Lynn Green

Author: Lynn Green

  • The Send (Brazil)

    The Send (Brazil)

     

    **This is a personal website and reflects my thoughts and convictions. It does not represent any official position held by Youth With A Mission.**

     

    A Youth movement of astonishing proportions is occurring around the world.  At the moment, it is under the radar here in Europe, but I want to tell you about it and also to encourage you to pray that the young people of Europe will also engage with this very significant development.

    Essentially, it consists of at least hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of committed Christian young people who really believe that they can change the world for the better.  The most obvious manifestations of this movement are occurring in large events. Many know about Soul Survivor for example here in the UK but that is just one example.

    A few months ago, there was a Missions called “The Send” in a stadium in Orlando with about 55 thousand people in attendance.  The sense of God’s presence reported by all who were there was palpable and there were countless healings, young people committing themselves to Missions and astonishingly committing themselves to adopt a million children over the next several years!  A commitment, which is linked to their deep concern over how many babies are killed in the womb.

    The YWAMers and others who have formed a collation for “The Send” felt God saying they should go to Brazil next.  While I was in the Middle East with some of them just a few days back, they opened registration for a stadium event in São Paulo.  The stadium has a capacity of 65 thousand.  In the first few hours the website was open that capacity was exceeded.  Those who registered had to pay too, and still it was exceeded.  They closed the registration site after 28 hours because nearly 125,000 had registered or tried to, only to find that all places were taken within the first few hours.

    The Send Brazil (Trailer)

     

    Whilst in the Middle East I met with some of the younger leaders who are organising event.  They had just finished praying about what to do about their “problem”.  As I write they are exploring the availability of two other large stadia in São Paulo.  This Brazilian “The Send” will happen on February 8th and has already served to illustrate that a great Missions movement has arisen in Brazil.  I am excited about that!

    Word about “The Send” is spreading rapidly around the world.  Now it’s not hard to imagine that a million new missionaries could be added to the “labourers in the harvest”.  In our life-time, we could see the scriptures available to every home on earth.  And the good news about the grace of God in Christ Jesus could be proclaimed to every person on earth!

    Lynn Green.

  • The Hare with the Amber Eyes

    The Hare with the Amber Eyes

     

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    THE HARE WITH THE AMBER EYES
    By Edmund de Waal


    Rothchild, Ephrussi – two powerful banking families but only one of those names is widely known today.  Why?  How did two Jewish families, one from Frankfurt and the other from Odessa in the Ukraine become so powerful in international finance and political matters? 

     This fascinating book, which follows the rise and demise of the Ephrussi family, was recommended to me by my friend Albert Joly.  The author is a descendant of the Ephrussi family and a renown artist.  Marti and I read it on holiday a few years ago and couldn’t stop talking about it.  The Ephrussi family gained a monopoly on wheat from the Ukraine in the late 1700s.

    From that base, they went into banking and were architects of the modern banking system.  Within two generations they had homes and banks in the most influential capitols of Europe, were patrons of the great impressionist artists and friends with heads of state across the continent. 

    All that began to change in the 1930s.  Both families were primarily based in Austria and had been donors to and supporters of the government.  When Hitler rose to power, the Rothchild’s began moving assets to Switzerland and other nations but the Ephrussi’s were sure they would be safe.  You can guess why their name is not known today.

    The title of this book might have piqued your interest, but I won’t produce an explanation here. Just read this wonderfully creative, brilliantly written, history of some of the greatest power brokers in history.

     

  • Dutch Girl

    Dutch Girl

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    **This is a personal website and reflects my thoughts and convictions. It does not represent any official position held by Youth With A Mission.**

     

    Earlier this week a very dear friend of ours spoke to our community about how much God loves us and how his love transformed her.  She spoke transparently about being repeatedly raped by a family member when she was just a young girl.  Her infectious joy and love for everyone touched each of us; what she said and how she said it inspired us all to love God more and to love one another through thick and thin.

    The next morning, the newspapers reported that a 17-year old rape victim had been euthanized in Holland, at her request.  Our friend’s heartbroken response to that news was, “Oh, how I wish I had just had a day with her!”

    When a secular state is faced with a depressed teenager who doesn’t want to live, utilitarian materialism goes into action.  The reasoning is quite clear and understandable: This girl is hopeless and does not want to live, so we see no reason to hope for her.  She will almost certainly be dependent on the state if she continues to live; she is an autonomous individual who wants to die, so we will help her kill herself.

    The next day the authorities in Holland put out a statement to clarify that they had not actually killed her; they had just helped her to starve and dehydrate herself to death.  I don’t think that makes much difference.  The authorities just agreed with her that there was no hope for her future.

    When our friend (now late 60’s) was speaking the night before, she was full of humour and joy and had everyone laughing uproariously,  but her message was deep and life-changing.  When she spoke of her pain as a child and young woman and her desire to die, she said, “Little did I know that God would fashion my pain into an instrument to set others free.”  She has now worked with victims of incest and rape in people groups where it is almost the norm for young women. Through her,  many have experienced the power of what the scriptures teach, “This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person.  The old life is gone; a new life has begun!” (2 Corinthians 5:17).

    As far as I know, this is the first case of a person that young being granted governmental help to commit suicide; but it won’t be the last.  Now that it has been done, the numbers will increase; that’s just the way our secular drift goes.  It will become more and more deadly in this hurting generation of young people.  Who will give them hope?

    May the Lord call many young evangelists—people who are full of hope and the power of the Holy Spirit to heal people inside and out!  As Jesus exhorted us, “So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send more workers into his fields.” 

    Dutch girl, 17, who was sexually abused at 11 and raped as a 14-year-old is legally euthanised at her home by ‘end-of-life’ clinic because she felt her life was unbearable due to depression

    • Noa Pothoven from Arnhem died last Sunday in a hospital bed in her living room
    • She had suffered from a post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anorexia
    • In a final Instagram post the teenager wrote ‘Love is letting go, in this case,’ and asked her followers not to try and change her mind
    • Euthanasia has been legal in the Netherlands under strict conditions since 2002 

    By MIRANDA ALDERSLEY FOR MAILONLINE

    PUBLISHED: 12:35, 4 June 2019 | UPDATED: 17:57, 4 June 2019

  • When Your Leaders Move On

    When Your Leaders Move On

     

    **This is a personal website and reflects my thoughts and convictions. It does not represent any official position held by Youth With A Mission.**