basically ive got to be up in about 4hrs to get to church. yet i havent been able to fall asleep. technically, its only 3:42 but its the 'daylight savings'. blah! so i lost an hour of staying up/sleeping. whatever you wanna call it.
so ive spent nearly 12hrs with TC REC today. and i can only say im SUPER excited for TC. as i laid in bed, trying to fall asleep, TC just kept flowing thru my mind. thinking back to this 'TC season'. haha! basically, its never winter (jan-march) if im not TC prepping. cus thats how its been since 2003/2004. sometimes it starts as early as August, other times as late as the January before TC. but the only reason i keep coming back to TC is because at TC2002, thats where i first encountered God, and that there IS more to being a Christian than just attending church every sunday, fellowship every friday, and answering all the sunday school questions. i will NEVER forget TC2002's worship sessions in that T3C sanctuary with 1000 others. (yes, it was the year when senior/junior conference was joint.) it was also the first time i did NOT zone out during the message but hung on to every single word! i still remember the friday-sunday before TC was 7-up's winter camp. i came home on the Sunday afternoon with the worst stomach ache possible. and it lasted for the LONGEST time. even when i got into bed in the early evening, i was still in pain. it was crazy! i thought i wasnt gunna be able to make it to TC. but as you know, i DID make it. haha... and it definitely was a milestone in my life. (milestone. tc2003's theme. 7 miles!) cus i got baptized 2 weeks after (Easter was in late March. just like how it is this year).
but ANYWAYS, back to the original reason for this post.... im excited because i cant wait to see what's God's gunna do at TC. this year, both junior and senior conferences have maxed out! thats OVER 1000 high schoolers who're gunna go! also, this year, they didnt have any difficulty getting their 'goal' number of TC captains! cus usually, by late january/early february, the TC co-ordinators are scrambling, trying to find more captains. but this year, before 2008, they already had all those spots filled! amazing or what? and with maxed out registration, that only means more captains (if the location can hold so many!).
so during the loooooong TC REC meeting today, we ended off (before dinner) with a time of prayer. and the song, God of this City just came to me.
greater things have yet to come
greater things are still to be done
and thru TC, great things will happen to this city as well!
i pray that teens who have never met God, or had a false perception of Him will meet Him this weekend.
that teens who have always known of God but never personally met God to meet Him. (like me back then!)
that teens who have met God, but have distanced themselves, will find Him again and remember why He is so great!
i also pray for the volunteers to be humbled. because a lot of us think that we will be there to make an impact. that we are "TC alumni". but God may just turn that around and we'll be impacted instead. either way, we will also leave TC with a great reminder of how He is in control and we're not.
im totally stoked for TC. God's gunna move in amazing ways. its gunna be awesome! i just know it!
Sunday: Concert of Prayer @ 7pm @ RHCCC
Monday-Thursday: TEENS CONFERENCE 2008 Jr/Sr entire day @ RHCCC
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TC was AMAZING!!! I'm supposed to be doing homework right now, but I wanted to see if anyone had posted anything from TC yet, and I found your blog. This was my first year at TC, and I loved it! I'm so going back next year. Everything was incredible. God's presence was truly there, and I thank Him for all he did at the conference. Oh ya, and by the way the TC rec did a great job, too!
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