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Burning up in Phoenix!

Posted on Saturday 1 March 2008 by Greg @ 10:39 pm
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Okay, this one was one for the books. Almost 4,000 teenagers were equipped, trained, motivated, kicked in the keyster, encouraged and unleashed. They collectively collected 14 tons of canned goods for the Phoenix Rescue Mission and got to share the good news of Jesus all over the city of Phoenix!

It looked like the entire crowd took the Double Dare, although there were probably some that didn’t. Regardless, it was amazing.

Right now as I type these words in my dressing room merely thirty minutes or so after the end of our program on Saturday night I’m in awe of what our great God has done once again. Pray with me for these teenagers (and adults for that matter) to follow through on the dare they have taken to share the gospel with everyone they know in God’s timing, in God’s power and with God’s love and to start with one person in the next 48 hours.

Did you take the Double Dare in Phoenix? If so please tell us your story by commenting below!

89 Comments for 'Burning up in Phoenix!'

On March 2, 2008 @ 12:32 am Kim Schmidt said:

Thanks for another awesome conference and for challenging our young people to truly “go deep”. Your heart for these students is tangible. Blessings to you all for your exhausting work on behalf of them.
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On March 2, 2008 @ 12:39 am ColinP said:

Hey Greg,

I just got home from the Phoenix Conference about an hour ago and all I can say is, wow. That was life changing. One of the highlights for me was the cellphone challenge. When you told us to call one person, I knew exactly who I was going to call. I had talked to him before about my faith, but, we didn’t get into a deep conversation. So, I called him up, explained the GOSPEL, and asked the question:
“Do you want to accept Jesus Christ as the Son of God and as your Lord and Savior?”
My friend had an “Uhh…” answer. I told him to think about it and to call me back. I am waiting for that call, and, as soon as I get it and finish talking to my friend, I will tell you what happened. But, that phone confrence was one of the hardest things to do and by not getting rejected right away, I think I did pretty good.

As for the Double Dare, I raised my hand as fast as I could when you asked who wanted to take it. In the next 48 hours, I will share my faith with someone. Someone, and cure them and heal them and release them of not only the Hell they’re going to, but the Hell they’re going through.

Thank you, Greg Stier. Thank you Zane Black and Derwin Grey. Thank you Lincoln Brewster, The Washington Projects, and Hawk Nelson. Thank you to my friend who did not reject me over the phone. Thank you to my youth group (Northshore, my homies!) Thank you to everyone who was a part of that confrence. Thank you Phoenix Rescue Mission. Thank you Dare 2 Share. And most of all, thank you Jesus Christ, my saivor and the son of God, for, without you, none of this would’ve happened.

-Colin Pakulis
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On March 2, 2008 @ 8:27 am Becky said:

Hey Greg,
The conference was amazing.As for the double dare I did not raise my hand but I was thinking about it in my head kinda teary eyed.So yes I am trying to reach my family members through email.I emailed so far my sister and my cousin.I’ll let you know how that goes.

I’ve made some other personal descisons in my life and those were the hardest things ever to do.But I know through God’s grace I can do it.When you talked about yes you saving someone from Hell and the Hell they are going through now I kinda was teary eyed.When I went to a public school I missed endless oppurtunties to witness.I felt as if my heart stopped when Zane told the story about the guy who saw him at the store.
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On March 2, 2008 @ 8:41 am Becky said:

By the way I did get sunburned during the outreach!
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On March 2, 2008 @ 9:29 am Little Tayor said:

HEY GREG!!!
That WAS SO ROCKED!!!!!! You did an awesome job!!I didn’t Take the double dare last night, but in getting up this morning, I have felt It layed on my heart by god. I think, that I AM going to take it. I know Just who i am going to start with!!!Also I wanted to let you know that I am a 14 year old girl, Merely, Just a freshmen in high school, but i have been struggling with dating. I know you probably thinking what?!?!? so let me Explain. Ever since the beginning of freshmen year, god has been laying on my heart a lot that i shouldn’t be dating, I didn’t fully understand, but instead of asking him to explain i just ignored him on this subject. At dare to share though, I made a commitment to god and my self, that im worth more then that. I also made a commitment, that im not going to date until im looking to marry.I know it gonna be hard but with god all things are possible. Thats My dare to share story.
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On March 2, 2008 @ 1:23 pm Kristain Palmer said:

good golly this conference was so amazing! It totally changed my life! I got baptised on feburary 20 of this year and that was amazing to it made my relationshep with God complete and I got a fresh start. But after, even during the conference I knew that I wanted to dedicate my life from there on out to sharing and spreading the word of God. I took the Double Dare but when I get that one person it isn’t goin to stop there I am goin to keep going. Thank you so much for the whole experience! It really meant alot and touch me so deeply.
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On March 2, 2008 @ 2:13 pm SEan said:

Hey whats up greg you guys were freakin awsome in phoenix and i was wondering if you guys would come to prescott valley,Arizona for a d2s in the near future.
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On March 2, 2008 @ 3:58 pm nziegenbein said:

You were great im going back next year i made a new relationship with god this weekend and i hope i can keep it up i took the double dare right when i got home thank u for helping me find god
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On March 2, 2008 @ 4:51 pm sierra said:

Hey greg I hade a great time! Thak you for everthing you do. You are really a blessing this weekend. If there are people that are reading this and have never been… you have no idea what you are missing!!! My favorite parts was the consert at the end and the out rech. I will with no dout be there next year!! I also toke the Double Dare.
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On March 2, 2008 @ 5:10 pm Charles said:

Hey Greg,
I had an awesome time up in Phoenix; this year was my 3rd year in a row going to dare2share and I loved it. Each year has a different message, each year the message touches my heart in one way or another, and each year it gets better. This year a speaker of yours (Derwin Gray) had touched me because the story about his wife and having health issues, and him being mad at God made me realize something. You cant blame God for bad things that happen in your life, because last summer 4 of my friends had passed away in a tragic accident. (4 teenagers w/ in 2 months died in one little town; CRAZY I know. But i realized tonight that God gave his son for me and everybody else too. So he does know how I feel. I’m not going to lie I cried. Thank you to you and everyone who helps out with dare2share. When we went out and collected canned goods for the Phoenix Rescue Mission 1 person I talked to had accepted life into thier life. That person had lost his wife a year ago; and his daughter 3 months after that. His wife had passed away of a cancer, and his daughter had been killed in an accident. He was like me; he blamed the “God” (His perspective) for everything that had happend. I explained to him that you cant do that, because God knows how you feel too he gave his son for our sins, and that his wife and daughter are up in Heaven right now with that God. He recieved the same message that I had recieved. He took the time to sit down with a strange teenager and listen to what I had to say and he says “It was worth talking to a stranger.” So to anybody who reads this comment. I know its long but its worth it. Accept the Lord Jesus Christ into your life. You dont have to be perfect just willing.
-Follower of Him for LIFE!
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On March 2, 2008 @ 5:22 pm DevinDares said:

Hey Greg, here’s my story.

After the Cell Phone challenge, I was so inspired to share the Gospel with everyone. My friend renewed his relationship with God. After we got back from Tucson, I passed out around 12:30 am. Next day, I get ready for church, when my youth pastor says to me “Hey, I want you to go up, tell you Cell Phone Challenge story with everyone at church.” while I am there just going crazy as I am horrible at public speaking. But I know out of those 200-250 people at our church that day, many of them don’t know how to share the Lord. Later on in the service, Dave calls me up. My heart is pounding, and when I get up, I think about the things you said all the conference. I’m going to talk to my 3 of my friends about God, already told one of them yesterday. One of them today, and one tomorrow. Just one of my friends daily, and I’m hoping to start a Christian message board soon to tell dozens, maybe eventually hundreds of people of God, and change people’s lives forever.

I’d like to thank you (Greg),Zane, Derwin, and the rest of the D2S team for helping us teenagers give the world a new way to share Him.

-Devin Thomas
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On March 2, 2008 @ 7:00 pm Sarah said:

Greg-That was the most amazing weekend of my life! Lately I’ve felt God pushing me towards evagngelism, a topic I pretty much ran from a year or two ago. Dare2Share helped so much in equiping me to share my faith. Also, I’ve been struggling with following the ways of the world in my actions, and during the scissors part of your talk, I commited all of myself to him, not just the pieces that are easy to give. Saturday morning, our youth group got to Dodge Theater rather late and we had to sit in the balcony. Once I got over being freaked out, I realized that I could see everyone during worship, and that felling of unity was beyond words. Zane’s and Derwin’s testimonies were honest and shocking, and by the end of the conference I really felt like I knew all you guys personally. Thank for being so honest! The skit on Friday was incredible, and truely made its point (I cried). Hawk Nelson did an amazing job, along with my youth group We had a mini-mosh pit going…no worries, completely safe…) of rockin the house!Thank you so much Greg, Zane, Derwin, Lincoln Brewster, and Hawk Nelson for making the few hours of sleep I got this weekend, and a trip from Flagstaff worthwhile!!!!
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On March 2, 2008 @ 7:12 pm Sarah said:

I forgot about the canned goods! That was amazing, and rather freaky. My church was in Maryvale, a mixed Spanish-English neighborhood. I honestly was a little freaked out, it looked a little rough, and asking someone for prayer was beyond freaky.But I got over that and was blessed. I had done canned food collection before in my hometown, in wealthier neighborhoods. Sorry to say but Maryvale kicked there butts. Nearly every house we went to gave us a bag or two full of stuff, and really did not hold anything back. One guy gave a ton of food, while he barely had shoes on his feet, and asked for prayer. That was just amazing to me to see these people give so much! Some other groups from our church faced language barriers (including the people across the street) but we had no problems, and most of our groups had one Spanish-speaking person so it worked out. Also we forgot a couple bags of canned food in our van, they got buried, so sorry about that but thanks for that experience!
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On March 2, 2008 @ 8:02 pm Arianna said:

friday night i was saved i had said the prayer in the past but never truly meant it i want to say thank you for leading me to Christ..i am thankful for what you are doing and very excited to attend next year thank you so much for your knowledge i hope that you will contuine to do dare2share for many many years..it was a life changes experience that i will NEVER forget..i even got to share with my friend how great god is she accepted him over the phone it was amazing so thank you for everything again i still have alot of questions but now i have faith hope and love god loves even though i have messed up soo many times in the past. and im going to recommended this site to my friend thank you and god bless
~Arianna~
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On March 2, 2008 @ 8:23 pm ColinP said:

So, I have fufilled my promise with the double dare. I e-mailed my friend today and explained the GOSPEL acronym in one e-mail and I’m still waiting for a reply back.

