Part 3

SURGE day 4&5

It has finally arrived! The reason for all the drama.

In the four years that Bryan and I have been at Marathon, we have never had drama like this. We had never made a Dr. or ER visit. Nor had we ever had so many technical difficulties. None of it was in vain though. So much had happened at this point, you could help but laugh and sit back and anticipate what God was about to do.

We had a regular service that evening took a break and came back for a praise service. It was awesome! I have never seen the Spirit so evident in our kids as it was during that service. Many of our kids had never truly experienced worship before that night. God was moving in our kids. When it came time to stop for the evening, the kids didn’t want to leave.

Thursday night God showed up again. Bryan offered an invitation and gave the kids some time to pray on their on or with a leader. Our theme for the week was surrender. You could feel the burdens being lifted off our kids as they prayed with each other and got on their knees before God. So many of them are hurting and dealing with junk at home. You could see the sense of relief on their faces as they left that night knowing that they were surrendering. In that room overlooking the bay, they left all their baggage. Like our shirts say, they surrendered by the bay.
Now the real work begins. Reminding them that they left that stuff by the bay and they never have to come back to it. Pray for us and them!