Ping
Youth is a vulnerable time, especially for young believers. You found your faith deformed by YWAM, an organization that does much good. I dropped a few years bumming around the east coast with a Pentecostal tent crusade, and a Baptist street mission. Less favored kids got sucked up into cultic organizations.
We are blessed to enjoy the friendship of some Turkish Muslims. One personable young grad student is a surrogate "big sister" for my two youngest girls. Seeing that Christians don't have the monopoly on piety and generosity helps to clarify the doctrines of grace. Also, having beloved non-Christians to pray for over dinner makes evangelistic concerns practical, rather than theoretical.
Thanks for the ping.