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Teen
Revival
We’re just along for
the ride
By Kalista King
As our Saturday Night Prayer family got together last week, we prayed
about and discussed where we feel God is leading this ministry that we
have on Saturday Nights. Since our discussion, I have caught myself
thinking quite often about the many ministries God has brought about in
the past year and what His plans are for these ministries in the near
future.
A few weeks ago, I did a recap over the main ministries and events that
God had called us to in the past year or so. When I say, "us," I am
referring to the people who have been involved with these ministries.
That includes: our Friend2Friend program at Greenville High School
(soon to be Tri-Village as well), Saturday Night Prayer, The Corner
Shack, and/or Youth for Christ. My youth leader, Marty McCabe, and I
recently got together to share our dreams and visions of what we feel
God is calling us to this year. God has given us bits and pieces to the
grand puzzle that He has in store. I will do my best to explain what
pieces we have put together so far, and hopefully in due time, I will
be able to share what the finished puzzle looks like.
I suppose I will just start with our F2F program and go from there. F2F
has grown to be a very large group teenagers who meet on Tuesday
mornings before school to share, pray, and discover with their peers.
We started out with a small group of deep-rooted believers who wanted
to start a ministry in Greenville focused on growing with each other
and reaching out to others in our school. Since then, F2F has grown
immensely and we now have a variety of teenagers who are in many
different places in their walks with Christ.
Believe me when I say that it is incredible to watch these teens gain a
deeper understanding of who God is and further their relationships with
Him each week. I love to see new people come each week and gain more
insight on the Lord as we pray and dig into the scriptures, and F2F is
probably the best place to do that! But I am also pleased to say that
many of the teens (most who have been coming since F2F first started)
want to dig even deeper by creating a "small group" outside of F2F for
anyone who is ready to dive into the scriptures full-on and take as
much time as needed to pray for our peers and our school.
Now the neat thing is that we sort of already have this small group
taking place on Saturday Nights! Our Saturday Night Prayer family
already consists of many F2F kids and the others who aren't, are from
different schools who don't have F2F started yet. Like I mentioned in
the beginning of this article, last Saturday we prayed about where God
is leading this Saturday Night Prayer ministry, and He is already
answering our prayers! Some changes may have to be made in order to
make it work in the best way possible, but it sure seems like a whole
new ministry is forming through our F2F/Saturday Night Prayer groups.
Marty and I both feel that whatever is forming here is going to be
truly awesome. With everything that God has done in Darke County so
far, there is no doubt in my mind that He will breathe this all into
motion when the time is right. And as always, until that happens, we
will keep praying. God has never failed to prove Himself faithful to
our prayers so everyone gets ready, Jesus is coming to town. And let me
remind you that this is all about Him, we don't take any credit for the
revival taking place in Darke County. In the words of Marty McCabe, "we
are all just along for the ride."
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