool to see that these kids really did enjoy themselves and they have fun hanging out with us. I just hope that they got something more out of their day with us other than seeing a big ship, i hope that we challenged them.
This was my first time cordinating an event on the ship and it went very well. This event really broke my heart for the teens of Koge. They are broken and hurting and i want so badly to reach out to them. There is no youth group in Koge for teens to go to, if a teen from Koge wants to go to a youth group they have to go to Copenhagen, which is about 45minutes away from Koge. These teens have no outlet to reach God and i want to help to change this.