COLLIDE-ing with Bethany Church

On 5th April 2008, we COLLIDE-ed with our friends at Bethany Church at their event called ‘Campus Day’. It was awesome! We were all pretty nervous because we have never been to Bethany Church and we don’t know many people there haha but as soon as the lift doors opened to the 7^th floor, maaaan we were welcomed so warmly that we did not feel out of place or awkward.

And then the praise and worship! Wow! The songs that the Bethany youth uses are the same songs that we use in our youth group! That was really cool, it shows just how similar we are actually despite our different church backgrounds and stuff. You can just feel so much excitement and passion for Jesus in that place. It was cooool…

Then it was our turn to present 2 songs haha and this was the awesome part…

So we sang ‘Counting on God’ by Desperation Band and ‘More of You Less of Me’ by Frontline Generation. Honestly man… it was one of the coolest worship experiences in my life. Nothing spectacular happened, no giant fire fell from heaven and consumed the stage or no earthquake shook the building but you know when we sang the chorus of ‘More of You Less of Me’… “This is my life I give… all my life I offer you…..” I really felt something just coming down into the room, I believe it was God’s presence, His ‘kabot’ which literally means ‘God’s weight’ in Hebrew. It was heavy… I think if more of it came, I would have fallen to my knees. I believe it wasn’t because we played a good song or we sang loudly, but I think God’s heart is stirred when, He sees His people gather together in unity, destroying the divisions of churches and doctrine to simply come and seek His face and worship Him. And when we are able to stir God’s heart, great things happen.

Maybe some of you guys are still asking what COLLIDE is and what’s it all about.

Well, what we just had today was a glimpse of what’s in store. Today was a mini-COLLIDE, just two youth groups, Bethany youth and IFGF youth. It didn’t matter which youth group you were from, it did not matter which school you were from, all that mattered was our passion for Christ, which unites us all the same. Just imagine this times 100 more youth groups and 2000 more people, doing nothing but worshipping God as we did just now and COLLIDING with God’s presence head on!

We came to Bethany as strangers but we can happily say that we left with many new friends, more passion and ideas to raise God’s banner in our schools, and a bookmark saying “Revival in My School Starts With ME!”.

Let’s emerge more boldly for HIS fame guys!!!,

The Collide Team