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Teen
Revival
A Christian Fashion
Show
By Kalista King & Leanna Meade
Today you are going to hear from a good friend of mine named, Leanna
Meade. Leanna graduated from Greenville High School last year and was
one of our "starting five" in the Friend2Friend ministry going on
there. By this I mean that she was one of the 5 teens (whom I have
mentioned in past articles) that met every other day before school to
pray for revival at Greenville.
Leanna was able to see revival break out through F2F, and also got
involved in our Saturday Night Prayer ministry in which she still
attends regularly. I have gotten to know her very well over the past
few years and I can honestly tell you that this girl is one incredible
young woman of God. I have seen her grow a lot in her faith over the
years and I am finally privileged enough to write an article with her
for you! This week, I asked Leanna to write about an experience she had
recently that I found very interesting. I think you will too.
Leanna: Like Kalista said, I have seen revival at F2F before I
graduated high school, and it was such a great experience. This past
Friday I was invited to go to something I had never experiences before.
It was called WIP (wear it proud), the runway fashion show tour in
Cincinnati with my friend Kelsi Mancillas. When I heard about it I was
not sure what to expect. I’ve never been to a fashion show, and
I've never even heard of a Christian fashion show.
We got there early because Kelsi was in the show and we also helped out
with last minute things that needed to be done. Stephanie Gordon was
the host and she did an amazing job of putting this together. Stephanie
came down and asked us if we could pray for her because there was a
whole bunch of stress and a little frustration. After we were done
praying I was thinking about how passionate she was for these fashion
shows and I grew a deep admiration for her and this event.
The models started showing up and they were not at all what I expected.
I was thinking at a fashion show they usually show a lot of skin, so I
began wondering, what are they going to do here at a Christian fashion
show? Well I learned that they provide the models with shirts, but they
have to bring bottoms and shoes and any accessories they want. They had
different types of shirts like active wear NOTW clothing (not of this
world) and so on.
Well when the show started, it was like a regular fashion show, but it
did not stay that way. They had Christian music, a live band, and
people from New York there to train the models for the finale. The
models sang, danced and rapped and it was so amazing for me to see them
use their talents that God has given them.
Then the Pastor came out and shared about how this was not a show just
to see clothing but to see what gifts God has given these models. It
was all about loving God for what he has done and will be doing in us
and for us. Next the pastor told everyone to close their eyes and asked
if there was anyone who wanted to renew their relationship with God.
Then we sang the song “how he loves us” and the pastor was having the
people who renewed their relationship with God come up to the alter.
Now this was truly incredible to witness. There were people who were
young, people who were old and teens that went up.
This goes to show that it doesn't matter how old you are, you don’t
have to be young or old to accept God into your life. He knows when you
will come to him and ask for forgiveness, and he longs for you to, even
if it is at a fashion show. I serve a Great and Mighty and Awesome God,
and I am so thankful that we can have events like this to strengthen my
faith while having fun in the process. Thank you for listening to my
testimony of this experience. God bless!
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