Every closing day I get to talk about the Teen Service Team program that I am helping to direct in front of about 1500 people. After I review the program I usually pull 2 campers from TST to give testimony about what God has done in their lives.
The testimony today was incredible.
The girl who talked, I knew. I knew her because she hated camp and she wanted nothing to do with God. She wanted to leave, and after many painful conversations, she left last Sunday. Her mom and dad were heartbroken, not only because she was leaving camp, a place she had traditionally loved, but because she was seemingly turning her back on the God they loved.
She was gone less than 24hrs when we received a phone call from her mom. The camper wanted to come back! The camper was talking and praising God for the change in her. She said she knew that God was calling her to come back.
Today in her testimony, she gave more details. She said that while she was on the prayer walk, God's Spirit totally grabbed onto her heart and she couldn't understand how people could look at the world and not see God in it. She said it was then that she gave her life to Christ. She started crying and than said some random catch phrase that made her whole team laugh and the moment was lost.
Her mom came crying up to me later and gave me a big bear hug. She said words couldn't express the joy in her heart at the work of our great God.
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i love that you're getting to see those kinds of things on a regular basis. thank you for sharing, liz....it's great to be reminded.
miss you!
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