Please pray for me and for him.

Thanks.
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On March 2, 2008 @ 8:35 pm Claire said:

Hey…I think that girl that just wrote was Arianna that went with us…but idk and hoe…My dad did not want me 2 go to d2s cuz it so relgiously thingy yea..So my Mother told him that i went to my bestfriends house friday nite and Saturday we were goin to a Hawk Nelson concert…My Best Friend went to d2s but with a Dif youth group…isaw her like 5 times thro the whole thing and sat behing her durin teh rock and paper thing…I really i want to be with her During the HN concert but they sat in the Balcony and i was like up front…and HN is our fav band..and we couldnt in joy it together man i was mad…We couldnt enjoy d2s together…Last year she was right beside me when i got Saved…I got saved after the Skit..And i was bummed that we didnt do that like last year..but atleast i shared the Gospel with this girl that always makes fun of the bible..I called her When we had to call that person that we were prayin about…and she asked a lot of Q’s…and i was scared cuz i did not want to say the wrong thing i didnt..but still she was the person that toke my bible and made in to a perverted joke…well yea at least i got to tell her about the bible..and hopefully some day she will get saved..well thanks a lot Greg…and Zane was funny just to let u know!!!!
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On March 2, 2008 @ 8:59 pm Kris said:

Hey Greg this weekend was amazing ever sense like 7th grade (Im a freshman now)I haven’t edsactly been living the life of god even though I was a christian. Lets just say lots of drugs, liquor, and in the worlds eyes I’m a virgin but in yours I’m not. Well enyways this weekend I decided to quite everything and fallow god and I also descided to do the double dare. But the thing is that all of my friends do know christ, but just do the stupid stuff that I do so I relly wouldn’t have a clue how to do it. So it would be really cool if you would email me back on my gmail wich is NoFace256@gmail.com thanks.
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On March 2, 2008 @ 9:16 pm Tiffany Fiesler said:

Hey Greg,

First of all I want to start out saying Thank-You to you(Greg), Zane Black and to Derwin Grey for the awesome messages you gave. You guys made God really touch my heart. When I came to D2S I was thinking that I was a fully and already commited Christian. But when you guys began talking, I realized that I had been fooling around with by Christianity. I was acting a certain way at home and church and was a totally different person at school. So, when you asked us to tell our leaders if we had re-newed our faith, I jumped at the chance to tell my youth pastor that I was tired of playing around and gave my body to Christ. So, I just want to Thank-You guys for giving such a strong, spiritual and moving messages.

Ok, so when you began to talk about the Double Dare, I was so ready to do it, but then you gave us the cell phone challenge and I was like, WHAT! Then I eased up after my youth paster said that about 90% of our friends want to hear abou Jesus and about 90% of our friends will go to church if we invite them. So, I began to dial. I called a guy named Kevin and I told him that I wanted to tell him about about Jesus. He said ok but if my phone cuts out I’ll call you when I get home. I continued talking and sadlly his phone cut out. So I then called, like my best friend in the whole world, cause I didnt want her to go through Hell without ever knowing Christ. So we began talking and eventually we hung up.

The next day when I was at home I called Kevin back and left a messaged. Then I called Marlene my BFF. I began with, “What do you think about my phone call yesturday.” She said, “You know what I thought it was really cool.” So I countinued the confersation telling her how much fun I had. She is a rocker-skater so I was trying to figue out how to work Christ in more. So then I told her you know what, we had a Christian Rock Concert and it was so amazing. I had never seen so many people rock so hard. I told her that we were jumping, screaming and even head banging and we were all Christians, and I countinued and was telling her about Compassion and the Hoop of Hope Project and out of no where she asked, “Hey can i go to churc with you on wednesday.” I was like YES!!!!!! OF COURSE YOU ARE MORE THEN WELCOME. I was so happy! After, we had hung up I prayed to God and thanked him for the strenght and courage he had gave me.

So, I just want to ask you to pray for her, and for me to help tell others about Jesus.
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On March 2, 2008 @ 9:20 pm Bethany Meier the Jesus freak said:

OH MY GOSH!!!!! D2s was sooooooo amazing. my friend tessa and i had a sleepover on saturday night after the conference in phoenix and i have a 48 hour story for you. so it was her b-day and some guy from her school called her and was trying to ask her out, but we didn’t know who it was, so we were txting him trying to figure out who it was. she was going to change her signature to “i love my savior” but it didnt fit so we changed it to “i love my king”. about 5 minutes later the guy who was asking her out(by the way his name was Patrick) txted us back and asked “who’s your king?” and we were so excited by the opportunity God had given us to witness to him. we talked for like 20 minutes and found out he was catholic, so yeah, it was amazing. if you could all pray for him that would be great.
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On March 2, 2008 @ 9:33 pm Noah Routledge said:

Hey Greg,

By the man thanks for signing my Wal-Mart recipt on saturday in Phoenix, On a more serous note I have a friend that I have been trying to minister to now for almost 2 years or so. This friend of mine has christian parents but he is not as a matter of fact he is athiest and has on many occasions mocked me for being christian, often times a religeous debate will transpire between the two of us. I’ve tried nearly everything from logic to facts to compassion and love but he still chooses to deny me and Jesus. The reason I write to you is that I’m sure you have seen plenty of cases like this so if you could give me some prayer or ideas that would be awesome.

Deuteronomy 31:5-6

Noah
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On March 2, 2008 @ 9:49 pm Tracy Odom said:

Greg
All of my students had a great time and were impacted for Christ in awesome ways. Most of them took the Double Dare, and one of them started on the way back to Tucson, via the cell phone. I can’t wait till next year and neither can my students. P.S. VENTI JESUS PLEASE IS AMAZING…………. May GOD bless you in all that you do………
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On March 2, 2008 @ 9:54 pm Rose said:

Wow.

That was amazing.

This was my first time at D2S and my friends told me I would love it, and I believed it, but I really, really loved it! The energy in the room was amazing throughout the whole thing and I feel better equipted to tell my friends about God, although I’m still very nervous. It’s Sunday up here in little old Cottonwood, Arizona, and today a church was great. All the Youth that went to D2S were still pumped up (although still tired as we didn’t get home til past 11.) and my youth pastor, Jack, even dared the adults to take the Double Dare! And what was very amazing was when my friend, Liberty, and I were up front worshiping I had a sudden urge to poke my friend on the back right where the eyes on my back of her Hawk Nelson shirt where. She turned around with a beyond surprised look on her face and asked me if I pushed her. I said no that I just felt like poking her. Then she said that she felt like God was telling her to get on stage and share something with the church and that my poke made it even more real! (Which happened a few weeks ago with my youth pastor and his wife) She ended up not having time, but she wrote it down and is going to share it next week!

What happened this morning really made things real. I feel that it was a sign that my youth group can reach out to our friends in our small community and change our schools. I got home today and posted the G.O.S.P.E.L. on my Myspace as a bulitin, hoping that gets some attention, along with e-mailing it to some other friends. I think I’m going to focus on the person I called at D2S. She doens’t believe in orginized relgion at the moment, just different aspects of lots of them. I don’t know if that will help me or not, but I hope it does. And She won’t have a choice but to listen to me, since she is in three of my four classes and sits next to my in all of them!

Thank you Greg, and Zane and the Derwin for speaking to us this weekend. I really enjoyed it and even though my youth group had watched the GOSPEL journey, this just built up on it. I loved the worship band and, of course, Hawk Nelson. And I was very proud of the 4,000 teens that raised all that food!

And by the way, and friend and I graduated from PU - times two!

I pray that all the other stops on the Survive tour go this well for you!

-Rose B.
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On March 2, 2008 @ 10:09 pm Chris Ideker said:

That confrence was amazing.

I wasn’t expecting it to be that straightfoward. Especialy with the scissor part on saturday.

I think that your guys words touched everyones hearts.

My whole chruch had graduated form P.U. maybe an hour before the confrence started on saturday night. We met some hippie looking guys outside subway and we kinda talked for a bit. When we walked to over to our van one of our girls was skipping across the crosswalk and they said that Jesus wouldn’t do that. So we asked them if the knew Christ in their life and the scoffed and laughed at us like we had said the worst thing possible to them.

