Comments on: Chicago Shreddin’ http://www.gregstier.org/conferences/chicago-shreddin/ Relentlessly pursuing Christ and His Cause Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:20:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: alex http://www.gregstier.org/conferences/chicago-shreddin/comment-page-1/#comment-126131 alex Fri, 01 May 2009 04:21:06 +0000 http://www.gregstier.org/conferences/chicago-shreddin#comment-126131 hey Greg! i just wanted to say that dare 2 share was just aweosme i even got a side of the arnea to do the wave i had seen you speak at nationals in utah before and loved how u spread the gospel i got your book dare 2 sahre and it has really helped me out and when u had us call a friend i was nervous but almost did it instantly the friend i chose didnt want to listen and has been sayign how he doesnt care but i saw him buy a study bible thing last year and hopefully i can help if your and anyone at dare 2 sahre ministried could pray for me to help him out that would be aweosme. keep spreading the gospel Alex hey Greg!

i just wanted to say that dare 2 share was just aweosme i even got a side of the arnea to do the wave i had seen you speak at nationals in utah before and loved how u spread the gospel i got your book dare 2 sahre and it has really helped me out and when u had us call a friend i was nervous but almost did it instantly the friend i chose didnt want to listen and has been sayign how he doesnt care but i saw him buy a study bible thing last year and hopefully i can help if your and anyone at dare 2 sahre ministried could pray for me to help him out that would be aweosme. keep spreading the gospel

Alex

]]> By: Taylor Storie http://www.gregstier.org/conferences/chicago-shreddin/comment-page-1/#comment-124263 Taylor Storie Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:42:30 +0000 http://www.gregstier.org/conferences/chicago-shreddin#comment-124263 Hey Greg!! I've gone to D2S for the past 3 years now and everytime, its fantastic. I made my boyfriend go. He was agnostic but was interested in finding some things out. So I took him. And guess what!!! He trusted Jesus!! :D I know, exciting right?! But anyways aside from the wonder and fabulousity of the entire D2S mission, staff, and JESUS!!!, I need pictures from the Hoffman Estates conference. I took a few good ones of my own but I don't seem to have enough. And I can't find any anywhere on the site and google is just a bad idea. SO! That being said, if there are any pictures to which I may access, can you please please PLEASE email me or something telling me where to find them? I'm trying to make this "shreddin" slideshow (pretty clever, huh) but I need more pictures because mine just DO NOT suffice. Thanks Much!! I Look forward to seeing to next year!! :D Taylor Hey Greg!!

I’ve gone to D2S for the past 3 years now and everytime, its fantastic. I made my boyfriend go. He was agnostic but was interested in finding some things out. So I took him. And guess what!!! He trusted Jesus!! :D I know, exciting right?! But anyways aside from the wonder and fabulousity of the entire D2S mission, staff, and JESUS!!!, I need pictures from the Hoffman Estates conference. I took a few good ones of my own but I don’t seem to have enough. And I can’t find any anywhere on the site and google is just a bad idea. SO! That being said, if there are any pictures to which I may access, can you please please PLEASE email me or something telling me where to find them? I’m trying to make this “shreddin” slideshow (pretty clever, huh) but I need more pictures because mine just DO NOT suffice. Thanks Much!! I Look forward to seeing to next year!! :D

Taylor

]]> By: seth meeks http://www.gregstier.org/conferences/chicago-shreddin/comment-page-1/#comment-123186 seth meeks Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:10:58 +0000 http://www.gregstier.org/conferences/chicago-shreddin#comment-123186 Greg & D2S team, We just came back from the Chicago conference. i just wanted to share how our teens went out Shreddin the Gnar for Jesus! 16 of my kids hit the streets of Port Washington WI with flowers in hand. They gave away flowers to random ladies walking on sidewalks and in stores. With each flower, we wished them a happy easter and resurrection of Jesus. Some of our kids got to share what Easter meant to them and were able to share the Gosepel! thanks for being faithul to the cause of Jesus and His Church! seth Greg & D2S team,
We just came back from the Chicago conference. i just wanted to share how our teens went out Shreddin the Gnar for Jesus! 16 of my kids hit the streets of Port Washington WI with flowers in hand. They gave away flowers to random ladies walking on sidewalks and in stores. With each flower, we wished them a happy easter and resurrection of Jesus. Some of our kids got to share what Easter meant to them and were able to share the Gosepel! thanks for being faithul to the cause of Jesus and His Church!
seth

