The annual Overflow Youth Convention is taking place this weekend at three different locations across our Western Ontario District. We honoured to be one of the host sites this year. Our sanctuary will be filled this Friday and Saturday with over a thousand young people seeking God. So would you please take time to pray for them and the spiritual team leading this conference. Let’s believe together that they will have a powerful encounter with the living God!
FIRST LIGHT is the theme of their convention based on 1 John 2:8, “Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and in you because darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.”
Darkness is something we all go through. The challenges and battles we face often tempt us to feel like we need to “hunker down” or “hold tight”. Like the dawn of a new day, the FIRST LIGHT, our hope is found knowing that this darkness is passing, and we can trust the Light that is already shining. It is time to move forward, to launch into the future as we glimpse the First Light that is Jesus.
This Sunday, one of the youth convention speakers, Jeremiah Niengor will be preaching at PPT. Jeremiah is a youth pastor at First Assembly in Calgary Alberta. He is passionate and burdened for the next generation and wants to see young people raised up to be influencing, the people around them and the world with the life-transforming presence of Jesus. His heart is to be a voice for the voiceless. And in the same way, the transformative power of Jesus has changed his mind, his heart, and his way of life, he is on a mission to be a part of that very thing in young people's lives today.
Plan to join us and together let’s experience the power and presence of the First Light—Jesus—on this Pentecost Sunday!
Every Blessing,
Pastor Barry Risto
Lead Pastor