Thanks for making this weekend fun

-Chris I. Valley Bible Fellowship
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On March 2, 2008 @ 11:02 pm Tiana Blas said:

This year Dare2Share really made me think. It wasn’t really an emotional experience like it was last time; I think God was just really working in me to get past that point and think about my relationship with him. I used to share my faith with others a lot because I realized the importance in doing so. But that came to a stop; you know, the typical: I got too busy, too everything. And then I would think, “Oh no, I need to not just pray for the people around me, but do something about them not knowing God.” But again, the typical: I got too busy, too everything. However, this weekend really reminded me of the importance in going out and sharing my faith. During the past few months, I had been struggling to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. My heart has always had a desire to be involved in the arts of photography, theater, and singing, I know that. I know that is what God has intended me to do in some way. But I struggled with the fact that I wanted to serve God directly in ministry, thinking I had to choose between either/or. But for the past three weeks, I have heard messages from my senior pastor about serving God in seeking the lost, and so, as you can imagine, coming to Dare2Share this past weekend really hit me, with two adults and two children accepting Christ in the group of five that I was a part of during the outreach in the community. And today, as I was at church, my pastor asked everyone whose life had been changed by God in the last 10 years at that church home (celebrating a 10th anniversary) by accepting Christ to stand up; among those many who stood up was me. And I realized that I wanted everyone to have what I had. The feeling of knowing that God can change your life, the feeling of knowing that God will never let you down no matter what. And I feel that now I have found my purpose. I want to be a missionary who is able to use the arts to help people come to know Christ. I realized I don’t have to choose between them, but can do both. The staff of Dare2Share is proof. Zane, Derwin, you. The two things that I have the most passion for are the things that I feel I need to do. So, I’ll be graduating this year and I can’t wait to see what God does. I just praise him that he showed me what he did this past weekend and today. Thanks for reading if you get a chance.

Tiana
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On March 2, 2008 @ 11:15 pm Noelle Vong said:

Hey Greg!
Thanks so much for coming out to Phoenix this weekend. The conference was amazing, lifechanging, and mindblowing. It was pretty crazy because although the neighborhood outreach for my church didn’t have a great turnout, God still showed us how to see through His eyes in the big picture. Right when we got out of our van into the neighborhood, my youth group gathered around to pray for the streets before going door-knocking. While we were praying an egg dropped from the sky and hit us! We were kind of shocked but continued praying regardless. But these eggs just kept flying at us and we heard these high school punks scream a string of derogatory terms at us, calling us Eggroll and White Rice (I go to a predominantly Chinese church). We tried to share the Gospel with them but they weren’t very receptive–by the time we came back to our vans, we saw the same group of kids with spraypaint cans and all sorts of vandalizing materials getting ready to obscenely vandalize our vans. But we caught them so they just flipped us off and skated away Talk about persecution! But looking back in retrospect, we found the whole thing pretty humorous…I mean, Paul got stoned and we got egged. And this was just a tiny tiny example of what it means to stick to our allegiance to Christ.
So yeah, I just wanted to share a little about our experience at dare2share…thanks so much again for choosing to respond to God’s calling and impacting the lives of thousands and thousands of youth. You are all in my prayers!
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On March 2, 2008 @ 11:19 pm Noelle Vong said:

OH YEAH! I forgot to ask, is there any way we could view or buy the friday night drama? it was one of the most intense dramas i’ve seen and spoke volumes to my church—we tried to describe it to the kids who didn’t go but it just didn’t do the drama justice so it’d be really really fabulous if there was a recording that was available somewhere.
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On March 3, 2008 @ 12:07 am JimmyBob said:

Greg,

The conference was the best in 4 years. Thanks for all your hard work.

We loved you, Zane, Derwin, the drama team (the short Amish man will be classic). Well done. And Lincoln Brewster was phenomenal. Our teens had a terrific experience they won’t forget. They LOVED Hawk Nelson too.

I also appreciated Olive from Uganda and the 13 year old kid from AZ. Very effective and heart tugging. Even the testimonies at the end by the 4 teens on stage were right on.

Looking forward to the tools each month I signed up for. Venti Jesus Please is a great read. Do you have that in a drama script version? I’m thinking about making a short play out of it.

My wife teaches young adults (18-29) and she starting using your book “You’re Next” today in class. It got me thinking. Would you ever consider producing material that specifically targets twentysomethings? There really isn’t a whole lot out there. They are often forgotten or lumped into adult ministries. But we think they need so much more attention.

Blessings to you and your fam!

Sincerely,

James Brown
Chandler First Assembly of God, Chandler AZ
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On March 3, 2008 @ 1:20 am Charles said:

Dear Greg {again!},
Just wanted to let you know that I did accept the Double Dare, and the story of that is CRAZY, So to get rid of future confusion. I work with the local police department as a Cadet Officer. My job basically is to drive around do house checks, direct traffice, write tickets, and do paper work lots and lots of paper work. Anyways so Im 20 minutes before my shift ends. So Im headed back to the station. My partner and I are drive back we clock off and Im taking my partner home. I take him home, and Im driving home. (Because we use our own personal cars its just that we have under-cover lights and whatnot inside the car. So like I said I was driving home and a car speeds past me I clock it. Its going 48! In a 25 So I told dispatch that an off duty Cadet Officer is pulling over a car. I pull the car over. I walk up to the window, and this lady is crying her eyes out. It turns out that her 6 year daughter had just lost her life and she was coming from the hospital. Her and her husband are divorced and then this. So I told dispatch that everything was okay. We pulled into a parking lot and she just opened up. It felt wierd Im not going to lie; here I was about to write her a ticket and shes opening up to me about her life. Shes showing me pictures and telling me stories about her daughter. Then I ask her….:
“Do you know God?”
she replies; “I thought I did, but what kind of God does this kind of damage to one person?”
I said; “Sure he may do this and do “damage” but hes also lost a lot, He gave up his one and only son Jesus Christ for our sins, our mistakes, our lives. So theres time where you may want to blame God for something bad thats happend in your life but just remember. He knows the pain too. He watched his Son die on the Cross being killed. He knows how it feels it may not seem like it but he does. Your daughter is now in a better place. Shes with him and shes watching over you wanting you to be safe and follow in Jesus Christ. I know how you feel; last summer I lost 4 very very good friends of mine, and honestly I blamed God for the longest time. I quit going to youth group, I quit showing up for church. I quit having Him in my life. This weekend I went to a dare2share up in Phoenix and a speaker’s message touched my heart and right now my relationship with The Lord Jesus Christ isnt perfect but Im working on it. You should start one. He does so much for you. You just have to have faith in him.”
(We prayed)
(I can guarantee it looked wierd to other people; I mean it still felt wierd sharing the GOSPEL to a stranger in my uniform. But right then and there she accepted Jesus Christ into her life in the Walmart parking lot. She told me. “When I said I thought I knew one; I meant I know there is a God but I never did believe in one” I told her “Congratulations; now all you have to do is stay on track with him and if you ever feel like you need to blame Him again just pray.” She promised to drive safer and that shes going to pray for me. It just felt wierd. I know this story sounds crazy; it is. But it was worth it.
-SVPD Cadet Officer
Follower of Him for LIFE!
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On March 3, 2008 @ 6:56 am Brittany M. said:

Hey Greg,
Just like most of the teens that went to the dare 2 share event in phoenix,I thought it was awesome and i was touched by alot of the messages.The messages were very powerful and helpful especially as a christian teen. I thought it was interesting to see how many teens attended because you don’t usually hear about GOD in school or even from teens unless your at church.The message that you taught over the weekend really helped me and i feel that i am really equipped for when christ returns.Hope to see you next year!!
Teen of Christ,
Brittany M.
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On March 3, 2008 @ 8:21 am Taylor said:

hey,
Well i did the double dare. The person i did it to is one that i love to death she is my best friend, but she always has the same remark “i dont care about ur stupid bull crap” it hurts that she wont even listin to me. She wont even give me a chance. when i call her she hangs up on me and when i go to talk to her she ignors me and walks off. we ended our relationship, we are no longer friends. but i pray that some day what i did get to tell her and what got through to her, it will help her some day and she will get intrested someday.Thank you for the amazing time i had and the great that you worked in my life.

~in him~
Taylor
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On March 3, 2008 @ 9:08 am Dessa Kenney said:

I went to Dare 2 Share with my teens. I am a volunteer youth leader and at first I wasnt going to be able to attend. But God worked things out and I got to attend. One of my teens that had been close to accepting Christ in the past came to Christ Friday night. She plowed into me and was in tears. So many prayers went out for her from myself, my church, the other teens. That when she was in my arms and in tears I was crying right along with her. The next day I asked her if she had told the others. I knew she hadn’t. The girls all waited and when she couldnt do it one of them simply told her “if you cant tell it to us how will you tell it to others” That girls mouth opened and she shared. We had youth group last night and she freely shared that she had come to christ at the conference.
I also asked my group who took the double dare? Most of the group raised their hands along with myself and the two adult lead helpers. I was awsome to see these teens take a stand in their faith. It blessed my heart. We had 2 teens that came last night the didnt go to D2S and they are not saved I know they are on more than my list and we are praying God will reach out to these 2 young men and save them.
THank you for being so willing to share you time and your burden for the teens take care and God bless you
Dessa
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On March 3, 2008 @ 10:33 am Kristina Hansen said:

PLEASE READ THIS!!! I am not the best writer, but I want everyone to hear this story! This was my first year attending Dare 2 Share and it was awesome! I was able to bring 5 teens to the event. Four were from my church, and one did not have a church home, and was not a “willing participant” (his dad was making him attend). On Friday evening, the four teens from my church came up to me after I prayed over them and recommitted their lives to Christ. The boy that was forced to attend, stood back and was quiet, and looked very uncomfortable. By Saturday at lunch though, I could tell that he was starting to loosen up. He had started talking and seemed to have made friends with the group.

