1 God Encounter w/ 1 Girl to Many w/ the Gospel

Below is a Blog from one of our SMC students. I am proud of Keyona on so many levels. Mainly because of her sheer tenacity to blaze a trail that few are willing to do in order to find God's will for their lives. Keyona is young lady from Maine. She is proof of what one encounter with God at an event like Shabbach can do in launching her to reach many. Keyona was adopted into a wonderful home at a young age. The baggage of rejection could have easily crippled her, yet she refused to be denied and went on a mission to search for purpose of her existence. You'll read in her Blog below about her personal experience at Shabbach. I'd like for you to know her current status after her encounter.
After Shabbach 2009 she:
a. finished her high school
b. joined with a summer mime team that traveled all over the country sharing the Gospel
c. is currently involved in our Shabbach Master's Commission Program here in Charlotte, NC
http://www.shabbach.com/images/MC.pdf

We're all excited about #ShabbachOCD2013!!! I believe she is one of thousands that have been and will be changed at Shabbach! It's why we do what we do!

Hope to see you soon!

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Shabbach MB is this weekend!!  Getting ready has been making me think about going to Shabbach when I was younger.  I remember going to Shabbach DC the year they did Glow in the Dark.  None of my youth group was going other than me, and being from Maine I needed to drive a few hours to get in with another youth group.  Through PG's message I learned that "you can't glow for Christ until you are broken in Christ."  After that weekend I knew that I wanted to be a part of something bigger.  Small Swans Island just wasn't going to cut it for me.  I wanted to be a part of a group that was so real and so on fire for God that it changed people's lives.  Through Shabbach Masters Commission I now get to be a part of the same conference that changed my life. The same conference that made me want a deeper relationship with Jesus.  I truly believe that everything happens for a reason. Psalm 37:23-24 - "The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in Him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with His hand."
Shabbach is the kind of conference that can change a young person's life, I'm living proof of that. And all because "On Fire for God" people follow the path God has laid out for their lives.  I'm so excited to be a part of Shabbach and to see what God has planned for this weekend.  I'm expecting lives to be changed and souls to be won for Christ.  Hope to see you all there!!

John 3:17 - For God did not send His son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

Have a blessed week,
Keyona