Revival Visits Graduation Ceremony

Recently, God began an amazing work at a church in Tennessee where one of our teams had an extended summit. Last week we received the following report in an e-mail, letting us know of God's continuing work among His people there.

Wanted to let you know a little about what happened last night at graduation. It was wonderful to hear the salutatorian speak; the first thing he did was thank God and his Savior Jesus for blessing him with the accomplishments he had achieved. He then thanked his mom and dad.

The second speaker was the valedictorian, Sara, who is part of the youth group at the Creek. She had been at the service Wednesday night, and she told the audience that after the pastor spoke, she felt as if a ton of bricks had hit her on the head. She decided to throw away the speech she had prepared and start over Wednesday night after she got home.

She talked about how the pastor's words had struck home with her, that she had not been living as a Christian should or being the example she should have been to her closest friends. She took her time to seek forgiveness from friends and family she had wronged, mentioning many by name. She shared her desire to turn their superficial relationships into more meaningful ones.

It was really exciting to hear her speak like this in front of at least a thousand people. You could hear a pin drop where we were sitting. I thought to myself, "A little bit of the revival that has been happening at the Creek made it all the way to the 2011 graduation ceremony at WVHS!"

It was also interesting to hear my sister-in-law, a high school teacher in another county, say she didn't understand why anyone would use an opportunity to speak, only to apologize to people around her. I just smiled and thought, "That's because you don't know what God has been doing at the Creek for the past month."

This young lady, who had accomplished the highest academic standard she could reach at WVHS, in one night understood that her witness for Christ and her relationship with Him and with those around her were more important than what she had been chasing for four years.

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