Jesus Break 2005

As you can see from the pictures we've just returned home from our consultation roles with the third annual Jesus Break Festival held in an Eastern Bohemian town of about 15,000 people. This is a Christian event that gathers artists, singers and dancers from such disciplines as graffiti art, rap, hip hop, break dancing and a non-contact form of fighting choreographed to music originating from Brazil.

Before we go too much further, We want to introduce Beck, pictured at the right. He has been close to several members of our Liberec Youth Group but steadfastly refuses to yield his life to Christ. He does, however, quite often attend special youth events. Jesus Break was one of them. He is an avid break dancer and has developed a good relationship with Ken, perhaps because of Ken's counter-culture background and conversion testimony. When any of us go deep in conversation with him, he readily admits that "if he ever turns to Christ", he will "go all out and devote his life to sharing the Good News"! He is an engaging young man and has all of the gifts of an evangelist. We're waiting for him to fulfill his own prophecy. During the closing meeting of this year's Jesus Break he stood publicly and told everyone there that he finds something unique and appealing in the lives of his Christian friends and when he figures that out, he will, "chase it with all he has". Add Beck to your prayers...

Jesus Break was an assemblage of about 75 young Czech Christians and their friends that joined in a week-end long town festival. A local Internet Cafe donated a sophisticated light, sound and "smoke" system to be used with a stage donated by one town while the host town contributed financially to the rental and logistic costs of our outreach! CMMI's battery powered sound system was used on the square during the day. Scores of people enjoyed the presentations and just as many heard the gospel through testimonies of the performers and through rap songs. At one point we counted four different ethnic groups and, probably, four generations assembled at our venue. Once again, during the closing meeting there were several very positive responses to the weekend's events and some reported salvations. Whenever such conversions occur, we wait for confirmation from the local church before we "report the role". In the Czech society we love to say, "Uvidime", We will see...

Your task has been in our sending and are now commissioned to pray that the seeds planted truly come to fruit.

We haven't seen too many Swedish teams lately but we can still say,

"It don't get much better than this"!