Miracles In My Lifetime

This summer I got the opportunity to go to a camp called Falls Creek as a Youth Helper. While there, God did many amazing things right in front my eyes! The first happened on a Thursday...

Chase, Drew and I were about to watch our Church volleyball team play a game when Drew said, "Hey Cameron, I need to get back to the cabin or I'm gonna pass out in this heat." I told him no problem, lets head back to the cabin, but inside I was thinking, "Man, this sucks! We're gonna miss our game!" Anyways, we headed back to the cabin and Chase came with us. On our way back, we saw a group of people with hardened faces, profane writing on their jeans and heavy black eyeliner. They were Gothic looking and a little scary. As we passed them, I said to Chase, "Lets go tell them about Jesus!" (I was more or less joking...I did want to tell them about Jesus, but I was also afraid.) Chase said, "Hecks yes!!!" So we went over to them and tried to start up a conversation..."I like your eyeliner. I had a friend that used to wear hers like that. She was cool.", I said; feeling very lame and embarassed. They said nothing. Then, Chase began to open up his Testimony with, "Can I tell you the greatest thing that ever happened to me!" He got cut off by a girl with eyelash patterns on her face; "NO! WE'RE REALLY QUITE TIRED OF HEARING THE GREATEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED! DID YOU STEAL UNDERWEAR LIKE THE LAST GIRL!" We're were kinda confused by her last remark, but we could tell they didn't want to hear about Jesus and what He did for us; So we left. (Now, oddly enough, before we left, I felt a strange feeling when I looked into one of the girl's eyes. She looked as though she was longing for something.) On our way back, we heard someone yell, "Wait! I want to hear it again! Tell me the greatest thing that ever happened to you!" So Chase told her about all that Jesus had done for him. When he was finished, he asked her if she wanted to know for sure she was going to Heaven. Lori, (that was her name), said she still wasn't sure about it. She told us that if she accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior, she would lose all her friends. I could feel how close she was to making the best decision she would ever make, so I told her a story about my close friend that had commited suicide my senior year. I told her how I would give anything if it meant that my friend Wes could be in Heaven right now. I then told her that I didn't want to her to go to Hell. I told her that she might lose some friends like I lost all of mine, but that it would't compare to what she would be gaining: A life-long relationship with the God of the Universe!

That day Lori gave her life to Jesus Christ and through her, many of her friends we met that day did the same! God pulled us away from a volleyball game so that we could pull Lori, (and many others through her), from the depths of Hell. God used a couple of guys to bring a number of precious souls to Heaven!!! Our God is an Awesome God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!