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The Double Dare in Seattle

Posted on Sunday 16 March 2008 by Greg @ 10:16 am
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What a great conference! We had almost 5,000 teenagers in Seattle this weekend and they rocked the house!

I would approximate 300 or so who put their faith and trust in Jesus for the first time. They collected 13 tons of canned food for the Salvation Army in Seattle. And somewhere between 80-90% of the audience took the Double Dare (to share their faith with all their friends in God’s timing, in God’s power and with God’s love and to start with one person in the next 48 hours!)

Were you there? If so tell me your cell phone challenge and/or 48 hour challenge story!

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On March 16, 2008 @ 1:51 pm Amy said:

I took the cell phone challenge and while I was talking to my friend the phone dropped the call. So I prayed that she would listen to what I had said so far but it was hard because she already knew the gospel message. So now she is my double dare person to share with. Another one of my friends who was there and we are going to keep talking to her and hope she understands how much she needs Jesus! Please pray for her! She likes to party and flirt and one of the reasons that she doesn’t want to invite Jesus into her life is because she “wants to wake up every morning and think about what she wants to do today and not what God wants for her”. She lost her mom in about 4 years ago and her dad has his girlfriends move in with him a lot. So pray that their whole family would somehow miraculously be saved! Nothing is impossible with God!!
Thanks.
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On March 16, 2008 @ 2:07 pm Kirstie Opel said:

Hey Greg. i was at the seattle dare to share. and i also bought your book while i was there “dare 2 share” i have already read it.!
anyways
the cell phone challenge was really hard for me. i wasnt quite sure who to call. then i though of my friend taylor. Yah he goes to youth group every week. and has been since 6th grade. (were in eighth). and he calls himself a christian. but he does A LOT of non christian stuff, parties, having sex, swearing, using gods name in vein, and lots lots more. and i just really want to see him in heaven when he dies. and i know god wants to also. so i called him. and i said taylor do you believe in god, and he said fersure, so i said do u think your going to heaven, well then there was a long slience, and he finally started crying and said, NO, but i want to can you help. and i said YES TAYLOR, i can. so i shared the gospel message (we say it every week at youth group anyways, since last years dare to share we have) but i got way in deap with it. like spending 3-4 minutes on each letter. and i know he was really thinking about it. i just felt so good that i did that. and he thanked me so much. then we prayed on the phone together, each of us talking a turn. and he wanted me to tell everyone in the dare to share staff thank you. so if you could pass that on to everyone i would greatly appreciate it. i know he wants to go to heaven, and he just didnt know how, and you helped me get the advice to tell him, he spent five minutes praying out loud about forgivness for his sins.

and i want to say thank you also, i had so much fun, and really payed attention, and it was so eye opening and moving, i am coming next year, no doubt. but just thank you so much. it was awesome.!
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On March 16, 2008 @ 2:32 pm karolyn said:

dear greg,

I am taking the 48 hour challenge and am going to share my faith with my best friend. she already knows that I am a christian and I have talked with her before but sometimes she dosen’t like me talking about my faith. she tells me that she is a christian and thinks that she will go to heaven when she dies but I don’t think so. I am hoping that someday she will learn to the love the lord. so please pray for me that I will have the courage and ability to say the right words and that maybe someday my friend will love the lord.

thank you,

karolyn
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On March 16, 2008 @ 2:56 pm k80 said:

yo, i went to that crazy thanggg.
it was really freaken awesome.
kinda sucks they didnt let us mosh though.

but my bestfriend since pre-school became a christian on friday night.
im really proud of her.

GREG! yo dude, please e-mail me.
i’d like to tell you MY story.

peace out ya’ll.
(:
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On March 16, 2008 @ 3:52 pm Joy said:

Greg,
I’m not sure if it was the best way to explain to her, but it was the most comfortable way to explain it to her. I wrote about what I learned from the conference on my blog, in letter form. My friend is the ONLY person who has the url to it because its kinda like my private diary, and we help eachother based on what we read. I wrote about the conference and she read it. Later that day, in instant messenger, she said the letter was inspiring, so i asked her, do you know for sure where you are going to heaven when you die? she said, “im not really a religious person, neither were my parents. im not comfortable talking about religion and i dont know much about God or Jesus or any of that.” i feel like i failed, and i dont know what to do because she doesnt WANT to hear about Him. She is my best friend, and i would hate not to see her in heaven when im there. What do i do next?
Thanks so much Greg, the conference was inspiring. im really hoping for a response. thanks again.
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On March 16, 2008 @ 5:14 pm Hannah said:

Hey greg,
well this last weekend i had an amazing time let me tell you oh yeah you were their.
well anyways i took the double dare and i am working on it but the cell phone challenge,after many tears sheed and a call lasting 2 hours she finally got the jist and she dedicated her life to God. It all started a couple years ago and danille that is her name she was the bigest athiest and everything that i dident belive in and she resently got into somthings really bad which i was their for it all. I have tried to talk to her about it and she just blows it off but this time she wanted to hear me out so she did. At friest she was septacal nad was really confused and dident know wut to do, but then somthing clicked and she started balling which made me cry and finally said yes the word i wasent sure she would ever say. I prayed with her and went over to her house and gave her, her very friest bible and she looked at it like it was written in a languge she dident know so i told her to read it and stuff so she still dident know so i started to read it to her and she was like “oh i see”. But after years of prayer and crying over her it finally cliked and now i have a firend that i no is going to hevean with me.
but i also wanted to say thank you for encouraging me with this amazing confrence.
God bless
hannah
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On March 16, 2008 @ 5:48 pm Kevin said:

I wanted to say thank you first off. You have been a big catalyst for me sharing my faith. I have always been a “Christian”, I said the “sinners prayer” when I was three, but I haven’t really GOTTEN it until the past few years. Last year, when you started the cell phone challenge, I didn’t do it, even though I was offered a phone to use. This year, I wanted to call my friend within a couple hours of the first day. I was so ready. I had my friends number, all ready to press send right when you said “amen”. I was so pumped to talk to him. I wasn’t scared at all. I explained everything so he understood, but he did not accept Christ in his life. He pretty much told me he never wanted to be a Christian, ever. I will talk with him at school some more, and see if I can make him see. Pray that he will have ears to hear, and that I have the right words to say (or God speaks through me).

Kevin.
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On March 16, 2008 @ 5:57 pm Tembre said:

Greg,
I was at the conference this weekend in Seattle, but I was very disappointed in myself. I know this is a leadership conference and you want to help us help others to come to Christ but I feel that I need to be right with Him first before I try to get others to come to Him. When you told everyone to get out their phones and call someone all I could think about is how I wanted someone to call me and help me. I know that it would have been way easier to just help myself and that I don’t need anyone to help me but it’s just so hard. Obviously I’m having troubles with the Lord. No not with Him, with myself. My faith. I’ve been trying so hard for the past few years to grow in Him and to believe but it seems like I’m not capable, that it’s not physically, mentally, or emotionally possible for me to trust in Him. I want it more than anything, I see the joy that everyone else has and I long for that. I long for the feeling of being close to God and having a wonderful relationship with Him. I’ve tried praying but it seems like He’s either on the other line with someone or just ignoring my calls. I feel like I’m making no progress at all. The first night at the conference, after the drama about America and what could happen, when you prayed and told us to bow our heads and close our eyes I started crying like I’ve never done before. I felt so bad. Like I’m cheating God out of a relationship. I was crying and being comforted by my youth group. But I knew that I needed this. Everything that’s happened in my life, all of the mistakes and horrible things had crashed on my shoulders but I felt as if God brushed it off of my shoulders and picked me up. That was the first time I’d ever felt anything Godly at all. Any comfort. anything. I guess I just need help understanding. If you could pray for me, I’d really appreciate it. Thank you for listening. I’ve never written this all out before or said it or anything. Thanks Greg. The conference was amazing.

Tembre
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On March 16, 2008 @ 5:59 pm Gonzo said:

hey greg

this weekend was amazing, i am carrying my double dare over from the phone challenge. i called my freind from bio in the time you gav and asked her to call me, back. and during lunch i was really suprised because this person like never calls anyone back and she called me back. i got really really excited. a little history on this situation. i went on a mission trip this last summer and i have pics of it all over my binder and i have all the kids names written in random places, so one day she saw all of it and the bible veres matthew 24:13 “but he who stands firm to the end will be saved” she asked what everything on my binder was and what the verse meant so i told her, and asked her if she knew who Jesus was and she sadi yeah a little, not much though…… then the teacher told us to stop talking, so i finished that conersation this weekend, she says she belives, but she doesnt think that he will for give her for everything she has done. but i am really excited for tommarow. i pray that she understands that he does forgive he forgives everyone, and that she knows He loves her.
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On March 16, 2008 @ 6:39 pm Brad said:

Hey Greg,

I’m a youth director in Olympia, WA. This year our students were much bolder in sharing their faith this year. ONe of the cool things I wanted to sahre though happened today after the conference. We had our normal Sunday school class today. We spent the morning debriefing the conference. We had a new student come for the first time to Sunday school. She heard students talking and asked were you a part of Dare2Share ministries this weekend? We said yes, and come to find out she was one of the “friends” that a student (not from our group) called during the cell phone challenge. It was one of the few times she’d ever step foot in a church and we were able to share with her some of the things she didn’t understand. Her plan was to call her friend and talk more. It’s amazing to see God work from so many directions. Thanks for doing what you do!
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On March 16, 2008 @ 6:55 pm amanda griggs said:

Greg,

Ok so, I was rocking the seattle dare to share conference and then the cell phone challenge came up and i was pretty nervous. my phone was practically dead so I used my friend Lindsays phone. I called a friend of mine named Sydney. Shes really been struggling with some self image issues and worth. I was really priviledged to get to give her the entire outline of the gospel. I though she would refuse it but she ended up totally getting into it and saying that she has never heard it explained that way and stuff. Then, after that I asked her if she wanted to accept christ and she said yes. I was totally freakin out. I really had no clue what to say and then she was like, “can you lead me in a prayer over the phone?” ad I was thinking I would totally bomb. I actually ended up bombin it but I know that god got to her anyways. I am supposed to talk to her when I get back to school on tuesday, but I really don’t know what to say. How do you think I should bring it up??
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On March 16, 2008 @ 7:01 pm Stephanie Schlieps said:

Hey Greg~
I just wanted to say THANK YOU for what you did for me and tons of other kids this last weekend, and tell you the story of my cell phone challenge.
About 4 years ago I joined a premier soccer team called the HSA Eagles. Within the first month of being on that team I became friends with a girl named Sam. At the time i wasn’t a christian, I hadn’t grown up in a christian home, I wasn’t raised in church, and I didn’t know the love of Jesus. Neither Had my friend Sam. We were both lost, confused sinners. For never meeting eachother before I joined the team, we became best friends extremely fast. My mom used to tell us that we were “attached at the hip.” We were so close we were like peanut butter and jelly. We saw eachother everyday. And if we didn’t see eachother we talked on the phone.
When I was about 7 or 8 I went to a VBS and excepted Christ into my heart, so dont get me wrong I did know about Jesus, I just didn’t know him on a personal level. But as I became closer and closer with Sam I forgot more and more about Jesus.
At Age 11 I had my first boyfriend and started swearing. At age 12 I started drinking. I became depressed, I hated my family and all my friends, I started to think that maybe I shouldn’t be alive anymore.
Sam was there through this all. She drank with me, She had countless boyfriends, and I know she was depressed like me.
When I was 13 my Brother (who had become a christian when i was 12) dragged me to a Christian conference called Acquire the Fire. At Age 13 in the Tacoma Dome at Acquire the Fire I put my trust in Jesus Christ. I came back from the conference and told Sam she needed to be a christian, I tried to explain the gospel to her but I messed it way up. We kind of argued over it, and then I just dropped it. I stopped drinking, and slowly stopped swearing. I also wasn’t depressed anymore. I still had problems with boys though. I didnt think it was a big deal to go out with like 6 a year. Sam didn’t Change. The Next year (2007) She went with my youth group and I to dare 2 share. Instead of paying attention, Sam and I went up to the very top row of the balcony with a couple boys from my youth group and talked through the whole thing. We did that most of the next day too, until we had to go collect canned food and witness. We realized we didnt know how to share the gospel, so when we got back we decided to pay attention. Well Right before the concert that night, we had to do the cell phone challenge. My person didn’t answer. Sams did. She had no idea what to say. I tried to help her through it, and just sat there and prayed. But she just started crying. It was kind of a huge mess.
After Dare 2 share. We slowly stopped hanging out. I decided that it wasnt right to date boys at the age of 14 when you know its not going to go anywhere. I started Living out my faith, and fell more in love with Jesus. Sam started drinking more. She never did drugs but a lot of her friends did. She went from one boy, to the next, to the next. We still hung out every once in a while but it wasnt the same. We both knew it too, but we never wanted to talk about how are relationship was ending.
One day I called her to tell her about an amazing camp I had just been to called Worldview Academy. Somehow we got on the topic of our friendship, and finally we both agreed that we weren’t really best friends anymore because we both took different paths in our lives. After that we stopped hanging out completely. I was pretty hurt. She was my best friend for 4 years, and then I just didn’t have her as a friend at all.
Well this year at Dare 2 share. We were doing the cell phone challenge. I was sitting there staring at my phone and some people in my youth group asked me who I was going to call. I really didnt know. They encouraged me to call Sam. So after some debating I gave in and called her. She didnt answer but I left about a 5 minute message explaining the gospel and how much I love her and miss her. Earlier today I was taking a nap (I was really tired from the weekend) and my phone vibrated. I looked at it and it said 1 new text message from Sam. I opened it and this is what the message said, “I just wanted to let you know that I got your message and it means a lot to me. Thank you for showing me you care and I know I can always talk to you. I love you.”
She may not have excepted the Lord Jesus Christ as her savior. But just that simple little text message meant the world to me. Because now I know she’s heard the gospel, and she knows Jesus loves her just like I do. I keep praying That one day she will Except Jesus, but as for now I just want to say thank you for teaching me how to share the gospel. And thank you for daring me to take the double dare, because I did, and I know one day it will all pay off.
God Bless
-Stephanie Schlieps

p.s.Sorry this is so long!
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On March 16, 2008 @ 7:06 pm Stina said:

Hey Greg,

I was at D2S in Seattle this year. I was wondering if it would be too much trouble for you to pray for me.

I feel so lost when it comes to my relationship with God. At last year’s D2S event in Seattle, I finally stopped running from God and I decided that a life living for Him was what I had been looking for for so many years. It was the Friday Night Drama from last year that hit me like a slap in the face. For about 6 years I played the part of being a Christian, but I wasn’t. I lied time and time again. I made alot of stupid choices in those 6 years… and because of those I had a few things happen to me. Ever since a year ago my life has been changed drastically by God. I don’t regret making the choice to live for Him, ever. It was the best choice I’ve made.

But that is where my problem starts. I am a Christian, and I love God. I know that He loves me… but it doesn’t seem real. I pray, but it always seems like I am talking to a wall. I feel like He isn’t even there. I want to have a relationship with God that is beyond compare. I want to love him with ALL my heart and I want to live life on the edge for Him. I hope, even though I am a girl, to work in youth ministry with an organization like D2S or D2S itself. I want to tell teens like myself that there is a God that loves us and that He just wants us to let Him love us. All He wants is for our trust and faith in Him. So why am I having such a problem with that? I feel like I am farther away from God than ever before. The hard part about that is, that I am going on a Mission trip to Lima, Peru this summer with Focus on the Family. I feel so ashamed that I don’t have a growing relationship with God.

The other part of this is that I feel like I have no way to share God with other people. I am home schooled. And the only friends I have are Christians. I only know Christians. It’s sad, because I would be the first out there trying to talk to them, but I feel like the only way I have an opportunity is for me to go out and just talk with anyone I find. And I am thinking I may do that. But I don’t feel brave enough, much less do I feel like I have a good enough relationship with God to share with others. I wanted to take the double dare, but I don’t have a friend to start with.

I just don’t know what to do.

-Stina
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On March 16, 2008 @ 7:10 pm Deanna said:

Greg,
I brought a friend to the conference with me and even thou she was already a christian and goes to church on a regular bases, she told me that she had one of the funnest times in her life and that she will be making some big changes in her life.

i wanted to say thank you for the challenge you gave us. i’m going to school tomorrow and i’m going to tell the gospel to my friends. i will let you know what happens.

thanks again. the conference was amazing and really touched my life. i went to gameday last year and i loved that too. you guys really made a strong impact on my life. thanks so much.

-Deanna
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On March 16, 2008 @ 7:14 pm Nicki said:

Dear Greg,

This isn’t my first Dare 2 Share Conference That I have been to. I have gone to 3 in Seattle. Everytime I seem to think I am prepared for what is going to happen and when it does happen I’m proven wrong. They get better every single time.
The first one I been to was probably the most changing because I was depressed and just not fun and happy to be around. My best friend had convinced me to go and I was sponsered by my church.
I’m not from Washington, actually I am from West Virginia but moved here when I turned 18. To hear that Seattle area was the lease churchlike all around I was supprised. If it wasn’t for my move to Seattle Area I wouldn’t be saved today.
I never really herd much about church growing up. I used to go when I was little but only because I was dragged by my Uncle and never enjoyed it, because I was forced to read the bible. By the time I was 16 I wasn’t sure if I believed in god and often got into fights with my best friend about it. I was very thankful that she kept trying and trying to bring me to church, and that I came to Dare 2 Share because otherwise I would be the same way I was before or possibly worse. I might have comitted suicide.
My challenge was my Mom she raised me to choose if I wanted to go to church or not she didn’t really care. She grew up in a very christian background, and fell from it when she got pregnant with my brother and Both of my grandparents dying before my brother was even 3 months old. *My mother was only 18 when my brother was born* She claimed to be christian and claimed there was somethings she wouldn’t let me do because she messed up because of or her parents believed she shouldn’t do it. Our relationship was strained really bad and I was disliking my mother every moment from the time I was 13. By the time I was 18 I couldn’t take it. I moved to Washington to get away from her. As time went by however we have been working on our relationship and now that I let Jesus into my life I want to share it with her. She hasn’t answered the phone when I called but I hope to talk to her soon.
I just wanted to let you know you and your awsome/funny power of praise does help people. I am a new person everytime I go to one of your conferences and I finally beleive that Jesus is my savior. My Best Friend, My Youth Pastor, and The Dare 2 Share Team Has changed me for the best. I can’t wait till I get the chance to bring more people to god.

