Because of early morning traffic, we had to leave at 7 AM from home to get to Prince Royal College to sing at their 8 AM chapel service for part of their eleventh and twelfth grade classes. About half the group woke up early enough to eat a light breakfast. We arrived at this prestigious Christian school (but only maybe 20% of the students and teachers are Christians) with enough time to warm up in a very nice auditorium that seats about 609 and an in-tune medium size grand piano. When the students filed in, the whole downstairs was filled and about a third of the balcony so there were well over 400 students there. Because our time was quite limited, we only got to sing three songs sandwiched around Rachel's testimony and the "heart skit". Sue Utadache, as usual did all the translating but this time she also gave a brief message using Kat and Rachel to illustrate "the bridge between God and man". Unfortunately, we really did not have time to give an invitation but we did sing "Yes, Lord, Yes" as a closing song to challenge the students. After the students left, we were treated to sandwiches and coffee or tea or hot chocolate (so we all ate that for breakfast) and had time to talk to the Chaplain and some of the teachers. We were gratified to find out they have five paid staff whose job is to evangelize among the students and another fifty or so students who follow up and disciple new believers. They even have an Alpha group study for the students that meets on Friday noon (they used to meet on the weekends but many of the non-Christian parents would not permit their children to come back to school on weekends so they moved it to Friday's). We found out that they had 300 conversions last year among the students and four staff became believers. Praise the Lord!
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