A Night to Celebrate!

This past Sunday Impact hosted its annual Night of Celebration. At the Night of Celebration there is usually an awesome speaker like Mitch Wilburn or Brian Mashburn to come and talk about all the good things that we work to accomplish here at Impact. But this year was different, instead of a speaker, we decided to let all our ministries speak for themselves. Each ministry had its own little booth set up in the auditorium and around 2 minutes to descride how they change lives in our community. 

In our youth section we had 3 sections to work with so we chose to make them all fit together by showing what the average kid experiences as they grow up in Impact's Youth programs. Our average kid was named Zachary and was played by Impact children at each age level. We showed how Zachary learns how to read and that Jesus loves him in Elementary School. How he learns life skills like shaving and the importance of serving others in this world in Middle School. Everyone got to see how Zachary has grown and matured into a High School student who teaches and loves kids who came from the exact same situation he has, and how he is able to go on trips to serve all over the country. 

And at the end of it all, we showed our Zachary graduating from High School surrounded by all the people who loved him every step of the way, and that he is stepping into the world to succeed as a Christian adult.

There is no way for me to describe how well this night went and how much God was glorified in it!

The highlight of my evening (shown above) was when I met one of my supporters here in Houston who has never met me. Clara Beaman is an amazing woman with great faith, and is such an encouragement to me. Without knowing a thing about me other than what Suzannah Gabriel and Steven Wells said, she supports me. She encouraged me when we talked like we had known each other all my life, and she knew me all because of this blog and Facebook. So I know she'll read this and I want to say Thank You! Thank you for believing in the call I have heard to come and love the kids of Impact. Thank you for being an encouragement that renews my soul. Thank you for giving from your heart and stepping out on faith to support what God is doing here.

And the same goes to all those who support me and Impact as a whole.

Grace and Peace and Blessings to you all.

John Carson

Traders?

I like these two videos and I thought I would share. They reality is most of the time this doesn't happen because of fear.

Food for thought. 

Grace and Peace,

John