Reggie Dabbs said don’t let your past dictate your future. I have screwed up so bad and I’ve always thought that I would never be able to escape from those mistakes but I now know that I can. That statement amazes me still because yea sure we cant be perfect no one is but with God’s help we will be perfected. Wow. Starfield then led worship and those songs, ugh, those songs were so real. Like the words completely related to my life. Indescribable. David Crowder played that night and they were amazing. I mean at first they were just songs. Then they became so real. And at that moment in time there wasn’t anyone else in that dome but me and god. I met JESUS for the first time. I mean don’t get me wrong yea I believed in him but I had never experienced him. He showed me that I am worth something and that I am important and He made me for a reason. I am not a mistake. I don’t know how to put in words how incredible that feeling was it was like ...ugh... I was just ...

ugh... One of the chaperones took a picture of me without me knowing, she told me that she wasn’t sure if I was gonna start to fly or if I was gonna collapse and quite frankly I wasn’t sure either. Right after it was over one of our chaperones that was with me took me and re-introduced me to my youth pastor as a girl who now knew that Christ was there and I was bawling. I ended up having to go sit down and I sat there for a good half hour. I will NEVER forget that night. I could not stop smiling. Even in the picture that was taken where I’m crying I have a grin from ear to ear on my face. I haven’t been the same since that night. I seem to be more open to things and I don’t get as angry as easy. Wow. I don’t even know how else to describe it. I mean this doesn’t even begin to describe how that day was. Wow

- Lena, Student