We are back from our summer youth camp to Panama City Beach, FL. It was absolutely awesome. Here are some of the highlights from the week:

• Over 400 Students attend
• 27 Salvations
• 87 Ocean Baptisms
• 85+ Staff and Volunteers attend
• Receiving multiple compliments about the behavior of our students
• Students making an intentional effort to minister to people at a local recreation park by handing out extra arcade tokens to families and telling them about Jesus and NewSpring Church
• A young girl asking us to pray with and for her family because she saw something different in us as we were on the beach.
• Having your students pray over you at the end of the week. Perry asked the whole student ministry staff to come down to the front on Thursday Night and then asked the students if they felt lead to come and pray over the staff. It was POWERFUL and MOVING. I had one middle school student pray this over me, “God, please give Alden wisdom and knowledge as he teaches us your word.” WOW! That will mess you up in a major way!
• No major injuries on 2 sprained ankles…only 2 trips to the hospitals.
• The GREATEST thing I experienced was seeing students getting serious about allowing Jesus to CHANGE their lives. Students wanting to be a part of a revolution that will change their life, their families, their friends, their schools, their city, their state, their country, and their world!

Great things always seem to happen in the lives as students, but it is out duty to make sure that they continue to grow/build on what God showed them at camp. I am excited about it and it continues this Sunday Night at IGNITE at the 2Seven. All Middle Schoolers in the Anderson area….Be there! It is going to rock!