When I was planning this event, I decided that we would continue our service to God, and end the weekend by serving pancakes to the homeless on Sunday morning at a church close to the Dodge Theatre in downtown Phoenix, and then worship with them there. We had to be there at 7:00am in the morning! It was a very humbling experience. The sermon that the pastor gave that morning was about Jeasus healing a blind man with mud from John 9:1-34. Just before we were about to receive communion, I leaned over to our new friend, and asked him in a whisper if he had made a decision about his faith from the question he was asked on Friday night at the event. He told me he had made a choice, and then just looked at me. So I asked him what his decision was and he said he wanted to dedicate his life to Christ! I was so excited!

When we got back to our church, I spoke with his parents and told them about his decision. Of course they were very excited too! But then God spoke very loud and clear and all of us! His sister was there too, and said sorta randomly to us, “that it was really strange not having you at the game on Saturday (he plays softball). A little girl was sitting in your seat, and hse kept playing rock, paper, scissors and playing in the mud.” At that point, chills rushed through my body and my jaw dropped! Everyone including this boy got chills as well, as I told them that the analogy of Rock, Paper, Scissors was used this weekend to reach the youth about faith, and that the sermon we heard that morning was about Jesus healing a blind man with mud!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for all that you do for our youth, their parents and youth leaders! I will never forget this wekend! It is so awesome to see God at work!

Blessings,
Kristina
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On March 3, 2008 @ 11:18 am Stephanie said:

Hey Greg.
Well I had an awesome weekend there at the D2S confrence I was so touched the by the messages. I went last yr and i had so much fun as well. Well Here is my story, Ok so I have belived and followed in the the lord and so this yr I thought I would like to invite a friend to start beliving and u wanna kno wat she DID!!! I was so HAPPY!!! She is my BFF and my cuz and I was able to share the Lord w/ her Because of this weekend it helped her learn that it isnt all wat ppl make of it there is a god and she belives in him kno she was also save the next day at church well hers but not mine but at least she was able to Is wwat I think.
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On March 3, 2008 @ 1:51 pm kaylin said:

hey,this is kaylin I just whant it to say that I had so much fun, and I want to led you know that I am going to nicaragua that is where I am from, I am going there this summer and I am going to talk to people about the gospel, so I just want it to led you know about it and please pray for me, so nothing happened to me.
and I am going to led you know what happend to the people that I am going to talk to.
ok.
thank you for everything and the other people too.
jesus love you.
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On March 3, 2008 @ 2:56 pm Luke said:

Hey Greg!
Thanks again for an amazing weekend! This was our youth groups 3 year at Dare2Share, and it gets better every year.

One thing that we did was add another aspect to the DoubleDare! In addition to the Double Dare challenge, we are challenging our kids to double the number of people we bring to next years conference! Shouldn’t be too hard for them! Our first year we brought 14 kids. Last year, around 28. This year, 52!

What does that mean for me? Chartering two tour buses, ordering over 100 tickets, ordering 40 pizzas for Friday night (yep, we went through 20 this year!), soooo many permission slips, finding even more donors to offset the cost of the trip (none of our kids will ever have to pay more than 20 bucks to come to D2S, thats my own personal goal!), etc, etc, etc, work, work, work, more gray hair…

But if one and only one child gets their name written in the lambs book of life, and they get on fire for the Lord… every ounce of work and energy to make it happen will be worth it.

Looking forward to Invincible 2009!

Luke
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On March 3, 2008 @ 3:29 pm Alyssa Gourlay said:

Hey,Greg
It is the Monday after The D2S Conference in phoenix and i am very sad. I took the Double Dare Challenge and the person i chose to tell the Gospel message in th first 48 hours was my ex-boyfriend Chris.He lives in Florida so I had to tell him over the phone,well i called him last night and i said to him “Chris,there is something i need to talk to you about.” Of course he asks what it is and i tell him that i need to talk to him about Jesus and the Good news. He asks me if I’m crazy and why i need to tell him. I explain that the reason is because i love him and i want him in heaven with me. He starts screaming and cussing at me,i calmly tell him to just give me a chance and listen to me and when i am done he can ask me whatever he wants. He says fine but hurry so that he can prove me wrong.So i tell him the Gospel message and when i finish he starts laughing and then tells me it is B.S and that he dosn’t need a book(the bible) or a man(Jesus) to get in to Heaven and then goes on to tell me that why he “knows” he is going to heaven is because he is a good person and god is with him everyday and he dosn’t need Jesus to be close to god, I tried to explain that Jesus is god but it went no where.We argued for an hour and then i just said fine believe what you believe by this time i am crying so hard that i can barely breathe and he asks why? I tell him its because i am hurt(hints the crying) He trys to make it “better” by telling me that he really dosn’t care where he goes when he dies and that if what i say is true then when he dies he will find out then and if he is in hell then at least his life was fun…The worst part of this all is when he decides to tell me that he has wanted to commit suicide from the time he was 10 years old and the only reason he has not is because of his mom and all the people he would hurt,and that he wishes everyone would just stop caring so he could just die. I was in shock out of the 2 years we dated he had never told me this. What do i do now?
sincerly
Alyssa Gourlay
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On March 3, 2008 @ 4:08 pm Franny said:

Hey Greg,
I attended the Dare 2 share conference in Pho enix. i just wanted to say thank you for everything you and your team do !!! it is awesome and was so encouraging to see that many Christian Teens in one place for the same purpose. it made me realize that I am not alone.
as for the Double dare i took it and so did almost everyone in my youth group!!! I shared the gospel with the friend that i called at the conference and she is going to church with me on wednesday!!! isnt that awesom!!!!!!!!! my youth group is on Fire for God!!! i am not sure how you could go and not come out a changed person! i made a couple other decisions while at the conference and am so excited to see what God will do in Prescott Valley through our teens!!! our youth group was so excited to share the gospel that on sunday during church we all stud up and gave our testimony!!! the adults at our church were so excited and wanted to know if their is an adult version!!! how awesome is that!!! and sunday after church we went door to door in our neighborhood collecting canned goods for an awesome ministry here in Prescott!!! when we gave them the cans they were so greatful it was just awesome!!! I am just so excited!!!!!!!!!
thanks and God Bless!!!!

Franny

P.S. I am allready excited for the invinsable tour next year!!!
P.P.S. is their an adult dare 2 share we can tell our parents about???
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On March 3, 2008 @ 4:28 pm Logan Anderson said:

Hey, afetr i took the Double Dare on Saturday Night, i pormised my self i was actually going to do it. i di! Here is what happened.
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On March 3, 2008 @ 4:40 pm Logan Anderson said:

Hey. I saturday nitght, i took the double dare. i promised my self i was actually going to do it. I DID!You thern told me to put a comment onto your blog, so that is what i am doing now. Heres what happened.

well, that personal that i did the double dare to was named Dennis. He is a kid at my scholl with many troubles. his mom and dad died in the Russian mofia and now lives with two adopted parents that he doesnt really like. he knows there is a God but doesnt really act apon it. So, i knew that he was the perfect choice! I brought him over to a table, sat him down, and started off by asking him if he belived in God. He said Yes, and then asked my why i asked him that question. I then told him about the conference and the double dare that was given to me and then continued. We started talking and he said that he was always interested in going to church. WHAT!!??!?!?!?! i was speechless after this. i would have nver in a million years thought he would want to go to church. O fcousre i emediatly invited him and he said YES! I was so excited and told him to call me later today so we could talk more. I got up then, went to the bath room and started to pray. I thanked God for giving me that oppertunity and that i was so thankful to do is work. I then went outside and a great rest of the day. Thanks so much Greg for challenging me to do this. I am better with God now and will have one more person coming to church every sundy. I am planning on bringing more to God and will never stop. Thanks you again and please E-Mail me to make sure that you rea this measage. God Bless
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On March 3, 2008 @ 4:42 pm Matt Moschgat said:

What’s up Greg! Hey man so my name is Matt. I’m a youth intern at Oasis Community Church in Phx. I took 11 students to your conference. Most of the students in my group are new believers or are on the edge of believing. The believers in the group were totally skeptical about going out into the neighborhoods are sharing their faith. This was the case until we met Bill. Ok so here’s the story!

I was walking with two of my students, Ozzy (awesome kid) and Nick (another awesome kid), and I see this man come around the corner. I let the guys go to the door and I automatically thought, “No God.” Thinking that He’ll listen to me. But despite my opinion I feel God pushing me to talk to him man. Here’s the mental picture. We’re at the last house on in a neighborhood and Bill is going about .5 mph. He’s hunched over and looks pretty ragidy. I start to walk over because i see he is alone. When I get to him I ask him if he’d let me walk with him for a bit. I tell him that I am a leader of a small christian group of high school students that are going around asking people if we can pray for anything. So i asked, “Sir, is there anything i can pray about for you?” He stopped and slowly turned to face me. He said, “I want to walk again.” His face had showed his heart. I asked to pray with him and we did. The whole time he was saying “Yes Lord” or “amen”. After the prayer he continued to tell me about the 51 years he lived in his house. and how he’s watched every person move in on this street. He goes on to tell me that he’s 83 and he’s been a christian since he was 12. He had been taking a drug for an illness. the drug cured this illness but left him unable to stand straight. for the past few years he’s been using a walker. His legs are swollen and mishapen, his clothes are torn, his smell is ripe, and he has food all over him. He then begins to tell about how he prays for his son and his ex wife every day. he asked god to give him back his legs to walk but he said that if its God’s will for him to stay immobile then that’s ok. “He gave me 76 goods years.” His next statement blew my mind. He says its ok if i don’t walk again because i will still praise God and i’m gonna tell as many people as i can about him.

