Every End Is A New Beginning

This will most likely be my last blog for Pioneer Bootcamp and I would just like to say thank you to everyone. To JB and Gail for giving this opportunity to represent you both and Remnant Youth in the best way that we know how. I appreciate you both putting faith in me. To every pastor that got on board with this experiment and gave up your time, your church, your money, and your hospitality to a bunch of youth that just want to be used for God's purposes. To our home church and all of our pastors, especially Pastor Jones and Marie, for giving us the opportunity to represent the church, the vision, and the fellowship, I hope we all did you proud. To the parents of every teen that went, we thank you for giving them the freedom and the confidence to be able to find who they are in God by serving him and for your support financially, time-wise, and especially with your prayer, we couldn't have done it without you backing us up and I appreciate all of your comments on all of the blogs. A special thanks to Pastor Kyle and Whitney Bland for opening their hearts and their church to us and showing us that it can be done even as a young couple as long as you entrust everything to God. I know that God will bless you for what you have done in our lives and how you have inspired us in more ways than you know just by being yourselves. Also a special thanks to Pastor Bland and the Cortez church for helping us throughout the week. We appreciate your support and we know that Pastor and Whitney couldn't do it without you.



To the youth that have been on this adventure and to the ones that will be affected by the passion that God is bringing back in those youth. All I want to say is that it isn't over, it is just the beginning of great things that God has for us. On Wednesday night Pastor Kyle preached on dominion and spoke out of Joshua chapter 10. The story talks about how Joshua commanded the sun to stand still so that he could finish the battle. God had already helped Joshua by raining stones down from heaven to defeat the armies and Joshua could have let up and still won the battle but he commanded the sun to stand still so that he could completely wipe out the armies. We just went through a week where God moved powerfully in our lives and in the pioneer works we were sent to and we could take the victory and move on and be just fine or we could command the sun to stand still and make sure we fight this battle until the strategies of the devil are utterly destroyed. We must continue to fight and pray for those pastors, their families, and their churches until the devil is defeated. We have won the battle but we must continue to fight to get true dominion. I am proud of all of the youth and I can't wait to see what God does in our lives.

-Brian Grise