We just had an incredible STORM event on Saturday, May 9.
First, a special thank you to all those who came out to help. Thanks to the 4 drivers who came, the 4 who came to counsel, and others involved.
We started with 8 of our regular youth, headed out in vans/cars to get various friends and invite them to come to the fun. We ended up with 16 youth!
After an icebreaker and welcome, we got into the challenges – Battle of the Sexes. The girls were winning from the start, as they brought more girls than guys.
The contests included being fed food by others, passing marshmallows down a row, jello eating contest, candy eating contest, and even a toothpick-and-cheeseball tower contest.
The guys came on strong and quickly closed the gap in the scores. The contest literally came down to the last challenge. The youth didn’t know, but if the guys won the tower building, we would have had to go to a tie-breaker contest – it was that close!
The girls did win after all, but it was a tight competition and all had a blast.
After the Battle, John Powley spoke to the group about the Bible, sin, and our need of salvation. He also spoke about how Jesus knocks at the door to our heart and asks to come it just as the youth knocked at other’s doors tonight and asked them to join the fun. He gave a clear invitation and led the youth in how to pray to receive salvation. Though none went out to be counseled, we did have at least one indicate that they prayed that prayer for either assurance or for salvation. (That is awesome. We know that she has that now settled with God and is saved!)
John challenged the youth to see what they need to change in their life to let others see that they are Christians.
Overall, a great night. Lots of fun, girls won, at least one assurance of salvation!
