Te-a prins?

One of the delights of my life right now is working with the teens at our church. This weekend, I got to travel with 18 of them (and four other adults) to a youth conference hosted by Sfanta Treime (Holy Trinity) Baptist Church in Bucharest. About half of the teens who came with us are orphans who live in several of the group homes around town. And the vast majority of the kids had never been anywhere near Bucharest - so they were a lot of fun to travel with! Everything was new and different, somethings that they liked and others that they didn't. I'm a city girl at heart, so I always enjoy time in the capitol.



Although the trip itself was great, the purpose and the highlight were both the conference itself, "Te-a prins?" or "Are you caught?" The challenge of the weekend was to live "In lume dar aproape de El" - "In the world, but close to Him". Our teens joined 500 others from all around the country in singing, praying, and learning together for two days.



The speaker was one of my favorites, simply because he communicates so well with the teens AND because I can listen to him almost without thinking about the fact that he's speaking in Romanian. With some speakers, I have to concentrate so much on understanding the words and sentences that I never really get to concentrate on the message that they form. When Sammy speaks, I can concentrate on the message and be challenged in my own walk with Christ. I have lots to process from the weekend...maybe that's seed for another post later this week sometime (no guarantees...team meetings this week and all of the "extras" that go along with that).