The Final Hours. : (

As i write this there are less than 7 hours left in Farmington NM and it's really sad to be saying goodbye to this experience. I know that we have all learned and grown from this but it's always sad when it ends. Today we had church just like in the Springs. We even had one of our usual pastors with us. Pastor Marshall preached two great services and we had 81 people come out tonight. Definitely an upgrade from the 21 people we had Wednesday night. We had great services and every one of the youth got involved in the services. We did all the skits we had and of course the everything skit one more time during evening service. During morning service Josh did the offering, Richard gave his testimony, Natalie sang, and Nic played the drums. In the evening service Kristen gave her testimony, Natalie sang, and Evan did the offering. It was amazing to see all of our youth get involved and I am most proud of Evan because he really stepped it up this week.

Inbetween services we went to the now famous Fuddruckers for lunch with Pastor Kyle and Pastor Marshall. It wasn't as good as I thought it would be but everyone else seemed to love it. We then went back to hotel where we played football in the pool and I showed these kids how to score a touchdown with four people trying to bring me down. We went back to the church early to have a Q & A with Pastor Kyle on pioneering and the things he said really made me think and calmed my spirit about things. It's great to see someone you have known for more than ten years and is your age do something that takes that much guts. It inspires you and let's you know that you can do it too. In the service we did the everything skit one more time and we really got into it. Pastor Marshall said it was the best he had seen that skit done and all the kids were very proud of themselves. Again we prayed for the sick and two people had their legs grow out and 2 people got saved. There were 3 people that came out to all three revival services and we know that they are going to stick. Afterwards Pastor Kyle and Pastor Bland prayed for our group before we left and we all felt a sense of destiny and accomplishment and are ready to go back home.
After service we went to work like it was our home church and took out trash, swept, mopped, rearranged chairs and made sure that Pastor Kyle and Whitney didn't have to do anything. We then went out to a steakhouse because we had all saved money at everyone of our meals so that we could afford steak on sunday, but I was the only one that got actual steak. Booo. We had a great time of fellowship with Pastor Kyle, Pastor Marshall, and Pastor Bland. We are excited to see what God has in store for us now and I have no doubt that God has changed everyone of us. I am so proud of these youth and how they have grown and labored. It makes me proud to be a youth leader and to be a part of their lives. All in all the week couldn't have gone any better and we praise God for that.

P.S. Keep it posted. We may be behind but we do have more video posts and blog posts coming tomorrow.

-Brian Grise