When Did it All Go Wrong? Caving In & Dropping Out
Teens Conference (aka TC) is the annual 2-day evangelistic conference for High School students run by Ambassadors for Christ in Canada. Aimed at reaching the English (and Cantonese) speaking Chinese youth in the Greater Toronto Area, Rev. Arthur Wong of my home church (TJCAC) just had the privilege of being the speaker for this year’s Senior conference (they have so many kids attending that they need to split the conference up into Jr and Sr). I myself have attended numerous TCs in my younger years, and it has certainly played a significant part of the spiritual journeys of the young Chinese Christian generation in the Southern Ontario.
That Many Would Be Saved
Like all Christian conferences, it has its positives and negatives. There’s usually a lot of loud screaming and cheering that went along with highly competitive team games, numerous hormone-driven adolescent “macking” opportunities, and all-around adrenaline-driven teen rowdiness. Combine that with evangelistic preaching, emotion-filled hands-raising worship music, intimate fellowship, and applicable Bible studies, what this results in is in quite a fun-filled 2 days in the middle of March Break. By the end of the two days, you usually lose your voice from screaming cheers and singing at the top of your lungs — a supposed sign that you’ve really met with the Lord. (more…)
