Local ‘Youth for Christ’ attend ‘Niagara 2011’ Conference in NY

26 Area Youth and 11 adults recently joined the local Youth for Christ of North­ern Ohio / San­dusky Val­ley Chap­ter vol­un­teers and attended ‘NIAGARA 2011′ a youth ‘God Encounter’ train­ing Con­fer­ence in Nia­gara Falls, NY on Decem­ber 27–30, 2011. The group trav­eled by char­tered bus for the 13th con­sec­u­tive year. Par­tic­i­pants included 26 teens and 11 adults from Fre­mont, Lind­sey, Oak Har­bor, Grey­town, Nor­walk, Collins, Tif­fin, Celina, and Tac­coa Falls GA.

The Nia­gara youth con­fer­ence was first held in 1993 and is an annual event held on Dec. 27–30 by the inter­de­nom­i­na­tional orga­ni­za­tion, Joshua Rev­o­lu­tion. The event is for fam­i­lies, youth grades 6–13, and youth lead­ers. The mis­sion of NIAGARA 2011 is to give every par­tic­i­pant the oppor­tu­nity to encounter Jesus Christ in a life chang­ing way, to teach every per­son how to walk in vic­tory over sin, and how to share their Faith! Expos­i­tory Bible train­ing pro­vided stu­dents specifics on how to live dif­fer­ently know­ing Jesus Christ in a per­sonal way. Nia­gara 2011 bridges sev­eral cul­tural, church affil­i­a­tions and geo­graphic divides. Over 2,500 youth attended from the U.S.A. and Canada.

This year’s theme was “The Taber­na­cle” and the theme Bible verse was Amos 9:11 which says ‘On that day I will raise up the taber­na­cle of David’. Three thou­sand years ago, King David led the pro­ces­sion that brought the Ark of

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the Covenant into the city of Jerusalem and placed it under a tent. The Hebrew peo­ple wor­shipped God before the Ark non-stop for an esti­mated 36 years. At Nia­gara ’11 stu­dents and lead­ers learned the sym­bolic truths of the Old Tes­ta­ment Taber­na­cle, the sig­nif­i­cance and attrib­utes of the Ark of the Covenant, and how to apply teach­ings to their lives today as believ­ers in Christ through the atone­ment of Jesus Christ.

David was used by God to take down Goliath, he was a war­rior in bat­tle, he was a wor­ship­per and song writer who wrote most of the Psalms, but King David’s great­est accom­plish­ment was bring­ing the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem. The Bible states that God will not rebuild the orig­i­nal Taber­na­cle of Moses or the beau­ti­ful Tem­ple of Solomon, but He will rebuild David’s Tabernacle.

Over 50,000 stu­dents and lead­ers from dif­fer­ent denom­i­na­tions and eth­nic­i­ties have been reached through a Joshua Rev­o­lu­tion Youth Con­fer­ence since 1993. The Lord did great and mighty things through this year’s event Nia­gara ’11 which was not a phys­i­cal recon­struc­tion of David’s Taber­na­cle, but a rebirth of the pas­sion that caused the Taber­na­cle to be built in the first place.

The youth and adults par­tic­i­pated in refresh­ing wor­ship led by sev­eral wor­ship teams and heard power ses­sion speak­ers such as Reg­gie Dabbs (who yearly speaks to over 1 mil­lion youth world wide). Reg­gie told the kids that they can ‘kill the giants in their lives’ that they per­son­ally strug­gle with (just as David killed Goliath). Other speak­ers included Loren Lar­son, Derek Lev­en­dusky, Bob Cor­nell, and Joshua Rev­o­lu­tion Direc­tor and Founder Mike Chorey who spoke on sev­eral top­ics relat­ing to the Bible topic of the Ark of the Covenant and how to apply that teach­ing to their lives. One YFC adult leader said that the con­fer­ence power ses­sions led to deep dis­cus­sions with kids in their nightly hotel room devo­tions. Seven local youth indi­cated that they had made either first time per­sonal deci­sions to fol­low Christ or reded­i­cated their life to Christ at Nia­gara 2011. One local youth also par­tic­i­pated in Believer’s water bap­tism ser­vice held at the con­fer­ence at the Sher­a­ton Hotel Pool where local YFC youth stayed.

Local adult vol­un­teers are cur­rently serv­ing with Youth for Christ / North­ern Ohio in Tif­fin, Fre­mont, Collins, and in Wadsworth. In Fre­mont, vol­un­teers weekly share hope and good news with youth at the San­dusky County Deten­tion Cen­ter and oth­ers through a home Bible study. A Spring char­tered bus trip to the Cre­ation Museum in KY is being con­sid­ered. For more infor­ma­tion on Fremont’s San­dusky Val­ley Youth for Christ events and activ­i­ties or on how to be involved reach­ing today’s youth with YFC, con­tact John or Barb Fehl 419–334-2393 or Dr. John Roush 419–334-9504.

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