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Hopeful Story, February 24, 2013

  When you have young people who want to come to church in order to practice for a youth service, you know that something good is happening. That’s the case right now for the group of ten teens that worked hours on perfecting the drama they are performing for us today.
  The youth chose this drama from three that they were shown by Alice Brink, our Youth Zone Co-ordinator, and Nicole, who, with her husband, Paul, has been directing their rehearsals. It is based on a song by the band Delirious called “Our God Reigns.”
  The song and the accompanying drama are full of tension and struggle, an intense visualization of the conflict between good and evil that exists in the world and in all of us. The “freedom” offered by abortions is contrasted to the freedom we have in “a man nailed to a tree.” The costs of AIDS, gun violence, and plastic surgery are weighed against the price of take-out food and the priceless value of people that Psalm 139 celebrates. Our failure and God’s sovereignty are also juxtaposed throughout the piece, while the refrain repeatedly affirms, “Our God reigns, forever your kingdom reigns.”
  How many hours have gone into this production? I’m not sure, really. What I do know is that for the last three weeks pizza boxes have been coming to the church every Sunday at 12:30 p.m. as the last worshippers are exiting the building, fuelling the kids for their two hour Sunday afternoon rehearsals. I also know that Paul and Nicole, Jon, Alice, and the teens have been at the church for a few additional evening practices during the week. All of them were probably at the church this morning at some ridiculous hour, going through it one last time before today’s two services.
  “I love their passion, their commitment and their desire to have it turn out well,” Alice said earlier this week. So do I. And so will you after you have seen their incredible performance
- Pastor Peter

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