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An Update on the 40 Day Revolution
What happens when the youth get excited about a progam? We see a 40-day campus-reaching strategy that effectively mobilizes students and makes them into REVOLUTIONARIES!
During the 2004 Yearly Meeting Sessions, the Youth Board provided resource materials to our church youth sponsors for a 40 Day discipling adventure. The 40 Day Revolution is a carefully structured program designed to empower teens to reach their schools for Christ.
For 40 days, students looked at three areas of focus: fasting and prayer, blessing and servanthood, and daily prayer within their schools. Thirty-six churches promoted the program with over 800 teenagers and adults involved and committed to the 40 days of deliberate, focused discipleship.
Most churches used the national “See You at the Pole” event as their starting date and followed the program through the month of October. Some districts held a district wide kick off while other churches had their own day of commissioning.
Quint Bryan, Youth Board President, has been really pleased with the response, and believes this has been a great shared experience for our community, the eastern region. He's grateful to Jim Davis for bringing this vision to the youth board.
Information provided by Julie Pontius,
Shiloh Chapel Friends Church, Marysville,Ohio
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Mt. Carmel (OH) Friends Church participation was initiated and led by a teenager, Erin Aulls, age 17. She says, “I think the 40 Day Revolution is an amazing way to gain individual growth and more intimate relationships with peers. It enforces daily prayer and meditation while forming life altering habits. This book is more than a study - it's a journey. The Revolution has affected us immensely. We're blessed to have such an opportunity as teens.”
Scott Lowe, Orange Road Friends (Columbus, OH), says, “It's an act of spiritual warfare with teens. It gives them the challenge to encourage and exhort and serve. The anticipated outcome with the revolution is that the teens will be more aware of the practical ways they can serve their schools and make an impact in Jesus' name.”
Julie Pontius, Shiloh Chapel (Marysville, OH), “Our teens were pushed farther than ever before to share their faith. One jr. high girl named Devon had a special experience. On administration day she wrote her vice principle a note asking him if he had any prayer requests. Later that day he called her into his office to talk with her about the note. He ended up giving her a couple of his prayer requests and then asked her if she had anything that she would like for him to be in prayer for her about. At first this was a fearful situation for this girl, but in the end God blessed her and the joy that she felt from that one act of obedience encouraged not only the rest of the teens, but her parents and the adults of the church as well. The teens learned firsthand what a powerful God they serve.”
Peter Fowler of Salem (OH) First Friends, “Our youth ministry did a service project where we popped, bagged, and delivered 200 bags of popcorn to the local high school band (at Salem)
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