July update

I just wanted to update you on what has been happening in Vegas this summer. We have had three weeks so far of mission teams with Mission Adventures...about 70 students so far. This next week we were supposed to have a team, but they dropped out so we will be doing some team building and some ministry ( at a smaller scale) in the city.

We have seen about 20 people come to know Jesus in these three weeks!!! Praise God! Which I always love to see...there is something amazing about seeing someone accept Jesus as their Lord and savior for the first time. We have also seen lots of young people come alive with passion for serving Jesus and becoming world changers.


One guy we met on the streets last week said that he was an alcoholic but he wanted to change because he was hurting his family. After talking to a few of our students, he accepted Jesus into his life and decided he wasn't going to drink anymore, he left to go call his mom and told her that he was sorry for the way he has acted and that we was going to enroll himself in a rehab program.

We have also seen so many of these students break through so many obstacles in their lives. At the end of the week we challenge them to look at themselves and see if there are any idols in their lives that are more important than Jesus..God reveals to so many students that there are more stuff in their lives that they need to give him. The very last thing they do in the week is the commitment service, where we have a couple hours of wosrhip and prayer and a little message about going to the next step with Jesus. This Thursday I was praying with a student and she started crying. There had been a lot of anger against God in her and in her family for the last 7 years...she felt God leading her to ask for forgiveness. And she did right there, she said she was sorry she has been blaming Him for the death, it's not God's fault. It was really cool seeing her overcome that and give it up to God.

A verse that God has led me to recently is Isaiah 49:4 which talks about how hard it is for us that we don't see much results from our work for the Lord...it's cool when we see the fruits from our labor but really 95 percent of the time we never see the fruits, hopefully we will find out in heaven, but really that shouldn't be important. What is important is that we stay faithful to what God is calling us to do and that we keep on trying and not giving up no matter what stands in our way and always having a joyful attitude Philippians 4:4

So our last mission team will be coming on July 23rd - July 29th. Then I will be switching over to the Discipleship Training school staff. I will do a week of training with the DTS then the school will start August 8 and will end in mid January. I will update you more on that later!