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Teen Revival
Together We will
Change the World
By Kalista King
This article may be rather scattered, but there are many things that
have happened recently in which I wish to share with you. To start, I
will give you an update on our Friend2Friend ministry at Greenville
High School.
Because F2F has grown so much in the past year, word is spreading fast
about this ministry. I learned that not only is F2F our biggest club at
Greenville, (with over 80 students,) but it is also the biggest group
out of all the Friend2Friend groups through Youth for Christ's across
the nation. I am not trying to say that numbers matter because
Friend2Friend is a ministry that is different at every school. Most
groups have the same structure, but each of them have their own
individual characteristics that makes their F2F special. The neat thing
about our F2F is that everything about this ministry is based on
prayer. And more importantly, our foundation is prayer.
Many of you know this, but F2F started with 5 ordinary teenagers who
had a passion for revival and met every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
to pray that God would bring about a revolution in their school. And
because God is always faithful to prayer, He brought F2F to us. We did
not even have to go looking for ministries or find ways to get a
ministry going in our school, we simply prayed, had faith, and waited.
That is how F2F began! At first, we thought about starting up
Fellowship of Christian Athletes, (or FCA,) but we were leery of that
because we didn't want anyone to be turned off by the word "athlete."
When one of our Youth for Christ leaders heard about what we were
doing, she knew of the perfect ministry for us to start! And it was in
such great timing because God had been putting F2F on her heart to
start around the same time we were praying for revival in our school.
Two weeks ago, we had someone come in from Youth for Christ's national
office to observe our F2F meeting. I got to meet with him later on that
day and talk about what a blessing F2F has been to us and our school.
Then last week, we had 4 more people come in from Youth for Christ's
national office to observe as well. I got to meet with them also, and
we had a really good talk about what God is doing in and through this
ministry. I got to share with them about something that I had been
praying a lot about and that God really put on my heart. And that was
this; Friend2Friend is not the only ministry I am involved in.
There are many other ministries I partake in and there are many I
don't. There are many I don't even know about and there are many that
are in the process of starting up. However, this is what I am starting
to see happen in the youth of Darke County; God is raising up youth
from all kinds of different churches, denominations, youth groups,
ministries, schools, towns, etc. and He is unifying them as one body,
the body of Christ. My generation does not care about what church you
are from, what denomination you are, where you live, where you go to
school, or what ministries you are involved in. If we are worshiping
the same God, that is all that matters.
I firmly believe that God is taking these different ministries that are
branching out of Darke County and He's webbing them together to unite
us as the body of Christ. For example, at F2F, we have youth coming
together from many different churches and youth groups to pray for each
other and lift our peers up in prayer as well. It's the exact same with
Saturday Night Prayer and The Corner Shack, which I have talked about
in past articles. We come together as one body to pray, worship, and
seek our God, despite the fact that we are from different churches and
youth groups. That fact hardly ever even crosses our minds because we
are all here for one purpose, and that is to serve the same God.
When the teens from Saturday Night Prayer went to Lima two weeks ago,
our adult leader, Lougena took us in her church's van. And on the way
to Lima, she pointed out that we had all these teens riding in the van
from a wide variety of churches, only one of which was from her church.
We found it pretty humorous that we were in the Solid Rock Apostolic
Church van, and Solid Rock's youth wasn't even in there! We began
laughing because it is so unorthodox to do something like that, but
like I said, we don't care!
1 Corinthians 12:12-14 says, "Just as a body, though one, has many
parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For
we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews
or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to
drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many."
Well as the body of Christ, we are rising up. Together, we will change
the world. Stay tuned, friends.
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