Take Your Vitamins!!!

A couple years back, members of Harvest decided to organize a youth rally called the Vitamin Jesus Rally (VJ Rally). VJ Rally was created to bring together youth students and adults from various churches around Orlando regardless of their ethnicity, religious background, church, etc. The last time we had a VJ Rally was back in 2007 I believe and after years of not having one, our Student Leadership Team decided to organize one for the year of 2011.

From a personal standpoint, I personally didn't know what to expect. It had been a while since we did something like this, I felt like I was incompetent in planning an event such as this, and planning the event itself was relatively easy. Being the OCD person that I tend to be in situations such as these, I felt that because it was so easy to plan, something vital was missing; God proved me wrong.

As the day got near, I urged our SLT to pray for the following things...

• God's provision and manifestation throughout the rally
• For God to humble our hearts and everyone else's hearts that we may realize how much we need Him
• That we would focus not on how epic this year's VJ Rally is, but that we would focus on leading those who are attending into worship
• That God would speak to Pastor Chung and really place in P. Chung's heart a message that we need to hear. If you remember, Pastor Sam from this past retreat believed that if his sermon wasn't for everyone in the room, his sermon was AT LEAST one person. The first night, I felt like I was one of those people that his sermon was for and Pastor Sam told me that that means God really loves me. To take up 40 min and to place a SPECIFIC sermon in P. Sam's heart that was meant JUST FOR ME... make sense? Good. So let's pray that P. Chung would be nothing else but a mouthpiece for what God has to say FOR US.
• God's provision and use of the Drama Gators to minister to us and the other attendees
• Open hearts in the attendees that they would let down their guard and really let God work in their lives.

And of course, just as He promises us, God was and is faithful. I was expecting around 80 attendees but by God's grace and provision, we had 120 attendees. The night was an amazing night of never-ending blessings and witnessing of God's unconditional love, grace, and mercy upon HIS children. 

Thanks you to the mothers who helped prepare food, Drama Gators for acting out AWESOME skits and dances, Albert Kang for leading us in sweet, sweet times of praise, P. Chung for delivering an AWESOME message, SLT for planning and helping out in all the numerous ways that you did, and God, for being the God that You promised us. A God characterized by love, compassion, comfort, grace, mercy, awesomeness, patience, kindness, etc. I cannot wait for next years VJ Rally. Until then, enjoy the pictures and the slideshow at the end which includes some footage of the Drama Gators.