Not Ready...

A little over two weeks ago our group went to Portland Oregon for a camp for high school teens. I have been 3 times before in my high school days and I have always taken something great back from each year. This year it was different it was our first time in Portland and we had a very very small group of teens willing to do this camp. Our purpose is to be able to tell others about Christ. Acronym, Youth Wave stands for Youth With A Vision for Evangelism, pretty much explains itself.

Everyday we had a training session a grueling two and a half hours of session it was pretty intense and then after lunch they would send us out! We were taken to the Max station (Portland public trans) and we would ride until we reached our destination. This was really hard to do I knew I needed to talk to people on the streets about God but it was just soo hard! I really didn't know what to say. I was trying to tell people about God with out tapping into God's knowledge, instead using my own knowhow. Didn't work!

So me and my friend from college were in the park on our last day out and our group decided to give free hugs. I was not very pleased with the decision it sounded a little sketchy to me and anyone would want a hug from me when I really didn't want to hug them. So eventually our group split up and did our own thing the huggers went to one area and everyone else spread out. I thought finally now we can do God's work! Didn't happen I tried to talk to people but they seemed too busy. Frustrated and tired me and Ashleigh sat down at a park picnic table to just rest and relax. We talked about how neither of us wanted to be here it just seemed so awkward and frustrating. After a while of talking I reached a breaking point where I told myself we need to stop sitting around and do something.

I prayed a prayer for God to bring people to us instead of us finding them. Then out of no where and me being random a though burst into my mind that I should read a book of the Bible out loud. Within 1 minute a 17 year old boy came to us asking for a cigarette.


To see what happened next read next blog!