CIY "Move" Day 4: Party!

There's no way to keep this blog short--today was incredible! Today's theme was boldness, and as we learned about the boldness of the apostles in the book of Acts, God was working on our kid's hearts. Today was "skip a meal" (the money that would've been spent on lunch was saved to be used for overseas conferences), and after a great morning sessions and small group time, we headed to the university mall just to get off campus for a little while during free time. After dinner we had main session and a great time of creative worship. We were challenged well by the speaker about stepping up and being bold, and then came youth group debrief time. We talked a little while about reasons why we are afraid to share our faith or step up to the plate for God, and what areas we need to work on being bold. We took a few minutes to break into groups and pray for each other to have the boldness to make the decisions that God is prompting us to make. Afterwards we came back together as a group and gave the opportunity for people to speak up and tell the group if they need to make a decision...and the Spirit moved! I have permission by the following students to tell what happened (although I won't use last names): Tyler was the first to step up and say that he needs to get right with God and get baptized! His boldness encouraged others to speak up. Darin rededicated his life to Jesus, and Jesse decided to get baptized and wants to go into missions work! Andrew W. would like to be rebaptized and Andy L. also stepped up to be baptized for the first time! That's a total of 3 first time decisions for Christ and 2 rededications!! Thank you so much for your prayers...but don't stop now- please keep it up! Hallelujah!