I have sensed for sometime that God has been urging me to return to the subject of “Mentoring the Joshua Generation” and consequently I will be using the next several President’s Newsletters to discuss this very important topic.  I urge you to share these letters with your members, pass them on by email or by hard copy, but share them you must; I believe it is God’s heart for the Fellowship in this hour.

Several weeks ago Roger Sonnesyn, a man whom I had mentored in the Fellowship a decade or so ago, asked me to fly to Minneapolis to assist him in starting several FGBMFI Chapters in the state of Minnesota.  On Tuesday evening I was taken to the University of Minnesota’s “Dinky Town” where I spoke in a Campus Coffee House called the “Hot Spot”.  When I arrived at the Coffee House the meeting was in progress and the students were being led in worship by a young man; after 15 minutes or so several students went to the microphone and offered short prayers.  John Tolo, a young man in his thirty’s who was the leader and founder of the Hot Spot, brought a young blond girl named Caroline, in her early twenties, to the microphone and encouraged her to give a short testimony.  She was dressed in a two piece dress with a low cut top revealing more than a fair share of her bosom. Her hair was fashioned into two Gnostic pigtails that reached toward heaven like the horns on a Viking’s helmet.  Her lower lip and ears were pierced with a silver rings and the visible portions of the anatomy were decorated with several tattoo’s.  Her eyes were trimmed in heavy black mascara. This young lady had only recently accepted Christ as her savior, and I gathered that this was one of her first opportunities to share before the group.  She began to emotionally share how alcohol and drugs had destroyed her family, apparently causing several of them to die early deaths. As she shared she broke into tears and her mascara began to mix with the tears making dark streaks down her cheeks.  Soon a number of other students had surrounded her, hugging her, and offering her love and comfort.