Ignite Fall 08

This was the best ignite for me so far.  For those of you who are wondering what ignite is, it is a weekend of training the new leaders that we interviewed and accepted. What interviews, what are you accepting?  Well great questions.  I am a part of this ministry called S.W.A.T (Students With A Testimony) Ministry.  Pretty sure i have mentioned them in a previous blog, but just for those who just started reading this blog or whatever... it is a ministry that travels around the South East doing weekend events for churches.

So without going into to much more detail now, we got to train our newest leaders, give them that T-Shirt they have been dreaming about for years and a handy little duffle bag... be jealous :)

But for serious, We go through the weekend just like we would a normal SWAT weekend, well a little different, we want to train them and answer any questions on how to lead.  We also go over SWAT protocol and all that fun stuff.

But something that God has been growing in me is community and building relationships and so on the way down there i asked a few friends to pray for the weekend but i prayed myself that God would build relationships and just rock our world with some amazing connections.  And God rocked my prayer out of the water.  I feel this is the first time that i was at this weekend and really connected with all the new leaders.  I knew all the guys names, and most of the girls, but God just rocked our world as a ministry.  He allowed 32 people to come in and be a part of this amazing family and they are an amazing caliber of leader.  

The first night we were there God just rocked our world and we (the guys) had a session and everyone just opened up and shared their story of where they were at the time and with those stories God ministered to each and everyone of us.

Then Jesse and I took rec to a whole new level never before reached.  God allowed us some crazy creativity and we rocked it out.  Both girl groups and the guy groups came to rec pumped up and excited and with a theme.  We also had a spirit flag for them to win... and one step more, Jesse and I dressed up as the jokers, pictures to come later, after people post them on facebook) and it was scary, nasty, crazy amazing.  God is truly amazing and as we continued the weekend we did Maneuvers which can be taken as a parable of life... amazing and very thought provoking and insightful.  

Well as our day winded down we hung out at Jon's house, tailgated, watched the game and then went into an amazing time of worship and then one more session.  Throughout this whole weekend it was amazing and unreal to see God bring so many different people together to fight for each other.  How beautiful his love, how beautiful our new family.