My Notes from the 2012 S.O.W.E.R.S. Young Adult Advance
Victor Wierwille
President of S.O.W.E.R.S.
Friday:
Final preparations/setup
Receive guests/dinner
7pm: Opening Service
Jan Parker teaches her first point: “Each one win one” starts in your own head. Bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. Pick a verse that hits home for you and “slap” it in your head.
Rev. Walter Cummins teaches about Noah, a “preacher of righteousness.” Even if no one believed, Noah was committed to doing God’s Word.
PM Campfire.
Saturday:
7:15 Breakfast – eggs, homegrown bacon, potatoes
Cassie teaches us to “faint not” and gives us reasons not to give up. “The joy of the Lord is your strength” (Nehemia 8:10). God is with you. Go to God for your needs and strength.
Caleb teaches that the power in the name of Jesus is because of the resurrection of Christ. We have the ability to set people free to move (each one win one) — Acts 3.
Tiffany shows us the heart of the W.O.W. Success is not based on numbers, success is standing with God. Noah was successful, even if no one else believed. It is not always just about bringing people to fellowship, but it is about meeting the need of the individual.
Michael teahces us about winning. We win because of what God accomplished in sending His son. We received so many victorious things the very moment we were born again. We don’t just receive more length of life, we also receive a better quality of life. We have a priceless message to give people that causes them to win. “If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved” (Rom 10:9).
12 noon. Lunch
1:30 Band rehearsal
Jan teaches her second point: After you have won your own mind, then each one win continues with making sure things are right with your brother and sisters in the household of faith.
Victor teaches that when people have God’s Word they have freedom, and if they do not have God’s Word, then they are in captivity. In Nehemiah 8 the people were coming out of captivity by coming back to the Word. Then, the “joy of the Lord” was their strength.
Jan teaches her third point: After you have won your own mind (you have put on that Word in your mind), and after you have been reconciled to your brethren, then go find somebody! Find one person who doesn’t know your verse for the day and speak it to them. It doesn’t matter who it is, just tell them!
5 pm. Homegrown Pulled Pork.
Rev. Cummins sings “Tell it Again.” Tell what again? The “it” is the God-breathed Word. In order to speak God’s Word, we must know God’s Word. Jesus knew the Word when he opened up the scriptures to two disciples “and beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself” (Luke 24:27). What do you think he was doing the first thirty years of his life… studying the scriptures. To be a witness of God’s Word we must believe it. We have a great cloud of witnesses of those who came before us who believed God – Hebrews 11 mentions a few.
9pm. The Medicine Show Band
PM Campfire.
Sunday:
8:30 Pancakes
10:30 Sunday Morning Fellowship
Rev. Cummins teaches from Psalm 37 “Trust… Delight thyself… commit thy way… and rest in the Lord” and “The meek shall inherit the earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.” Don’t be “anxious,” but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God (Phil 4:6). Don’t be “anxious,” but seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you (Matt. 6).
12 noon. Venison Lasagna
1 pm. Everyone slips-and-slides down the muddy driveway in their cars to get to where each one can reach one…
“Takin’ it to the streets!”
Victor Wierwille can be reached at victorpaul38@aol.com.