IMPACT! details

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!