The theme for our Winter Retreat was 24/7 - emphasizing the need to pray 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. It was all about teaching the students how to pray, the importance of prayer, types of prayer, etc. WHAT A WEEKEND!
I love teens in that for the most part, they can have fun doing ANYTHING at all! This year the fun included tubing, ice skating, bon fires, messy games (of course), worship, chatting, board games, etc. We just loved hanging with them and getting to know them better.
There were a total of 52 adults and students in attendence at the retreat and each and every one of them had an incredible attitude. The DEFINITE high point of the weekend was Sunday night. During Sunday night's worship service a strong salvation message was presented. Our Camp Pastor, Joe Bowman, laid it on the line for the kids and it was POWERFUL! A total of 6 students gave their lives to Jesus Sunday night with many others rededicating their lives and giving up issues and habits in their life that needed to be gone!
I was privileged to pray with one young lady named Marie. Marie is a foreign exchange student from Germany living in Norwood Colorado. She was one of the students that I mentioned in my last post that was not a believer. Throughout the weekend I noticed that although she had a lot of head knowledge - it just didn't appear to be real to her. However, Sunday night it clicked and Marie gave her life to Christ! After praying with her, Marie described the experience like this, " I have been walking around in a room of darkness, and now someone has turned on the light and I see! I get it! It's real to me now - Ronnie it's in my heart!" What a treasure to hear these words!!!
Thank you all so much for the prayers! Please continue to pray for these young people as they grow in the Lord.
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WOW!! No question you are where God wants you to be doin what He has called you to do!! Praise Jesus for Marie & the others!! Thank you & you made my day with this blog post.
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