 Saturday, April 10 — Southwestern Christian University
Roll Call at 8:45 a.m. — Talent begins at 9:00 a.m.
Our annual Fine Arts Festival/Teen Talent helps develop the ministry gifts of our young people. You and your church should participate! Winners of our conference level are eligible to compete at the national level during Youth Quest this summer in Orlando, Florida! In addition winners at the conference and national levels receive valuable scholarships from our PH universities (including SCU)!
I believe every teen in the Heartland Conference can enter in at least one category of Talent!
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 February 2010 16:16 |
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Written by Stuart Sherrill
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 The first-ever Altitude was a smashing success! We started with 100 people, and we will grow from there! 37 of us rode a super-nice chartered bus from the Heartland Retreat Center to Winter Park, CO. We had a great time on the bus before we ever got to Altitude! Bishop Tunstall gave us a wonderful offering from the conference to help us afford the bus, and he and Sister Lu rode with us on the bus!
We stayed at the YMCA of the Rockies outside of Winter Park — 2 miles high; you just feel closer to God at that altitude. It snowed every single day, making the atmoshpere a winter wonderland. The lodge where we stayed was incredible. The cafeteria served up some of the best food you could ever imagine — 3 times a day! (Ask Brandon, Jericho, Zack, Eric and Matt about the magic chocolate milk machine). There was awesome sledding, tubing, sleigh rides, swimming, basketball, roller skating, ice skating and more — all for free!
Then there was the skiing and snowboarding. Winter Park is truly world-class skiing with everything from bunny slopes to double black diamonds. Most of the Heartland teens were new to the experience, but by the end of the day were doing okay. John Flatt decided snowboarding is nothing like snowboarding on the Wii!
As fun as it was, the service times were the true highlight of the event. KJ-52 brought it, and the energy was huge as everyone entered into the concert. KJ even stuck around and hammed it up with everyone for pictures, autographs, etc. Consumer from Denver brought us into the presence of the Lord through worship in a huge way. Charles Boyd challenged us as he always does. Marcus Brown, the evening speaker, became a brand new friend to our teens. He brought the Bible alive and connected with teens as few speakers can.
Plans are being made for Altitude 2011! We are working to make this conference even better. We are changing the time so that students do not need to miss two days of school. Plan now to be there in 2011. You won't want to miss it! |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 February 2010 16:45 |
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Two awesome camps!
This year's youth camps were incredible times in the Heartland. We did just about everything but sleep (as I'm sure parents noticed when their kids got back home). Our morning prayer sessions were a hit. Jenny and David Oxley did an incredible job as cooks for both camps (with only 3 days notice!). Our outings were outstanding, and the services were powerful encounters with the Holy Spirit. We saw an 18% increase in attendance above our 2008 youth camps.
Experience 1
One Voice from Southwestern Christian University was incredible. Not only did they lead us into the presence of the Lord during each service, but they also counseled and worked like crazy. They did everything we asked of them and more! Thank you Heather Pugh for your awesome team!
 National IPHC youth pastor, Charles Boyd ministered to us. All of his messages were phenomenal. We had young people "killing the rats" in their lives! In particular, our service at Red Rock Canyon featured a message about Mephibosheth. Charles asked the question "Young person, who in your life has dropped you?" Many chose to forgive people and situations that had caused them great pain!
- who dropped you?
Stats:
- 113 campers
- 8 salvations
- 92 rededications to the Lord
- 9 baptized with the Holy Spirit
- 68 professed a call into the ministry (we checked that stat two times because it almost seemed too good to be true!)
Experience 2
In our second camp Zack Merrill came to the Heartland for the third time, and served up some spectacular worship as always. We also had an outdoor concert at ActiveChurch (Pastors Deral and Michelle Hardy) with local Christian hip-hop artist Cam. His lyrics really made us think! Our campers passed out thousands of flyers for the concert at ActiveChurch. Thank you Deral and Michelle for letting us work with you to do an outreach!
 Brian Wise returned from ministering at Extreme Daze 2008. He brought footage on a climbing trip he made at Mount Magazine in Arkansas. He really brought home the elevate theme. On the last night, after an afternoon scavenger hunt in which the campers built tents in the auditorium, Brian preached on "tenting with God," while the campers sat in their tents. At the end of the message he showed the students that all the blankets, pillows, etc. were from their rooms and they could "tent" with God anytime in their bedrooms at home — awesome point!
Stats:
- 69 campers
- 3 salvations
- 20 rededications to the Lord
- 4 baptisms with the Holy Spirit
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Last Updated on Monday, 22 June 2009 20:24 |
By Youth For Youth!We're looking for a select group of youth to write devotions for other teens. This can be as simple as taking one verse from the Bible and talking about what that verse means to you. We want at least one article per week from each of our authors. If you enjoy blogging about spiritual matters, and you have a heart for all the youth groups in our conference, this is your opportunity. Email us at
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