“Hey ya'll. The terrible thing about being in Captive Free is that we as a band never get to see the fruit that God reaps from the seeds that we plant. But, a gift from God to both parties, tonight, after our concert, a young person from the crowd came up and revealed that we had truly prepared a place for God to come into our presence through the worship this evening. This girl said that we had helped her realize how close God really is to everyone. She told us about the very hard time she'd been going through and allowed some of us to pray with her. It was an incredible experience for us as well as for her. We are so blessed by God to be able to help change lives out here. It also gave me some closure that I was being used by God and that He would always be using me, even if I never get to see how. I hope and pray that God continues to reveal His closeness to that person.
We are really excited about the next few weeks. The Cleveland Quake is this weekend, followed by the Toledo Quake next weekend, and finally, the Cincinnati Congress after that. Then Event season is done! I'll sure miss it. But I know that God is unchanging in his plan of changing people's lives, and I'm glad that he is using us.”
 
Ben Hunsicker
 
 
“What an amazing weekend! We just spent the past weekend in Lansing, Michigan with 700 Junior High youth for our second Youth Quake of our tour! It was such an amazing experience, as we struck our first note of the weekend I could feel the excitement of everyone in the room mounting. We were all together for a weekend of fun, fellowship, and a chance to learn more about our faith in Jesus Christ. I loved the chance to be able to hang out with everyone there and share with them my experiences as well as hearing about theirs.
 
One of the coolest highlights of the weekend was leading the "New Creation" Bible Study Trek (basically a mini 50-minute workshop). We set out six objects including toilet paper, a hanger, a box of Kleenex, and a shoe. We asked the youth in the room to "reconcile" the objects without having told them what reconcile means. At first we got blank faces and stares, but it was neat to see their brains turning and them working in groups of strangers knew to determine what they could do with the objects. As we explored the Bible study more in depth we got some very insightful answers to our questions. I loved seeing the seeds of faith and learning coming out in the youth!
 
If you are wondering yourself what reconciliation means, I encourage you to check out 2 Corinthians 5:14 – 21!
 
Macie LaCrone
 
 
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