Monthly Archives: July 2008

Thanks for praying

Jul 9, 2008 12:27 am by Paul Jenkins in That Youth Thing

We had a great service tonight. Thanks for praying for us. I prayed with about 20 young people who wanted to re-commit their lives to Christ and then I got to pray with 7 who have experienced tremendous loss in their lives lately. To top it all off, I really felt impressed that God wanted to minister to people struggling with eating disorders and one of the young ladies came forward and that was courageous and cool. Great work by God tonight, but what else would you expect?

Pray for the service tonight

Jul 8, 2008 7:16 pm by Paul Jenkins in That Youth Thing

Junior High students Speaking West Virginia youth camp

I’m getting ready to step into the service tonight and would love to have you praying for the students here. Tonight’s message is all about following Jesus in spite of the things that happen in our lives. It is about never laying down and the canvas and staying there. It is about never giving up. It is about getting IN THE VAN!!

Please pray that when the service is over and God has done what only He can do, there will be more family members in the van with us on the road with Jesus.

Update to follow…

Howdy from West Virginia!

Jul 8, 2008 10:39 am by Paul Jenkins in That Youth Thing

Junior High students Speaking West Virginia youth camp

I’m having a blast up at Ghent, WV, with the Junior High students of the Appalachian District of the Assemblies of God. Last night was our first service and I talked about how the woman who had been bleeding for 12 years moved in and touched Jesus and that the only thing that we’re required to do, according to that passage, is MOVE TOWARD JESUS. And they did. Tremendous altar service as students poured their hearts out to Christ.

Tonight the message will be on brokenness and how we must MOVE WITH JESUS no matter what’s going on in our lives. It should be a blast!

Mississippi Mission Day 4

Jul 3, 2008 11:58 pm by Paul Jenkins in Evangelism, Personal, Stanly County Youth, That Youth Thing

Missions Mississippi

Our fourth day on site here in Moss Point, Mississippi was incredible. First off, it was the day in trip when the boys really got into the manual labor part it. Will especially kind of “adopted” a section of the sidewalk and wouldn’t quit until he had the overgrown grass scraped away. Both he and Parker mowed a little grass and then it was off to the community center for our last day with the children and a puppet show. That’s where we snapped that last picture of me and Parker an one of he campers.

Mississippi Mission Days 2 and 3

Jul 1, 2008 11:31 pm by Paul Jenkins in Evangelism, Stanly County Youth, That Youth Thing

Missions Mississippi

Days 2 and 3 consisted of cleaning up 2 pretty overgrown baseball parks and then helping run a day camp for elementary age students. Parker and Will did an amazing job at both. Unfortunately, Parker was a bit under the weather today and didn’t get participate as much as he would have liked. We’re praying for a better physical day tomorrow.

I got to share with the group tonight and I talked about Matthew 9:35-38. That’s a great passage about how Jesus sees the crowd as helpless and we all agree that He does. But what blows my mind is the fact that He doesn’t fix them on His own. Instead, He prays that God would raise us up to go get the harvest. I hope He finds us all faithful to that call.