The Day We Took Malaysia by Storm…
Tuesday, 19 Jan 2010 It felt like catching a weather forecast on TV – a ‘season’ change! All prepped up, my travel ministry kick-started around the time I was considering closing down the café. By God’s grace, He’s been using me to preach but as I made trips alone, within my heart and spirit, I harboured a desire to have a team with me. I thought to myself, “How great would it be if I had a young team ministering along with me.” Exemplary young lives inspiring their peers on and off stage, modelling out what a young person can do for God…and what He could do through them - Simply powerful!
The ‘A Team’? They came…right through the doors of our café in Petaling Jaya. Some were in a ‘transitional’ period; others were looking towards an outlet, and people to understand them. Somehow, our cafe drew quite a few of these people.
Believing in young people is important. I allowed them to serve on the worship team, believing in them before even trying to ‘change’ them. I discovered that prayer would follow the passion, and so will the fashion. I wasn’t really against long hair, but as I walked with these young lives, believe was like a key to shackles; the long locks, earrings eventually dropped off on their own accord! They lost the reason to rebel, no reason to be “different” for difference-sake; it was a real change of heart.
I was glad to create an avenue for them to serve. “Kenneth, what about the earrings, piercings and long hair?” It wasn’t my place to step in, or at least… not yet. In hindsight, I realize that that in youth ministry, we shouldn’t aim for the ‘external’ – we should aim for the heart; give young people the opportunity to serve and allow them to have a taste of God’s goodness, and He’ll change them from the inside out.
Having zero training and no concrete strategy, some would call it bulldozing; I prefer to aptly call it… obedience.
An excerpt from his upcoming and anticipated autobiography, – “Chin Up: Half-Time” targeted to be released in September 2010, Kenneth's walk evidently proves that stepping out in faith is never easy – but having confidence that He is faithful makes the journey easier!
If you’ve got any feedback, let alone extra bottles of creative juice to spare with regards to this book project and its publication, do share those thoughts with the writer via feedback@chinspirations.com.my . His dumbo-sized ears are flapping in anticipation.
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