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Teen Revival…
Time to put our Faith in Action
By Kalista King 

Though the new school year is approaching very quickly, we teens of Darke County are not yet finished with our summer. Most teenagers this week are probably finishing out their summer with wild parties and who knows what else, but not us revivalists! We are finishing out our summer with prayer and evangelism. What do I mean by this? Well in one of my past articles, I wrote about how people from my youth group, The Corner Shack, are going to get together and go from school to school as we pray for revival in each Darke County school. We are not 100% sure that this will end up happening before the school year actually begins, however I can assure you that it will be happening soon. We have been praying for revival in these schools all year at events like Saturday Night Prayer, and God has been very faithful to our prayers. Now we are ready to take it to the next step and actually go to these specific schools and pray over each of them. (Hopefully including the middle schools as well if they are in separate buildings.)  

You have heard from a few people in other articles who are ready to take the revival that is in their hearts and put it into action in their school. We have revivalists in Greenville, Tri-Village, Arcanum, Ansonia, Versailles, Franklin Monroe, you name it! Let me remind you that this revival is huge, and our teenage generation will not hesitate to make it spread even further than county wide. We are hoping to start Youth for Christ's Friend2Friend program in each of these schools, which may take a couple years but with lots of prayer and with our teen revivalists stepping up, we'll get there.  

Now that I've covered most of the prayer part, I will explain what I mean about finishing out our summer with evangelism. Unfortunately, something that is very uncommon for teenagers is evangelizing. It's not easy to share the Christian gospel with others at a young age. Many teens lack confidence in their faith and are uneasy when it comes to sharing the gospel. This is why it's very important to equip our teens to be able to boldly go out into the world and share the gospel with whoever needs to hear it. This past Saturday we discussed the topic of evangelizing at Saturday Night Prayer. We usually have approximately a half hour message that is given at the end of Prayer, and this one could be considered a tough pill to swallow. I'll explain. 

As many of us enjoy spending this week at The Great Darke County Fair, we will most likely be doing things like walking around, visiting with friends, eating fair food, playing games, riding rides, etc. And though I'm sure many of the teens I've been talking about will be doing these things, we will be adding something new to spice up the fair: prayer and evangelism. I have already challenged our Saturday Night Prayer group to pray and look for opportunities to invite others to Prayer. Their challenge was rather simple; pray for opportunities to invite people to Prayer, and ask at least one person if they'd like to go. Now just to inform you, this article was written on Friday, and you have received it on Sunday, which means that by the time you've read this, we've already had Saturday Night Prayer.  

The good news is, we teens have all week to look for opportunities to minister to others and evangelize when necessary, and The Darke County Fair is the perfect place to do it. Not only were the teens challenged to invite someone to Saturday Night Prayer, but they were also challenged to seek opportunities to reach out, witness, evangelize, and minister to others this week. It's time to put out faith into action and finish our summer out right.


 
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