"GO TELL is the best week of the Summer"
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Youth Pastor David Ridley knows GO TELL Camp intimately. In his seventh year of attending he says, “I can’t imagine not coming to this awesome place that means the world to me. I began attending GO TELL when I was 15 years old, got saved my second year here, was a counselor for three years, felt called into the ministry at GO TELL, and have now brought my youth for two years. Twenty out of our group of 70 were unchurched. Our pastor goes all out to get as many youth as possible to GO TELL because he knows they’ll be saved and we’ll come back on fire for the Lord. He’s right!”
“I was born premature to a 17-year-old whose boyfriend had abandoned her,” wrote Andy. “The doctors declared me a ‘hopeless’ case and doomed me to a sad existence. But I had a grandmother who loved me and took me to a church where I joined the youth group that attended GO TELL Camp. They have taken me to camp for the past two years. I’m writing to thank you because, without GO TELL Camp, I would probably be deep into drugs and alcohol or maybe even in hell today. God used your ministry to spare my soul, and for that I am deeply, eternally grateful. Although my mom and stepfather drink and take drugs, I have been protected and blessed by God. I have been seeking God’s face and feel as though the Lord wants me in full-time ministry. I covet your prayers.”
“I was a little apprehensive about taking our teens to our first GO TELL Camp at Liberty University,” wrote Jon Parker. “Upon arriving, we immediately sensed the strong presence of God, and the Lord soon confirmed that He had led us to a camp that would change our teens and youth ministry forever. Some were saved; students and chaperones were called into full-time ministry, and all of us were consumed with a burden for the lost. We went home and shared during a Sunday worship service and saw the altars filled with adults, convicted by a group of teens, that they needed to get right with God. I had arrived at GO TELL with a ministry that was going nowhere. I left with a fire that is still burning many weeks later both in my heart and in the hearts of our students as we mobilize into a godly and discipled group that is ready to take the world for Christ.”
“My name is Lindsay, and I recently attended GO TELL Camp in Toccoa, Georgia. I could not begin to explain the profound changes that took place in my life during that amazing week! In one of the workshops, I became burdened for my friends as I learned how to share my faith. When I got home from camp, I got on the internet and wrote
e-mails to every one of my friends who did not know Jesus Christ as personal Savior. Of the seven friends I sent emails, two were saved! I am saying over and over again, ‘To God be the glory!’ Thank you for reminding me how important it is to witness. I can’t wait for next year when I can come back to GO TELL Camp to learn more.”
Last summer, 28 young men and women who felt called of God to ministry, interned at GO TELL Camps for six weeks. For their service, these students each received a full-tuition scholarship for the 2007-2008 school year at one of these colleges: Liberty University; Boyce College, the undergraduate school of Southern Seminary; the College of Southwestern; or Tennessee Temple University.
After playing football at the University of Alabama, Whitney Clayton felt called of God to full-time ministry. Now at Boyce College, he says of his summer interning with GO TELL, “It was an amazing summer filled with hard work but lots of fun and rewarding relationships that will last a life-time. My greatest fulfillment came in seeing the tremendous changes that took place in campers’ lives from the first of the week until the last. The great speakers fed me as much, if not more, than the students. It was a life-changing summer for me.”
Mallory Cowart was excited about the opportunity to serve at GO TELL Camp for her second summer, “The last day of interning with GO TELL Camp after my first summer found me planning for the next summer of ministry. This past summer was tremendous. A passionate love for people permeates each leader’s heart at GO TELL. This love reaches out to everyone who comes to GO TELL Camp. I saw nurses and even the guy who set up our recreation inflatables get saved this past summer. The love from camp even reaches out to surrounding communities. It is a wonderful thing God is doing at GO TELL Camp.”
“This is my eighth summer with GO TELL,” says staff member Maggie Mobley. “I love this camp. I am so fortunate to be able to work here now after first attending as a camper and having God capture my heart through its ministry. It is an unbelievable blessing and privilege to see lives transformed by the power of God and to be a part of that. GO TELL is on a totally different level than what most people think of when they think of summer camp. Rick Gage has a passion for bringing kids to Christ that can be seen every moment of his life. The intensity of the Word preached and the moving of God’s Spirit in lives has raised the bar of this camp so high I would work here the rest of my life if I could.”
