Meta '09

A local church, Apex Baptist Church (Apex, NC) has an annual event they call Metamorphosis or Meta. It is a weekend geared towards bringing students closer to Christ. The awesome thing about this event is that they invite area churches to come and bring their youth groups. I would guess that between 8-12 churches come with students eager to learn year after year. This year, Northwest was able to be a part of this exciting event.

I could go on and on and write in detail about what went on, but I am going to get to the point. Two young men from our student ministry got saved! It was awesome, because the pastor was simply preaching the Gospel, but as he was doing it, I was praying for these two guys in particular. I found out afterwards that have my church group there was praying for these two guys! GOD IS AWESOME! and PRAYER WORKS!

One of the guys gave his testimony at youth group this past Sunday night. He had grown up in a Christian home, but it had taken him until his sophomore year in high school to realize that he needed a personal relationship with his Savior. As he shared his testimony he expressed how he got saved just in time. A bunch of things happened in his family--mainly his grandfather's death. He shared that he might not have made it through this trial if it wasn't for his "new found strength in the Lord." God is truly awesome and works in amazing ways. I have prayed for him for a while, and I still pray for him. I just didn't understand why God hadn't saved him yet. But God knew when the right time was, and that was at Meta.