Seeing God Breakthrough In Germany - The Message
27 Jun 2023

Seeing God Breakthrough In Germany

Time has flown and our 2022/23 Message School of Evangelism (MSE) students are getting ready to be commissioned and sent out this weekend into the mission God has prepared for them.

As they’ve spent the last year being trained in evangelism and sent out to put what they’ve learnt into practice, we’ve seen each of them grow in passion and boldness for sharing Jesus in every situation. 20 students were recently out on mission with Message Germany, and we caught up with Hub Leader Sven to hear more about what happened.

‘It was incredible to have the MSE students with us encouraging local churches, young people and teachers. In one school, the team got chatting with one of the English teachers who turned out to be from Manchester too and knew about the work of The Message! It was amazing to connect with him here in Germany and later he shared online:

‘In recent years, I’ve often felt as though I’ve done Christian things but without the power, without the buzz of being on the front line of what God is doing. Today was different. Today we had an MSE team and Message Deutschland at our school. They came into my class, got us dancing and shared their personal stories. It looked like a bit of fun, but I could sense it was impacting some of the class deeply. One boy was already crying because hearing about God’s love and our innate worth and it brought some past trauma to the surface for him.

‘I suggested to the team that they could offer prayer to anyone wanting it and they were excited. As they prayed, my class met with Jesus. It was a beautiful and powerful experience. I was practically in tears myself, just seeing these children hungry for an encounter with God. I was reminded of what really counts in this life. So much is just going through the motions, but this was life-giving and I’m so grateful to have witnessed it!’

‘Isn’t that amazing! We’re blown away by all God did in the school and all the doors he’s opened for us to take gospel-filled lessons into new schools. 

‘And it’s not just schools work that the MSE students got involved in. The teams helped us with youth work too. One day, they were helping at a youth group playing games and performing music, and whilst there Macy shared her testimony about what God has done for her in her life. Her story hit home with several of the young people and the students got to pray with them. One of these was Johanna, who shared, ‘I was abused when I was younger and my grandad has just died and now I want to just give up and die.’ But after the team chatted with her and shared more about God, she said she felt joy!’

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