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Vulnerability!

Picture a group of 10 high school guys with 3 adult leaders sitting comfortably in couches and chairs arranged in a circle so everyone can easily see everyone else. Picture these guys talking openly about the boundaries they have set up in their lives. These boundaries are for how far they will go with their respective girlfriends, what they will allow themselves to look at, and even what thoughts they will entertain in their minds. A bunch of high school guys verbalizing God honoring boundaries in their lives! This a pretty typical small group discussion at Ignite! Praise God!

Glenn

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Two Great Tuesdays

Over the last two weeks (1/19/2010 and 1/26/2010) I had several fascinating conversations which I’d like to share with you.

1. During worship on the 19th one of our 8th graders came up to me and said, “I brought a friend who doesn’t know Jesus. Can you tell him the prayer?”

2. During the lesson we challenged our group to move from inactive, benign faith into active, dangerous, Kingdom-advancing faith. After the lesson one of our 7th graders came up to me: “Daniel, I want to be a warrior in God’s Kingdom. Can you find someone to teach me to be a warrior?”

3. On the 26th one of our 6th graders walked in to our leader prayer time before youth group and joined us for prayer. He started, “God thanks for leading me to walk into this room tonight…” and went on to passionately intercede for the crisis in Haiti!

4. After CARE Groups one of our team members told me about how chaotic her group feels but then went on to celebrate the fact that they got to spend 15 minutes (out of 30 set aside for CARE Groups) in prayer!

5. Tonight I heard of two different middle schoolers expressing a desire to connect with God in deeper ways, to hear God, to have more of God!

I love seeing movement like this! Thank you for all your efforts in prayer! Let’s keep pressing in for greater fruit!

Praying with you,

Daniel

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Taking Risks

This past Saturday (11/7/2009) I had the privilege of joining one of our CARE Groups  as they took the challenge to share their faith. We travelled to the St. Louis Gateway Arch and spent 4 hours initiating faith conversations, praying for people, and giving away Bibles. It was a little slow starting as each of us chose to surrender our fears and step out in obedient faith. However, as the day flew by I enjoyed seeing the middle schoolers break out and really start to think strategically about sharing their faith. In fact, at one point they started initiating conversations with the people they thought most likely to say no!

Afterwards we recounted the experiences of the day and figured out that we had significant faith conversations at least 28 different times (usually with multiple people). We gave away 40-50 Bibles, prayed for people who would receive it, and shared the good news about Jesus’ gift for us on the cross!

-Daniel

Sharing at the Arch

Sharing at the Arch

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