My Ebeneezer - Camper Testimony

Enjoy this camper testimony on how Ignite changes lives:

Samuel then took a large stone and placed it in between the towns of Mizpah and Jeshanah. He named it Ebenezer (which means “the stone of help”), for he said, “Up to this point, the Lord has helped us!” – 1 Samuel 7:12 (NLT)

This past week I was able to place my own Ebenezer.

In just a matter of four days, the Lord did some radical things in my life, and I want to share it will y’all today.

From Sunday to Wednesday I was a part of a wonderful camp called “Ignite Texas.” It was a camp for incoming UT students to help us find community with other Christians on campus. Going into it, I didn’t really know what to expect. I saw it as an opportunity to be on fire for the Lord as soon as I enter college, but it turned out to be SO much more than that, in the greatest of ways.

Not only am I on fire for God, but my relationship with Him is so much deeper than it was when I stepped on those camp grounds. I see Him in a whole new light now; The Lord is so big and miraculous that I seriously cannot even fathom it. I am starting to get to know WHO He is, not just what He can do, and it has been the greatest adventure.

And y’all, I met the most amazing people I have ever met in my entire life. The loving presence that surrounded me was not only The Lord’s goodness, but the passion that His disciples had for their new peers. Something I noticed very quickly was that the counselors at this camp truly wanted to get to know us campers, and that made the entire experience feel so welcoming. No one was left out, and no one was alone.

In high school I did not have the greatest luck with friends. The more years that passed by, the less friends I had. My beliefs and the way I lived my life didn’t line up with other people’s, so slowly my friends chipped away. By senior year I had a few acquaintances and one friend, and that one friend was already in college. Senior year was a difficult season for me. I battled with my health, family issues, and on top of all of that I felt alone.

But that’s when The Lord gave me a promise.

A promise for amazing friends in the future.

And guess what?

He kept His promise!

What God had in store for me when it came to friends was WAY better than what I had imagined. I figured that I would make friends throughout my collegiate years, whether it be in my classes, church, or clubs. But instead, God has put me in a place where I can enter this new season of my life with friends already by my side.

I cannot explain how grateful I am for Ignite. The immense amount of love, breakthroughs, memories, and inside jokes that happened in that short amount of time is something I will NEVER forget. It is a stone that I can always look back on and proclaim, “He is good.”

Because He is.

God really is.

And I am a testimony for that.

Much love,

Kassie

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