At the start of the year, two of the senior boys, David and Oscar, both felt God leading them to start a Bible study to reach out to the high school students. They started off with just the two of them, then it grew to 4, and now they have had up to 17 students attend. They meet every Friday night, have a time of food and fellowship, then David or Oscar will share from God's word.
This past Friday night, Oscar's parents were out of town, and they told Oscar in order for them to have the study at their house, they would need a chaperone. Well, Oscar and David decided to ask Matt and I, so we went. It was an amazing thing for us to witness. Of course it was fun to sit around and hang out with students, students from all different "clicks" from the schol. But it was so powerful to watch David lead a study and discussion about the body of Christ. To listen to them pray for their fellow students, and life struggles. To hear them talk about the need to witness to those in their school, to reach out and pursue one new person each week to bring to the study. To hear them talk about how hard it will be, how they may be made fun of, but how they need to continue to press on and take on the leadership role God has called them to.
What a tremendous blessing for us to be there and to watch this happen. It is just what we needed to witness. The reminder we needed of why we followed God's call away from our home, our family and friends, to serve in Vienna, Austria at Vienna Christian School. This is why we are here, to help students in anyway possible to reach this point of maturity and leadership in their faith, even if we're just the chaperones.
Please join us in praying for this Bible study and all the students involved, as more students step up and want to share and help lead in the study. We truly believe great things will happen through this study and the leadership of these young men.
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