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Teen Revival...
Taking small steps to keep the fire going
By Kalista King & Rachel Mendenhall

This week, I asked a girl named Rachel Mendenhall to share about something God has placed on her heart, as well as some others, and what they are doing to respond to what God has placed on their hearts. She is a member of our Corner Shack family, and is also a part of our Set Me Free skit group. I have seen Rachel grow a lot in her faith over the past year or so that I’ve known her, and it’s been a great pleasure to get to know her more and grow closer with her through The Corner Shack, the Set Me Free skit, and Saturday Night Prayer. This is Rachel sharing a little bit about her answer to God’s call for her and the others involved in this group.

“The new Youth Minister for EUM Church, Marty McCabe, has a group of teens that get together every Wednesday to grow deeper in their faith with the Lord. A small group from those nights took initiative and wanted to reach out and share the gospel with the community. This group has decided to go out to the Brethren’s Retirement Community and start a regular prayer group there with the staff and residents that are interested.

The group really took interest in the idea of reaching out to people in need of some spiritual guidance and they ran with it. I would like to say that I see revival happening in Greenville, and I think it’s going to continue to spread. I see amazing things that are happening through Christ!”

One of the most exciting things that I’ve seen happening in the youth of Darke County is more and more teens who are stepping up and taking leadership in their homes, schools, and communities. It’s so encouraging to see these teens catch fire for sharing the gospel and spreading it throughout their schools and communities in every way they can.

On one of the Wednesday nights that we had Corner Shack, a few girls came up to me and really wanted to talk. It was after we had just finished up small group time, and I could tell that they couldn’t wait any longer to tell me whatever was going on.

One of the girls named, Chassica Price, just attended the most recent West Ohio Girls Chrysalis Flight in Piqua, Ohio, and ever since her experience there, she’s had a fire to her that I’d never seen in her before. She told me that she had heard about a conversation I had with another friend about how cool it would be to choose a day to set out for an adventure of sharing the gospel with people in different parts of Greenville. (Like the park or Broadway... places like that where people tend to gather.)

When she heard about this, she got an idea to get a group of people together to go to the Brethren’s Retirement Community and pray for the residents there. In less than 5 minutes, she had gathered 2 other girls who loved the idea, and they were already determined to follow through with it. When they came up to me and told me about this, I was convinced that God had laid this on their heart, and He was going to make it happen.

Hearing their idea, and seeing their excitement filled me with so much joy because I was seeing these girls step out of their comfort zone and answer the call that God had laid on their hearts that day. After Chassica told me the idea, she went on to say that she wants to keep her fire from Chrysalis going, and she felt like this was a good step to take in order to do that.

Now most of you have probably heard, seen, or experienced what it’s like to go to a spiritual retreat and come back with a new fire and passion that you didn’t have before. However, it’s so easy to lose that fire and passion when you leave an atmosphere of love and peace surrounded by Godly people and come back into a world of pain, hurt, and brokenness. Many times that fire dies down after trials begin to strike, or when you get back around ungodly people.

This is why it was very encouraging for me to see Chassica taking small steps in the right direction in order to keep her fire going from Chrysalis, and deepen her faith through the power of prayer. To be honest, these girls actually surprised me by their interest in starting this prayer group, but it was truly an answer to my prayers for God to raise up spiritual leaders in this generation.

I am so proud of what they are doing, and I am thrilled to join them in this! Nothing pleases my heart more than seeing a passion in teenagers to share the gospel and spread Christ’s love.

The girls recently called The Brethren’s Retirement Community, and asked for the approval of this prayer group to come regularly and pray for the staff and residents that are interested. They have not received word as to whether it is approved or not so until they do, we will just work on getting more people to join in this group, and pray for its approval!


 
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