]]> By: Adam Jolly http://www.gregstier.org/conferences/chicago-shreddin/comment-page-1/#comment-123178 Adam Jolly Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:10:33 +0000 http://www.gregstier.org/conferences/chicago-shreddin#comment-123178 Hey Greg, My name is Adam and I was at the Conference in St. Louis but I just read this and I feel like this is as good a place as any for my story. I have had a pretty rough go lets say the last five or so years and during that time I pretty much turned my back on God so to speak. I played church during this time like no other. To the point that, to be perfectly honest, most people probably didn't know there was anything fishy going on. But I did and more so than that God did. See it all started when I was 14, at that point I had a pretty good relationship with God, I wasn't a saint by any means but I attended church regularly by my own choice of course and I had accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior and I knew I was pretty much where I was supposed to be. Then she came along. She is the one that tore my whole world down. Between us having sex way way too young and her constantly cheating on me and lying to me. Needless to say it was not a good situation. Then my mom found out what had been going on and she put a stop to it. But then I found that I was addicted to the sex. I felt like I needed it and it took over me and made me a terrible person. Finally I got over that. . . well kind of. Basically I pretended it never happened. I lied to myself and everyone around me. But the damage had been done and I was so ashamed of myself. It turned me into a different monster, one that was very very self-destructive and I know that if God hadn't have been watching over me I would have killed myself and I wouldn't be here to tell you all of this. I had turned very suicidal. I tried to off myself in so many different ways but for some reason I could never pull the trigger or slit my throat or any of the other ways I attempted I never managed to actually do it. I know it was God. He had other plans for me. Finally I got away from her and that started to ease the pain and eventually the want to kill myself was no longer there. The want for sex had also went away and I promised myself that I would never do that again until I knew it was with the person that I was positive I would spend my life with. This was a promise that was hard to keep but so far I have managed to stay away from sex. Anyways back to the story. Things were getting better, but I couldn't see how God could ever forgive me because I couldn't even forgive myself. Mind you I was still in church all this time and should have heard that God would forgive me. Honestly if you would have asked I would have probably even told you that he had. But I never truly believed it. So I looked to other things to make me feel better. Porn was hard for me, I struggled with an addiction to porn for too long. Alcohol was another and probably the most recent and when I finally realized that neither was doing anything for me and it was just making the pain worse I knew I needed help. That was around the time I went to the Invincible Conference in St. Louis. I can't say one set event that was the turning point because really it was the whole thing. But that Saturday night I told God it was all in his hands again because I knew I needed him and couldn't go on without him anymore. I felt the change instantly. It was even more intense than when I got saved. It was the most incredible feeling I have ever had. I am growing in my faith so much now and I guess last night I pretty much told my youth leader that I wanted to start teaching. It just feels like that is where God has been leading me. So I think we pretty much decided that I was going to be the teacher for our Wednesday night youth Bible studies. I am so excited about the way God is leading me now. It is like he has always been waiting there to take my hand and all I had to do is reach up and my Daddy would take me places that I could never imagine. It is amazing what you do. You reach so many people and I know because I know that through you God finally got me back where I belong. I hope that you see through me that what you do is really making a difference. Thank you for everything you and all the others with the Dare 2 Share Ministries do. You guys are amazing! Your Brother in Christ Adam Jolly Hey Greg,
My name is Adam and I was at the Conference in St. Louis but I just read this and I feel like this is as good a place as any for my story. I have had a pretty rough go lets say the last five or so years and during that time I pretty much turned my back on God so to speak. I played church during this time like no other. To the point that, to be perfectly honest, most people probably didn’t know there was anything fishy going on. But I did and more so than that God did. See it all started when I was 14, at that point I had a pretty good relationship with God, I wasn’t a saint by any means but I attended church regularly by my own choice of course and I had accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior and I knew I was pretty much where I was supposed to be. Then she came along. She is the one that tore my whole world down. Between us having sex way way too young and her constantly cheating on me and lying to me. Needless to say it was not a good situation. Then my mom found out what had been going on and she put a stop to it. But then I found that I was addicted to the sex. I felt like I needed it and it took over me and made me a terrible person. Finally I got over that. . . well kind of. Basically I pretended it never happened. I lied to myself and everyone around me. But the damage had been done and I was so ashamed of myself. It turned me into a different monster, one that was very very self-destructive and I know that if God hadn’t have been watching over me I would have killed myself and I wouldn’t be here to tell you all of this. I had turned very suicidal. I tried to off myself in so many different ways but for some reason I could never pull the trigger or slit my throat or any of the other ways I attempted I never managed to actually do it. I know it was God. He had other plans for me. Finally I got away from her and that started to ease the pain and eventually the want to kill myself was no longer there. The want for sex had also went away and I promised myself that I would never do that again until I knew it was with the person that I was positive I would spend my life with. This was a promise that was hard to keep but so far I have managed to stay away from sex. Anyways back to the story. Things were getting better, but I couldn’t see how God could ever forgive me because I couldn’t even forgive myself. Mind you I was still in church all this time and should have heard that God would forgive me. Honestly if you would have asked I would have probably even told you that he had. But I never truly believed it. So I looked to other things to make me feel better. Porn was hard for me, I struggled with an addiction to porn for too long. Alcohol was another and probably the most recent and when I finally realized that neither was doing anything for me and it was just making the pain worse I knew I needed help. That was around the time I went to the Invincible Conference in St. Louis. I can’t say one set event that was the turning point because really it was the whole thing. But that Saturday night I told God it was all in his hands again because I knew I needed him and couldn’t go on without him anymore. I felt the change instantly. It was even more intense than when I got saved. It was the most incredible feeling I have ever had. I am growing in my faith so much now and I guess last night I pretty much told my youth leader that I wanted to start teaching. It just feels like that is where God has been leading me. So I think we pretty much decided that I was going to be the teacher for our Wednesday night youth Bible studies. I am so excited about the way God is leading me now. It is like he has always been waiting there to take my hand and all I had to do is reach up and my Daddy would take me places that I could never imagine. It is amazing what you do. You reach so many people and I know because I know that through you God finally got me back where I belong. I hope that you see through me that what you do is really making a difference. Thank you for everything you and all the others with the Dare 2 Share Ministries do. You guys are amazing!
Your Brother in Christ
Adam Jolly

