Happy New Year
This week has been a tremendous spiritual renewal for me as I participated in SIMA retreat 2011.
If you are not familiar, it is a youth retreat that brings over 15 churches in the area together for four days of praise, prayer and teachings.
It started when I came in 2006 with a group of Wesley seminarians wanting to work together to build a movement for the youth.
At that time about five churches participated with just over 100 students.
This year, we had over 15 churches and with 500 students, counselors, staff and pastors joining in.
The leadership rotates every year and this year under the guidance of David Chang of First KUMC of Herndon, it went off well organized and full of blessings.
The special thing about this retreat was that there were students who were in first grade or kindergarten when I was ministering in the children department over five years ago.
They were just children barely able to talk or even listen to my sermons but now are actively engaged with the speaker, in praise and in prayer hungry for the Kingdom.
What a blessing to be in worship with them for three nights!
Also I remember the fourth and fifth grader boys who thought they were too cool for elementary praise songs and stood sometime aloof during worship then, were now singing their hearts out during the retreat.
Double the hallelujahs!
Pray, seek and praise God in the coming year as He is truly doing a new and wonderful work in our church!
Blessings,
Pastor Keith
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