Riding the high of a Christian conferance.

I have just spent 10 hours in a car, 20 hours in total going to a christian conference which I never attended. I sat in my room for three days while over 2,000 people from Harvest Bible Fellowship learnt and shared in something that I had no idea what.

But my experience of the trip will never leave my mind because the most exciting things happened to me not inside the enormous church which I never got to see but with the friends I made going to the conference. Daniel, Megan, and Melissa showed me that God truly accepts the humble and cares for the poor. These three people that I travelled with may or may not have any idea how profoundly awesome our God truly is.

Although I will miss this experience it was the hidden things that revealed God to me in way that I have never experienced him ever before. It was the detours, the death defying car rides, the caring and the sharing that opened up to me a new world of christian love that twelve million people never could. For me the blessing wasn't in learning more how to be a leader, or whatever was taught at the conference, but the ingratitude that some people can have when they are given opportunity after opportunity, and never fully understand just who God is.

Daniel, Megan, and Melissa really know who God is. They are humble people, and their impact as believers has the power to not only change a life but change the world.

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