Nicki
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On March 16, 2008 @ 7:35 pm Kristin said:

Hey Greg!
So this was my second Dare 2 Share conferance. Last year i had no idea what was going to happen so i didn’t bring my phone. This year i did. I called almost all of my address book but no one would answer their phone. I went to lunch hoping some one would call me back. Sure enough right after i ate my sandwich my friend called me. I was really excited because she is one of those people who it is like a roller coaster being their friend. One minute she is mad at you the next you guys are laughing and having a grand old time! Anyway, I went on the other side of the bus and first I told her why i called and told her “i really don’t want you to go to hell so please hear me out for the next two minutes.” she as well said she didn’t want to go to hell. after that I ran through the script and asked her, “Do you want to trust Jesus as your personal Savior?” And she said she had to think about it. So now i am really excited for tommorrow to talk to her and to carry out the “48 hour challenge!”
I can not wait till next year!
See you all then!
Kristin
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On March 16, 2008 @ 7:41 pm Bethany Tuiasosopo said:

Hey everyonem i am Bethany Tuiasosopo. Well, what happened to me was just awsome, but something else happened today, not this weeked that just hit it off for me. me and my family had just gotten back from church, and we always make breakfast u knoe? so we start getting breakfast ready, and i start singing a song from a disney movie. I was singing a song called, “stand out”, from the goofy movie. here are the lyrics:

To stand out, above the crowd
Even if I gotta shout out loud
‘Til mine is the only face you’ll see
Gonna stand out …

i just thought it was great because god wants me (or much rather, us) to stand out. it was like he was confirming to me that he wants me to stand out in life. but i also knoe that everything will in his time, when he wants it to happen.
so, thank you god for everything that you have done in my life and the things you have planned for me in the future. i cant wait to walk with you again, and i hope it is soon.
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On March 16, 2008 @ 7:46 pm Bethany Tuiasosopo said:

P.S:

hey greg, i knoe that everyone wants you to email that, but if you ever had any time, could you email ME… i want to talk to you.. please
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On March 16, 2008 @ 7:47 pm Eric said:

Dude D2S was amazing!!! In the cell phone challenge I left a message on my best friends phone(havn’t been able 2 get talk 2 him yet but that will all change monday! gonna try my hardest 2 try 2 him to believe! he’s my 1 of my best friends and I relly want him 2 have what I have, the love of Jesus Christ in my heart. I also want prayer 2 help me get the gospel out cause last time I tried I got cussed out by my own friend. Just need those prayers of encouragement 2 help me get through 2 my friend.

p.s. Dare 2 share rocks!!!! can’t wait for Invincible!!!!!!
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On March 16, 2008 @ 8:52 pm spaz2007 said:

Wow! D2S was amazing! I went to D2S with my youth group from Haines First Baptist Church and when we were planning to go, I asked my boyfriend to come along and to my surprise, he did. Before D2S, he didn’t really know Christ but after D2S it was like he was a new person. It was great!I also got much closer to God! The drama’s preformed and all really opened mt eyes. Not to mention seeing all the people who love and favor our Lord Jesus Christ, it was incredible. I also attended D2S last year and what shocked me the most was the increased number of people who joined us this year.It rocked and our youth group will be attending next year also. God Bless!
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On March 16, 2008 @ 9:14 pm Adam Quesnelle said:

WOW! Dare 2 share was a life changing experence for me, my chilliwack youth group and i ( adam Quesnelle ) went and i know we all enjoyed it so much! and it has been about 22 hours since and i am curntley taking the 48 hour challange and everyone all of my friends that i could talk to today i have told about god and wow do i feel accopmshiled am so happy now i have toltaly inlighted a person about god i love it! i am still trying to gather to the strenth to pitch it to my family but i know god will help me along! i have know devoited my life to jesus and have never felt beter, o how i love during prayer holding my hands up high eyes closed looking stright up, god has changed my life so much and so has this conferince is was so amazing! thank you so much its great so in total i have gotten about 3 popeple to really think about god and i have been blested to even get one of thoese 3 to say a prayer with me and has now accpet god and jesus as her savour am so pumped! thank you agian God Bless
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On March 16, 2008 @ 9:39 pm Becky said:

Hey Greg,
An update.My cousin is totally ignoring me but I am still trying.My friend who was saved not to long ago wants to come to my church so I told her she is invited.
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On March 16, 2008 @ 9:42 pm AbigailAnderson said:

Hi im abby im from lincoln city oregon youth group. This last weekend was the most amazing weekend I have ever had. I thought that I was a christian but I never really had my heart in it but after friday night you helped me beleive and to start my walk with god. I wanted to thank you and say that I took the double dare and I am going to share it with anyone and everyone I know because I would hate to not see my friends go to heaven cause they didnt hear about jesus.
When you guys were talking about being in a bad relationship and I thought about my sister and how she is dating this guy and he is mean to her and he has put a gun to his brothers head because he was mad. It makes me sad because when I try to talk to her about him but she just gets mad at me. I was just wondering if you had any advice for me to be able to talk to her about it. And about purity not for me but for my sister also.
You can e-mail me if you would like it would be great …my e-mail is bookworm_1919@hotmail.com….talk to you later.
~Abby~
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On March 16, 2008 @ 9:44 pm Bethany said:

Greg,

What you guys are doing with D2S is a mini miracle. With the lectures, music, dramas, and in general the interaction with our fellow believers.
God has blessed each and everyone of you.

I am currently taking the cellphone challenge, and I am seeing a difference already in the way that my friend is becoming more open to the gospel.
I went to D2S in ‘07 and now in ‘08 and it just keeps getting better and better.

You gave many great lectures. I came with an open and willing heart to learn mrore about our Lord and Savior, and I feel like I left a new person.
I believe that you reached many hearts this last weekend, 1 of them being my friend. In just 1 night with the help of our Lord he became a christian.

I would love to help out next year in 1 of the dramas, and just to help worship and praise Jesus Christ.

God bless and thank you so much for what you are doing,

-Bethany
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On March 16, 2008 @ 10:02 pm taylor said:

Hey Greg, my name is taylor and i did the cell phone challenge! i choose to call me sister, samantha, she was always going to youth group and having fun there. But then she started a new school,a public high school, Gig Harbor High school. she was turning different! she was not going to youth group, did drugs and drank. so i called he and she didn’t answer and i asked her all the questions and voice mail. later i got a text that said, Taylor i love you so much! and i was like sam what did you break? because she would yell at me all the time to leave hate me not even talk to me, and then i got another text i heard the voice mail and i listend! and then she called and started talking to me she was like how is dare 2 share? i miss you! i was like good you should have come! hawk nealson is going to be here. and she loves hawk nealson and i got t-shirts for her and i could wait to get home she came and gave me a hug and i gave her, her stuff i got her and she said, taylor i love you so much and i cant wait to go to youth group with you and church! she was all happy today at church and having a great time! i am so happy that she is now back in God’s family

I LOVE JESUS!(and zane!)and she does to thank you so much Dare 2 Share you made my sister become a part of God’s family and my new best friend!
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On March 16, 2008 @ 10:24 pm Jason said:

Dear Greg,
I have been going to the conference for….4 years now? maybe? Anyways I took your dare and as soon as I got home God presented me with an opportunity!! My mother and father left each other when i was young because my dad is an alcoholic :(. My mom remarried a few years later and left for Bellingham, WA. I ended staying in town with my dad and finally got connected with a good, Christ honoring and loving church (Valley Community Church)!! Throughout the last 4 years I have had to deal with my dad being drunk on a day to day basis and it has made it soo much harder to follow the plan God has shown me for my life….tonight when I got home the same dad i have always known was drunk siting on the sofa. At first my temper was flaring and i wanted to kill him but I remembered your dare and insted I shared the good news :). He has gone to church before but has never accepted christ before. Even tho he responded he did not feel ready to give his life….after we got done I told him that Christ is the one true athority in my life and that him being drunk all the time has put a hendrence on my walk with Him and that if he did not try to get help or talk to the pastor of my church about getting help by next Friday I would be leaving to live with my mom after this school year…it has been one of the hardest things to do but I truely believe in Christ my Savior and that anything slowing my pursuit of Him has to be adressed seriously….

So if posible I would love to get some advise you mightg have to offer….but if not then I am greatful for this blog!!!

-jason
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On March 16, 2008 @ 10:29 pm bobaloo said:

Greg,

This year was my first year at the D2S. I enjoyed it every step of the way. When I did the cell phone challenge yesterday I was so scared, when I called he wasn’t there. I was kinda relived. but the next day i called again and i went through the script and added what I could think of. Well When i got to the end he didn’t feel like he was ready to except god yet. I hope that he comes around and keep him in your prayers please. well thanks for every thing I look forward to the next year.
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On March 16, 2008 @ 10:31 pm Robert C said:

Greg,
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On March 16, 2008 @ 10:32 pm Jami said:

Dear Greg!!!

