#conference2012

This is just simply beautiful.

I can watch this video over and over again, yet it never ever fails to give me the chills and amaze me at the same time. And to know that I was there with 800 or more brothers and sisters, singing the same song, glorifying our God with all our hearts and asking him to Fill this place with Your, fill our hearts with Your, fill this place with Your love. 

I love worshipping along with my brothers and sisters in this community because I can tell you for a fact, there is nothing that can ever beat it. Just that feeling of being in an environment with people who believe in the same thing you do, makes you have that feeling inside that anything is possible. I love the way that everyone gives up their whole heart through song and prayer, raises their hands in surrender to Him, and not worrying about who is around them or if they can not sing, but remembering who is in front of them, and that's God. Then you have that unexplainable feeling inside of you that you just can not show or even control.

This community is something that I'm so blessed to have in my life. The lessons I've learned, the people I met, the way I've grown so much closer with God is just such a blessing along with it as well. I will always continue to serve and be active in this community, no matter what it takes. That's a promise that I am willing to keep for the rest of my life.

Oh how much I miss conference man.. And just being there with my brothers and sisters from all across the nation.

Fill this place with Your,

Fill our hearts with Your,

Fill our lives with Your Love

I have no words to express how this past weekend has been for me. This has been my second conference and i must this it has also been the best. It was weird thinking about how conference was at a hotel but it somehow made me feel so intimate with everyone around me during the whole conference. Getting to conference early was cool even if my area was knocked out for a long while. 

Besides getting to conference mad early like at 8 and we didnt get into our rooms till like 4 and conference didnt start till 5, it was super cool to have that much free time to go around and meet tons of new people. Once conference stared it was on a roll and lives were changed across the whole weekend. The talks, shares, and workshops were epicly amazing. I loved how the workshops were broken into a bunch of groups and how i was able to meet brothers and sister from pretty much everywhere. One of the best things about being at a hotel was the beds!!! They were soft ^.^ which made it perfect for the brothers. and we had 15 brothers in that one room and amazingly we did not wake up the couple coordinators next door to us xD This is Tower De Bros. Conference ended wayyy too fast but my cluster got a picture in. Just being able to be at one venue with over 800 youth from across the nation praising and worshiping God is nothing less than amazing. After conference when almost everyone got home facebook blew up with tons of friend requests and pictures. The best thing that came out of that was a facebook group page the the CFC Youth community to be connected with each other. Just last night we prayed the rosary together. This just show how united we are across the nation. I love this community and i dont have the words to expressed how i feel about it.

THIS! This is the reason I continue to serve. In the midst of such an intimate worship, I felt like He was telling me to calm myself and just open my eyes. With the sudden urge to move from the front of the crowd all the way to the back, I passed by hundreds of youth deep into worship. I looked around and thought one thing...This is beautiful. You see, I always had this pessimistic sense of losing hope in God, the church, and the ministry. I could barely stand to listen to another worship song. However, in preparation for conference, I found myself among other youth who had not yet lost the faith that I had so easily given up on. I found my faith in the most simple sounding way: prayer. So here I was, standing in the back glaring in awe of the 800+ youth lifting their voices and arms in the air as they worshiped His glory whole heartily together.  Suddenly I broke down and dropped to my knees. Singing "For You Make All Things New" I prayed, not for myself, but for the hundreds of youth in this building that needed Him to fill this place with His love; fill their lives with His love. From this point on, I know that the most beautiful thing I will ever witness in this whole world is simply a person praying. Whether it is content, whether there are tears, or whether they are smiling and jumping all around; the fact that these individuals can escape their hectic lives and give a few moments to Him, who gave them life....It's beautiful. And I will forever serve, so that others will be able to experience this beauty.