Exciting News!

There has been some really awesome stuff going on at school this year. Every Wednesday we have chapel instead of Bible. We have had several great services. We have a drama team and a praise and worship team with a full band. So every Wednesday we have students leading students into worship. There have been several bumps in the road this year. Like every year, new students come to school and bring with them their worlds. I would say about 50% of our 7-12 graders come from broken homes. Some don't even know who their dad is. Several core students realized this last year and decided that this year would be different. It all started on the first day of school. This group of students managed to get a copy of all of the students names in the entire school and has made it their mission to pray for evey student every day. They even split the list up on weekends and on off days to take home and have agreed to pray every day for every student and their school. The impact has been inmeasurable. Over this past month 15-20 guys have accepted Christ as their Savior. One that especially got my attention was a boy named JV. Two weeks ago he was curious about this Jesus relationship, he said. The next week he accepted Christ as his savior, on the football field after practice. He later told Coach Adams" hey man I don't know what I am doing, can we get a bible study or something?" Thus begins the guys 7-12 bible study every Wed. morning before school with the male coaches. As Coach Adams explained baptism and basic steps of Christianity to the boys that first study, JV decided he wanted to be baptised. Not only did he want to be baptised but he didn't want to do it at a church. He decided that he wanted to be baptised at school in front of his peers, because these people at school were his family and he wanted them all to know what has happened in his life. So this past Wednesday, in a little private school, in a little town we celebrated life, and what God can do when He is allowed to put His hands on a 16 year old boy in a fatherless home. Don't lose hope in this generation, there is an army of boys learning how to be Godly men. While it breaks my heart that many of these boys are from fatherless homes at the same time that is what makes it so great. When they accept Christ they have the most perfect example of a Father and His unconditional love.