]]> By: yasmin http://www.gregstier.org/conferences/chicago-shreddin/comment-page-1/#comment-123082 yasmin Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:41:31 +0000 http://www.gregstier.org/conferences/chicago-shreddin#comment-123082 Hi Greg, I went to your conference last Friday and Saturday and it was just so awesome. I wasn't that huge of a God/Jesus fan back then,I used to consider myself an atheist before I arrived here in Chicago. My whole family has been religious and they couldn't get enough of God. I was just like, going on with the flow even if I didn't feel like it. But I as the months flew, I got closer to God and accepted Him last March. Now I know that going to your conference wasn't an accident. You see, I own a game server wherein most of the players are from the Philippines. It opened last January, a few days after I arrived in Chicago. The players talk and act rough, they insult other players.. even the girls. It saddened me to see what was happening in my own little creation. And then I went to the Dare2Share conference. You see, I am not a talker. I hate talking to large groups of people, and much more sharing my faith. But your conference helped me a lot, and it on Friday night during worship that I asked God for strength so that I can spread the good news to my players. And so Saturday night, just after the conference. I got online and started broadcasting a simple prayer and approached a group of people and asked them what they knew about God. They laughed at me, as expected. But it didn't let me down. At the end of the night, I talked to 6 people about God and that He loves us so much. With the help of what I learned in your conference, I was prepared to answer their questions. That's not all, the next day after church I talked to more people. Each of them had a different story. Some turned away from God because He did not answer their prayers and some simply didn't believe in Him. I began explaining to a group of at least 3 people and when I ended at around 12:30 midnight, I had talked to at least 15 different people who understood more about God. A player of mine told me, "Yasmin, please tell God that I love Him and that I accept Him whole-heartedly." Another player also came up to me because she was full of guilt. She loves God but she kept on sinning. I told her everything I learned from Dare2Share and at the end, she told me that it was like she was sent in our server because her old server closed due to maintenance. Gosh, I cried a lot that day. I cried because I was happy of what was happening. And I prayed to God for all of the players in my server just as I was about to sleep. I want to share what happened to me so that everyone will be aware of the Spiritual Battle that is now going on. I was still half awake, drifting off to sleep when I suddenly heard people talking to me in fast english. I saw 3 shadows on my wall. Two was standing, one was sitting in mid-air. They were angry at me, I knew because I had a hard time breathing and I couldn't move. Suddenly, a big shadow came and his voice was louder than the other three. It was so hard, I cried out to God for help. I heard my voice, it changed. It was deep and distinct because I couldn't breathe anymore. But with God's help, I had moved my hand and jerked myself fully awake. I ran to my parents room and explained to them what happened. Even after what happened, I am not scared to share God's glory. I still continue to reach out for those people who don't know God, turned away from Him and those who loves to hear more about Him. To those who are reading my story, God is with us always. He will never leave us because He knows that the devil will strike anytime. Mr. Greg, Mr. Zane and Mr. Dewey, thanks for everything. You helped me a lot! God Rocks! Hi Greg,

