BSM

We just got back from an amazing week at Summer In The Son. Summer In The Son, also known as SITS, is a conference for high school students at the campus of Kentucky Christian University. We took a group of 66 down there for the entire week of June 20-25. During the week, the students come together for several sessions that involve high-energy worship and life changing teachings. Some of the best times of the week would be when we’d get together as a large group at the end of each night and talk the things that had happened that day and the things that were revealed to us about our own lives. These moments would turn into really emotional conversations as students would come face to face with things in their lives in relation to what God wants to do in their lives. This was a place where redemption took place. Our students came together and grew together in these moments as an open and authentic community who’s true desire became to pursue Christ with everything we have. Confessions were made, accountability was sought, and hopefully, life transformation will take place.

While there, we had 3 students make decisions to give their lives to Jesus and be baptized! Inaddition, we had a lot of other students make decisions to get back on track and recommit themselves to living God’s way.

While there, I also challenged all of our students to take up a 90 day challenge. We’re calling it C90X. This is an extreme challenge, that will last 90 days, that we are committing to do as a group. The point is to do something over the next 90 days that will be a catalyst to our growth in our relationships with God. The challenges that we are committing ourselves to are different though. It’d be wrong of us to say that everybody has to take up the same extreme challenge. Something that may be really challenging for me may not be all that challenging to someone else. So students had all week to decide what it was that they’d commit themselves to doing. Some people’s challenges focused on things like prayer, or Bible reading. Some committed to reading their Bibles for 10 minutes a day for 90 days, while a small handful of students actually committed themselves to reading the entire Bible in 90 days! And depending on where they are in their walk with God currently, both of those commitments can be really challenging. While some students are adding disciplines to their lives, others are taking habits out. We have students who have real issues with things such as cussing, gossiping, pornography, etc. It’s our hope that after the 90 days are up, things such as purity, righteousness, and spiritual discipline will be a routine part of our daily lives.

A lot of awesome things took place in the lives of our students while at SITS last week. I pray that God continues to work on us as a student ministry and that the fruit would be evident in our lives. Thanks so much for praying for us. Continue to pray that we would always respond to God’s spirit moving in our lives.