My family just got back from a week-long camp where I spoke to about 300 junior highers. The week was fantastic. The kids really responded to the messages, with about 40 kids making first-time decisions to follow Christ and even more making commitments to purge habits or temptations from their lives and recommit to living for Him. The week also provided my family with some great “down time “between talks. We hiked, kayaked, watched almost the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy (yeah … that takes a while). We just enjoyed some good time of “chilling.” I really enjoy every once in a while getting to bring my family on these trips.

Pray specifically for two kids from this camp, whom I’ll call “Brian” and “Andrew.” They stopped by my family’s cabin one night just to thank me for what I shared. Both have been getting into some trouble at home, smoking a lot of weed and looking for answers. They said this week provided those answers. They want to go back and live differently. We talked about how they could do that.

Please pray for these two kids. According to brand new Center for Disease Control “Youth Risk Behavior” report, 49.1 percent of today’s students have tried marijuana by the time they graduate from high school, and 25 percent of them are current users (have used in the last 30 days). Not all kids smoke weed, but kids are looking for answers in all the wrong places. I love the opportunity to be able to point kids like  “Brian” and “Andrew” toward answers that fulfill. 

God is good!