I went to your conference last Friday and Saturday and it was just so awesome. I wasn’t that huge of a God/Jesus fan back then,I used to consider myself an atheist before I arrived here in Chicago. My whole family has been religious and they couldn’t get enough of God. I was just like, going on with the flow even if I didn’t feel like it. But I as the months flew, I got closer to God and accepted Him last March. Now I know that going to your conference wasn’t an accident.

You see, I own a game server wherein most of the players are from the Philippines. It opened last January, a few days after I arrived in Chicago. The players talk and act rough, they insult other players.. even the girls. It saddened me to see what was happening in my own little creation. And then I went to the Dare2Share conference. You see, I am not a talker. I hate talking to large groups of people, and much more sharing my faith. But your conference helped me a lot, and it on Friday night during worship that I asked God for strength so that I can spread the good news to my players.

And so Saturday night, just after the conference. I got online and started broadcasting a simple prayer and approached a group of people and asked them what they knew about God. They laughed at me, as expected. But it didn’t let me down. At the end of the night, I talked to 6 people about God and that He loves us so much. With the help of what I learned in your conference, I was prepared to answer their questions.

That’s not all, the next day after church I talked to more people. Each of them had a different story. Some turned away from God because He did not answer their prayers and some simply didn’t believe in Him. I began explaining to a group of at least 3 people and when I ended at around 12:30 midnight, I had talked to at least 15 different people who understood more about God. A player of mine told me, “Yasmin, please tell God that I love Him and that I accept Him whole-heartedly.” Another player also came up to me because she was full of guilt. She loves God but she kept on sinning. I told her everything I learned from Dare2Share and at the end, she told me that it was like she was sent in our server because her old server closed due to maintenance. Gosh, I cried a lot that day. I cried because I was happy of what was happening.

And I prayed to God for all of the players in my server just as I was about to sleep. I want to share what happened to me so that everyone will be aware of the Spiritual Battle that is now going on. I was still half awake, drifting off to sleep when I suddenly heard people talking to me in fast english. I saw 3 shadows on my wall. Two was standing, one was sitting in mid-air. They were angry at me, I knew because I had a hard time breathing and I couldn’t move. Suddenly, a big shadow came and his voice was louder than the other three. It was so hard, I cried out to God for help. I heard my voice, it changed. It was deep and distinct because I couldn’t breathe anymore. But with God’s help, I had moved my hand and jerked myself fully awake. I ran to my parents room and explained to them what happened. Even after what happened, I am not scared to share God’s glory. I still continue to reach out for those people who don’t know God, turned away from Him and those who loves to hear more about Him.

To those who are reading my story, God is with us always. He will never leave us because He knows that the devil will strike anytime.

Mr. Greg, Mr. Zane and Mr. Dewey, thanks for everything. You helped me a lot!

God Rocks!

