@ Youth Encounter: National Bands & International Teams

Homecoming 2003 is on its way! Saturday, August 9, 2003, the Youth Encounter family welcomes all friends, alumni, and guests to Bethel College to celebrate 38 years of ministry. If you’ve ever thought of being involved in ministry through Youth Encounter, drop on by. We’d love to meet you!

This one-day event will take place at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota. The day begins as we welcome back this year’s International Teams and National Bands to share music and slides during the 10:00 Homecoming Concert...
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One Last Night in Australia
New Vision Returns to the United States!
by Sarah Liggett

New Vision with their main contacts for their Australian tour, Tim (far left) and Tricia (far right)

Wow, what a whirlwind these past few months have been! It’s funny how time can seem to fly by and stand still all at once. Although I have many great memories and many fun stories I would love to share with you about our time in Australia, I think I was most hit by the “awesomeness” of God in our final few days as I realized just how much He used us and how much He provided for us in terms of friendship, comfort and support while we were so far from home. The night before our flight home to the United States we had a farewell service at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Box Hill, a suburb of Melbourne. It was a wonderful time to celebrate our four months in Australia, to take joy in the ministry of Youth Encounter and the Lutheran Youth of Victoria (LYV), to be reminded of God’s faithfulness and goodness, and to say goodbye to many wonderful people that we had grown to love over the course of our tour.
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Captive Free North East
Check Out an entry from their Online Journal!
by Captive Free North East

“This past evening is something that I will never forget and is something that changed my life. I have a stuffed bunny named Bunny, and Bunny usually hides out in my duffel bag until it's bedtime. But this evening for some reason I started talking with someone about stuffed animals and decided to share with them Bunny. So throughout the program I would look over and see Bunny being taken care of by my new friend. It made me smile every time I looked their way.

Last night was the first evening that we were all brought together, our team and some of the church members, and we joined in prayer over one of the congregational members. And it happened to be the one who had been holding my bunny.
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Captive Free South West
Stories from the Road
by Captive Free South West

“Hello from Las Vegas!! This weekend we are having the first ever Las Vegas Quake. It is so weird how for our last one in Sacramento which was my first Quake ever, I was so nervous but for this one I am very excited that it is here. We had the first celebration last night and over all it went really well. Our team got to lead campfire. It was so powerful to see youth worship our Lord and Savior. They just opened up their ears and hearts to the words that the Lord was putting in our mouths.
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