May. Recommendations were made and implementation is beginning to stir the interest and imaginations of the community. One of the brothers has begun a ministry to the residents at a homeless shelter in Jackson. Bill Navarre has brought many of us to share our personal testimony. Bill gathers as many residents as are interested after the dinner meal and they recite a memory verse together, receive a teaching, and then hear a testimony of how Jesus Christ has changed individual lives. This has been a growing experience causing adults who made commitments as youth to reexamine their own testimony and conversion.
Youth experiences on mission trips continue to produce life-changing decisions among our youth.
One materialistically oriented young lady was observed as leaving everything she could in Honduras when she realized how little they had in comparison to how much she had back at home. Summer Internship Program, Stand in the Gap and Detroit Summer Outreach participation are producing seriously minded young people who want to serve Jesus with their whole lives. The People of God, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The People of God marked their 25 th anniversary in the fall of 1998. The celebration began in November when Steve Clark spoke at a Community Gathering about true gratitude and discipleship. The gathering was only the first of a series of celebrations that would stretch through to January of 1999.