Registration is now live!

Be sure to swing by Freedom Generation’s website to get yours! (ticket price is free!)

http://www.freedomgeneration.tv/engage-09/

This is an event that you DO NOT want to miss!

We had our last Generation of the 2008-2009 school year this past Sunday night – and I can tell you that it has been one absolutely amazing year. We’ve seen over 25 students come to know Christ, many of  them planning on getting baptized in June, and God has done a move in our ministry because of our cry of the Holy Spirit to move within Generation.

It has also been a year of learning…

I’m 20 years old. Going to be a junior at KSU in the fall. And I am the Student Pastor at Freedom Church. Many people can only handle one of those things at a time, but I’ve learned how to balance. How to manage. How to lead – with many faults and failures along the way.

But one thing that I have taken from this past year, that I want to relay to student pastors out there, is this…

I have found that if I am not spiritually, mentally, physically drained after preaching to student on a Generation night – then I was not adequately used by the spirit of God, I did not give enough of myself to be used, and I ultimately let my flesh and mind get in the way of God’s heart and will. – and this has been a learning process for me.

I’m subject to opinion – we  all are – but God’s word is not. It’s not about what we think, but rather, what is. For me, growing up, many preachers that I would hear would go around a point, or try and miss a critical  note in a sermon, to help from disatisfying the congregation – but what I have found is that by altering God’s truth, you are distasifying the Spirit and condeming your congregation. It has been a struggle for me, to hit on the hard stuff, because no one likes to hear it, no one likes to say it, but God ordained it, God placed it in the Bible, and thus it needs to be addressed.

So, as a follow up to my previous post, I urge you, student pastors, to preach truth and not opinion. To preach truth and not knowledge. To preach truth and not schooling. – God has placed it on the table for us  – through the means of His word – and it is up to us to preach it as is, unaltered, and unashamed.

I am super excited to announce Freedom Church/Freedom Generation’s first ever Student Conference.

So student pastors……pastors……students……..people – mark your calendars for Saturday, August 15th and make plans to join us and other student ministries for a one day conference that will be sure to change lives. This day is dedicated to approaching Christ as a body and not as individual ministries and churches. We will be pushing forward as a body of Christ towards our schools, families, and friends.

Here are few what’s and then I will explain the why.

• The event is FREE OF CHARGE! That’s right, your student ministry can bring as many as you want  absolutely free of charge.
• We are limited to 650 seats – so be sure to sign-up fast!
• Registrations opens Monday, June 1st.
• Registrations will be via a website (TBA) in which you can “purchase” and print out tickets.
• We will have sessions and breakouts dedicated to you and your students. They will be challenging and inspirational, provoking through and insight into spreading the news of Christ to the world and helping Matthew 28:16-20 come alive!
• This is for high school and middle school students alike!
• More info for this event can be found here as well as at our student ministry website during the upcoming weeks and months.

Let me give you the why….

We want to be able to conquer the world as a body and not simply as individual minstries. Yes, we all have our specific jobs – but we want to bring it together for one day to make a giant  push in our community.

I am a FIRM believer that the students right now are underused, underutilized, and underappreciated. Student are capable of helping in spread the good news of Christ, in which many churches and people readily dismiss – 1 Timothy 4:12

This is sure to be an amazing event full of life change.

Remember that registration open on Monday, June 1! – more info on Registration can be found in upcoming days at www.freedomgeneration.tv

I’m looking forward to seeing you all at ENGAGE 2009!

This August Freedom Generation will be hosting their first ever Student Conference.

The Generation team is currently in the planning process of this event and we are EXTREMELY excited about what is in store for this years Conference. I can’t tell you the time, date, name, or location…..yet – but what I can tell you is that the Conference will have some of the following things:

• Slam Poet(s)
• Rapper(s)
• DJ(s)
• iTouch(es)
• Xbox(es)
• Playstation(s)
• Wii(s)
• And many more…

Be sure to be checking back soon as more and more info continue to be unveiled about E…..oh wait, I can’t tell you that yet!

See you then!

On of our Generation students showed this video to me on the way to Unleash the other day.

Our whole bus was cracking up.

Check it.

Headed out Thursday in the AM to Unleash up in Anderson, SC at NewSpring Church. I am extremely excited to head up their with a bunch of Freedom partners and re-connect with Brad Cooper and Davey Blackburn (the student guys over at NewSpring church). Those guys are doing phenomenal things up their and I’m pumped to continue to learn from them.

Last year Freedom had just launched (3 months in) and we brought a few of our staff with us (about 6 total). This year we are completely stepping it up! We are now 1 year and 3 months old and are bringing 30+ partners with us to share in the vision that God has set on Pastor JR’s heart as well as learn from one of the best churches in the ENTIRE WORLD!

It’s going to be an incredible time to invest in our partners as well as connect with them on a deeper level and show them that God has HUGE things planned for Freedom Church and Acworth, GA. I continue to stand by the fact that we seriously have the best group of partners on the entire planet and Freedom Church could not happen without them! They seriously understand and believe that we are here to “reach those who are far from God so they can experience life in Christ”

It’s going to be a great time and I’m already ready to leave….just 1 more day…

Everyone loves a little extra pocket change.

If you wanna win $100 check out the Generation website on how it can be in your pocket VERY SOON!

I’m already making my video so I can win….

We at Generation are going to add a new feature the the Generation website: Web Blogging.

This is going to be a HUGE way for everyone to stay connected with each other over the interenet. We are going to have contests, prizes, announcement, updates, testimonies, interviews, etc. with both leaders and students involved at Generation.

Be sure to check it out here!

Check my thoughts out here.

We definitely had one of the best Generations yet this previous Sunday night!

The Generation Invite Cards finally came in and they are looking might fine.

You can check them out here!

Be sure to snag a few so you can give them to your friends!