“God is going to sweep the world with His saints.”
These are impactful words shared and spoken by Oswald
Chambers in his famous devotional which I read each morning and evening. He’s
referencing the famous verse in Romans 8:28, “all things work together for good
to them that love God.” God has been sweeping the world one person and one
military youth at a time between Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield. It’s a
pleasure to share some of these God sweeping stories with you.
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| The Hunter Club Beyond group together as we're awarded our amazing gift from the Savannah Priory of St. Vincent, Knights Templar. |
Most recently, one of God’s saints showed up in an enormous
way in connecting with me pertaining to a financial contribution to the
ministry at Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield. This gentleman shared with
me how his organization (Priory of St. Vincent, Knights Templar) would discuss
it over and vote on what ministry they would choose and let me know later in
the fall, and low and behold, they chose Club Beyond! Not only did they chose us, but we were a benefactor of such a large
contribution that it will provide largely for our middle school and high school
summer camp efforts already underway. It is through amazing strategic
partnerships like these that unfold where God shows up in the mightiest ways to
see His plans come together. God knows that one of my areas of continual
concern include finances and how we’re able to fund our student ministry with
limits being put on giving, and God showed up sweeping our world with His
saints in this amazing gift..
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| A snapshot of all of the wonderful lady leaders with our teenagers during Girl's Day! |
More of God’s saints include a group of ladies who poured
numerous hours into an epic Girl’s Day event at Fort Stewart from 10am to 9pm. They
intentionally planned the day to focus on the theme of ‘treasure’ and how each
girl is one of God’s treasures in His eyes. I personally have never seen anything
more dedicatedly planned for our students until now. Beginning the day with
getting all ‘prettied up’ together then transitioning to personal letters
written to themselves along with a love letter from God to take home and then finishing
the day with a celebrated neon glow stick dance party together, this group of
dedicated women truly blessed our teenage girls throughout this special day. It was apparent by the end of this day,
each of these teenage girls felt like they were God’s treasure. Never before
I have seen a group of ladies lay down differences to make such an impact on
our students like this in an all-out full day effort. These saints truly swept
my world.
If those stories aren’t enough, God chose to show off to the
highest limit. It was a typical Friday afternoon lunch with my dear friend and
fellow leader, Walter. I was beyond myself and caught for a loss
of words, at least 5 minutes or so. It was then that I knew God was showing off
huge with the people I am connected here. I got to spend 5 days with the
love of my life when originally we both thought we’d not see one another for a
6 month period at Christmas time.
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| Amy and I with our dog, Neicy, while spending time together at Holbrook Campground one cool afternoon. |
Oswald Chambers was correct in his statement that truly God
will sweep this world with His saints. Interestingly enough it is the world I
view all the time and apparently God wanted to show off some throughout the
month in His timeline.
Thank you for joining me in this mission so we can become
God’s saints sweeping military students’ worlds that can be so chaotic with
upcoming finals, Christmas season during deployments and even upcoming new
seasons of change from moves of friends or their own lives. We are thankful for
you and your belief in this calling to reach our military teens in Georgia.
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