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| KPM2008 |
It’s the largest youth leader’s conference in Eastern Europe! Every year, youth leaders from all around Slovakia converge on our city of Zilina to be challenged, inspired and motivated to give of themselves to the youth of Slovakia. For four days, we packed out the largest conference center in our town to it’s capacity (about 650 participants).
Our theme for this year was based on a Slovak riddle which reads “What is rich, but often experiencing poverty?” The answer, in our context, is a Christian who does not know his spiritual identity in Christ. So, the focus the conference teaching was our spiritual identity as believers before God. Founded on the book of Ephesians, we emphasized that our identity as believers is that of royal sons and daughters of God, seated with Christ at the right hand of our Father – forgiven, accepted and loved.
There was a palpable energy in the air as hundreds of dedicated youth workers (most volunteers) looked around and realized that there were hundreds of other passionate youth workers sacrificing themselves for another generation of Christ followers. The energy often burst out in cries of enthusiasm, tears, laughter and applause.
From the Kompas staff perspective, we wonder how the event can get any better. One participant said boldly, “this is the best event for Christians in the whole country”. But definitely, God sustained it all, by intervening time after time in places of weakness and enabled parts of the plans or programs to go forward. And in the end, an army of youth leaders went back to their towns and villages better equipped and more passionate to reach the next generation of Christ followers.
