My battery is withering as I type and my power cord is at church, so I'll write this as quickly as I can.
The conference this weekend put on by Dare2Share was really awesome. I didn't know how much really sunk in with kids, but I could tell tonight that it really stuck with some of them. Some had major breakthroughs in their faith. Some are having walls being taken apart.
They learned all about the work of satan that is around them and how his lies are spoken to us all the time. Then they were trained on putting on the full armor of God. I love that one of the key things emphasized was that the Word of God is their sword. Tonight they already started memorizing Scripture. They're really going strong for sharing faith with their friends and "shredding the gnar" as they said at the conference. "Shredding the gnar" is a surfer term that means "go big or go home." They brought that term into what it means to share the Gospel. We go big with it or we go home. Share the Gospel at all times! The kids were digging it. Sometimes I think that kids just need to be empowered to do something and then given a high hurdle to jump and they totally did. I was in awe of how they went asking for can food yesterday in a neighborhood and then asked to pray for the people and start conversations about Christ. Now, this isn't my prefered style of evangelism, mind you, but to see kids confident enough in their Lord to share Him with strangers was phenomenal. :)
Please pray for our youth. They're being attacked by satan with so much vengence. But they learned tonight that "the thief comes to kill, steal, and destroy, but Jesus came that we might have life and have it to the full!" (John 10:10)
Battery is about to die....day off is tomorrow. This caffeine thing has been pretty rough this weekend, fyi. But I'm staying strong.
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