reignite your life!

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This weekend was our youth ministry had a weekend long event

Called reignite.

I'm not going to lie I began the weekend on a rough start.

I was so disappointed when i received a text that our host home had received boys and not just any boys middle school boys!!!!

I began to pout (i'm so telling the truth) to God how could a women who does not enjoy boys 

host them in her home! I was worried about every material thing in my house and how it would survive the weekend. All forgetting that God himself was orchestrating this himself.

 It just showed me how selfish I was being.

Friday night I was late by 2 hours. I was even more upset now.

All I had ever thought about was this weekend and now I was stuck at work!

needless to say I started the weekend in a mood.

But little did I know that not only would God move in the heart of the youth but my heart as well.

Friday night rally was over and I was very excited to see that i had gotten 10th and 11th grade Girls!

I was humbled immediately upon returning to our host home.

We began our group discussion about what was spoken on.

The girls began to share there struggles about unsaved souls

I was even so encouraged when they started giving a fellow group member advice.

God was already moving.

Saturday.

Involved waking up at ungodly hours.

We began the day with a rally.

The Rally was about freedom from our past.

It's crazy how that same message speaks to my heart everytime it's shared.

What was I holding on to privately in the rooms of my heart?

I only could think about what my girls would answer.

The rally ended and we went our picture rama scavenger hunt at the mall.

we began our hunt with a mean security guard who lectured us about taking pics.

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included:

 running the mall for a shoe that did not exists.

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running with random people.

We made out way back to church to pack 10,000 meals for Ethiopia!

It felt good to come together as many generations to give to a people group that have nothing!

It was there that I began to take pride and be proud of how God is using out youth!

After Bowling was a must.

So we packed up and jammed to shining star.

Pictured above are some girls in my group Minus the one on the right! Even though she's awesome too!!! :)

We had fun and I don't mean to boost or anything but I beat our group & Christi!

Saturday Night

Was the final Rally.

In which God Changed my heart.

I think it was during a worship song we were on our knees.

I began to hear someone crying.

I stopped to see it was one of my girls.

Immediately I felt this overwhelming emotion.

A love, A wanting to comfort, A wanting to pray over.

I acted on my emotion and went over and prayed inside myself.

As I got up I began to cry.

Wow! For the first time in my whole life I realized What my youth pastor (Josh) and (Katriana)

felt for us. I can explain it but to say that I felt like I was accountable to my youth. It's like God had given them to me to take care of them, share wisdom, and help assist in making them leaders for Christ.

It felt different on the other side the leader side BUT i was liking it.

During the invitation I felt it again.

The feeling that I absolutely loved this kids and would do anything to guide them to the God that loves them.

Later that night at Group Discussion

The girls began to share what God was doing in there lives.

It was AMAZING!

So moving.

One of the girls said she felt like the leaders actually loved and cared about her.

And then it happened I began to cry.

I explained to them How God had been moving in my heart.

How almost 10 years ago I had a youth pastor and hi wife that cared about me so much

They invested in me. They trained my by discipleship and example.

I grew so much in those years that I wanted them to experience that!

I wanted them to be me.

I wanted to pour into them, love them, pray for them, and disciple them

so that one day they could do that to someone else.

So they could stand up and disciple another person.

I want them to be as passionate about the bible as I was taught!

And then I told them 

I loved them and I meant it!

I feel so blessed to have been moved in the way I was this weekend by our youth.

There are so amazing!

They are going to be used by God I know it! 

And I cannot wait to see it unfold and have the privilege to be apart of that!

It gets better! not only do we have amazing youth!

We have the privilege of serving with amazing leaders who happen to be such amazingly awesome friends!

I also cried during that revelation as well lol

Lord, Thank you is all I can say!

We are so blessed to have a church family again!

He took a weekend that started off selfish

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made me realize I have so much to be thankful for!!!!!

These photos were stolen from Cyndi!

Since my iphone broke and decided to delete all the pics I had taken!