Alamosa 2007 ~ Report 2 ~ Sunday Night

Sunday ~ June 17th ~ 10.20pm ~

Kaylene just called to report on the wonderful evening our youth have had...
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1. There are two other church groups that will be with our Grace youth this week. They had already arrived when our team arrived and warmly welcomed our youth making a great impact of kindness and friendliness that touched our youths hearts ~ awesome modeling of reaching out in love!
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2. The three church groups will be divided and interspersed to form three Alamosa teams. Tonight to help everyone get to know each other they played games in their teams and participated in corporate worship. Then one of the staff leaders gave her testimony and talked about doubting Thomas and the difficulty in seeing God at times but the ability to readily see the effects of God and her journey of faith.
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3. The youth did a lesson individually writing down what they think of themselves, youth group, the missions trip group, the other church groups, and also what they think God will do over the course of this next week as they serve together. They broke into smaller groups and interacted with and offered great questions about faith, knowing how to know the Christian faith represents the truth, and where their hearts are with issues of faith.
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4. It sounds like it was a great evening of community and discipleship leading the way to a great week of service. Our older son (Ryan is 19 and serving in Kenya this summer) has shared with us his appreciation for those mission trips where discipleship and development of a deeper relationship with God for those serving has a great emphasis and value in addition to the service given in reaching the lost for Christ ... and at this tender age of middle school, perhaps this may be even more true! In any event, I found myself celebrating in my spirit as Kaylene shared about this first evening of sharing and challenges and strengthening of real faith issues.
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5. Prayer requests ~ two students from a Texas youth group are at the hospital tonight due to altitude sickness. Please pray for their bodies to heal and adapt to Alamosa ... where the altitude is 7500 feet above sea level!