Drug Arm

Every Friday night we are sending out our DTS students into the city to minister to love on young adults through a ministry called Drug Arm. Here's a story from one of our students who went out on Friday night.

"DRUG ARM: A ministry that travels the city of Tauranga, New Zealand; they travel around in a van and hand out meat pies (similar to pot pies, but way better) and hot coffee or hot chocolate to the wasted youth. After enjoying a bit to eat and a hot drink they then receive the Gospel.

Drug Arm has graciously let us as a DTS come alongside of them on a weekly rotation; last night 4 of us tagged along. Before we went to the streets we all spent 2 hours at the, "Tauranga house of Prayer" interceding for the city of Tauranga. We all were fully amped up for the mission; there are to many stories to go in to, so i think i will just give one for tonight.

We drove down to the beach at around 11pm on Friday night. We came upon a group of youth that ranged from 15-17 years old; they told us that the first thing that came to mind when they thought of God was, "BORING". I felt the Spirit direct me to tell a bit about myself; I also felt that i must look into the eyes of one young man in particularly to preach to him the deep desires of God over his life. The Lord highlighted Psalm 16:11 and John 17:24. Also something worthy of note is that when we had began to talk about Jesus the young kiwi started to play some loud techno music from his cell phone; when i talked with him about the nature of God, and that Jesus desired that he be with Him where He is, and that the desire of God is to set him free from the non-satisfying addictions that ultimately leave him disappointed, and that the creator longed to establish a relationship with him; well this will speak for itself; the 16 year old boy turned off the music, turned to his friends and prompted them all to sit down because this was worthy of listening to. They had traveled an hour to escape the bored routine of life and found themselves coming to this new reality that had never been offered from the church they grew up in; i said to the young boy, "how does this make you feel", he simply replied that, "i feel cheated". We left them that night with the challenge of going to God in prayer; when no one can look or laugh at them, go to God in prayer and seek His truth for yourselves; alongside with the promise that we would pray for them.

From 11pm-4:30am we served and shared with close to 50 young adults; sadly the majority of these were between the age of 13-20 years of age. We watched one of them being arrested for underage drinking.

So please be with us in prayer for the city of Tauranga, New Zealand. Seeds are being planted and we are praying that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ would cause an arresting of the hearts of these weak broken kids who long for an acceptance and deliverance from life as they know it."