Anja

It's the end of the school year and the students are busy preparing for their final exams. Anja has a music class and her teacher told her she'd have to sing something for her final. Anja loves music, has learned so much about worship and song writers and singers, but had a bad experience growing up and prefers not to sing anymore. So her teacher told her that if she didn't sing she's have to give a 45 minute presentation on something having to do with music. She suggested she go to a concert and give a report on it. Well...Anja already had plane tickets and tickets to a Chris Tomlin concert in Scotland for the 9th of June. So her teacher told her she could share about that. Anja told us, "I'm so excited! I HAVE to talk to my classmates about God and they're going to ask me, 'why did you talk about God so much?' and I'm going to tell them because I wanted a good grade. It's what the concert was about."

Then we all heard that Hillsong Australia was going to be coming to Slovenia to do a concert. Anja felt like the Lord was leading her to contact them to see if they could come and speak about worship during part of her presentation for music class. And her teacher said that would be fine. So she worked hard at getting in contact with them and eventually she did and they said they would love to come to her music class.

Last night was the second of six concerts they're doing in Slovenia and afterward Anja went "back stage" =) and met David, the lead singer and checked to see if they were still up for coming to her class today, which they were. (By the way...a lot of people went forward at the end of the concert to receive Christ, it was awesome to see the Lord drawing hearts in Slovenia to Himself.)

Anja just called to say that the presentation went great and that 11 of her classmates are going to the concert tonight. And that her classmates were coming up to her afterward to thank her for sharing. It was quite the opposite reaction she had thought it would be.

We are so proud of Anja and excited about what the Lord is doing in her heart. Also, she shared on the way home from the concert last night about a test she took in Seventh grade that gives you a suggestion for what you would be naturally good at and interested in for an occupation. When she took it then, it said she should be an Architect. She was at school recently and saw the test on a computer and decided to take it again. This time it told her she should be a Missionary! She said, "So I don't know what that means...there weren't even any questions about church or God or anything like that." We think the Lord has His strong, leading hand on this young woman's life and are privileged to watch Him direct her path.