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Dear Friends in Christ,

Last night at youth group it came up in discussion time that coming to Koinonia Youth Group is a place where people aren’t ‘Judgey’, and that kids can be themselves. It was in comparison with many other places kids are surrounded by other kids.

It made me grateful that we have this ministry here in the area to be a place of comfort for young people to feel free from much of the expectations they feel from the world.

There have been many other times that discussion would come up as to ‘why do you come to Koinonia Youth Group’? And like most kids they say they like getting together with friends. But the friends here are easier to be with. They are more accepting and not ‘Judgey’!

And why is that? In many ways these kids are just like any other kid in the world and deal with the same imperfectness, but there is a special spirit here that is different. It is this: Matthew 18:20 …
For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them”.

It makes me think: ‘How many places in the world can you find this kind of atmosphere’? It’s unlike any other the world has to offer. The world has many resources and doing helpful things, but there is nothing that can come close to the miraculous things that happen around the workings of Jesus Christ in the spirits of people.

That same night a young man happened to show up early and he and I got to talking about how we sense the presence of Jesus in our lives. We both found it a bit hard to find the perfect words to describe the mysterious way it happens that Christ is working His presence personally, ‘but He is’! The young man said it was a mysterious thing, but real.

What a blessing to get to be a part of seeing and hearing about the Lord’s mysterious working in the lives of young people in the secret hard to explain places of a person’s heart, but it is happening!

So, again. Thank you for helping to make this ministry a safe place for kids to come and not feel ‘Judgey’……and especially, to meet and to know that Jesus is ‘…among them’!

Lord Bless,

Larry