I’ve learned a lot of things since I started working as a nurse. I learned about medications, diseases, human nature, and life and death. I’ve learned a lot about reality, And I’ve learned about reality shows. Now, I didn’t watch TV growing up, but I had heard the term “reality show,” and lately I’ve seen snippets of reality shows that my patients were watching. That is, I thought they must be reality shows, because they appeared to be attempting to seem real, or in other words, to disguise sensationalism as reality. Yet the concept of unreality trying to appear real (when, in fact, it would have been more real to remain unreality), left me confused about what was “in reality” the point of a reality show.

“O Lord, open my lips, that my mouth may declare Thy praise.” (Psalm 51:15)

Over the last several years, it has been so neat to watch the Lord answer this prayer in my life, as relates to evangelism. He has worked in ways that I never would have expected, and blessed me more than had I anticipated!

Thinking recently about our assembly in Thorold South, I wondered how we could grow. Not in just reaching out to the lost, but in winning souls and actually teaching them so that they grow in the Lord and stay in the assembly. I have seen a lot of faces come and go and wonder what really works. How do we really disciple children of God? How can the youth be a part of process?

I ask this because I did not grow up in the assemblies. I was led to the Lord by a friend in high school, was discipled by her family, and have been in the assemblies ever since. I think that the youth and their families have the opportunity to be a huge influence on the growth in the assemblies.

Do you have an inspiring story? A time in your life where God has worked a miracle? We would like to present your story to the readers of Powered Youth. So if you had a chance to witness to friend who has been closed to the gospel, or God helped you through a rough time when you really needed Him, maybe you had a prayer answered that was so obviously from God...  

We are interested in these stories, to encourage other youth throughout the world. If you would like to write up the story for all to read. Please keep it around five hundred words long, you can send it in if you go to the contact page and send it to Sharon Nicholson who will read your stories and put them on the site if appropriate.