Believe 2015

Believe is a weekend event that is just for middle school students put on by Christ in Youth.  Every year in April this event is held at the DeVos Field house at Hope College.  This year Belay took 11 students and 5 leaders to Believe. 

The whole event centered around being "after" God's heart, using the story of David.  The speaker was great, his name was Jeff Whalling, he is from Pepperdine University.  He has been in Youth Ministry for 20 years and you can tell.  The minute he got on stage the kids were locked in.  He was funny and a good story teller.  The coolest part of his talk was at the beginning of each session he would say, "what do you care about?" and all of the students would respond in unison "what God cares about." 

The band was great also and kept the worship high energy and loud so the teens really enjoyed it! My two favorite songs that they did was a Jeremy Riddle song called furious and one of their own songs called Found! 

Friday night we stayed at Camp Geneva.  We had high hopes of doing a bon fire but unfortunately it was raining when we arrived!  I know that several of the students were so excited to get to Camp Geneva to find out where they will be staying for a week this summer and have a glimpse of what awaits them later this year! 

Overall it was a great weekend!  Thanks to all who helped to make this event possible!