Warmth In Winter 2011

This past weekend Sam and I went to a youth conference put on by the Tennessee Conference called Warmth in Winter. We set up a table and told people all about Mountain T.O.P. It was a great weekend! We saw many people that we already know and we met some people that have been to MTOP in the past and some that have never even heard of us before.

While at WNW we were able to go to two worship sessions. The music was led by Pocket Full of Rocks. The main speaker was Marko Oestreicher. The first worship session of the weekend Marko asked the youth at the event to invite Jesus into their hearts.
I've been to a few of these kinds of events before and have heard that whole thing so nothing new. Then, he told them to do it for the weekend. He said now is not the time to commit for your life, right now it's just for this weekend, while you're here at Warmth in Winter. That was something very new that I have never heard before. It reminded me of how we need to invite Jesus in more often. Yes most of us have a time when we made a conscious decision to follow Christ.

What we seem to forget sometimes is that we need to take it a step at a time. That was one of the things that I took away from the weekend. So many times we seem to get ahead of ourselves and even God that we just need to relax, focus on what He has called us to at this moment and when it's time for something else He'll let us know.

It was also really cool to be able to be around so many youth for the weekend. It was great to be able to be in a room with almost 2,000 youth all joined together worshiping the Lord. Seeing the way that they interacted with each other and the way they show Christ's love to one another was a very good thing to see. I was reminded of one of the main objectives that we have here at MTOP. It's to help instill leadership skills and discipleship in youth.

Being around so many young people brought out the child in me and Sam (like that's really hard to do...) But we joined in the fun and even did some tricks in the hallway. Hope y'all enjoy the video!