This man totally set my group on fire. The fires burning within their hearts are amazing to watch grow. i’m excited to see where God is taking us. thanks again man. feel free to use this story. I actually offered to the story on stage but because i was a leader they wouldn’t let me. so maybe if you want next year i could totally tell the story to say “this is what could happen”. Offers out there man. thanks again!

Through Him,

- Matthew
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On March 3, 2008 @ 4:50 pm Christa said:

Hey Greg! My name is Christa and I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to share my story on the stage on Saturday night. There was so much to my team’s story that it was hard to condense it. I found proof of God this weekend and that he works in mysterious ways. Saturday morning, I was getting ready to leave my house and something was telling me to grab a book my youth leader gave me called “Armed and Dangerous”. (It’s a cross-referencing tool that I’ve found very useful.) Well through the course of the conversation at the yard sale as you heard, the mom of the teenagers came to Christ. And just by looking in her and her son’s eyes, I could tell that they were looking for something to start reading to keep them on track with their faith. Since they were moving in a week and may not have time to get a bible, I ran back to the van and grabbed my book. I will never forget the look of gratitude in her son’s eyes when I handed it to him. I just want to finish up with saying thank you, to you Greg, and to Zane and Derwin. It was so good to see that who all of you are onstage is the exact same person out of the spotlight. Thank you for letting me have this opportunity! It helped me fulfill the double dare too. I have been so excited about everything that happened this weekend that I’ve been telling everyone I know about, well everything!!! Thanks again Greg!
-Christa-
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On March 3, 2008 @ 5:52 pm rachel said:

hey!
i went to the program in phoenix on Saturday and my 48 hours are almost up.
while listening to you speak about the double dare i was thinking of people to witness to and u know what? i couldn’t think of ANYONE! it was sooooo hard because i have gone to a Christian school my whole life and i am active in my church and all my friends are Christian…like ALL of them!
so i was talking to my youth pastor [hes Tim from shiloh…the one that u spoke to in front of everyone Friday night] and he told me to pray for God to bring someone into my life. so i took the dare. i want to do it more than anything. maybe it won’t be in the next 8 hours. only God knows…literally!
but please pray for me that God will open a door…[or a window…]
thanks for everything Greg! i am really glad i went!
your sis in Christ,
rachel
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On March 3, 2008 @ 5:58 pm Rei Ramos said:

Hey!

On saturday, I went with my youth group to dare2share and took the Double Dare. Yesterday, I tried to make a list of everyone I wanted/NEEDED to talk to. I remember that one of the people on that list told me last year that she was interested in Christianity. Why I waited so long to share to her, I have no clue. So I called her and shared the GOSPEL with her. Right now, I’m letting her think about it, and hopefully she’ll build a relationship with Jesus soon. :]

So far, I’ve left voicemails, sent myspace messages, and in the days/weeks/MONTHS to come, I’ll try to do everything I can to get the love of God out to my friends.

Thinking about salvation, I also talked to a few of my friends about this. To my surprise, I actually found out that one of my close friends, whose family I assumed was Christian, DID NOT know Christ. So I asked her a few questions and saw her view on things. Right now, I, with the help of another friend who went to d2s, am planning on talking to her more about this.

Please keep me and every single one of us who took the dare in your prayers.

God Bless. :]
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On March 3, 2008 @ 6:06 pm Emily H said:

Greg-

Hey well I wanted to thank you for the amazing weekend at Dare2Share. To start off with this let i would like to talk a bit about my church and I. Obviously you see that my name is Emily. I go to Chapel in the Hills in Tucson AZ. My youth pastor’s name is Dave. I think he told you about me and my struggle. I wanted to write you personally but this i guess will have to do.

Last year three days before Dare2Share my mom had been diagnosed with cancer. She had two kinds of cancer Choriocarcinoma and PSTT (Placental site trophoblastic tumor) i know mouthful right? Well i went to Dare2Share and it had changed my life. I took the Go wide challenge and it had changed my life. I told all my friends about god, I didn’t care what they thought i told them the God forsaken truth that if you do not believe in God you are going to hell. I mean i wasn’t that harsh about it though lol. Well through out those months of having complete faith and trust in God i did happen to stumble a little bit on my way.

My mom’s Chroicarcinoma was looking good at June. It was gone now all we had to deal with was the PSTT cancer.

It was October and by that month my mom wasn’t looking to good. They had done so much to her…Radiation Chemo MORE surgery. A lot.

That same month the girls from our church had went to LA for the Revolve tour. Yes i did have fun but all i kept thinking about was my mom. I called my mom three to four times a day just to make sure she was okay.

By that time I came home and my mom was looking pale sick and miserable. I was worried about her and checked on her every morning before i went to school. She wasn’t looking to good.

Come November 15 my dad gave me a call at lunch and he said “I took your mom to the hospital. She wasn’t looking to good” i replied with an “Okay” and hung up. I thought oh this is just another thing it will blow over etc. After school my dad picked me up and we drove to the hospital. We go in and my dad told me to wait in the waiting room. 5 mins later my brother walks in and he sits next to me and we talk laugh and talk some more. My dad came out with a furious look on his face he said “i need to talk to you” so my brother and I were taken outside and he sat us on a stone bench. He held my hands and looked me in the eyes and said “Emily your mom is going into a hospice” i looked at him and asked “What’s a hospice?” as i look at my brother with tear-filled eyes he said “That’s a place where people go when they are terminal” I said “What’s terminal?” he said “Emily your mom is going to die :(” I had a breathing attack and couldn’t think. That whole day i had to make phone calls to everyone telling them my mom yes MY MOM was going to die soon.

November 16, 2007 we go to the hospital and my mom was moved to the floor up stairs. There was a corner of windows outside of her room and i just sat there all day. I didn’t want to go into my moms room much because I didn’t want to try to breathe for air like that. People were in and out that day telling her how much they lover her and I just watch. My brother came in and went to go see mom. We hung out for a while and then at about 4:30 the doctor goes into the room and we all rush in. He talks about the hospice and what a good place it is. I stopped him and asked him how long does he think she has to live? and he said that he honestly didn’t know I said months he said i don’t think its months I looked at him and i asked week? He said he didn’t know he said “I’m so sorry” and my moms eyes just got so big.

By five they took her to the hospice and we drove there. Once again i had another breathing attack.
We walk into the hospice and i could see my mom in the corner room breathing so heavily. As my dad rushes to the room the lady grabs my dads shirt and whispers in his ear “You know…..you might want to tell her its okay to go”

So my dad walks in the room and I fall into that ladies arms. She said you need to be with your mom so i went. My brother, Grandma (moms mom) dad, her best friend Marissa and I are all standing around her bend crying. She passed away that night. November 16, 2007 ten days before my birthday.

By that time my faith and trust in god was blank. I didn’t want anything to do with him.

A month later my grandma got diagnosed with Lung cancer. she passed away over rodeo brake.

Than here I was at Dare2Share this year and i was all out of GOD. Dare2Share made me think a lot. But I still don’t know. If you do happen to read this message please pray for me. If you can please write back.

Emily
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On March 3, 2008 @ 6:08 pm rachel said:

hey greg! if you have a chance, i posted something for you on my blog my site is RCRBLOG011.BLOGSPOT.COM

thanks!
rachel
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On March 3, 2008 @ 6:12 pm Leandra Sexton said:

