Needless to say, we both had a sense of where things were going after that.

As if that wasn’t enough, I then went to check out YFC on the net at lunch time when I searched only one document came up. It was a YFC strategy document and at the top of it was the famous verse from Isaiah ‘This is the way, walk ye in it’. I took some notes to try and impress and my interview. On returning to the ward after lunch, one of the nurses who was a Christian took me aside and said “Andrew I was praying for you at lunchtime and I really felt the Lord gave me a verse for you...” - I think you can guess what it was.

Needless to say, within a week I’d been offered the job and within two months I moved to England. All Youth For Christ staff raise half of their salary from friends, family and churches giving regular contributions. The last confirming factor was that this money, and more, came in, in a space of a few weeks.

So I ran TVB for three years, seeing hundreds of young people come to Christ and seeing my teams mature spiritually and musically. After this time, YFC asked me to stay on to work on further musical projects and to carry on performing and writing and someone randomly sent me a postcard that they felt was significant for me. It said “Do not alight from a moving bus”. I didn’t.

Andy Flannagan
Christian Today Columnist

Andy Flannagan is Youth For Christ's (YFC) National Songwriter/Worship Leader. Songs from his two albums "Advertising the Invisible" and "Son" have been critically acclaimed by reviewers, and have been featured at various events and outlets such as Spring Harvest, New Wine, Greenbelt, Soul Survivor, and BBC radio and television.