Good morning. I hope you are doing well. I find it amazing how often God allows us to use so many different means to communicate his Truth and Love to kids. On Aug. 21, our City Life team, volunteers and artists and instructors took over Jerry Burrell Park in Schenectady for the day for the final exhibition and outreach of Blazefest 2010.
As you may remember reading, Blazefest is our annual hiphop camp where we use the elements of hiphop culture to reach kids in the heart of Schenectady. Saturday features artist and student performances, a cookout, games, services and a gospel message toward the end. We had a great crowd this year, saw several young people commit their lives to Jesus and were able to honor the camp students for the skills they learned throughout the week.
My hat goes off to Ray, Andy, Catie, Cherie, Ray & Ruth and our many volunteers for such a tremendous week of ministry. I am also thankful for Ed Dufek and Tim Gibbons who served faithfully on the tech end during the week. We are also grateful to the American Bible Society for funding a portion of Blazefest.
Columbia High School: this is one of the schools where we held a pilot Point Break anti-bullying program last school year. The administration saw the impact the program had and has kept in touch with us for several months. Friday, Aug 27 we headed back to CHS to be part of the freshmen orientation program for the entire freshman class!! We had about 20 minutes with each group of 80 or so students throughout the morning where we will took them through some interactive games, small group discussion and a short instructional time about the choices they are about to make as they enter high school.
The morning went great, most students were very responsive to what we said and now the school wants to bring us back for a full set of Point Breaks for the class. We are amazed that we can access these students and be part of a school's efforts to help incoming freshmen excel in their high school experience.
Thank you very much for praying, for giving and for taking part in reaching teenagers in the Capital Region with the love of Jesus!
Dave Lenehan
YFC
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