]]> By: Becky http://www.gregstier.org/conferences/chicago-shreddin/comment-page-1/#comment-123065 Becky Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:15:50 +0000 http://www.gregstier.org/conferences/chicago-shreddin#comment-123065 Greg, Thank you so much for your ministry!! I can't explain how much this year's conference impacted my students it was absolutely amazing! God is doing amazing things through you! I want to tell you a story about my students. I know some of them came up to tell you their story so i'll tell you that part but then it continues after we left the Sears Center. so we went out to collect our cans and first of all we kept getting lost we didnt get to our neighborhood until like 4:30 and at this point i was very frustrated and am sorry to admit that i said i dont care if we're in someone elses area we are just going to start collecting. So we break off into groups and my other leader called and told me to move over another block and i'd be in our area so grudgingly i did with my group so i called our other leader and told her to do the same so she did. And my group went up to this house and to make a long story short he asked us to pray for him b/c his girlfriend got pregnant and had an abortion even after telling her he would adopt the child and she didnt have to be apart of the child's life. It was a very sad story so we said we'd definitely keep him in our prayers. meanwhile we had another group who had asked another guy if there was anything we could pray about for him and he mentioned his friend who got his girlfriend pregnant and was thinking about an abortion so they prayed with him. then as our groups were telling our stories we made teh connection with thier names that it was the exact same story. so we went back to finish up the conference and one of our leaders and one of our studetns was like shoot we didnt give them a gospel of John that would be so awesome if we could go back and give him one. so they asked me if we could do that and i thought sure i'll take a vote to see what students want to go back to teh hotel and who wants to go back to these houses. not one single student raised their hand to go back to the hotel!!!! (if you knew my group, you might just pass out hearing that:) ) anyway now our leader of the cars was like o man i dont know if i can find it again and i'll be honest i was a little worried about our safety it wasn't the greatest neighborhood so before we left we said a prayer for guidance and safety. We got there with no trouble. we first stopped at the house that the guy (jeremy) asked to pray for his friend and girlfriend. He ended up not answering probably b/c there were 20 of us on his doorstep. but one of the students left their Bible with a note in it for him. then we went to other guy's house who's girlfriend had the abortion (Eefron) and when he came down the steps you could tell he was touched as he came to the door he was like o man you guys are awesome! and we gave him a Gospel of John with a note in their telling him we'd continue to pray for him and our church's phone # if he needed anything. we prayed for him and with him and told him about his friend jeremy who had asked us to pray for him also. as we left one of our leaders looked up into his room and saw him sit down and looked like he was praying and thought what if this is what helped him. we had the discussion of what if in his bedroom he was having the same thought of Lauren in her "bedroom" the other night. you know i truly believe God led us to this young man. I dont think this happened just by chance. We will never what exactly we did, but i do know God was with us. WIth this experience our students were able to experience God in a way that some of them never have. Thank you so much for this opportunity for my students. All of them are pumped to continue to shred the gnar!!! my other leader and i were moved to shred the gnar in buying tickets (because of that lady that stood up, you should hire her!) we had 20 people there this weekend and we decided next year we're bringing 40. we told the students our challenge to brig 40 people next year and they were pumped! I told them each person here just needs to bring one extra person next year and we'll fill those 40 spots and they were like o we can so do that! so again thank you, thank you, thank you! we boughtthe Gospel Journey's and we will keep this momentum going all year long until BLAZE!!! which by the way i am so pumped that Starfield will be back, i love them, they are awesome worship leaders!!!! Greg,
Thank you so much for your ministry!! I can’t explain how much this year’s conference impacted my students it was absolutely amazing! God is doing amazing things through you! I want to tell you a story about my students. I know some of them came up to tell you their story so i’ll tell you that part but then it continues after we left the Sears Center. so we went out to collect our cans and first of all we kept getting lost we didnt get to our neighborhood until like 4:30 and at this point i was very frustrated and am sorry to admit that i said i dont care if we’re in someone elses area we are just going to start collecting. So we break off into groups and my other leader called and told me to move over another block and i’d be in our area so grudgingly i did with my group so i called our other leader and told her to do the same so she did. And my group went up to this house and to make a long story short he asked us to pray for him b/c his girlfriend got pregnant and had an abortion even after telling her he would adopt the child and she didnt have to be apart of the child’s life. It was a very sad story so we said we’d definitely keep him in our prayers. meanwhile we had another group who had asked another guy if there was anything we could pray about for him and he mentioned his friend who got his girlfriend pregnant and was thinking about an abortion so they prayed with him. then as our groups were telling our stories we made teh connection with thier names that it was the exact same story. so we went back to finish up the conference and one of our leaders and one of our studetns was like shoot we didnt give them a gospel of John that would be so awesome if we could go back and give him one. so they asked me if we could do that and i thought sure i’ll take a vote to see what students want to go back to teh hotel and who wants to go back to these houses. not one single student raised their hand to go back to the hotel!!!! (if you knew my group, you might just pass out hearing that:) ) anyway now our leader of the cars was like o man i dont know if i can find it again and i’ll be honest i was a little worried about our safety it wasn’t the greatest neighborhood so before we left we said a prayer for guidance and safety. We got there with no trouble. we first stopped at the house that the guy (jeremy) asked to pray for his friend and girlfriend. He ended up not answering probably b/c there were 20 of us on his doorstep. but one of the students left their Bible with a note in it for him. then we went to other guy’s house who’s girlfriend had the abortion (Eefron) and when he came down the steps you could tell he was touched as he came to the door he was like o man you guys are awesome! and we gave him a Gospel of John with a note in their telling him we’d continue to pray for him and our church’s phone # if he needed anything. we prayed for him and with him and told him about his friend jeremy who had asked us to pray for him also. as we left one of our leaders looked up into his room and saw him sit down and looked like he was praying and thought what if this is what helped him. we had the discussion of what if in his bedroom he was having the same thought of Lauren in her “bedroom” the other night. you know i truly believe God led us to this young man. I dont think this happened just by chance. We will never what exactly we did, but i do know God was with us. WIth this experience our students were able to experience God in a way that some of them never have. Thank you so much for this opportunity for my students. All of them are pumped to continue to shred the gnar!!!
my other leader and i were moved to shred the gnar in buying tickets (because of that lady that stood up, you should hire her!) we had 20 people there this weekend and we decided next year we’re bringing 40. we told the students our challenge to brig 40 people next year and they were pumped! I told them each person here just needs to bring one extra person next year and we’ll fill those 40 spots and they were like o we can so do that! so again thank you, thank you, thank you! we boughtthe Gospel Journey’s and we will keep this momentum going all year long until BLAZE!!! which by the way i am so pumped that Starfield will be back, i love them, they are awesome worship leaders!!!!

