Prayer Please: New Students Need Your Help

Prayer is a powerful strength if you pray relentlessly and with intention

Hi! Sherry and I hope you’re having a wonderful day!

The last half of every year is so exciting for us. In the first half, we tend to do short-term remote work in different countries. But in the last half of the year, the conditions are perfect, and Medialight flies into full international operation. Students come from many different nations for our programs. This year we have Nepal, Ethiopia, Philippines, Thailand, Myanmar, and the USA.

We believe in The holistic care and development of these emerging leaders. We start on day one with storytelling—our stories. Yesterday, we began what could have been a light exercise to give us a little window into each other, so we know each other better. It’s something our daughter Kristin taught us, called “The rose, the thorn, and the bud.”

The idea is to share:

1. The blooming center of your life

2. The painful part you’re having to deal with

3. Your hopeful future bud that is just starting to grow. This may be a new skill or a new interest, something that isn’t your main thing now, but it’s a growing edge and you’re excited about it.

Serious Thorns

Yesterday, each student sat on a stool sharing these three things with their new friends. The mood grew more serious with each story. Lost jobs. Battling infertility. Death of a parent just a few weeks ago. Dealing with a mother whose gambling addiction could cost the family their home. Recent family breakups where mothers or fathers blame them for not taking their side—cutting them off as a punishment. Physically assault just weeks ago.

This isn’t new. It’s one of the main purposes we exist. If Medialight was just a technical school about media, wounded people would come, learn skills, and return to their jobs, churches and ministries to join all the other silently wounded people.

The church anymore spends so most of it’s energy holding an upbeat weekly Sunday event that there’s really not much of a venue where people can be real with each other. I actually think having media training going on is important to give their hands something to do while they talk about more serious things.

Sort of like in a movie. If you want to have a big, serious revelation moment, usually it’s while mom is cutting vegetables or something like that. She doesn’t even look up, but just keeps focused on her work while she tells the truth for the first time. It’s a way of getting a little bit of distance vs. staring eye-to-eye with people. It helps.

Over the years, we’ve seen some truly beautiful breakthroughs in the lives of our students, and we are confident we will see it again this year. But this is deep spiritual warfare, and we truly need your help in prayer.

Please set a time each day to pray for a dozen talented emerging leaders who need to get started on healing, alignment and catching a vision for their future as God’s new voices.

Thanks for standing with us in this vital work!

It’s working!

Chuck and Sherry