Thank you so much for coming to Seattle! I accepted Christ last year at Dare 2 Share! A year to this date!!! Ah it was the highlight of my year and changed me. This year was just as amazing. The message was something I needed to hear as I struggle with things like how I look, what to do ect ect. I love God with all of my heart and He moved me and touched me so much. The fire in my heart is burning bright and I will never let it go out, it feels so good! I’m starting my list and spoke to a few of my friends but I haven’t brought and brother or sister into our family. I’m planning to speak at my jr. high youth group and speak about alot of what was said at Dare 2 Share(sorry for being all over the plave but i’m soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy im a sophomore). I am even planning to join BBBSA (big brother big sister club) near home so I can be on hands. When I can drive I also want to volenteer at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Goodness sakes Overlake Church was moved so much by God this weekend. During Outreach my group spilt up into 2 group Me and a young boy then a group of a older highschool boy and two younger boys while our leader walked in the road so he could see us. I walked from door to door hearing people move in there houses but ignore us but wasn’t going to give up. Finally we got to house asked for canned food and got ONE can then got to share our faith and I was in tears listening to the compassion of the jf high student and the lady nodding at the door. I ran into our group doing my own little happy dance for just this one can! I looked at our other group and they had three bags but it didn’t bring me down. I got to talking more with the jr. high student he thanked me for getting him to do that and thought its was amazing (it was the first time he did that). He was smiling so much and I wanted to burst into tears of joy. I heard the youngest boy didn’t talk and everyone was trying to get him to talk about his faith. So I asked if I helped him and it was just me and him would he do it? He said yes so went door to door ten doors later no one would answer and it was time to go eat. I was so sad and so was he. BUT I said come next year and I will come next year and we will find one door at least. So we agreed next year and I prayed for it. To find my one can was part of 13 TONS was sooooo amazing. Gosh there is soo much more I can say….Again sorry for being all over the place but I can’t controll it any more at this point. LOL. God has been so amazing to me the last year it has changed every inch of me all thanks to Dare 2 Share and my church and God of course. Greg thanks a million I can’t explain how much this all has changed me feom being me to being ME a daughter of God, a girl who is loved by her Father and knows it, A girl who will share her faith, a girl who will dance to a worship song because she can’t hold still for God, a girl who look at everything as a blessing from God, a girl who will pray for everything everyday, a girl with a relationship that is amazing, a girl who could lose it all but have everything she needs, a girl who will live for Jesus, a girl who will be ready for Jesus to come, a girl who knows how beautiful she is on the inside, a girl who feels God moving her, a girl who can’t explain it any more but to say she is a Christian and a better person because of it. Please email me I’d love to hear from you, get advice, and tell you about my amazing experinces!

Love,
Jami
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On March 16, 2008 @ 10:37 pm Molly said:

Dear People reading this and Greg,
I went to the dare to share confrence in seattle and really enjoyed being there Before i cane to the youth confrence i was baptized but here is my story i was pretending to be a christian i really wasnt following or listening or even paying attention to God because of what had happend and finaly realizedthat i needed him . i had been sexualy molested and hadent told any on and it was really getting to me and my grandma had asked me the day before if any one had toutched me in an inapropreate way i said no…but then the next day i went to school and my friend had been talking more like crying and telling me that she had been Raped by her dads Brother … i was crying at this point becuase i know her pain or what it was like to be sexualy abused so i was feeling convicted when she told me so we were at school so i ran to the bathroom and called my Grandma and told her yes that something had happend…so when i got home i asked who told and she told me that it was my cousin and i was mad at God and i mean mad to the extent and i started crying and asked God why did this have to happen to me? and i was thinking it wasnt Gods choice it was the devils evil deads and i was crying and crying and didnt know what to do so i cryed and cryed and finaly relized that i needed to have faith that God will take care of it and what ever happend was in Gods hands and he will make me stronger and from that day on i have been listening and looking for waht god wants me to do… when i heard Hawk nelsons song “everything you ever wanted” it made me think yeah really this problem isnt my fault.. when i herd about the dare to share confrence i was pumped and i went on the first night and i was amazed to see so many people comeing to learn about God and everybody willing to take us teens there i was so blessed to go i was glad that i knew god Wanted me there instead of a friends house but to be in the presence of God … on the second day during the paper part of the confrence with the hole phone calls i called my friend Rebecca and i asked her if i could talk to her and she said yes and so i was carring on a conversation with her and i asked her if she thinks she would go to heaven if she died and she said “well i hope so you know what F Off” she hung up the phone and i started praying and God said its okay just try one more person so i did i called my friend Nedzmina and she hung up on me also so i am taking the 48hr. double dare and i am very happy that i am doing that….. All the speakers Encouraged me to have faith and beleive and that it is okay to believe and trust so from now on i am going to be a better follower of Christ and try to follow the ten comandments.. Since then when we talked about purity i was really listening i mean all my friends are saying “Molly are you going to have sex?” and i always say when i get married and thay always role their eyes and walk away…And one day my Sex (yes i said the word”Sex”) teacher was encouraging us to have sex i i prayed and prayed and finaly came to a conclusion that it is going to be said to have sex and that it is okay so i now just ignore it and go on with life but since the topic of sex at the d2s seattle i hvae gotten a purity ring and i Promise that i will not have sex till i am married.. I really want to thank you Greg for speaking words of incouragement and and helping me..and giving me the word of God
thanks a bunch you dont understand how greatful i am thank you so much and see you next year

love you sister in Christ,
~Molly
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On March 16, 2008 @ 10:52 pm Duane Schut said:

Hey Greg,

Im Duane Schut from Yakima Evangelical Church. I did the Double Dare 48 hours challange, and I accomplished it. Last night on the 15th of March after I got home, I was texting my friend Jhordin and I asked her where she thought she was going when she died. She said “I dont Know, Heaven.” So I said “do you want to go to Heaven for sure.” She said “yeah, but how.” Then I started tell thing her about how Jesus died on the cross for her sins. I also told her how God what her to let him into her heart and so on and so on. Well at the end of the night I asked her if she would let Jesus into her life. She said “I dont know”. Then I said “well will you sleep on it.” She said ok. The next morning i started texting her agian and then i asked her if she wants to give her life to christ and she said yes.” I was really happy when she said that. I just thought if I can help one of my friends give there life to Christ, just imagine what I can do face to face. If it wasn’t for Dare 2 Share I don’t think I would have talked to her about it. So thank you.

-Duane
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On March 16, 2008 @ 10:54 pm JesusFreak1994 said:

Hey Greg,
I went to the D2S in Seattle and I called my friend who is a christian but I took the double dare and I desided I kind of know the lady next to me and the boy across the street (he’s an 8th grader) and I don’t know the guy on the other side of me, but my dad does and I might talk to him. But my dare to myself is to minister to one of them or to someone I don’t know.
Brianna
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On March 16, 2008 @ 11:13 pm Tori said:

Greg,
My best friend was friends with some people that did some really bad stuff, and it drew a wedge between us, but thankfully the friendship ended and were best friends again, now my friend goes to a different school so she doesn’t have to be around those two girls, well now our friend that watched as these girls mess with her has decided to be there friend. So I decided to call her for the phone challenge, I told her that these people were gonna turn her into the people that do drugs and have sex and I didn’t want her to go through the pain I had seen my best friend take. I told her that I cared about her and god did too and that if she would just believe me! She said that she wasnt going to turn into them, but thats what my best friend said too. In the end I’m almost positive that shes mad at me, but she needed to hear it and god gave me the strength to me totally honest with her. I know that shes heard about god because I’ve brought her to youth group but I dont think its gotten deep enough for her.
Also, this weekend I liked all the testimonies because it really showed me that christians MESS UP. Plain and simple. People tend to see Christians as these perfect figures but if they could just know that were human and that we mess up too!
thank you so much, this weekend was amazing!!!!!!!!!
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On March 16, 2008 @ 11:22 pm Amber Reid said:

Hey Greg! I Loved the seattle conference. and Lincoln Brewster was awesome. Starfield was a good worship band, but i have to say that Lincoln Brewster was better. I just wanted to say that it was so awesome to see my little sister [pracically] finally understand more about Jesus, and she told me “I never understood, but the way he explained it, made it click.” and she was totally amped up for the whole weekend. she is 13, and i love her to death. and the only reason why she went this year was to see her favorite band, Hawk nelson. during the concert, after they sang ‘girls just want to have fun’ our youth leader decided that hawk nelson wasnt christian, and decided to leave early this year [which they did last year with superchic[k] because they didnt glorify God], but my sister, fiancee and i refused to leave, my best friend took Heidi and made her go with so that they didnt get in trouble. it ended up that the youth leader and her husband left all three of us at the conference while we were getting the autographs from hawk nelson, and when we told the lead singer that our youth leader thought they werent christian, and the best advice i’ve almost ever hear was “Well, tell your youth leader that she might look into her own heart before she passes judgment on someone else.” all three of us shouted THANK YOU! to him, because that’s exactly what we have been dealing with for the past 8 months, [and be prepared to get a complaint for having a non-christian band at the conference] so then afterward, we walked to the 7-11 near interstate 405 [about 4-6 miles] while discussing the fact that during our outreach, we only spent 30 minutes collecting food and ministering to people, although all three of us graduated from PU and my sister and I had met a missionary going to gemany-munich-&-Austria, we didnt think that we spent enough time with this, and this year was a record high for time spent on the outreach, because the youth pastor and her husband had to get food for the kids, and dropped some of us off who didnt want to go to mcdonalds off at the chruch to get a place in line, an hour early. We ended up getting picked up by my father at the 7-11. we got home late, and the next day, it ened up that my best friend called the cops on me for kidnapping the kids i take care of [heidi and her 3 siblings] and their dad is probably going to jail, and they are going to go into foster care, and i may never see them again. It upsets me, because it feels like my entire world imploded in just a span of 24 hours, and i keep having to pray that everything will be fine… i just keep listening to Britt Nicole’s song “dont worry now” and the line that says “When you feel like your best friends up and gone, dont worry now.” it kinda calms me down. Please pray for heidi 13, daniel 12, emily 8, and leah7… because i love those kids more than anyone else does, and it hurts that their parents dont treat them right, and nobody believes that i can take care of them except my father, sister, and Fiancee. I loved the conference, and i will definatly be there next year without that youth group, and i will definately spend more time in the outreach than just 30 minutes. p.s. and the drama… all i have to say is that my brother has the same build, hair color, stance and everything as zane, so when they killed ‘casey’ all i could see was my brother lying on the floor dead, i bawled like a baby.
AMBER
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On March 17, 2008 @ 2:11 am JourdanAckerman said:

ummm…hello?..is this thing on?