]]> By: Charis http://www.gregstier.org/conferences/chicago-shreddin/comment-page-1/#comment-123049 Charis Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:01:31 +0000 http://www.gregstier.org/conferences/chicago-shreddin#comment-123049 Same here!! I've had those lyrics and the lyrics "YOU'VE STOLEN MY HEART YES YOU HAVE YOU'VE STOLEN MY HEART YES YOU HAVE YOU'VE WIPED AWAY THE STAINS BROKE AWAY THE CHAINS YES YOU HAVE" stuck in my head ever since D2S and I just love it!! those lyrics are amazing and they make you stop and think. Shreddin' The Gnar, Charis Same here!! I’ve had those lyrics and the lyrics “YOU’VE STOLEN MY HEART YES YOU HAVE YOU’VE STOLEN MY HEART YES YOU HAVE
YOU’VE WIPED AWAY THE STAINS
BROKE AWAY THE CHAINS YES YOU HAVE”
stuck in my head ever since D2S and I just love it!! those lyrics are amazing and they make you stop and think.
Shreddin’ The Gnar,
Charis

]]> By: rooneyal http://www.gregstier.org/conferences/chicago-shreddin/comment-page-1/#comment-122959 rooneyal Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:18:58 +0000 http://www.gregstier.org/conferences/chicago-shreddin#comment-122959 hey Greg, wow and thanks, is all i can say right now i became a Christian two weeks ago and it was my first time at dare2share and i had a blast im so glad that there are people like you, and Zane, and Derwin out there to spread the good Lords word. i really liked how you guys didn't tip-toe around the issues of todays teens, at that conference my life was changed God came to me and told me to spread his word. i had my first experiance of God working through me on Sunday when i witnessed to my girlfriend and my sister they are both now Christians. thank you so much it was a time in my life that i will never forget? thanks, Alex hey Greg, wow and thanks, is all i can say right now i became a Christian two weeks ago and it was my first time at dare2share and i had a blast im so glad that there are people like you, and Zane, and Derwin out there to spread the good Lords word. i really liked how you guys didn’t tip-toe around the issues of todays teens, at that conference my life was changed God came to me and told me to spread his word. i had my first experiance of God working through me on Sunday when i witnessed to my girlfriend and my sister they are both now Christians. thank you so much it was a time in my life that i will never forget?
thanks,
Alex

]]> By: kc http://www.gregstier.org/conferences/chicago-shreddin/comment-page-1/#comment-122957 kc Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:45:58 +0000 http://www.gregstier.org/conferences/chicago-shreddin#comment-122957 hey greg, wow thats all i can say. i went to inVincible @ the sears center and it was so awesome!i could feel Gods presence in the room and it gave me gose bumps when leeland played!instead of collecting food my group and i went 2 the strip mall and other stores and shared jesus. i had such a great time i thought i was going 2 be beat 2morrow 4 church but i had so much energy man its still lasting its like God is the best most long lasting energy drink ever! keep on shreddin the gnar! ~kc hey greg,
wow thats all i can say.
i went to inVincible @ the sears center and it was so awesome!i could feel Gods presence in the room and it gave me gose bumps when leeland played!instead of collecting food my group and i went 2 the strip mall and other stores and shared jesus. i had such a great time i thought i was going 2 be beat 2morrow 4 church but i had so much energy man its still lasting its like God is the best most long lasting energy drink ever!
keep on shreddin the gnar!
~kc

