LiFT Week #1 – Prayer
Friday, June 26th, 2009
Heartsong is spending the week in Harrisonburg, Virginia on the beautiful campus of Eastern Mennonite University. We’ve finally caught up with LiFT camp and are so excited to be ministering with them for the rest of the summer. Here this week, there are almost 800 teens ranging in age from entering sixth grade to just graduated from high school. We’re having a blast hanging out with them and prompting worship in the morning and evening services.
It was especially exciting to have the privilege of being a part of last night’s service. Each student and staff member had filled out a card listing the heaviest weight on their heart, a prayer for their youth group or church, and a prayer request for their future. The anonymous cards were then handed out amongst all attending. As the service progressed, time was allotted to pray over each request, with Heartsong facilitating worship through music between each one. The whole point was that each and every student’s request was being personally lifted up that night. After an extended period of prayer, our speaker for the week, Tony Nolan, came and spoke about the power of prayer, challenging the students to ask and expect big things of God. The whole night was incredible, with several students choosing to start a relationship with God throughout the night. One student in particular had written on his card that he had doubts about his salvation, and his prayer was gloriously answered as he committed his life to Christ!
We’re excited to finish out the week strong, celebrating more than 80 students who have come to know Jesus in a personal way this week – and that’s not even including rededications and other commitments. It’s been awesome to start serving alongside the LiFT staff and being able to encourage and be encouraged by them. It’s going to be a great summer serving students across the country and watching God work powerfully in their lives. This weekend we head to Arkansas and will pick up with LiFT again there on Monday!
Thankful for your prayers,
Alise
worship time
Morning Fun!
After that we proceeded to fill water balloons, lots of them. Little did we know that these water balloons wouldn’t be for throwing, no… these water balloons were used as projectiles, fired out of ginormous slingshots at approximately mach 2 speed. Needless to say, they hurt when they hit. After the water balloon adventure, which the “Sea Foam Green” team won… the guys on my team thought it neccesary to dump the entire 30 gallons of water where the balloons were being stored, right on my head… words do not describe how soaking wet I was…
