Cocalico Youth Center News

The latest news from the Ephrata/Cocalico Crossfire Youth Center.

July 2010

Greetings from Crossfire Youth Ministries,

I hope these updates inspire and encourage you.....please pass them along to your friends & family & even your enemies! God is alive and well and moving in the hearts and lives of many children in our community. This is extremely exciting to have Crossfire play a part in all of this.....please keep us in your prayers.

July came and went so fast and was a truly awesome month. The beginning of the month had a crew of the guys helping out at the Creation festival in Mt. Union Pa. They could get into the event for free by committing to work several hours each day....they loved the bands & speakers throughout the week.

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June 2010

Another month has cruised past with tons of exciting stuff going on......I shall be brief as I have included 2 letters from Kelsi Martin. Kelsi is going into 11th grade at Cocalico and has been assisting on Thursday nights with the Middle Schoolers & being available on Monday nights with the High School girls night...she will share about both of those opportunities.

But first, we hosted Brian Neal musician, who shared in testimony, the Word & music. We have seen students at each of our centers this past month give their lives to Jesus Christ....here at the Cocalico center, Bowmansville, Ashland & Gordon youth....Celebrate with us for this awesome opportunity to have God's light shine into lives!

This week is preperation week........July 13th thro the 18th we will be joining other students in Harrisburg for a weeklong mission trip serving the residents of Harrisburg. The students will be having worship services morning & evening throughout the week, leading up to a Huge block party on Saturday the 17th. Last year it was estimated about 6000 people attended. Pray for us as we serve. Pray for the group of 30 as we head West. Last year this event brought life into many of the High school students and that Life continues to this day....pray for more students to come Alive!!!!

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May 2010

Greetings from Crossfire Youth Ministries,

Our Mission Statement is: "to touch the heart of hurting youth with the Love of Jesus Christ". I am delighted to be able to share with you that we continue to meet that standard for our ministry.

Sunday morning we had the opportunity to showcase Crossfire at the Adamstown Community Days service. We had several teens on stage giving testimony to the fact that it was through Crossfire they met Jesus and had live changes....Celebrate with us!!!!

A man shared with me how he bumps into a young man who attended Crossfire back in 1992, and how that man still carries great memories of his time spent with us.....

A teen came by the other night in tears from a home situation and issues going on.....after some encouraging words, the teen headed off encouraged, they know where to find someone who will listen.....when times are difficult, they do come back for advice or a listening ear.

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