Today we continued recruiting. We started at Folsom Public High School where Tim and I were kicked out by the resource officer yesterday. After a police officer in the church called him up, he was a lot more lenient. We had good results.
This evening, we ended up at a huge movie theater that draws a lot of teens on Friday nights. We did pretty well there also. I believe that we are going to have a great "War!"
Last week was just great! We had a decent turn out, although it wasn't as big as we would have liked. The Lord was definitely working in the lives of the teens. We saw about ten or eleven salvation decisions.
The teens here in Folsom come from rich homes. Although most of them have all the material possessions they could ever want, they are empty spiritually. This afternoon I talked to a young man named Nick Yost. His uncle is the manager of the Milwaukee Brewers. This evening, Tim talked to a girl whose dad was the hitting coach for the Diamond Backs.
A teen in the youth group named Dave Schwartz (nicknamed "Bear") went recruiting with me tonight. He lives with his aunt and uncle, because his mom lost custody of him several years ago and his dad died from pneumonia two years ago. He has no positive spiritual influence outside of his friends from church. He is sixteen and is a senior at Oakridge High which is near Folsom. Although he has had several negative setbacks in his life, he is a very positive individual.
He is pretty sharp and oddly enough, he knows his way around Fundamentalism pretty well. He worked at a Christian camp and knows Dr. Trieber from Santa Clara. He is thinking about attending Golden State Baptist College. He has been to Mount Moriah Christian Camp in Tennessee and visited Crown College. It was just amazing the things he know even about the Sword of the Lord. I believe that the Lord will use this man some day. He has aspirations of becoming a high school teacher. Please pray for "Bear."
