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ALSO…PLEASE PRAY for us as we go out on our work day TODAY from 11-6pm. (We will update pics and stories tonight)
Hey all its Lauren Byers, and Momentum is pretty amazing! The speakers are good but personally I think its wonderful just to see the different ways of worship. We talked about Loving God not just fallowing God, it’s amazing just to see the different ways of loving God and there’s not rite or wrong way. God just looks down at us and is extremely happy to see us!
Yo it’s Johnnny, God really spoke to me when Francis Chan talked about God being our hopes and our dreams. He used an illustration of a girl who’s boyfriend told her that he was stuck deciding between following his dreams of marrying a hot surfer chic or settling for her. It made me think what kind of an awful, stupid, and insensitive guy! Then he switched it and says we do that with God sometimes telling God I like you but I’d don’t know if I want to be stuck with you because I like alot of things down here too. I know that i have done that A LOT to God, and that has been a big thing that God has convicted me about. see ya…
hey, this is Chris talk’n. Well tonight was another amazing session with Francis Chan as the speaker. It was one of the most amazing days ever. One thing that really caught my attention, was when he compared our relationship with Jesus Christ as a marriage. In a successful marriage, you have to love the person you are married to. He gave an example of someone he knew that was going to ask his girlfriend to get married, but he was in another country and he could not get back. The airline put him in a 5 star hotel, but he said that he still felt like he was being imprisoned because he wanted to see the person he loved. So that made me think, do i really love God that much. And that is what i learned from Francis Chan tonight. Talk to you all soon.
for everyone reading this, it’s connor here. so far this time has exceeded anything that i could have expected. conference has been a really good time to be challenged – in so many different ways! God has been working so much in me this summer, and this week has continued what i was learning at springhill, how pouring my life into God and into others is really what this walk is about. the time that God gives to talk about everything that he has done in my life, is really what i’ve been looking forward to every day. i hope that you all know that the prayers you give for us are at work keeping all of us amazed with God. thanks for all your awesome support, we love you guys!
hey this is megan! conference has been great so far. i think that one of the most awesome things here is when everyone is all together during session and we are just pouring our hearts out to God. in the short time that we have been here i have learned a lot about becoming closer to God and living my life for him. at sponge sessions today our speaker talked about how what you do most in life and what you follow is like what you worship. that was pretty interesting for me to hear because i havent really heard that before. this is just the beginning of a great week of learning and being with tons of other people to worship and learn about God!
Graham called me cool today.
But I think he was lying.
Meanie. ;_;
~JP
Francis Chan has such a way of hitting you right in the gut totally unexpected! Tonight he talked about how much we are should be in love with Jesus! He asked, if we could have heaven, no pain, no suffering, no death or separation, and all the earthly things we love with our friends, but no Jesus, would we be happy? Would I feel fulfilled? Or do I long to be with God, even if it were just me and Him? It really hit home with me when I thought about my dad leaving for Iraq, and how I won’t be able to visit him like when he was in Texas. Tonight I finally cried about it; the tears had kind of been building up since he left. And tonight, I just cried, and I thought about how much I miss him, and how much more so I should miss God because I can’t be with Him in person yet. THAT IS WHAT I WANT SO MUCH! To long for God, and miss Him, and want to just cry because I can’t be with Him. And that is how our relationship should be with him. TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH GOD!! That is my heart’s desire!!
-Lindsay Houvener
Sorry no update yesterday (wireless is hard to come by…we even tried on the bus), but after a long trip yesterday we’re finally in. Students have nothing going on until 7:45 tonight, so it will be a good day to get oriented and explore the campus. We’ll try to update more later today.
The campus so far has been great…and don’t worry…we have air conditioning. Did I mention it was pouring as we came in last night?
Tim
Isn’t this cool?
Ok, so maybe you’re not blown away yet, but you will be….or your money back (not Momentum money…just money you invested in this blog…)
During Momentum you will able to see some video updates that we will update at least daily. These will be located at the bottom of the left column.
Right now you can check out Maribeth inviting you to the prayer service on Sunday.
This blog is the attempt to keep you updated before, during, and after ‘momentum’.
Here’s what we want you to do:
1. Check back often! We will have several students (maybe yours) blogging during the week about what’s going on their hearts and head.
2. Give us some feedback! You can leave comments on the blog (if it doesn’t show up right away its because your first comment will need to be approved….hope you understand).
3. Take a look at the daily pictures. There’s no need to scour the momentum site for a picture of your kid (look! I see their knee! I’m sure of it…)
4. And lastly, would you use this blog to pray for us each day…we could sure use it.
Tim
Its funny. I’ve heard a lot of people wanting to refer to our annual youth conference as ‘bnyc’ instead of the newly-minted ‘momentum’, and I honestly can’t blame them. Who are these ‘powers-that-be’ that have the audacity to change a good name? It’s always been this way….hasn’t it? (someone help! wikipedia is ignoring me!)
Sadly, it hasn’t always been called ‘bnyc’….we just often have a hard time changing…
And now we get to our first ever ‘momentum’. I’m very excited. For all of you who have joined groups on myspace, facebook, etc…let it go.
Let it go.
