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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

GYC 2007 Plenary Sessions

Israel Ramos

Andrea Oliver

Be Nonconformists

Steve Kasperbauer

A Journey of Faith

Mark Finley

Paul Ratsara Sr.

Evangelism Focus

Steven Conway

Staci Osterman

Alan Parker

Eugene Prewitt

Allison Waters Fowler

1888 Panel Discussion

A Divine Key

Welcome to the generation of youth for Christ.

We want to welcome you to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where it is a whopping 19 degrees.

But obviously that hasn't deterred so many of you from being here.

We want to welcome you to what promises to be a very blessed next 5 days.

We want to especially welcome those of you who are joining us through the 3 Angels Broadcasting Network.

We hope that you'll join us for all of our live evening programming, as well as for our live Sabbath programs.

And I also understand that we have many international attendees here.

We want to say a hearty etzayin to our Ghanian contingent.

We also have some seminarians from Zalsky Seminary in Russia.

And for all of you who are joining us from around the world, from Guam, from England, from Brazil, from Canada, our neighbors to the north and all the other countries, we just want to say we're so glad that you joined us and we trust that this is going to be a life-changing event.

We don't want to just talk like Christians, we don't want to just act like Christians, we want to be Christians from our hearts.

And to this end, we will be studying the Bible, we'll be praying together, and we trust it will be a very memorable next few days.

At this time I'm going to ask Amy Shepard to come out and do our or to lead us in our opening prayer Amy is joining us from the Center for Adventist ministry to public university students, and we're glad that she could be with us this weekend Welcome Please bow your heads with me in prayer.

Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you so much that you've seen it fit to bring us together this evening, Lord, that you've brought us from all over the country and all over the world.

We just pray, Lord, that you will make your promise true, Lord, that wherever 2 or 3 are gathered in your name, that you will be their Lord.

And we pray that your presence will be with us and that as a result of this experience together we will not only grow closer to you, we'll also know how to better share you with those that we come in contact with every day, Lord.

We pray that your spirit may fill this place and may continue to be with us as we leave at the end of the program.

We ask all these things in Jesus' name and for his sake, amen.

1 of the goals of GYC is to get young people, to get GYC attendees involved not just here at the conference, but other opportunities that are outside of this conference to get involved.

I brought up here a couple of my friends on stage and we want to talk about an exciting initiative that actually you could be involved in just about any time of the day just about anywhere in the world and I'll ask you What project are you involved in we're involved with a ministry called share him?

Share him is in ministry of the Carolina Conference and we focus on mobilizing and equipping and training and sending out lay men and women to be involved in evangelism, Not only as an event but as a lifestyle So share him focuses in on people that would want to preach an evangelistic series Both people who want to preach as well as people who want to get involved in their local church in an outreach team We call them involved in a lifestyle of evangelism, which involves them preaching themselves in their homes, in their churches, or getting on an airplane and going to Madagascar to preach or the Philippines.

So this could appeal to the young evangelist sitting in the crowd, or it could appeal to Maybe someone that wants to stay behind the stage exactly help them out and and organize for God We have individuals who prefer to stay at home and get involved in evangelism But we have others who say you know I'd like to go to places of the world where the church is on fire and I'd like to practice preaching and getting involved in evangelism overseas, but then they want to come back here and get involved.

So ShareHim is involved in this kind of ministry.

This year we have taken over 750 lay men and women to about 30 different countries around the world and praise the Lord they have preached the 3 angels message and they realize very quick that even though they have never taken homiletics, even though they have not had much experience in preaching, some of them haven't even had the closing prayer for Sabbath school before, but they're preaching an entire series of meetings and they say to themselves when they see people come forward to give their heart to Christ, they say, you know what, it's not really about me, it's the message, it's the Holy Spirit working through me to touch people's hearts.

As I'm listening to this, if I'm you know 45 or 55 maybe I'm just about ready to join Share him and see what I can do but what about for the younger age person?