jokes aside i would like to talk about the event first…
AMAZING!!!!!!!!!
not only was is uplifting and empowering it was also life changing!
not only for myself but im sure for at least a couple hundred teens.
as someone who accepted jesus into my heart 4 years ago(as of the 14th(Wooo~!))
i had known what jesus had done for me but didnt quite grasp,
the greatness of it until this past weekend.
with that said i have made a huge life change
i went to seattle much like i am right now writing this,
big…and lazy(might have seen me 6′1″ 370ish Lbs alway a smile on my face)
HOWEVER i left with something far greater than i could have hoped for…
what that was, was the want to change and the motivation to do so,
i have set 8 goals for myself such as
losing weight around 100Lbs and keeping it off! (better now then never!)
no more junk food! mostly suger/caffine drinks (note to anyone reading…caffine is really the christian “crack” use it sparingly.)
manage time on electronics! (my biggest problem is my computer…and getting off of it!)

my story about this event aside

i took the double dare!
i have 12 people i plane to spread the “G.O.S.P.E.L.” with over the next few weeks
and then when i got home tonight i relaxed for about five minuets and started talking to a friend of mine that lives in atlanta, i told him what i had wanted to tell him for a few months but never had the courage,
i told him my relationship with the living god! and although i was not face to face i know that i helped touch him and what i said may have changed him for life!

so i guess what im saying is,

THANK YOU GOD YOU CHANGED ME!

SPECIAL NOTE: sorry to the two girls on that went to the third floor as i ran by chasing my friend without a shirt….

AND Zane thankyou for the scripture signed on my Wii and you might want to get a second,or third,or tenth opinion about that collar bone….(FREAKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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On March 17, 2008 @ 2:24 am Logan Steele said:

Hey Greg!

Wow! This was my first D2S conference and it was just awesome!! I’m ashamed to say I never shared my faith or even asked about another’s during the whole conference. I even had a great opportunity to during lunch break, but I blew it. My question for you though is this: why would someone want to come to know Jesus? I know it probably doesn’t sound like something a Christian would ask, but the truth is that I have always been a Christian so I don’t know what life is without Him (I don’t want to know either!). I love Jesus with all my heart and I love talking about Him whenever I get the chance, but I just can’t relate with people who have never known Him.

One more question for you. How can I be a witness to lukewarm Christians? and how can I pray for them? It kills me to see people in church week after week who seem like they don’t even care about Jesus!! i hope I don’t sound self-righteous. I just want people to be truly passionate about Jesus. Like how you were saying to choose a side. I want to see them really choose Jesus.

Greg, I cannot thank you and the all the others involved in d2s enough, but i do thank you for making yourself available for the work of the Lord and for allowing Him to change countless lives through you.

Many Blessings!

Logan
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On March 17, 2008 @ 7:59 am Greg said:

Thanks to all of you for your comments! I love reading them and wish I could respond personally to every single one. You all will be in my prayers as you take the double dare. Remember that going to heaven is not by sharing Jesus or giving up, trying, keeping the 10 Commandments,etc. It’s by faith alone in Jesus. It’s a matter of trusting not trying. Once you trust in him you are given eternal life. Then you can serve him and share Jesus with others, not because you have to to go to heaven but because you WANT to! Keep going for it!
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On March 17, 2008 @ 9:07 am Tanner Chamberlain said:

Had tons of fun this year and I took the cell phone challenge. I think it kinda worked because he asked me what church I wanted him to go to. He said that he was busy and he couldn’t go this weekend but I think I can get him to start going to youth group and then maybe to D2S next year at the Key Arena.
You led me to Christ last year at Game Day and maybe with you great speeches you can help him meet Jesus. Let Derwin know that he has inspired me greatly, thanks
Tanner
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On March 17, 2008 @ 9:25 am Anthea Gundersen said:

Hey, so the next day after dare2share i went home and called one of my best friends. I left him a message about how god had really put his name on my heart to talk to him about God. I’ve known earlier that he doesn’t like it when (as he says) people “push their religion” on him. He never called me back or answered my calls. I am going to see him later today at school though. I pray thata god will give me strength and courage and peace. Please pray for me. I hope that he will listen.. and even if me talking to im doesn’t impact him now, maybe later. I know that whatever happens god will take care of it… all the same… im still nervous..lol
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On March 17, 2008 @ 11:06 am Charis said:

Greg,
So I took your 48 hour challenge/cell phone challenge. I called my friend Morgan the night of the cell phone challenge, but she didn’t answer. I haven’t talked to Morgan for a long time, but she was my best friend like 3 years ago. I had seen her at a football game and she goes, “Charis! I got a cell phone finally and this is my number.” So the other night when I called her, I randomly remembered that number, which was a total God thing. So anyway, she didn’t answer so I left her a message and told her I was thinking about her and wanted to talk. I called her on our way home yesterday and she answered this time. I asked her if she was giong to church and how she was doing. She was going to church with her friend Sam. Then I went through the “Do you think you’re a good person?” stuff and she responded totally perfectly. I asked her if she thought she would go to Heaven or Hell based on this, and she said Hell. At the end of our 20 minute conversation, I asked if I could pray for her, and she was so excited and she said, “Oh yeah definitely.” So I prayed with her and thanked God for allowing me to talk to her and for her being responsive. And then I told her I would call her when I got home and we could figure out a time to meet and hang out again. I am SOO excited about how God is working in my life and her life.
On Friday night at the conference, you had us all close our eyes and picture Christ suffering on the cross. You were really graphic and it really affected me. I realized how ridiculously selfish I am that Christ went through so much for me and I am not doing anything to pay Him back. I was one of those shallow friends you loan money to and they never give it back. So I was completely broken. Then you told us to talk to our youth leaders about what God has been telling us. We were in the front row and Shari was one of our leaders. But anyway, I went to our pastor Doug and broke down and told him everything and how I felt so selfish. I was balling in his shoulder, and then I realized that I could sponsor a Compassion child with my babysitting money. And then I got super excted to share the AWESOME news of Christ with people and shared when we collected canned food. So I woke up this morning and the first thing that popped into my head was, “I’m gonna go collect canned foods for the local mission and share Jesus.” And that is exactly what I am going to do. AMAZING transforming happened in my life this weekend.
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On March 17, 2008 @ 1:13 pm JesusFreak1994 said:

Hey, you know I was wondering how many people sponcered a compassion children, my family already sponcer a child. But I know there were a lot of kids that got sponcered.
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On March 17, 2008 @ 2:14 pm Stefan Harlicker said:

Hey, Greg
I went to the dare2share with Nate with FBC church. When we left we went for by row in the van a and asked what do you want to get out of this weekend. I said i wanted to get closer to God because i was falling away form him in so many ways. When we went to the confrence and you talked i felt like an uplift in God. Now im closer to God then i ever was.

My cell phone challenge started when i got home from seattle. I was txting this girl that lives in a differnet state that i live in. She was talken about how she had a bad childhood and how everyone hates her and she hates herself. When she said this i felt that i needed to tell her about God. I asked her if she knew where she was going when she died. She said Heaven of course and im like are you she about that. And she said yeah. So i asked her if she new about God. She said i know who he is and stuff like that. Well i was like ok. Then i was stuck in a rut and im like do you believe in him. She said No. So then i said do you want to beive in him right now and be forgiven of all your sins. Then she didnt txt me back for awhile so i was like o no. so i txted her again and layed it out and said do you want to have a golden ticket to the Kindom of God. Then she said Yes i do. I freaked out and i was like enough of this txting junk so i called her and she was crying and all that stuff. So i shared my Christian faith with her and all the good things thats going to happen. Then im like and the devil is going to temped you to walk away form God and do thing that DO NOT worship God and you have to slap the devil in the face and not do that stuff. I felt so much better when i got off the phone with her. Now i know that she is going to be with God and have a better life with him.
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On March 17, 2008 @ 3:27 pm Rebekah Pugh said:

Today, I explained the Gospel and Bible to one of my best friends, Troy. He isn’t very faithful to the Lord right now, but after today, he might be. I brought my Bible to school today. In forth period, i brought it out to show him that Lincoln Brewster singed it when I was at Dare 2 Share yesterday. I said,”You should read this, it’s pretty interesting.” I pushed it over to him, and he was like,
“Maybe…” So I opened it to my favorite book that I’ve read so far, the book of Job.
“I would like you to read to chapter 5, please?” He didn’t say anything, he just took it and started to read. After about 20 minutes, he gave it back.
“That’s pretty good stuff there… what does it mean?”
“It means that… well what I got from it was taht God wouldn’t give you anything you couldn’t handle. Now, I want you to read 5 chapters a day, okay?” He smiled alittle, then looked down, he wasn’t feeling good.(Please pray that he gets better. Thanks!)
“Okay, I’ll try.” He said. So it might take a while, but I think taht I helped Troy find God, and I’m so happy for that because he is one of my best friends!