]]> By: Beth http://www.gregstier.org/conferences/chicago-shreddin/comment-page-1/#comment-122951 Beth Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:48:25 +0000 http://www.gregstier.org/conferences/chicago-shreddin#comment-122951 Greg, Zane and Derwin, I went to the Dare 2 Share conference the last 2 years with our youth group as a leader. It has not only touched our youth in a special way, but has always impacted my faith as an adult as well! Dare 2 Share this year was exceptionally special to me. Being a leader, I wanted to set an example as an adult during the cell phone challenge. A neighbor of my husband and mine lives with her boyfriend and has a child with him. She has a very interesting outlook on God. She believes there is a "higher power" and feels if she does good deeds that this would be good enough. I opened my cell phone, not knowing exactly who to call and her name was right there in my contact list. I called her, and shared the Gospel with her. She accepted Christ right over the phone with me and I prayed for her right then and there. She then proceeded to tell me the weeks leading up to my call were ones where she was considering harming herself. Because of that call, she decided not to. I kept telling her how loved she was by God and how now is the time he is calling her. That she may not always be pursuing Him, but He will ALWAYS be pursuing her. I just visited her yesterday and she wants me to help her find a church to go to. She wanted to know all about the conference too, so I know that she is taking this very seriously. I am so estatic that God had used me to reveal himself to her. This experience has left me changed in my faith walk forever. I also wanted to let you know what this conference has done for me. A couple months before I went to this conference, my husband and I had experienced a miscarriage. We had been trying for some time to have a child, and were devastated when we lost our baby. I had been struggling through a lot since then. Feeling not good enough, wondering if I was being punished, wondering if we weren't fit to be parents in God's eyes. I know now more than ever, that God would never take our child away from us for those reasons. And that we still live in a sinful world, where things happen that God did not intend to be this way. The thoughts I had mentioned before were NOT of God. After the PRAY lesson, I prayed that I would be able to forgive myself for the loss and that God would continue to reveal himself to us through this experience. I am so glad I had decided to go to this conference because I needed that reassurance again. Thank you for all you do to reveal the kingdom of God, not only to our youth, but to the adults you come in contact with as well! Greg, Zane and Derwin,

I went to the Dare 2 Share conference the last 2 years with our youth group as a leader. It has not only touched our youth in a special way, but has always impacted my faith as an adult as well! Dare 2 Share this year was exceptionally special to me. Being a leader, I wanted to set an example as an adult during the cell phone challenge. A neighbor of my husband and mine lives with her boyfriend and has a child with him. She has a very interesting outlook on God. She believes there is a “higher power” and feels if she does good deeds that this would be good enough. I opened my cell phone, not knowing exactly who to call and her name was right there in my contact list. I called her, and shared the Gospel with her. She accepted Christ right over the phone with me and I prayed for her right then and there. She then proceeded to tell me the weeks leading up to my call were ones where she was considering harming herself. Because of that call, she decided not to. I kept telling her how loved she was by God and how now is the time he is calling her. That she may not always be pursuing Him, but He will ALWAYS be pursuing her. I just visited her yesterday and she wants me to help her find a church to go to. She wanted to know all about the conference too, so I know that she is taking this very seriously. I am so estatic that God had used me to reveal himself to her. This experience has left me changed in my faith walk forever.

I also wanted to let you know what this conference has done for me. A couple months before I went to this conference, my husband and I had experienced a miscarriage. We had been trying for some time to have a child, and were devastated when we lost our baby. I had been struggling through a lot since then. Feeling not good enough, wondering if I was being punished, wondering if we weren’t fit to be parents in God’s eyes. I know now more than ever, that God would never take our child away from us for those reasons. And that we still live in a sinful world, where things happen that God did not intend to be this way. The thoughts I had mentioned before were NOT of God. After the PRAY lesson, I prayed that I would be able to forgive myself for the loss and that God would continue to reveal himself to us through this experience. I am so glad I had decided to go to this conference because I needed that reassurance again.

Thank you for all you do to reveal the kingdom of God, not only to our youth, but to the adults you come in contact with as well!

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