"We're in the town of Villach in Southern Austria. It's about twenty minutes from the Slovenian border and twenty minutes from Italy. The town's got about fifty thousand people, and the young people have no real awareness of God and no sense of Salvation. There's a sense of hopelessness really - they turn to alcohol and drugs.

Apart from working with young people in our Church, we felt we needed to get out where the young people are and we've got access to a bus that's been converted into a coffee bar. We take this into the centre of the town twice a month on Friday evenings. Young people come in for free tea and coffee. We have people on the bus who engage them in conversation, take them seriously and try to speak to them about God.

On average, we get between forty and sixty people each evening, and we certainly wouldn't get that many coming into our Church. It's quite encouraging to see so many coming in. They're open to spirituality but they have very little understanding of who God is.

They don't know about the "Creator God" or understand that He might have a call on their lives. We introduce the fundamental concepts over several visits before we can actually share the Gospel.

We don't necessarily see a huge change in them, but the very fact that they come back to the bus must say something. I don't think it's because our coffee's so great! I think it's because they recognise we're there because we care about them and they've found someone who'll listen to them and take them seriously. We take their views about God seriously as well.

Sometimes they say they want to talk to the same guy they spoke to last time - one boy comes in and says "is David here? I want to see him because he's my personal spiritual mentor!". I'm not quite sure how I feel about that! But they keep coming back because we're not just going to talk to them about school, we're talking about some form of the spiritual life they might have.

We don't know whether they'll take this any further and go to Church. But one really good opportunity that arose was that one girl was in the bus, one of our team shared with her and she said "would you come and tell that to my class?" We didn't think anything would come of it, but she came back a week later with a telephone number for her RE teacher.

One of our team has now been going into that school regularly for eighteen months and can share his faith with all the classes there. In a country where we're often seen as a cult, that's really a miracle."