Thank-you for reading and for praying for Troy!
~♥Rebekah Pugh♥
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On March 17, 2008 @ 3:40 pm Rebekah Pugh said:

Dear. Gregg,
I know that I just commented you but I just wasnted to say taht you are a really great speaker. You are really enspiring and cool, you helped me really see that just because I act Christain at Youth Group, to be one I must act like one where ever I go. You really rock and your son is so cute! The skit on Friday… was hard to watch. But I know that I wasn’t the only one to be touched by it.
You rock and I hope to see you next year!
~♥Rebekah Pugh♥

P.S.
Please E-mail me when you get the chance!
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On March 17, 2008 @ 4:13 pm Skyler Treat said:

Ok.. so this is kinda hard for me to talk about but this is my 48 hour challenge story. On sunday i talked to my youth pastor about calling my father. He is one person i have been praying about since i got saved in late october. But i have been putting off calling him, and it had been three years since i had seen this man. The last time that i had seen him he showed up to my door and wanted me to forgive him… I looked at him and punched him straight in the face.. But then we went out to dinner because he drove so far that i thought i should give him a chance.. But when we went to dinner he was cracked out and tweaking. He gave me his phone number in case i ever wanted to call him.. but i never did. So last night right after church i prayed for ten minets and then finally allowed myself to dial his number. The first time he didn’t answer, but then he called me back in five minets.. I answered the phone with tears running down my face.. He said hello three times before i replied back to the sound of his voice.. this man had hurt me so much and i have barely even met the man. The only reason i am alive and that he is my father is because when my mom was 15, she was rapped by this man. She delived two months after turning 16.. And she almost aborted me, until she felt me kick, then she came to her senses. I had built up so much hatred for this man that it wasnt healthy. But i knew i had to let him go and set him free from all the anger in my soul, so that god could work in his heart. I said “father, im sorry that i had any trespasses against u.. and though what you did to my mother was wrong.. i forgive you..” and i rolled into a fetal position and started to cry… He cried gently on the other side of the phone, and i know this because his friend asked him why he was crying. There was a long pause for five minets.. (btw the most awkward silence in history!!!!) and he said.. “Skyler, i love you, and i know what i did was wrong, but thank you so much for what u just gave to me. A clean consiense and heart…” We talked on for like two hours for the first time in ever, and he wasnt doped out or anything.. And finally i asked him “do you know where u are going to go… when u die?”
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On March 17, 2008 @ 4:42 pm Mary said:

Well I was in seattle when I decided to take the double dare and today I talked to one girl That said she wasn’t interested.Then I spoke with another friend of mine and asked her if she would come to my youth group with me and she seemed interested so she is going to talk to her parents and I figured what better way to share the GOSPEL then to bring it to youth group right?So she is going to talk toher parents and I am going to ask her about it tomorrow.
The cell phone challenge…hmm well The first person I called said that he didn’t want to talk about God and I totally get that I mean new things scare people. The second person I called didn’t answer and the third person finally let me talk and he didn’t seem very interested but then I talked to him today and he said “Guess what Mary? I am going to church on Sunday” I was like SWEEET and we high fived and everything and I am really proud of him.He even said he was going to invite a friend.I think this is going to go just great and in time all the people I know will work the way to Christ even if it takes two or three maybe even 30 years but one way or another God will speak into there lives I just know he will.
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On March 17, 2008 @ 4:58 pm Pam said:

Dear Greg and the D2S peeps~

I am a 32 year old follower of Christ since I was 18, wife to my husband for almost 12 years and mother to two wonderful boys ages 3 and 9. My husband has a calling to youth ministry, which I knew when I married him but didn’t realize how strong this calling was until recently. We moved to Southern Oregon 4 years ago. We settled in to a fairly new church that really didn’t have a youth group. My husband, David, and another man in our church stepped up and began teaching the church’s youth. I stood in the shadows, telling him this was his calling not mine. I wanted nothing to do with the “teenagers” he was teaching. I, quite frankly, didn’t like teens at all. I didn’t like them when I was one and I certainly didn’t like them when David started leading them, Christian or otherwise. I know my husband was praying I would have a change of heart but I was busy being a mom to a newborn and a five year old, what did I know about teenagers!?

In 2006 the youth group went to their first D2S conference in Washington. I stayed home to watch our kids of coarse. My husband, and our youth, came back so pumped up for God it was amazing. David was practically glowing. They bought a ton of curriculum for the youth group, started an E-team, and rekindled the fire in my husbands heart for apologetics and theology. He turned into a human sponge for the things of Christ and had a love for these kids in our youth group that was larger than life!

2007 rolled around and it was time to go again. Everyone was excited about going except for me. Yes, David had somehow convinced me to go. We got a sitter for the weekend and everything. For me it was a horrible experience that year. I had a migrain the whole time and I kept wondering what in the world am I doing here? I was unsure of myself and had a really hard time talking to the youth. I am a very shy and timid person. Going on this trip, a 12 hour bus ride, sleeping on a hard floor in a strange church, with a bunch of kids I didn’t know or trust was a little freaky for me. I made it through that weekend thinking, wow that was great for the youth, but I’ll never do that again! However, God had other plans. When I got back from D2S I realized just how much work my husband has to put into all of this “youth stuff” so I agreed to be the help meet I should be and get involved with him. At first is was mainly to help get and keep him organized, behind the scenes stuff. Then I started hanging out on Sundays while he taught. I got to know the names and faces of the youth. I still had not really come out of my own shell yet but I was feeling more comfortable with the kids. I then started to go to the youth team meetings to take notes and keep track of the calendar so I’d know what was going on. I stopped resenting the fact that my husband spent so many hours preparing for his lessons and calling the kids and having eteam meetings at our house. I started to look forward to the time I got to spend with them all. And my boys just love it when they all come over to hang out. They really look up to these kids and for the most part they are worthy to be looked up to.

The year flew by and it was time to go again to Washington. I hesitantly said I’d go IF we could find a sitter. I didn’t try that hard but we got a sitter for the kids….ugh! It was the week before the conference and while all the other adult volunteers were posting stuff on thier myspace pages about being excited I was dreading it! I knew I had a bad attitude but I was having a really hard time changing it. I went to midweek service stressed out and drained already. I prayed and prayed that God would give me a new attitude. Thankfully, God is so faithful. I was refreshed and had a calm, peaceful feeling about the whole thing. I was reminded that following Jesus is an adventure and that I was here to serve and glorify Him and that was the attitude I went with to D2S. Yes, I was worried about leaving my boys and dreading the 3am wake up but I wasn’t feeling so stressed anymore. We had 6 teenage boys stay the night at our house so thier parents wouldn’t have to drive them to the church at 3am. They were so ammped up they didn’t stop talking until 1am!!

The bus ride up was great, the fellowship was amazing and we all got to know each other so much better. A couple of the girls had opened up to me about things in their lives which was very cool. Watching the kids that first night as some of them surrendered their lives fully to Jesus Christ or recommitted their lives to Christ was amazing. It makes all the time spent away from my husband, because he’s off leading the youth, worth every second! Hugs and tears were flowing. Kids were raising their hands in genuine worship to the Lord.

I had a great time volunteering at The Outpost. I got to talk to so many youth, the books were flying off the table as well as tshirts and beanies. I loved getting to know some of the other people from different churches that were also volunteering. It was a great morning:) I have to admit that the phone a friend part of the day is hard for me. I am blown away by the kids who do it. My dad was heavy on my heart but the phone was heavier and thankfully one of our youth needed to borrow my phone to call someone. Which turned out amazing as well. I came in after lunch for the teaching about the scissors, cutting things out of your life, and purity. It was a great lesson. The kids had a ton to talk about with us durring the outreach portion. Lots and lots of questions that I was able to use my own testimony to answer. It was amazing! The outreach portion was difficult for me as well. I really wanted to try my hand at it with the kids but I chickened out and stood on the street while they went to the doors. What was really great was as one of our teams was getting out of the bus we all wished them “good luck” one of our youth turned around and replied, “We don’t need luck we have Jesus!”, it was unforgetable. I love watching the kids as they worship and interact with each other. By the time the lunch break came I felt like my heart was going to jump out of my chest. There were a couple kids I felt I had to physically approach and tell them how great they are and how much I love them. So not like me! Our youth were open to meeting the other teens attending the event. They played games, one called “big booty” and played music with those who brought their instruments. We were fortunate to be able to stay at Overlake Church, that has been such a blessing.

Our Sunday tradition is going into Seattle to site see and continue bonding and meshing as a youth group. We had a wonderful time in Seattle and a great bus ride home. I felt grateful and honored to be part of such a special time in these kids lives. I had to confess to my husband that I was acctually thinking about becoming more involved in some capacity with the youth group. Could it be that his prayers of my heart changing are coming true? Only God knows. I also picked up your book, Venti Jesus, which I read on the way home and You’re Next which I’m using in my quiet time every day. My husband commented this morning that I’m reading appologetic/theology books. I laughed because that is something he is way into. He reads college theology books for fun! For me I’ve looked at theology like math, I’m just never gonna get it. But with these books, I think I can get it. For the first time it doesn’t seem intimidating. I acctually understand what you’re saying! It’s great!

I just wanted to share my story and thank you Greg Stier and everyone at D2S that make this happen. You are touching and changing so many lives. Not just the lives of teens but also the life of this shy, timid, 32 year old woman who also wants to impact her world for Jesus. You guys ROCK!!!

