Winterfest 2009

I realize that it has been a while but I have been pretty busy lately. I went to Winterfest 2009 with 5 teens. Winterfest is a Church of God teen rally that is held every year in Indy. It was the first time I have attended and happily I can say it was an awesome time. Truely life changing. If you can imagine, 3000+ pentecostal teens (that's not including their sponsors), worshipping and praying. We saw literally hundreds during the weekend that gave their lives to God, some speaking in tongues, the presence was awesome without doubt. Not only were teens moved but everyone there was as well.
The one testimony that most will remember is a teen that went there with a friend and after the service Saturday morning he talked to some of the pastors that had attended at his hotel. Later during evening service, he brought a Police Officer in from the street pulled out two bags of drugs, a gun, and simply said, "I'm done banging, do what you got to!'. Way cool!
Mind you I am new to the tech-age so to speak, if I can figure out how, I'll post some pix later. But I want to leave this thought. Sunday morning, the minister (Tom Madden) said to everyone that it is easy to feel the Holy Spirit with as many people as that in one place, with all the lights,special effects like fog machines, and the live bands. And he said that Satan was not there at the service, and here is where the lesson was, he said that when you worship and give your life to God, it is the best feeling but, he said, for the new Christians among us, and to some old ones that forget the reason that Satan is not there is that he is waiting for you at home! So the question we have to ask ourselves is, now what? Now that we have returned home, do we go back to the way things were or are we going to make the change for God. And I did ask myself Now What??