Jr./Sr. High Youth... Be Praying

It never fails does it?  You’re right in the middle of a great dream, soaring through the clouds, saving the day, or [insert your favorite dream here] - and the alarm begins to scream at you to drag your carcass out of bed to meet another day.  The dream is gone - quickly disappearing into the morning ritual.  By mid-day, most of last night’s dreams are choked out by today’s duties, forced to become nothing more than vague memories of something not quite real...

I wonder if too many of us spiritually live this way too?  I wonder if we play with our faith during life’s ‘sleepy-time’, only to have it disappear at the sound of the alarms that drone on, calling us to the ordinary, day-to-day ritual of living?  Does our faith really mean anything?

When we sleepwalk through our faith, we rob the world of the light Jesus wants us to take with us wherever we go.  We cheat God’s missing children out of the ambassadors He’s sent to find them.  Through 2009’s Spring Thing, we want to spur the next generation to live a lucid faith.  A faith that is full of light and clearly understood...  A faith that is awake and aware...  A faith that matters in the day to day living of their lives... A faith that means everything.

Please be praying now that God would be working to prepare us each for His wake up call on April 17th-19th.  Talk to Mike for registration information for you (and/or your group).  Cost (which covers housing, registration, and meals from Saturday morning to Sunday morning) is $40 per student and $10 per adult if registration is sent in by April 2 ($50/$15 at the door).  As always, Spring Thing will be a great time of reconnecting and great activities and worship.  I’m really excited to have One Time Blind bringing the messages!  If you haven’t seen them before, check out their site - they do an incredible job of creatively communicating the truth.  We’ll also be trying some new elements for the weekend together, like an artist’s “colony”, meaningful service projects, a 40-hour flood of prayer, and a whole lot more.

But don’t just come for them.  Don’t just come for your friends.  Come because God’s dreams aren’t for sleeping...