Well listen folks, the majority I would say of the people who join in Share Him initiatives are young people.

This year alone we've taken over 300 young people, college age kids, to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.

And the youngest person to preach a Share Him series was 11 years old.

And we're looking for a 92 year old talk to me afterwards Pastor it's exciting to listen to you, but I see you have quite a group of evangelists here Tell me you know is there some stories that we can share or tell me a little bit about the group you have well Justin These individuals here these young people we're not just talking about a theory here, these young people have participated in a Share HIM event.

And I have a feeling, I'm looking out and I see faces that I recognize who have been involved in Share HIM.

If you've been involved with Share HIM before, Could you raise your hand?

Now what about all of you who don't have your hands up?

These people have been involved, some of them have preached twice.

Joshua Condado, you were in El Salvador, and you were preaching in a church.

Tell the story about when you got to church and they had canceled the meeting for another more interesting event.

You know how we are required to go through our sermon at least 3 times before we preach it that night?

Well, that day I had practiced it 4 times just to be extra prepared for it.

And I get to the church and they canceled the meeting for a funeral because 1 of the old ladies of the church had died.

So they told me to preach the sermon I had done about a week before.

Now here he is a first-time evangelist, and he is called upon to preach a funeral sermon.

When he came back to the hotel that evening, it was amazing.

And he preached on the hope we have in resurrection.

Did you make it through that funeral sermon okay?

Robbie, Robbie preached a series in El Salvador and as well in Tanzania.

Robbie, you had an interesting thing happen this summer in Tanzania.

Tell us about your driver that took you every night out to your site.

Yeah, well, I had a site about 30 minutes out from where we were staying and we were right at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania so that was really awesome.

At night you could see this big mountain and our driver would drive us out about 30 minutes to my site and then would take a lady out to her site about an hour out.

And this wasn't the first time he'd driven people for shahin.

He had done the same thing in 2003 and 2005.

And each time he'd been resisting, I believe he was Muslim, and he would just listen to the meetings and would just resist and resist.

He wasn't listening to the Holy Spirit in his heart.

But this time he was listening and he would usually stay either at my site or this other lady's and at the end he decided to give his heart to the Lord.

And he said that he's going to wait and he's going to convince his whole family to get baptized with him 3 times a charm, amen?

Sometimes we feel well they didn't accept the truth this time then we say well we're gonna move on but you know we need to continue to have that love that God has for us and continue to seek after others so Robbie that was an interesting story now let me ask the the 2 ladies at the end there from a Fountainview Academy seniors there this year and You went to Dominican Republic a few years back and tell us about that.

You went, you prepared your sermons months in advance, right?

No, I went to Dominican with the mindset that I didn't want to preach.

I was just going to do the children's meetings, maybe a health talk, maybe if I was forced, but I really didn't want to preach.

So I went there, and as I was on the plane, there was another kid there who had actually planned to preach, and he was on his plane, and he got a phone call saying that a family emergency had happened and he had to come home right away.

So that left an opening that they needed a preacher for and I was like, oh no.

And so I didn't originally want to preach, but I prayed about it for a while and I just felt so impressed I needed to do this and that God was calling me to do this so even though I didn't feel comfortable doing it I stepped up and I did it and I'm so glad that I did it I was really blessed by the whole experience a powerful story amen A young senior gets on a plane, not even planning to preach, but gets there, God opens the door, she preaches, and she's changed because of it.

I just wonder by show of hands, how many of you are going to preach again?

Get the hands up in the air, you can be proud of it.

And now there's probably going to be someone in the audience that's thinking, you know what, not me.

Sure, those people can do it by show of hands, would you recommend everyone in the audience to do it?

Now I just wonder, Pastor, there's probably someone out here just kind of at the edge of their seat, I can almost see it, they maybe want to go to the Philippines, maybe they want to go to India, maybe they want to do something in Tennessee, but how are they going to find out about it?

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