Buddy System

I had been really looking forward to going to the Youth Detention Centre, just outside Perth I believe, all week and today, Sunday, was the day. There were lots of rules and guidelines and stuff that were explained in our pre-debriefing last week, and then before we left base today we had to get into our partners (who we had to stay with and beside.. arms distance at the most). So it was me and Christian, one of the staff of YP, and he's super cool so it was fun. It was acutally funny this one time leaving the gym going back I was walking with some other girls and I hear my name and I move to find the voice and Christian slaps his hip and he's like, "get up here".. so I was well guarded lol - anyways. Their wing is massive and apparently there are like 5 other prisons surrounding the one that we were in and they have the biggest one for 100 residents while the neighbouring one had upwards to 800 inmates so that was crazy. Anyways ya it was massive.
We ran a church service for them, which afterwards we found out they hadn't had a church service in over a year and half, so I was super suprised by that. They range from 12 to 17 I think so they were pretty anti - focus lol if you catch my drift but 4 did get saved (of the approximately 50 - 80 people that came) so that was amazing. A few others were interested in learning more and getting a Bible so that was really cool also.
It was funny after the service and we were just hanging out and talking and trying to decifer lies of why they were there to their real lives and having a genuine conversation. So .. you never what they're really talking about haha.
Anyways so right now we just really want to pray for those that made the decision to follow Jesus today and to protect them from anything that can happen while they are in there for whatever amount of time, and also that they'll find God in their situations, that God would clearly be there with them, challenging and supporting them whether or not they have the support of family or friends.