Guest Blogger: Sadye Bockhoff

Well, this week I get the privilege to hang out in an atmosphere where God's presence is so thick that you can't ignore it. Yes, that's right, we're at YFN, where our students go to camp each summer! I felt it was only appropriate to hear from one of our students today about their experience from our first night's service. So here she is....Miss Sadye Bockhoff!
-girly

Tonight at YFN I walked into the building certain I wanted something to happen as far as an encounter with God but I wasn’t sure exactly what. I have always struggled no matter where I am with being so concerned with what others are doing or feeling around me that I have a hard time concentrating on what I want for myself so tonight I tried to change that. The girls and I had been talking about what we wanted out of camp and one of the leaders had said if you go into service wanting something specific you would have a better chance of God fulfilling your wants, which was ironic because the speaker was talking about the exact same thing. As soon as he started I knew that maybe if I just separate myself from the people I know well I would be able to concentrate on my relationship with God instead of everyone else. During praise and worship I started out with my youth group but then I reminded myself that I needed to separate myself from that comfort level and went to the front. As soon as I got up there I felt like I had broken through a gate and for once in my life I was having a conversation with God, just him and I. I wasn’t concerned if someone was upset beside me or if they were having a good experience, it was awesome. Overall I think I have a pretty close relationship with Christ but tonight made me take that step closer to make him my best friend I can talk to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

~Sadye~