Hey Greg,
I had such a wonderful experience this past weekend. I took the double dare Saturday, but before I talk about the friend I’ve been trying to reach for the past couple years I want to tell a little about me. Prepare yourself. This may be long.
Well I grew up in a Christian home and I actually went to two different churches till I was five (at the same time). I went to Brown Rd Baptist Church with my mom, dad, and older brother, but I also When to Central with my aunt Sandy and her family (husband, and two kids), and my grandparents. When I was almost five a few people at Central decided to make a new church. My aunt Sandy was one of these along with one of my mom’s old friends from her Jr. High (or high school I don’t remember what she said) youth group. I was very interested in this so every Sunday instead of going out to eat with my grandparents and cousins I begged my aunt to let me stay with her. After a while we mad a new church and my mom came to opening day to support her sister. My mom, dad, and I are still at this church. I was working behind the scenes when I was five by helping setting up and taking down. We met in a couple different High Schools and prayed for a cheep piece of land to start our church building on. God is so good. Right across the street was a large piece of land that just went on sale for very, very cheep. While we were waiting for our building to be built, we continued to have church at Skyline High School (right across the street), I was six at this time, I remember walking up to my mom and saying “Mommy guess what! I have Jesus living inside of me now. I prayed and he came in just like that.” My mom then went with me the next couple of weeks to a baptism class. Shortly after we got our new building I got baptized by the same man the baptized my big brother. He was the youth pastor, Dustin Gallup, and he baptized me in my grandma’s pool. In the next few years I got involved in a few things like the puppet team and the Sign Language team. Dustin Gallup moved and along with most of the youth group. At this time I started to have dreams that showed to future. At first it scared me but one day I saved my mom’s (along with my own) life. We were diving down the street when we got to a main intersection. I had a dream about this spot the night before so I told my mom to stop. She knew of my dreams so she did. A second later a car ran the red light with intense speed. Since then I’ve had many near death experiences. Another one (my favorite to tell people) I was playing in my backyard with a few friends, just hanging around the fire pit my dad made, when a friend jumped the fence, stole gasoline from our neighbor, and pored it into the fire. I tried to get it from her when I fell into the fire. I blacked out for a least a minute (says one of the other girls there) and when I came to I stared looking around and then stepped out. My clothes didn’t even smell of fire. Now I’m Fourteen a strong “Christian” (I prefer believer in Christ) I serve God all over church and love it.
Now about my friend… I first tried to reach her in fifth grade. She shut me down cold and I almost lost our friendship. I decided to leave her alone for a bit as I thought of how to reach her. I tried to watch and play what she likes (to an extent I will not watch or have anything to do with Harry Potter). I tried World of War Craft but I really can’t stand that game. I then turned to watching wrestling. Now I really like it and I found a way to talk about God to her. One of our favorite wrestlers is Shawn Michaels. He is a strong Christian who teaches a small group in the youth group at Cornerstone Church of Christ (I’m pretty sure that’s what it’s called) in San Antonio, Texas. I tried this but she still didn’t listen. After I got home Friday I left two huge text messages on her phone. Then when we did the phone challenge I called and left a message on her phone. She still won’t listen but I’ve been praying and I can tell her heart has softened. I think this may be a long mission, but I’m ready.
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On March 3, 2008 @ 6:29 pm Lauren said:

Thank you for the amazing time.
I was at that conference.
I loved everything about it.
I am excited about telling people about the good word of God.
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On March 3, 2008 @ 7:10 pm Jacob McAlear said:

I tried share the gosple with 5 people. They were all mormans but I felt like they were the ones who needed to here it most. I may have been turned down by all of them but it made me feel good that I tried. Something else I am doing is using the G.O.S.P.E.L. card I was given I e-mail it to all my friends and asked if they would forward it to every one they know and ask if they could forward it to every one they know and so on and so forth
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On March 3, 2008 @ 7:22 pm Brittany Dempsay said:

I just wanted to let you know that I absolutely loved d2s this year, and that I did take up your challenge. To be honest I was worried that I wouldn’t take the chances that God would give me to share with my friends, but I did. I told one of my friends the gospel today, I was surprised at how I didn’t vomit it. I guess after going to d2s three times I am finally getting the hang of it. My friend, Amber, thought that if she was a good person she would go to heaven. I told her that the bible said that wasn’t true, she didn’t except Jesus then, but she is very shy and I had only touched the tip of the iceberg with her. I am just glad I opened it up to her, hopefully she will wanted to know more, whether it is from me or not as long as she comes to know Jesus someday.
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On March 3, 2008 @ 7:37 pm Noah Routledge said:

Hey Greg

Just here to say great job again, and may the blessings continue through out the tour. Also it would be awesome to know like after high school and most likely college how I could join the d2s crew whether it be a speaker, sound booth, or stage crew. So anyway amazing job this weekend and God bless all of you guys who put on these awesome conferences.

Deuteronomy 31:5-6
Noah
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On March 3, 2008 @ 8:27 pm TFarley said:

First off thank you Greg, Zane, and everyone else for putting on the confrence that set me on the road of sharing my faith. I bought the other book, not Venti Jesus PLease but the other one, and read through the entire thing before school today. Then at lunch i did my first try at talking to a friend of mine. She was the one I had called at the confrence, so she was kind of freaked out, so I thought I should sart with her. All I did was get laughed at by my Christian, Catholic, Hindu, and Typical friends. The world won round one so I think I’ll try her again another day and move onto a different friend. I’ve fufilled my promise and plan to keep up on it.

John 5:15
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On March 3, 2008 @ 8:35 pm Beau said:

dude, i have gone to the last two dare to shares in phoenix, and i have to say u guys have changed my life, u have brought me to christ, and helped me bring more, now i dont have and amazing story to tell, but today i talked to three people about god, and i know of at least one that was really excited and interested, i know i planted the seed, and i hope everyday and can keep watering it and it will help her come to christ. you have done so much for me and i cant to begin to explain how greatful i am that God has brought u in my life and i hope that u will keep helping me to reach my goal of talking to the entire freshman class about God. Thank you so very much. i will see u next year.
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On March 3, 2008 @ 8:48 pm Brianna Byerlein said:

I was at the Conference at the Dodge theater and During the Cell Phone Challenge I called my friend. We’d talked a little bit about God.. but never really got into a deep conversation. For my birthday we went together to the Toby Mac Concert on Feb. 8th and I saw that she was somewhat interested when they were talking about faith. Well anyways I took the cellphone challenge and I asked used the script right out of the Dare2Share book that I’d gotten earlier that morning. So I explained the GOSPEL to her and used the Ocean & Semi-Truck examples. So I got to wrapping it up and said would you like to accept Jesus as your personal savior and your way into heaven and she said YES! Well I was in shock and said hold on a minute.. SO i turned to one of my youth leaders and Said ” She just said YES!!” and then they go ” Brianna that’s Awsome. ” and I turned back and said “NO. She just said yes and I DON’T KNOW What to DO!” well then my youth leader said “pray the sinner’s prayer with her”.. and I said ” I don’t know it” so i took a minute and thought and remembered reading it in a Maryil Hickey book that I had just recieved the previous week when she was at our church. So I took it out and Prayed it with her. And she excepted the lord. So that’s my story. I went to the booth where you share your stories just a minute to late to talk to you about it. But I shared with my church the next day during the service and everybody said how inspirational it was to them.
Thanks for letting me share!
Brianna
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On March 3, 2008 @ 8:51 pm Amber Miller said:

Hi Greg! I wanted to thank you and the other members of your team for putting on Dare 2 Share. God really spoke through you guys! Today I got in a discussion with an atheist friend. I shared the gospel with her an told her some of the amazing facts about the Bible that you shared with us last year. She seemed to believe that there was some kind of god and that Jesus did exist, but she really had some far out ideas that I had never heard before. She never showed any evidence to support any of her thoughts and constantly contradicted herself. When I would point out verses in the Bible, she didn’t seem to care and continued on about her point of view… Which was that if there was a God, He shouldn’t care how she acted or who she prayed to. And then she would say things like there are so many religions how can anyone know for sure there is only one true religon. I said that I completly agreed with her. There are way too many religons, but knowing Jesus Christ is not a religon. Throughout this conversation, I was praying for the Lord’s help. He did give me words to speak, but I didn’t seem to get anywhere with her. Do you have any advice you could give? Once again thank you!
~Amber~
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On March 3, 2008 @ 9:02 pm Jonica Wildes said:

Hi Greg
I took on the Double Dare, which I thought was going to be very difficult. I didn’t know a 13 year old girl like me could get into telling so many people about Jesus. I had told 16 people in one hour about Jesus! By the end of the day a couple of my friends that went with me to the Dare 2 Share conference were just walking around the whole Junior High saying Jesus loves you! Some people wanted to know more and others didn’t care. Many people told me that they want to start coming to youth group. I’m so happy that I went to that conference cause it inspired me that I can do anything with God’s help. Thank you so much for everything. Your AMAZING!!!!
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On March 3, 2008 @ 9:15 pm Olivia Snyder said:

Hey, I took the double dare and so tonight at dance class I talked with one of my non-Christian friends. I am not the greatest at words and I go to a Christian school so I dont have alot of non-Christian friends, but thats what great about the Holy Spirit, it isnt us talking, its God using us. So this girl named Lucy was sitting on the couch and I only had 5 minutes or so, so I sat down next to her and asked her if she knew God. It ended up that she had gone to a catholic school but she said “I dont really have a good relationship with God, I believe He is there but I take His name in vain sometimes.” I didnt get to finish talking with her but I was able to say that Jesus came to pay the penalty for our sin, and none of us could achieve perfection so He came and died for us to make a way for us to be with Him. I could have done so much better and there was so much more I wanted to say, but I know God will use me in His timing. Thanks for the equipping and please pray for me to get out of the way and let the Spirit do the work. Thank you for lettign God use you.
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On March 3, 2008 @ 9:17 pm Mary Lim said:

Hi Greg!!
This was my second year at Dare2Share and out of all the youth revivals and conferences I’ve attended, this one REALLY challenged me and your message hit me-hard. So i took the cellphone challenge AND double dare. I was scared to death about going to school and wondered if i’d have the opportunity to share Jesus with my friends-something i have never really tried.
Then in US History class-my friends saw me reading Venti Jesus Please and started talking about their beliefs. I realized a lot of them found it hard to accept that Jesus is the only way to heaven-not just good deeds. These boys were the type of people who liked to make what I said a little ridiculous and it was hard for me to share Jesus because they didn’t like getting into any emotional or spiritual content. I’ve found that Venti Jesus helped me articulate my beliefs and thoughts but it was still hard telling them that Jesus was the absolute only way in a way they could understand. That was when I so desperately wished I had either you or my youth leader next to me to help me. But God gave me strength and now my friends are more curious about my beliefs versus theirs. It may get heated (knowing they’re boys :D) but i’m praying that God might make some impact in their lives through me. Thank you for your message at Dare2Share. You’ve helped me find my calling.
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On March 3, 2008 @ 9:18 pm Natalie said:

Wow. I agree, that is all I can say after this weekend! But also, thank you, thank you, thank you! It was an experience of a lifetime and I will never forget it. But I thought I’d share my story about taking the Double Dare.

