Revolution -- Saturday

The next day, we got them all up and headed down to the convention center for the morning sessions. Robin, Kim and I left to go to a youth leader session. It was incredible to be in a room of several hundred youth leaders. Greg spoke to us about what we should do to follow up and keep the revolution going. The main focus was that groups tend to think they can only go deep or go wide, but not both. He thinks not only can we, we must. It was very confirming in what I had felt God placed on me as a vision for this group. One of the interesting stats he threw at us was that 90% of teens say they would come to group if invited by one of their friends.

After that, we headed back into the main area for the last session before lunch. I guess that the first session was about Looking Up, this one was on Looking In. Its focus was on how to transforming the way you look at yourself. You can then find what your natural skills are and what your supernatural skills are. All in all a pretty good session. We then broke for lunch and had a nice walk outside. We then came back for the last session which dealt with the G.O.S.P.E.L. Journey. This was teach the kids about sharing the Gospel with someone. We each learned what style we had (I am a Buddy). We then practiced sharing with each other. Then we all piled in to the cars and headed out to our neighborhood.

This was the most emotional part of the conference. The things that I felt were amazing. I was scared, nervous, excited, hopeful. Just knowing that we were going to share was amazing. I could feel the energy from the kids. Then it turned to fear when we got out of the cars and looked around. A good friend once said you can walk in fear or you can walk in faith, but you can't do both. I chose to walk in faith. Once we drew our circle and prayed, we all went our different directions.

Let me tell you, these people amazed me. Some of our kids said that they though that they should be bringing them food, not asking for any. My two girls did great. They started off slow, but after awhile, it became easier and easier. I had reports from the other groups that were similar. One of our kids came up to me just beaming because she got to share the Gospel with someone. It was an amazing feeling to see them so excited. Our afternoon was capped off with the same kid as before sharing the Gospel again and one of our leaders leading two young men to the Lord. Most of the group was around by this time and all got to share in this blessing. We continue to pray that they will find a church to get themselves plugged into.

Then back to the C.C. to drop off the food, grab some dinner for ourselves and back for the final session. This session was to cover what giant was in our life that we needed to overcome. "So David triumphed over the Philistine giant with only a stone and a sling." 1 Samuel 17:50 That was the theme of the whole weekend, becoming a giant slayer. Finally a concert by Starfield that was great. Loud music, bright lights and kids jumping up and down. What more could you ask for. It was just a beautiful day to spend with Him.