Tales from a world tour

Below is Cindy Ruakere's final email from their world missional tour. She carries the life and zeal of God that has at its core the power to call up a new generation to live for the Jesus to the ends of the earth. We salute the whole team. You have inspired us all.

Fraser.


How fitting that as we near the end of the Karanga tour we come to Herrnhut, the founding place of the Moravian battlecry, ‘that the Lamb may receive the reward for His suffering’. The place that is once again inspiring a generation.

For me it began in 2003 when Fraser Hardy spoke about Count Ludwig Von Zinzendorf and the Moravians at Edge Church family camp. I was inspired to write Receive from that encounter, a song that would come to encapsulate my predominant message to inspire a youth generation into prayer and mission – kaahore te oranga o te tangata mo ia anake..

The song that has since sent me into the world, a song that would eventually lead us into doing this thing called the 2007 Karanga tour.

The YWAM conference that we were invited to participate in called mission live is in place to challenge and provoke people into thinking about and eventually doing mission. And challenge and provoke we did, as only we can. Jay joined us for this stint and it was so good to be reunited with our bro..to play with him again..to hear this provocative message that God is raising up in him. The German people received this message in a way that we have rarely seen on this tour. There was the initial shock as we pulled no punches and plunged straight into the challenge of what mission looks like for them, German youth. The provocation to rise up beyond the shame of the war…the fear of rallying…the horror at the thought of seeing masses united again for one purpose has riddled them with anxiety and laced them with mediocrity. So God sends from the ends of the earth provocateurs who will raise the battle cry within them and raise it up we did; as Jay confronted them and I’m sure at times affronted them, you felt the corporate flinching as he spoke about a fatherland that was to father nations for Jesus. It was gentle but provocative, at times like a scalpel, at times like a hammer but through it all it seemed to awaken a longing in them. a valid longing, a true God induced longing that goes back centuries. From Zinzendorf and the heroes from Herrnhut to Tilmann Geske who was martyred in Turkey on april 18th 2007.

So we did what we were sent here to do. The joy to see the message received and absorbed was so encouraging, especially as we near the end of this Karanga tour. We know that from this one weekend God added to the hope and dream of a man by the name of Jan C. Schlegel to see 10,000 German believers raised up and sent out again unto the ends of the earth..to every nation...

Kein mensch jebt fuer sich selbst…

Kaahore te oranga o te tangata mo ia anake…

Cindy Ruakere.