Train Youth Courage

through Performing Arts

World Prayer Day celebrated by GKSBS on Sunday, March 5th, 2017, during the church service was followed by the congregation of six service areas with full respect and orderly. Though not all members could attend, the service remained lively. This current World Prayer Day used Philippine liturgy aiming to invite the congregation to remember how women have fought for justice.

The service was held in 2 hours and started at 10.00 A.M in GKSBS Kurotidur Building, KT service area. The assembly and liturgical officer wore white shirt and pinned ‘stola’. The special thing of that day was no sermon conveyed by the preacher and the scripture reading was taken from joint reflection read by an officer.

One more special thing was a group of theater players that took part in the service. Simply and solely, they are GKSBS Kurotidur youth that in a few weeks has made theatrical practice with Stube-HEMAT multiplicator in Bengkulu, Yohanes Dian Alpasa. The actors and actress are Arif Purnomo Sidiq (Sidiq), Dwi Pranaditya (Adit), Dwi Pujiono (Dwi), Marta Lita Viani (Marta), and Yunus Eka Prasetyo (Yunus). Each player played different acts. Dwi became a seller of fried tofu and fried ‘bakwan’. Yunus became a pot sales man. Sidiq became a rich and arrogant prayer. Adit became a poor prayer. Marta became an arrogant prayer.

The show performed in 10 minutes. First the pot salesman appeared, followed by a believer and a rich arrogant man. Then the poor who prayed with humility came. The show was closed with Jonah’s message that praying should not feature wealth or service. It is enough to pray with humility.

There are some points learned by these young people. The first is about discipline because performing art requires each member to appreciate time and opportunity. Once they neglected, the show will not run optimally. The second is the ability to be cooperative and capability to understand one another. Even one show makes the ability of its player to work together improving. It can be seen in the interaction and synergy among youth that is increasing since they practice. The third, the ability to convey messages, opinions, and ideas in the public is improved. This capability should be owned by young people who like to testify. However, the individual lifestyle makes the ability decreasing, so ideas are not easily thrown to the public. With art performance, youth are invited to be more capable to grasp a concept and plot, to have inner management and to express in acting.

Through this activity, every youth is trained to be active and contributory to the ministry. Not just a matter of liturgy, but giving time, energy, opportunity, and mind in the performing arts. May the ability and mentality of youth always be honed to face the challenges ahead! (YDA).