Last week I had the privilege of traveling to the Orlando area to preach to about 100 high-schoolers at Horizon Bible camp. I started the week out with a nasty head-cold and a sinus infection but the Lord was gracious and helped me to battled through. The first two days it seemed that I just wasn't getting through to the campers and it felt like my messages were falling on deaf ears with no effect. By Tuesday night it was clear that a majority of the campers weren't believers and so I threw away the messages that I had prepared and began to just preach the plain gospel. I preached law, judgement, the reality of hell, and then Christ as our only hope.

On Wednesday... God broke through! While many brothers and sisters were praying, the Lord responded and began to work in several hearts. That evening, everyone was pretty shook up. Thursday night even more so... some of the kids were getting up, sobbing uncontrollably and leaving during the message... Several of the youth followed me out after the different messages and were trembling as they expressed their fear of judgment and their need of a Savior. Lots of great conversations were taking place between the campers and the counselors. There was a group of about ten guys that were wrestling with the truths of the gospel until about 2 a.m on Friday night. During the course of the week many made professions of faith in Christ! Please pray for these high-schoolers as continue in their new walk with Jesus!

Other immediate prayer requests:
1. Our Blaze discipleship program here in Dubuque IA starts this Monday (July 9).
2. We will be taking the Blaze students along with our whole family to Peru at the end of this month (July 31).

Missions quote for the day by Hudson Taylor: “There are three stages to every great work of God; first it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.”

Micah for the Tuttle's