When my kids are pumped up about something they sometimes say: "Whoa! That's totally LIT!" ... Apparently this means "Rad"... at least, that's how we would have said it in the 80's :) That term "LIT" is what our team at Emmaus International has decided to use as a name for our discipleship program. We are using it as an acronym that stands for "Life In Truth" and at the same time it brings with it the idea of something that's burning or on fire. We want our hearts to burn within us as we see Christ in the scriptures and live for Him. We want believers hearts to be set on fire with a passion to know Jesus more intimately and to preach His everlasting gospel.

A fire starts with a small spark which then ignites combustible material into a little flame and then that flame spreads and becomes a hot blaze. In the same way a spiritual awakening starts when the Holy Spirit puts a small spark into the hearts of His people, that spark then turns into a burning flame which can ignite others who can then trigger a blazing revival.

This L.I.T discipleship program that we are starting will be composed of 3 parts which we are calling Spark, Ignite, and Blaze. We are planning weekend "Spark" conferences for the west coast, east coast and midwest regions. Those spark conferences will point to a short week of "Ignite" meetings in Dubuque Iowa which will encourage young people to come to our "Blaze" summer discipleship program that will consist of three months of intense study, prayer, worship, and ministry that culminates in a missions trip to the jungles of Peru.

At the end of our summer "Blaze" program we hope to have an end-cap event called "Torch" where we want to emphasize the importance of passing that fire, that "torch" on to others. So everyone who participated in any of those events throughout the year (Spark, Ignite, and Blaze) will be invited to come and seek the Lord together and to think about ways to more effectively pass the mantel, set a younger generation on fire and fulfill the great commission.



Missions quote for the day written in the 1700's by Lawrence Tribble: "One man wakes, awakens another, Second one wakes his next door brother. Three awake can rouse a town and turn the whole place upside down. Many awake will cause such a fuss it will awake all of us. One man wakes with dawn in his eyes, Surely then it multiplies."

Micah for the Tuttle's