At first I wasn’t quite sure who to choose to talk to first within the first 48 hours, but after praying about it and and thinking it over for a while I knew exactly who. One of my close friends has been struggling with family health issues and has been pretty distant from God for several years, so today at school I just went for it. I basically used the script for the cell phone challenge and warned her that I had some pretty random questions coming up, but that I felt the need to talk with her about it. I then asked her if she felt like she truly knew God and if she was certain about whether or not she’d go to heaven when she died. Of course, the first moments were a little awkward, but after a bit we began talking about how she wanted to know God better, but she didn’t really know how. So I told her she just needed to trust in Jesus, and pray about it, and that I would be praying for her too. And then I told her she was welcome to come to church with me anytime she liked. I really feel I made an impact on her. It was an amazing experience, sharing my faith like that. I’ve never done it before, but it won’t be the last time. Thanks again for an unforgettable weekend!

-Natalie from AZ
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On March 3, 2008 @ 9:49 pm Kristina said:

Hey Greg,
Just wanted to let you know first and formost I went to Dare 2 Share this weekend for the first time ever. It was amazing,you inspired me. I’m now sponsoring a child and before I went to Dare 2 Share I would have never dreamed of taking care of child before having my own. Well here’s my story about Sunday. My friend Briony who I had called on Saturday during D2S came over and I was telling her how much fun I had and started off by showing her all of the cool stuff I got and then I introduced her to Hawk Nelson’s music and she really enjoyed them, so she is downloading their music “Legally” to her MP3 player! the other cool thing is that I read her some chapters of You’re Next and she also enjoyed that. So I’m going to keep on praying for her and maybe you can too. I’m on my church’s Youth Leadership Team and also in Girls Small Group with my Youth Pastors wife. My small group is actually reading You’re Next and we all enjoy it, My favorite chapters so far are Bob and God, and The Phone Call fom Hell. Today I showed my spanish teacher the books that you wrote and that I got this weekend and he said there should be more books like these in the world. Thanks a lot for making Dare 2 Share memorable and I’m coming back next year I already bought the tickets.
God Bless & Love,
Kristina
Please pray that I can pay for my sponsor child and for my friend Briony
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On March 3, 2008 @ 9:56 pm Emily said:

I have attended the Dare2Share conference for the past two years, but this year was the most powerful for me. I finally got up the courage to take the DoubleDare. And I have completed it, not more than five minutes ago. I spoke with one of my bestfriends, in depth, about it. And she has accepted Jesus Christ. I am so incredibly happy, I don’t think I’ve ever had this amazing feeling. I encouraged her to talk to me with any questions she might have at all.

I am so incredibly excited to reach out to other people. I put your video on my myspace page. I really hope that someone will get up the nerves to talk to me about it. Thank you for the THIRD amazing conference that you have provided for me. I love all that you do, and I know God will continue his work through you, and thankfully through me.

Much Love,
Emily.
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On March 3, 2008 @ 10:06 pm Kayle Cobo said:

Dear Greg,
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On March 3, 2008 @ 10:11 pm Chris Ideker said:

Dear Greg,

last night i was at wal-mart buying shoes for track and when we walked out to our truck a man in a wheelchair asked my dad for some money. He gave him some and i kept asking my dad to ask him if he needed prayer. My dad didn’t do it so i jumped out of the car and asked him. It felt really cool sharing my faith with him

Thanks for giving me the courage to at the confrence!

In him,
Chris Ideker Valley Bible Fellowship
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On March 3, 2008 @ 10:11 pm Emily said:

Wow. That’s all I can say. I took the Double Dare Challenge at Phoenix and was exctied (and still am) to share my faith with everyone. As I was driving to work I prayed and asked God for the words and the strength to witness. I invited one of my friends that works with me to go to church, but other than that nothing happened. So, I was a little discouraged all day. But then tonight, at a meeting I was sitting there reading my Brio magazine, and the girl next to me asked me what religion I was. Oh boy! I was like “Thank You God, thank You!” I started sharing with her that Christianity is not a “religion.” And I also explained to her that she couldn’t get to heaven by doing good things, which is what she thought. Even though nothing really came out of it, I pray that God would open up her heart more. I’ve always be shy and don’t open up to people I don;t really know, but God has really helped me with this. Even though it’s still hard. But thank you guys for helping kids like me learn how to shre our faith with our friends!
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On March 3, 2008 @ 10:11 pm Kayle Cobo said:

Dear Greg,
my double dare person was my uncle. my sister died at christmas time last year and it was a major blow on our family. we had a memorial service for her and after the service my uncle said to my mom that the service got him thinking about Christ. So, I sent him a letter telling him that i love him and gave him a couple of Bible verses. I don’t know what will happen but i do know that God is in control.

Sincerely,
Kayle Cobo

P.S. please ignore the comment of mine above. I hit the wrong button. Sorry.
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On March 3, 2008 @ 11:10 pm Robert Bourgeois said:

Ha! Greg your words this weekend changed my life.I,ve choosed to give all my spare time to our local teen at church. Thanks your the best.
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On March 4, 2008 @ 8:27 am Jaedn Stauffacher said:

Hey Greg This was my first dare 2 share which was the best conference that ive been to. Your words were inspiring me for the weekend and help me to get closer to my 10 year old sister. Thanks for the great messegas.
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On March 4, 2008 @ 11:19 am Jennifer said:

Dear Greg,

I hope you read your replys. My husband and I are the youth leaders of a little tent ministry in the middle of the Mojave desert in beautiful Joshua Tree CA. We met you during the training briefly…. anyhow, this was an awesome weekend. I wanted to share some of the changes in the kids we brought with you. We only had like 8 of our regular youth kids, and then 2 that very occasionally come to church, and 2 teens that joined us at the very end whose parents are missionaries travelling through our area.

We were under attack from the very beginning. When we went to start our Pastor’s suburban at our house we had to jump it, and by the time we got it to the church it was COMPLETELY dead… it needed a new altenator. so we stayed, knowing that if we didnt leave at 2 (we would have arrived around 8 your time cuz we were losing an hour anyhow) and had it fixed. we arrived in Phoenix outside the dodge theatre at 9:58 your time.

and I had no ticket. we still hadnt picked up the preregistered tickets, and I went inside to see if I could get them…registration was shut down and I was told there were no tickets sold on Saturday…so… we found the church we were staying at and prayed.

we rose really early on Sat to get there early to find Jeannae or someone else who might have known about our circumstance and as we were standing outside the doors and youth pastor who also stayed at the church we were at walked up and put a wristband on me, apparently someone we were staying with overheard our prayers …. so I was in too.

But the work God did in the hearts of the teens AND adults we brought was amazing.

Saturday night we stayed in a hotel just outside the city, and the girls and I started talking. The boys had all sorts of questions for my husband and myself. Initially they wanted to get together and talk it all out Saturday night, but the boys got in trouble (almost get kicked out of the hotel) b/c they were loud so we all went to bed.

Sunday we drove back. Frank and I knew we had to share some stuff with these teens. I had no idea how. My friend drove, I studied. I came to Collossians 3:1-17 that was it. of course we had to go through a wind storm complete with tractor trailers tipping over right on the highway - we finally stopped at a truckstop. everyone was tired, grouchy, nervous…. another make leader took over and prayed … he prayed for us to end this weeekend good, not bad, not to undo all that had been done. It was the exact prayer that was on my heart. so the kids and leaders went into arby’s for lunch, I sat in my truck and prayed.

It was if God spok eto my heart. just do it here. there was a patch of grass, so I went down and sat there and waited for the kids to come out. The night before I had bought a few roses. I shared the rose differently than i ever have before. Usually as I say things like ….” if you feel like you have looked at someone in lust, pull off a petal” and the things I say get worse and worse until I say ” Have you ever done something in which today you regret……” they were fighting over the last of the petals. I asked them what they had left to give their spouse…..someday…. they said a stem. I said no. You are a new creation, old things have passed away all things have become new….leet your petals go, you cant save those. and I pulled out the new rose. I said this is how God seees you today. and from this day you must purpose yourself to remian a rose until the very night you are married.

we were all in tears. My husband and I had no idea. 5 kids gave their lives to Christ, 2 recommitted thier lives to Chist and all of them commited to purity. Thanks for this ministry greg, your heart and your vision to reach teens. see you next YEAR!!!!!!

