James, Richard, Allan and I set off
for our treasure we went into town because 2 of the clues were for post house
Wind and the other was H Samuels, so… off we went…. We soon encountered a
group of Young people; we engaged with them and started to throw around
questions around our clues.
We talked around our clue cards
seeing if we could find matches.
A Young Man Matched Name, Location,
Hot of arms, horse riding, visits Darlington, Uni or College.
How: His name was J. he met up
with his friends near H Samuels today, Hot of arms turns out to be painful
growing pains, horse riding = He used to go horse riding around a year ago and
misses it, visits Darlington = He is in and out of Darlington every week day
because his school is outside of Darlington, Uni or college = He is planning to
go to Uni or College after this school yr. (he is 15) We prayed with this young
man and thanked God for him and asked God to make himself known in his life.
Meanwhile, the rest of the
youngsters were fascinated and asking lots of questions. We (J, R A and
T) offered all pray and all took prayer. A young lady had a 10 month old
baby and was emotional with motherhood, another young lady talked to me about
her family being of ill health, Allan prayed with a young man saying he felt he
would do well in life but he would only find what he is looking for in
God. We departed from the group feeling well worked!! J
Walking on, Allan felt drawn to a
couple of lads fast approaching us. I offered them an Explorer card to
which the Cider lad said He was not interested. We struck a conversation
with the lads mostly Cider Man who explained that there was far too much going
on in the world to think about to be bothered with God. Allan felt that
one of his clues ‘Pray for’ was directly for Cider man. Allan let Cider
man know that the Devil is in the detail and he knows that God wants to set him
free. Meanwhile James and Richard are meeting and greeting people in the
town introducing themselves and offering help and support and checking if they
fit clues.
Cider man and his friend did not
want any prayer but chatted quite openly around the specific details he needed
to know before he could entertain the thought of God. We left wishing
them well and shook hands thanking them for their time.
Passing a burger van that was a clue
on a previous treasure hunt we popped our heads round to say hello and give the
guy an Explorer Card.
We walked slowly towards Post House
Wind passing Escapades we started to chat to 3 bouncer lads who worked
there. We sat on the wall chatting to them. They asked us what we
were doing so…. we told them! (Door opened thank you God you are
greaaat!J) James asked about the bouncer lads church back ground.
One confessed to being a left footer (lol he quickly told me that meant
Catholic ;) the other used to be a Youth leader at St. Andrews and the other is
a family man. James prayed for Family man’s painful knee to be healed (J)
Allan, Richard and I prayed for the other 2 guys thanking god for them and
asking God to reveal himself to them and to bless them.
Moving on to Post House Wind Allan
and I encountered some jealously! Passers-by were merrily tipsy with
slurred speech. We gave out Explorer cards and laughed along with them
realising it probably wasn’t a good idea to start deep conversations with them
at that point.
Walking up to high row and around
towards an amusement arcade we spotted various people J. Giving out Explorer cards and
inviting them to jump into our treasure hunt cards! We stopped to briefly
re-cap what had already happened that night. All 4 of us were feeling
very lifted and full of beans at how fruitful the night had been.
Gazing over we spotted 3 young
ladies sat on a bench chatting. Richard felt the pull to go over I
accompanied him we started a conversation relating to T.Hunt. One of the
girls was loud and intrigued by what she was hearing. Saying that her
friend next to her was who we were looking for (she wasn’t like!). We talked
with the girls and they told us they had gone to a catholic school prior to the
one they were at. They all confessed to being Christians already having
attended a Catholic school already.
A young lady ‘Miss Bubbly’ was
asking a lot of questions around God and wanted to know the ins and outs of all
things we were doing and have ever done. The other 2 girls were starting
to get interested by the answers to Miss Bubbly questions also when we
explained how the treasure hunt worked and our first encounter of the
night. They offered information about each other and wanted to see if
they fit any clues. Miss Bubby said that she was a Gypsy which shocked me
because after the town Allan and I were going to a sight in Darlo where Gypsy’s
were based as that was one of my clues! As time went on the girls and us
realised that they were fitting my clues:
Location = gypsy – miss bubbly
Name = no match
Appearance = casual checked shirts
and shiny earrings – all 3 girls looked at each other at this point
realising they all had casual checked girly shirts on! J Ha
ha God you are good!
Unusual – broken down car/ broken
down spiritually = one of the girls mum had a faith but lost is and the other
girls brother’s car had broken down the day before. The atmosphere got
more and more celebrationary as we were realising the extent of the night.
Pray for- gossip is untrue – the
girls in amazement said they had all been arguing because of rumour that had
been going around and tonight was the night they decided to lay it to rest and
get on with their friendship.
As this was going on Richard had an
encountered a match to his clue and started a conversation off with that guy.
One of Richards’s clues was Twin
Towers which matched for Miss bubbly and the 2 girls as they had been studying
the twin towers at school. (wow wee!!!!!!)
We prayed for the girls individually
telling them truths about how God sees them that they are beautiful young
ladies and are children of God’, I asked God to relight beliefs/faiths they had
before and asked God to reveal himself to them in a special way. All 3
girls said they would come to Explorer Sunday.
WHAT A NIGHT! TOTALLY BLESSED AND
INSPRIED BY GOD AS USUAL – HE IS GOOD!
