To the Student, Parents, and Leaders of Revolution,

Thank you so much for allowing me to be a part of your journey. I’ve had an absolute blast! It’s been such an honor to be a part of each of your lives! So many memories! So many good times! So many lives changed!

I hope that I was able to encourage you in your search for and walk with God. I am so excited to see you guys a few years down the road and hear about everything God is doing in and through your lives!

If there is ever anything I can do to serve any of you throughout your journeys, please let me know!

I can’t put into words how much serving you guys has meant to me, so instead, I will simply leave you with this encouragement:

• Never stop going after God with everything in you.

• Pursue God above everything else in your life! (Matthew 6:33)
  

• Never stop dreaming big for your lives. Go after your dreams!

• Never stop loving people.

• Never stop believing that you’re a world changer!

• Never stop loving who God made you to be.

• Be bold!Be confident!
  

• Point everyone you know to God as often as you can!

• Love Your Parents, You Never know When They’ll Be Gone for Good
  

• Make as Many Memories as You Can…do it Intentionally!

• Forgive Yourself Quickly, Get back Up, and Move Forward!

• Surround Yourself with Mentors!

• Live for an Audience of One
  

Thanks again for the honor and privilege of getting to be a part of your journey!

I love you guys more than you will ever know! Thank you for an incredible journey that I’ll never forget!

Bubs

We have tons of amazing things happening at Rev this Fall that you won’t want to miss out on!

Everything we do, we do for one reason: to bring people in to give them the chance to hear the life changing message of Jesus Christ. If you go to Rev or you’re a parent with teenagers, I can’t encourage you enough to get your friends and teens here on a weekly basis. I promise you, if you get them here, they will hear the gospel and have the opportunity to have a relationship with God!

We have services every Saturday night at 6 p.m. and we have Small Groups every Wednesday at 7 p.m.

If your friends or teens aren’t a part of small groups, get them there! It’s an awesome way for them to connect with other students their age and get to interact with some of our awesome leaders! This is also one of our approaches to disciple students! It helps them get in the word and discuss their faith with their peers.

To make it easy to get people here, we host a ton of different events to get people in the door! Here are a few of them:

Battle of the Bands

What: Battle of the Bands, food, t-shirts, inflatable rides

Website: http://flavors.me/battleofthebands

When: Saturday, September 18th – 6 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Where: Victory Family Church

Kill Ball

When: The Tournament will be at the Cranberry YMCA at 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Saturday, September 25th.

Sign Up Your Team Here:

http://iamrevolution.tv/events/event-registration/

The winning team will win a cash prize of $300.

Operation Outreach: Special Olympics Soccer Tournament

What: We’ll be serving at the Special Olympics Soccer Tournament

When: Sunday, October 3rd

**We’ll be meeting at the church at 6:30 a.m. and return round 3:30 p.m.

If you’re interested in going please e-mail Bubba at bsmith@lifeatvictory.com.

Silver Ring Thing

When: Sunday, October 17th

Website: http://www.silverringthing.com/registrationdisplay.asp?regID=378

What is it?:

Silver Ring Thing promotes the message of abstinence until marriage centered in a relationship with Jesus Christ through two methods: a Live Event and a small group resource called Project 434. Since 1995, SRT has hosted over 700 events in 8 countries, reaching over 417,000 total attendees. We welcome the opportunity to bring this program to your community and partner with you to impact students and parents with the truth of God’s plan for purity.

What: Revolution Costume Party

*$100 cash to the best guy/girl costume!

When: Saturday, October 30th

Other 2010 Events Coming Up:

• Annual Turkey Bowl
• Operation Outreach: Light of Life Missions
• Revolution Christmas Party
• Movie night out

Do your best to get to Revolution this Fall, bring everybody you know, and get ready to watch God do some incredible things!

Hey Everyone!

It’s 5 a.m., Thursday morning in Costa Rica. Today is our vacation day! We’re going to a crocodile farm followed by going to the beach and a few other surprises.

It’s been an unbelievable trip so far! Our typical daily agenda looks like this:

8 a.m. – Breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. – Work with Lunch
6 p.m. Dinner
7 p.m. Chapel
8 p.m. – 10 p.m. – Group Time

We’re working with 6:8 Ministries! They are awesome! They are definitely being the church in Costa Rica. Were helping in several different ministries:

1.) Building a House - They have a vision to build 12 houses a year for people! We get the privilege of building one of them this year! It’s a ton of work and we’re literally building the house from scratch, but it’s awesome! We can’t wait to give the house to the owner when it’s finished this weekend.

2.) Feeding Center – A few times a week the church opens it’s doors to feed the homeless. There is a 70% unemployment rate here. So they get these people in the door and ultimately try to get them to serve in some capacity and ultimately get a job where they’re making money.

3.) English Classes - We’ve gotten to go into schools as well as be a part of English classes the church offers in the evenings! It’s so much fun!

4.) Dramas / Sharing the Gospel – We’ve presented a drama we’ve practiced everywhere we go. Afterward, the Gospel is always shared. It’s pretty awesome!

5.) Men’s Center – This was pretty sweet. . . they have a center where they bring in 7 men, as long as they follow the rules, and house them. They ultimately try to get them off substance abuse and into the working world.

6.) Prayer Walks – Walking around the city and praying for different needs! Definitely awesome!

We’ve done several other things as well, but we’ll fill all of you in when we get back! Pastor Nathan has posted some pictures here. We’ve taken a ton of pictures of the projects we’ve been a part of and we’ll be sure to post them when we get home.

Our students have been incredible! They all have amazing attitudes and I literally have not heard anyone complain. We’re making a ton of great memories together! I know this is going to be a life changing trip for each of them.

Please continue to pray that God will continue to do big things both in and through our lives!

We miss you guys back home!

Much love,

Bubs