In Him,

Pam Dorr
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On March 17, 2008 @ 5:25 pm naomi said:

Hey Greg!
I have taken the Double Dare and have been to PU!!! I was talking to my friend online and I asked if she was a Christian. She replied “yeah I guess… that was random!” But i was determined to keep the conversation going! So I said, “so you believe that Jesus died on the cross so that you can go to heaven?” She replied, “Haha yeah I guess. My mom says we’re Christian.” So I asked her if she saw Christianity as a religion and she said yes. She sounded pretty uncomfortable about the whole thing and kept trying to laugh it off. So I asked her if she was going to go to heaven and she replied, “isn’t that up to God to decide?” So I explained that if she believed that Jesus is the son of God and that He died on the cross so that we can go to heaven we will go to heaven. Finally she said, “ok, I’m changing the subject.” So that was the end of that conversation but hopefully it got her thinking. In the meantime, I will be praying for her!
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On March 17, 2008 @ 6:18 pm Molly said:

hi!!
for the cell phone challenge i called my sister but she didn’t anwswer so i left a message saying i wanted to talk to her when i got home. i haven’t had an opportunity to really talk to her yet although i explained why i had called her. I have talked to my mom and dad though as i am the only person in my family who knows jesus. i have invited my family to come with me to my church’s easter service on sunday and i think they’re coming!!!I really want them to all get to know jesus sometime soon. i’ve been praying for them for a long time, but it was this dare to share conference which really gave me the courage to act. thank you so much for everything you’ve done!! This past weekend has been really life changing and helpful:]
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On March 17, 2008 @ 6:46 pm Eric said:

What up?

So I took the 48 hr. challenge but I had not idea who I was going to share with. So I just told God, you show me when the time comes. What ended up happening was in second period I told someone about my bible study and invited them to come. Then I went to lunch and just started talking to this other kid. I’ve never really talked to him before. But I could tell I was getting through to him. I told him how we are created to be with God. Got into some other good stuff too. But Gods not done with him. I’ll let you know as God keeps working in his heart.
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On March 17, 2008 @ 7:34 pm caitlin said:

IT WAS AWSOME!!! i was @ the seattle one it was the best . I took the double dare and it sorta didnt move anyone (i told 3 people)one bffl and two random person. One of my bffl i told was mormon and i didnt know that so i kept talking and she looked @ me like i was nutz!!! at the end i asked if she wanted to borrow my survive manual. she said no. i hope you will pray for her( her name is emily(last year she used to cut her self and all she needs is someone to love her))) the other two people walked away i didnt even know their names we were talking in my 3 and 6th period class. THANK YOU you totally fired me up for god and the moment i got home miracles happened one of my prays @ survive was that my parents might find Jesus and both of my parents told me they wanted to start read the Bible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was awsome!!
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On March 17, 2008 @ 7:34 pm Axi G. said:

Hey Greg!

I took the phone challange and 48 hr. challange. I came out with some good results! The friend I called seems really intrested in God and is excited to read your book, “Venti Jesus, Please”. When I called and asked if she knew God, she said no. When I asked if she knew if she was going to heaven she said that she didn’t know. Then I asked if she wanted to know how she could and she asked me to write it down for her. So I’m sending her emails about it, step by step. Thanks for pushing me out of my comfort zone!
God Bless!
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On March 17, 2008 @ 7:35 pm Stefanie said:

monday, march 17, 2008

oh heyy.

dare to share really motivated me to start being more public with my faith again. today at school i wore my “Jesus Recycles” shirt to school. and as soon as i walked through the school doors, these two girls instantly started hurling insults at me and calling me a Bible Thumper. not gonna lie… i kinda liked it even though it was rude. cause its good to know that people know my as someone who represnts Jesus and Bible-related subjects. but that also means that i have to watch how i act and stuff (Colossians 4:5).
but yeah, me and my bestie danielle decided to pray everyday before we have to go to 1st period and then everyday at lunch before we eat.
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On March 17, 2008 @ 7:36 pm Stefanie said:

monday, march 17, 2008

oh heyy.

dare to share really motivated me to start being more public with my faith again. today at school i wore my “Jesus Recycles” shirt to school. and as soon as i walked through the school doors, these two girls instantly started hurling insults at me and calling me a Bible Thumper. not gonna lie… i kinda liked it even though it was rude. cause its good to know that people know my as someone who represnts Jesus and Bible-related subjects. but that also means that i have to watch how i act and stuff (Colossians 4:5).
but yeah, me and my bestie danielle decided to pray everyday before we have to go to 1st period and then everyday at lunch before we eat.
i suggest you do it too cause people WILL see and they WILL have questions. questions that you can answer. and you know the answer. cause the answer is JESUS!!!

HOLLLAAA
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On March 17, 2008 @ 7:39 pm Nathan Maurseth said:

sooo.. when i did the cell phone challenge i called a friend that ive known for the longest time and he didnt answer so i left a pretty detailed message and i figured that, he was gonna be the person that my 48hr challenge would be. so i called him up again and talked to him for awhile and told him the GOSPEL and some other stuff. and ive talked to him before about this stuff and brought him to church a couple of times when we were younger but i just wasnt a really good example at all because my life wasnt much different then his. if anything i was probably worse. which wasnt a good thing. but ive been turned completely around a couple of weeks ago and D2S just made it 5 million times better. but any ways while i was talking to him about all this stuff he was asking questions alot so i was definatly getting through to him. so i kept on going and at the end of the conversation i asked him the “question” but he said he just wasnt ready for it yet. so im just gonna let God work on his heart. and give him some time. and just bring it up here and there.
PEACE,
Nathan Maurseth
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On March 17, 2008 @ 7:57 pm Amber Reid said:

So yeah, My fiancee and I decided to sponsor a child through compassion this year. and while we were looking for a child to sponsor, i had a feeling it would be a girl… so we were looking, and then i decided to look at the birthday’s… and without realizing it, Mike and I were looking for the SAME date. and we found one little girl who’s birthday was April 12th, 2004… we were really excited because that is the day that Mike and I are getting married… it was awesome.

AMBER
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On March 17, 2008 @ 8:23 pm Brianna said:

hey Greg!!!

This is Brianna and I was recently at the seattle d2s conference and it rocked!!!! You guys did such a amazing job putting everything together!!! I really like the drama and when Derwin grey and zane balck and greg stier spoke u guys were incredible!!!! The worship was awsome thank-you so much for coming you have impacted my life so much and made a huge difference I love you guys!!!So I took the double dare and since I really don’t know anybody that’s not a christian I called a person from the yellow pages [ I know call me crazy!!!] and this guy was a lawyer and struggling so I explained the gospel using the version of the cell-phone challenge and said I’m praying for him. Pray that he comes to know Jesus Christ personnaly!!! God-Bless-You!!!
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On March 17, 2008 @ 8:46 pm lilg said:

Hey what’s up Greg and all other peoples online?
This last weekend was ttly amazing. I have actually commented on my phone challenge but today was a tottlay different day. so i was in first period science at my middle school while my teacher was taking a call. we sit at tables so i leaned in about halfway between the two tables that were conected and said “So i was wondering where do you think you are going when you die?” Just out of thin air! there were two people and they both stared at me like “what in the world are you talking about?” Now they didn’t say anything for a couple seconds and the girl said “I know for sure that i am going to hell.” I looked at her suprised because most people would most likely lie and say Heaven.Well she said that she di not believe in heaven and she didn’t want to go to heaven. So i thought i might let her think a bit. So i told her about what hell was like. the lake of fire burning for all eternity. She still said “No one can make me convert from being an atheist. So I turned to the other person who I thought personally by the way he acts in class that he was not a christian. But he said that he had Jesus in his heart and that he was going to heaven. Also he tried persuading the girl as well i also gave her part of the GOSPEL before she interuppted me and right then I gradguated from PU. At first I was sad but then i realized that she was another person to pray for. So then i was happy.I went through the rest of the classess similar to that. Also my Math teacher went to dare 2 share and i asked him about his experiences. he said that he called another teacher there and the next day at church the teacher was there!
Sorry about this being sooo long but so much went down today i HAD to share!

See ya’ll later!
Kristin
PS: I only wish that it was March 2009. I am too excited. Why can’t this be every month!?……
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On March 17, 2008 @ 8:55 pm amy kaiser said:

Hey greg
well i started with the double dare at school today! my friend came to the conference last year. and became a christian, but this year she has been slipping bcak into the drugs and bad crowd, during the cell phone challenge i called her and asked if i would be seeing her in heaven and that going is bassed on believeing not just pretending to believe. she was quiet for a while and then she said yes she would be seeing me there ! she said thanx for reminding her and i’m pretty sure that i could hear her crying on the other side. i’m going to giver her your venti jesus book. thank you so much helping me get the courage to talk to her, you ,zane, and derwin,i can’t wait til next year!
love
amy.k
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On March 17, 2008 @ 9:11 pm Adam Eastman said:

Hey Greg

I tried calling me cousin Kevin who I am not sure where he is at in faith, i left him a message with the 3 questions and told him to reply to me on myspace as soon as he could and that I was serious. So I got home and he was on xbox live and I talked to him with voice chat there and he said that yes he did believed in God and that no one knows for sure. So I am still confused as to where he is, but I trust where his heart is, and I supported him by saying thats good. I later emailed him and said that its about a personal relationship and true faith with God and living that out, all of which is true faith. So prayfully I can still reach out to him and my sister who is in the same spot. On top of that I am trying to get boldness to reach out at school by posting invites to my youth group with info and directions. Thank you and the rest of the crew for an impacting weekend. continue to pray for me and my friends for boldness in ministry, and pray for the lost sheep and unbelievers in my life-that we can save them.
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On March 17, 2008 @ 11:11 pm Alyssa Schmotzer said:

Hey, Greg!

