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Teen Revival
No Makeup Tuesday,
Jericho Walk
By Kalista King
In my last article, I mentioned the Day One event that was held at the
Darke County Fairgrounds in Greenville, Ohio last Saturday. I would
like to inform everyone that this event went very well, and we had over
200 people attend! Everyone who came very much enjoyed our speaker,
Mike Guzzardo, music from local band, I Am Victorious, and EUM's skit
team which performed a brand new skit to finish off the night.
This event for the youth was a huge success, as well as the
Illumination Festival, which took place at the fairgrounds on Sunday.
For those who attended Illumination this weekend, it's safe to say that
Toby Mac was more than enough to get us pumped up for the following
week.
Many great things have been happening all across Darke County. I have
talked to teens from a variety of schools who have said that they are
beginning to experience revival in their schools this year. With Corner
Shack, Saturday Night Prayer, Youth for Christ, Friend2Friend, and
others, we are focusing on helping teens become fully committed
followers of Jesus Christ and making disciples of all men. I have been
seeing more and more teens step up into leadership this year and do
what they feel called to do in order to help others in our schools and
communities.
For example, one of my close friends had the idea of having the F2F
girls choose a day of the week to go without wearing any make-up. She
had heard of a girl who started this in another school, and it really
inspired her to challenge the girls in our F2F program at Greenville
High School to do it as well. We already have a few girls who are on
board with this idea and at F2F this Tuesday, we will be announcing
that every Tuesday from now on will become "No Make-up Tuesday" until
the end of the school year. We want to challenge the girls in our high
school to discover their natural beauty and build self confidence
through this idea of No Make-Up Tuesday!
Another idea that we have had is getting our F2F family together even
earlier than 7:30 on Tuesday mornings and doing a Jericho Walk around
our school. Last year, before we even started F2F, a few people and I
got together before school in the mornings and did this Jericho Walk. I
got the idea from my friends who live in Lima, Ohio who did a Jericho
Walk at many different schools in the Lima area last year. At
Greenville, we would meet every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7:00am
and walk around the school in prayer for revival. The first day, we
started out circling it once in prayer, then every time after that we
added one lap around the school until we got to circling it seven
times. If you have ready my past articles, it is very evident that God
has been faithful to our prayers. However, this doesn't mean that we
are just going to quit praying. In fact, other schools in Darke County
have heard about the Jericho Walk and are planning on doing it sometime
this year as well.
As I've said in the past and have hopefully made it very clear in my
articles, there is something marvelous going on with the youth here in
Darke County. We are going to need all the prayer we can get as we
continue to meet God half way in His mighty work here. As Toby Mac and
Chris Tomlin would say, "Greater things have yet to come, and greater
things have still to be done in this city." Please keep in tune with me
on what God is doing here. You will not want to miss it!
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