16,000 young adults, 20 guests, 2 conferences, 1 house for Christmas!

What a holiday it's been!

It was our first Christmas as a married couple – and we had family, old friends & some very new friends fly in from across the country to spend the holiday with us (and of course attend the onething08 young adult conference :). I think we had nearly 20 people (including parents & in-laws) packed into our new, not-so-large, 3-bedroom home for 2 weeks! It was the beginning of the Lam-ily Bed & Breakfast! But we were SO grateful for the opportunity to be a blessing with our new house that the Lord has so miraculously provided for us!

Most of our guests were student leaders on their college campus who had planned to come out to attend the onething08 conference as well as our Luke18 Leadership Summit. The onething08 conference had over 16,000 young adults from across the globe in attendance being challenged by the messages of intimacy with Jesus, the lifestyle of prayer & fasting, and the message of the forerunner – and people left stirred and provoked to go deeper in the Word and to grow in the knowledge of God. And about 500 key leaders of prayer furnaces on their college campuses and of their cities stayed for our Luke18 Leadership Summit – it was a powerful time of exhortation, encouragement, and equipping by Lou Engle, Bob Sorge, Mike Bickle and others for leaders who are laboring to pioneer a context of sustained prayer in their region. People left with awakened zeal, a new burden, and renewed vision to see a "house of prayer for all nations" (Isaiah 56:7) that would contend in prayer "day and night for God's speedy justice" (Luke 18:1,7-8) on their college campuses and in their cities. It was so powerful!

And so it was — our first Christmas married, breaking in our new house, hosting a myriad of family & friends, serving a conference & coordinating a summit, and remembering our beloved King Jesus who gave His life to give us life. Thank You.

-thai-

16,000 young adults in ardent worship & prayer...

Mike Bickle & Lou Engle leading onething08

encountering Jesus...

A generation of young people going hard after God.