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Jennifer & Frank
IGNITION youth ministry
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On March 4, 2008 @ 11:32 am Lindsay said:

Greg… I wanted you to know that I just completed the first part of the double dare. Yesterday I took my best friend to a park so we could go sit and just talk for a while… Well over the past year she has been through a lot of rough stuff and gotten into a lot of drugs and alcohol and who knows what else… Anyways we got to talking and I was able to turn the conversation towards God. I was able to tell her that drinking and drugs wasn’t going to make her problems go away, but that Jesus would be the only answer to bring her through these rough times. I then told her about the G.O.S.P.E.L. and when I finished telling her that she was asking questions and really starting to understand. I then asked if she would mind if I prayed for her and the addictions in her life, and she looked at me like I was crazy… She told me that she had never been prayed for before… And then she paused for a moment and asked if we could pray right now! So there we were in a busy public park bench praying that God would take her addictions away and come into her life!! She was crying and by the time we were done she was sooo happy and she wants to come to church with me next Sunday. She asked me to be her accountability partner to help keep her clean. Oh! And next Sunday my youth group is starting the Gospel Journey (I told her all about it) and she asked if she could invite all of her friends!! But get this, we then went out to eat… she started telling our server about Jesus!!!! She started sharing the G.O.S.P.E.L. with not only the waitress but on her myspace and everything! It was amazing!!! God is so good, and I want to thank you for bringing the Double Dare and Dare2Share to Phoenix!!! You helped me to find that courage that has always been down deep inside of me!
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On March 4, 2008 @ 12:50 pm Hilary said:

Ok, so In Phoenix I took the Double Dare Challenge. I was a little scared about it, but I did it anyway. I got home and I hadn’t really talked to anyone, but then I got online and one of my contacts was online. He is never online. so I decided to IM him. I started talking to him and I was just thankful that I got the chance to talk to him and I pray that sometime in his life, other people talk to him and he sees that he needs a savior and that God has always been there for him and Jesus Christ is his savior and Lord.
Thanks Greg! And thanks D2S!
-Hilary
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On March 4, 2008 @ 2:58 pm Elizabeth Willkett said:

Hey Greg,

I got into town around midnight on Saturday. On the way home, I was talking to my mom and brother about what GOSPEL means. They were amazed! On Sunday morning I went on the radio with my youth leader and talked about my experience at Dare2Share. Turns out that my social studies teacher was listening and she asked me what GOSPEL meant. She is very religious and she was amazed when I told her what it meant. She said that just hearing me tell her that changed how she thought about teenagers. Now, she acts different around us after she realized how many of her students went to Dare2Share and how many of us really took in what you were talking about. I just want to tell you that this was my first year at Dare2Share and I really enjoyed it. I am really looking forward to it next year and hopefully it will be completely full next year. Your message was very touching and I have changed in the past 4 days.
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On March 4, 2008 @ 3:35 pm Logan Anderson said:

Hey Greg,
Hey. I would just like to say tank you for the weekend and allowing me to submit my story on your blog

Logan Anderson
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On March 4, 2008 @ 3:36 pm Danielle said:

Greg,

Thank you for helping me find a way to share my faith with other people. I was always so shy about talking with people about my faith yet now it is not so hard. This was the first time I had ever been to Dare2Share and I really would like to come back next year. The double dare has changed the way many people close to me think about Christianity.

I had always heard about people being persecuted for what their faith but I never knew that it happened here in the US. A couple days ago, I was asked if I beleived and went along with the US or if my loyalties were with God. It was pretty tought to say that I was a Christian and put God first. The people never did anything to me which I was surprised after all that has gone on lately in Yuma with all the shootings in school and at the mall.

Venti Jesus Please was also a very nice book to read. My youth leader’s wife let me have one and I really got in to story. I finished reading it today and decided to share it with someone else so they also could learn more on Christianity.

On Friday, my group had been sitting in a car for at least 3 hours and really would have liked to stretch. I was amazed the first time I walked into Dodge Stadium. So many people sharing the same faith, all in one area! One of my friends and my cousin stood near me as we walked up the stairs onto the balcony, looking down at the crowds below.

Saturday was a little different yet all my questions seemed to melt as you, Zane, and Derwin started to talk to us. While I watched the skit, I trully got into it and put my self into every one of the characters prospective. After the concert, all the songs kept running through my mind.

Thanks for everything,
Danielle
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On March 4, 2008 @ 4:34 pm Tori Corea said:

Hey Greg,
I really had the best time there. Actually, I barely knew about it til my friend - from another church - asked me if I wanted to go. She said it was like Acquire the Fire, so I highly considered it. And when I was there, I literally had the best weekend of my life not only because of the D2S, but also the youth group I went with.
When the whole thing was done, I realized how much fun I had with her youth group, Vineyard Church of Surprise, and how much more I accomplished. Believe it or not I will be going to Vineyard now.
The whole thing really changed my life. Thanks so much
Yours Truly,
Tori C.
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On March 4, 2008 @ 5:11 pm Jennifer Brown said:

Hey Greg,
I went to the dare 2 share in phoenx and came out a changed person. I dont know why but God has been knocking at my heart at several youth events like our church camp and now dare 2 share. The very first night i recommited my life to Christ. Then when we got home the next night I gave my friend Chris who really wants to go to heaven and be baptized but doesnt know how Venti Jesus after I read it. He is really excited about the content and how the characters ask such detailed questions. The only problem was that I wasn’t leading a life Christ would and te subject kind of fell out of place. So now he asked me if when he was done if we could discuss the book. This made me soo happy. a fe weeks ago i thought Satan was pulling him away from me helping him become a Christan, bvecause you see his family was moving but through God he is staying at our school until graduation. so thank you for writing a insiring book and being such an understanding person for all teens and adults.
Jennifer B
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On March 4, 2008 @ 6:34 pm Conner Loposky said:

Greg,
I went to Dare 2 Share thinking it was going to be something that i would go to and forget about it in a few days or something, but no i came back knowing that my life had changed I took the double dare and I told all of my friends the GOSPEL message the day that i got back to school i am currently reading one of your books Dare 2 Share feold guide and so far it has really helped me to sharing the massage of Jesus Christ my savior.
Thank you so much for giving me exactly what i needed to go out there and saving my friends from hell.
Conner L.
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On March 4, 2008 @ 7:41 pm Brooke Raney said:

Hey Greg,
Ok, so I went to Dare 2 Share here in Phoenix and I can tell you that it was totally amazing. I went with my friends and I was excited but, I was a little unsure what I was going to do with the information you, Derwin, and Zane told us. But then, once I got there, I just felt like I was at home with everyone there. I can honestly tell you that you, Derwin, and Zane have definitely impacted my life. It has been about two or three days since the conference and I still feel this adrenaline rush going throughout my body. It’s crazy. I can’t describe this feeling I have. It’s like I just want to go tell everyone about God and how He has impacted my life through all of the speakers there. When you were talking to all of us, I just couldn’t pull my attention away (not that I tried!!) and I was just so captivated by it. Anyway, I took the Double Dare and I am so close to getting my friend to become a Christian. She said that she needed a few days to think about it and I don’t want to rush her, so I said, “take all the time you need.” But I just wanted to say thank you so much for coming and talking to all of us crazy kids!!…and adults for that matter!! You are amazing.
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On March 4, 2008 @ 7:59 pm Maggie said:

Hi!

It was my first time going to Dare2Share, and I feel like I know SO much more!! Everything I learned has made me feel more equiped to share God’s love, therefore, I am more confident with evangelism. The cell phone challenge left a big impression on me. I called my best friend and started to talk to her about God, and she didn’t really seem confortable, but I’ve opened a new door and I feel brave to continue to share Jesus with her.
This weekend taught me so much and I feel much more ready to tell people about God.
Thank you for everything that you do! I love you all!
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On March 4, 2008 @ 9:32 pm Meghan said:

Hello,

This was my first time going to Dare 2 Share. My journey with Christ has been a long and bumpy one. I had been struggling with how God was using me. I was fed up with him using me to show his love because I wanted to be normal…it’s a long story. But at Dare 2 Share I realized how honored I should be that he even considered using me. And I’m now better equipped to share the Lord’s unconditional love, and I can help use my experiences to bring people to Christ. I took the Double Dare. I talked with someone I love very very much and I wanted him to go to heaven. We’re talking but he’s having problems with it because he can’t see how I can love someone who’s let me go through so much. But this weekend taught me how to deal with it.
Thank you guys so much for doing everything that you do for us! May the Lord bless you and your families for all your kindness and guiding hands!
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On March 5, 2008 @ 8:09 am Denise said:

Hey Greg,

I am a missionary teacher on the Navajo Indian Reservation in a remote section of New Mexico. I brought eleven kids to the dare2share conference and God rocked my world! These kids had never had the opportunity to do something like this, so at first they were totally culture shocked, but I brought a different group home Sunday night then who left Friday morning. These kids live in absolute poverty (many do not have running water and/or electricity) and come from very spritually dark situations. I came here almost 8 months ago to teach in a one-room school on the BIC Navajo Mission. These kids that God gave me to reach are involved in gangs and drink and use drugs on a very regular basis. I have cried and prayed everyday for a way to reach them, but had made very little progress. That’s when I decided something drastic was in store. We had no money, no way to get there, nothing…..but we serve a God who makes a way, so we came. By saturday night many great things had happened. Most of the students had made decisions in some way for Christ and were having an absolute blast, but my two most difficult and very atheistic students seemed unaffected spiritually, though they having fun. On Saturday night I took the double dare and decided that one of these two students would be my dare. Being of so little faith at times, I prayed, but really doubted that she would take hold of what I said. The next morning in a parking lot, I took her aside and asked her what she got out of the weekend. At first she just joked around, but I was finally able to get her to get a little serious. She said that she knew what she heard this weekend was the truth, but that Jesus was asking too much of her. I of course explained that Jesus gave up everything for her and that committing our lives to Christ is a process not an overnight change. I shared some very difficult things from my past with her to make her understand that no one is beyond his reach and He is worth everything we have. She is so afraid of change, but I wanted her

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