Seattle was so amazing, I came to it wondering how on earth it could top last years’, but it did for sure!! I loved every minute, and especially Zane and Derwin! I wanted to say that so many of the things you said the first night hit home so hard. Last year at Dare2Share I realized that I needed to have an active and live relationship with God, and it was an amazing start. But this year I came wanting spiritual revival after I had felt a little dead through some tough times. At first I didn’t think anything was going to truly, deeply affect me, and I prayed that God would let something in me be impacted this weekend, that he would shift something in me, because I needed Him to change something in me, even if I wasn’t sure what it was.
The skits and the speaking and God all got to me somewhere, and suddenly everything clicked. I realized that I had been looking for purpose and something to live for in all the wrong places, and I had basically been living for myself with God on the side, not knowing what it meant to surrender more than just a few pieces of my life. Like the car analogy: driving down life’s highway, I had God in the passenger seat and out of the trunk, but I had still wanted the controls and to drive it myself, with God giving me directions occasionally. On Friday night I realized that I could completely live for God, serve Him with everything, and surrender everything to Him. I realized I could find purpose in fighting for Him and sacrificing for Him… and that it would be so worth it.
I also learned so many other things that night in that session, and I realized how amazing God was, and how so many things that had happened in the past few years had been leading me up to that realization in that one moment. It felt so incredible to be able to say with my full heart and love that God is sooooooo good!!!
I’ve decided to give Him everything now, and let Him be the driver of my car. I also decided that I didn’t just want an amazing spiritual high from Dare 2 Share this year. I want it to last from this last weekend to Eternity.
My life changed forever this last friday! I wanted to thank you for being a part of it!!!

I also took the Double Dare and was surprised at how true some of the things you and Zane said are! I told a friend I’d known for years about Jesus out of nowhere, and went through the GOSPEL acronym… I was surprised that she’d never heard any of this, she’d never known that Jesus came to die for her or anyone! A week ago I’d just thought everyone knew about it! She had no idea…
Well, in about 20 minutes, which was awkward (awesome!!) she did pray with me. I’m not sure if she understands all of the Gospel yet, from the few bible verses I could come up with, and I’m not sure if she quite gets salvation yet, but it’s only been 48 hours, and God can definitely work in her!!
So that’s how my Double-Dare went, and that’s how Dare2Share changed my life this last weekend!!!! Thanks so much for doing what you do so faithfully, our youth group would have never had revival or anything close to it if we hadn’t all woken up to reality last year at Seattle!

Can’t wait to see you and Zane and Derwin again next year!!!!!!
-Alyssa
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On March 17, 2008 @ 11:29 pm Lauryn said:

Dear Greg,Zane and Derwin,

So…I went to Dare2Share last year and it was a really great experience and I learned a lot but it really didn’t hit me that I needed to be sold out for Christ. I have to admit that this year it was a totally different story. Honestly I did not want to come on Friday night because none of my group of friends were going, and I was a little tired and just wanted to sleep. That is when I realized that when you don’t have distraction and you are focused on God you grow the most. Throughout my Christian walk I found it very hard to hear God’s direct voice, though I would read the bible (sometimes) and go to church every Sunday and attend retreats and conferences my life felt just the same. But for some reason this conference was different, I was attentive and my heart was softened and willing to just soak in all the things that God had to say to me. When Lincoln Brewster sang the song, “Another Hallelujah” I just started bawling my eyes out, because I heard God clearly speak to me and say “Lauryn, you don’t always have to be alone, I am always here for you and if you wait (for yor future spouse) you will find exactly what your are looking for.” Basically he said his plan was perfect and that mine wasn’t so stop worrying. This was such a REVELATION for me because I actually heard God speak in his clear and peaceful voice. My life is forever changed by the messages you men gave about purity, money spending and who is most important in your life. I have decide to buy clothes that do not use slave labor of any kind (even though they are more expensive and Zane’s website really helps out with that) And also to take over the issue of human trafficking to a higher level, becaue people need to be aware of the 27 million slaves in the world, 50% of them being children under 18.

When it came to the double dare I was prepared for who I was going to contact and we are still talking about Jesus and his love, but I really underestimated how on fire I was about sharing God’s love with everyone I knew!! Today I talked to my friend Ryan about how “high” I am on God and he looked at me like I was crazy but I did not care for one second. Though he wasn’t willing to accept he still seems to show an interest. I also talked to my friend Tyler(who smokes and does prescription drugs sometimes) and just told him that if he calls himself a christian he needs to be living it. (also including that I was definately not perfect, but with Jesus all things are possible) Lastly, I talked to my friend Kyle about how much I love Jesus, I was basically spewing with Jesus’s love which I have never felt before! Thank you to the infinite power for your words of guidance and encouragement, I am eternally grateful and hopefully I will bring some new souls to know Jesus because of the important guidelines that you have taught. Thank God that you are in this world to tell us kids that we can make a difference in the world!
Lauryn

p.s. how can i get a hold of zane because I have a few questions to ask him about a friend of mine, that is in a situation like his??
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On March 17, 2008 @ 11:41 pm Tom Bieber said:

Hey Greg,

Servive was so amazing I loved every bit of it! I didnt know what to expect this year because of last year being so unpredictable. I just knew that I was going to be able to listen to you speak Gods word, which by the way I learn from every year, and it always seems to touch my heart in some way. So during the cell phone challenge, I called one of my agnostic friends;and I told him the gospel in a nut shell with the script you provided. And after the conversation ended and we both hung up, I felt relieved that he even listened to me. So the day goes on and then i get some phone calls from his friends which are my friends and they said,”why the **** did you tell him about God. So in other words he was frustrated about me calling him. And after i called him back up and explained that I wasnt trying to shove God in his face but just tell him where I stand spiritually. So I almost lost one of my best friends that day but I knew it didnt matter about our frindship because I was never and wont ever be ashamed of the Almighty God because I know where Im going when I pass on. I just hope that some day I can convince him that God really does love him. So thats how my cell phone challenge went. Thank you so very much for everything you do with the dare to share conferences. And I cant wait till next year to do it all again and learn more on how I could share my faith.

PS- The girl at servival that told the story of her dad being lead to christ by her is from my youth group. And when she told you her friend tom is crazy about you;well that is me. Ever since I sawe the GOSPEL journey for the first time I concidered you such an amzing person and always wanted to meet you face to face. Hopefully I wil get to meet you next year!!!!!
-Tom,your number one fan
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On March 18, 2008 @ 11:24 am Tmart said:

Greg,
I would like to first thank you for your sacrifice with D2S and your wife’s extreme patience.
I met you while waiting for a second pot of coffee during the youth leader breakout. I had a question about the Deep and Wide ministry, I asked you “What do you do when your entire youth group is Agnostic?” You told me to use 80% of my time on the 20% of the kids who showed an interest. I’ll do you one better!
I am taking your “cell phone challenge” and calling each of my kids (nine total); I’m going to go through the script just like they did with their friends and I’ll ask them “do you know where you’re going to go when you die?”

Thank you for your challenge,
Tony
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On March 18, 2008 @ 12:46 pm Bubelaiken said:

Greg,

I was not in Dare 2 share Seattle but however i did go to Dare 2 share in Atlanta.
you know. i love Dare 2 share i do. I just wish i can have freinds i do. it is really amazing how you be really isloated and depressed for long term. i has been depressed for an month now. i has been in bed all day and sleep all day. i cry all day amazing huh. i have all the pain inside of me and suffering. everyday i always think of death and suicide. im really frustared. im always wondering why i don’t have freinds and why i has been throught all this stuff of being teased and of all that life i had being teased and everything. as right now im crying as well. right now i am being in long term of depression and long term of sucide. I know you will be busy but right now I need a freind and Right now I need advice and right now i need a freind that can be like a freind. I’m going back to my old life where i do drugs, Beers, Huffing and smoking. im going to that life. because honsently i don’t have freinds. i don’t have a person to help me i mean i have a person but he actually said the wrong thing to me and that made me feel little more depressed.

I need your help greg. i know you are busy but I need your help greg.

email me Alamoleyanet@yahoo.com
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On March 18, 2008 @ 3:37 pm Heidi Chapin said:

Hey Greg!

Wow, D2S was awesome! Thanks so much for blessing Washington with what you guys do! Remember when you made the youth leaders stand up? Well Shari Dobbins, the one you talked to first, is one of my youth leaders! She is totally awesome! Thanks for aknowledging them! The drama this year really hit me. I have always thought about what I would do if that happened to me. Wow. It made me really think about my faith, if i was living for something else(i.e) my country, or Jesus. Another thing that impacted me was Zane. That guy is truly amazing. His testimony was awesome. I just keep thinking about him, and realizing that God CAN do anything in anyones life. I met him last year, and again this year,(and he signed our D2S poster thing for our youth group). I also watched the Gospel Journey. That was awesome! When i went out to share my faith while collecting cans i met this lady, i tried to talk to her,(long story short) but she just wasn’t getting it. It made me really sad to think about that one day she is going to go to hell. My heart broke for her and i can’t stop thinking about her. Please pray for her.

Thanks again for the awesome time! Shout out from Wenatchee!

In Christ,
Heidi

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The Double Dare in Seattle

Posted on Sunday 16 March 2008 by Greg @ 10:16 am Filed under: Rants

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Posted on Sunday 16 March 2008 by Greg @ 10:16 am
Filed under: Rants