YC Manitoba - Pictures and Stories

For the past three years the women of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario have generously given so we can give out gifts to the next generation at YC Manitoba with the message that they matter to God and they matter to us.  This year we gave out nylon flyers (frisbees) with the words YOU MATTER! printed on each of them.

We saw some the the flyers/frisbees being used in worship as the bands did an excellent job of leading us into the throne-room of God.

We repeatedly heard from adult leaders words of encouragement that the youth need to hear this message and to keep up the good work.  On the final day of YC we had an adult come and share her story of how the mirrors and Letter from God (www.fathersloveletter.com), which were given out in 2009, personally impacted her.  She got in her truck at the end of YC that year and looked over and saw the Letter from God and then looked at the mirror with the words YOU MATTER! printed on it.  In that moment God spoke to her heart and the words YOU MATTER! were just for her.  Even as she told her story she was filled with the emotion of our personal God speaking to her that day.

Also, there was a group of 14 who raised a lot of money to come from Arviat, Nunavut to Winnipeg for YC Manitoba.  What a great group of people!  I was reminded and challenged that if the dream and desire is there the money can be raised and the opportunity to be in a crowd of approximately 1100 people at YC Manitoba can actually happen.  I can only imagine what it was like for them to be part of the weekend when, according to Google, they come from a community of just over 2000 people!


Like so many other years YC Manitoba 2011 - Hear the Sound will reverberate in our ears for months and years to come!