On Thursday morning we fasted for breakfast. So we started the morning with a time of prayer and praise, and then their own private devotions.

Then we loaded up the cars with the youth and took off for Nashville for a witnessing experience. We let the kids free to go around to the shops and encouraged them to witness to the clerks or who ever they met. Oh, the stories that they came back with. One girl was asked to leave the store when she told a clerk that she loved Jesus, a few others got the cold shoulder, but over all there were some tremendous stories that the kids told after we returned back.

Then at 11 O'clock we met together in a court yard, and the Brethren began to sing several songs. Don has taken all the young men that come to camp and formed a men's ensemble, and they call themselves, "The Brethren."   They have done this for several years now.  Oh, the anointing that was on those boys…we have several young men with a deep bass voice, and Don with his high tenor voice, such harmony. I've seldom seen them under such a beautiful anointing… then the girls joined them and they sang several songs together. They sounded like they had practiced together for months. There were just a few people that came up to listen, there just weren't that many people out shopping yet. Reimar and Esther went around and talked to some of the people, and had some wonderful contacts. One man use to be a band director until he got Parkinson's Disease, and was there in his wheel chair. After the young people sang together Charles Bryce took his violin and went over and played several songs just for him.

After they had sung in the city court house yard for about a half an hour they moved over to another little courtyard. Esther had met a store merchant and was sharing about our camp and the young people, and they invited them to come there and sing. So we moved down there and sang together for another half an hour. Esther had Reimar come over and talk to a young couple that ran a jewelry shop. Reimar started sharing his life story and would share a little and stop, and this couple would say, tell us more…. So he spent the entire time sharing with this couple. This couple admitted that their faith was stale.

Michael and Carla Hubbard met a Jewish lady. They shared with her for a long long time. In fact she was suppose to open a store, she was a clerk there, but couldn't find her key or something, so she asked Michael and Carla to walk with her to get another key. They shared about Reimar's life story too. Then later that morning Jenn Johnson comes along to her store and witnesses to her too. Then that evening just before our picnic dinner, Don asked me to go into town to get some more film for the video camera. So I went to our room to get the key for the car, and Reimar said he had a burden about me driving into town alone. So he sat there and prayed a bit, while I was biting at the bit to get going.... smile... Then he said he would go with me. While he was getting ready to go, Michael Hubbard walks in our room and starts talking to Reimar. He asks where we are going, and offers to go along. So just Reimar and Michael went to town. Just as they were leaving the CVS store, they met this lady again, and so Reimar got to share with her too, and give her his website address etc, and got her address to send her a book.  If Michael hadn't been along, we wouldn't have known who she was.   God has his ways of reaching people.