Today was the final day of a long and awesome week. We really got to see the way God works today at both Lakeside and Elsinore High and all we could do is laugh. Laugh at ourselves for having any worry that things wouldn’t happen, and laugh because God really does have a great sense of humor.
Lakeside High School: There were break dancers and a speaker who’s message was about the things of this world not satisfying. It was located in the small gym and there was free pizza as an advertisement for the rally. During the first lunch, the pizza was really distracting to a lot of the students so during second lunch, the team decided to change it up a bit in order to focus the students attention on the speaker. We had the Gideons bring bibles and we had an abundant amount of tracts. The students were really eager to take the materials and we gave away over 200 bibles! It was really exciting to see the students hunger for more information as well as pizza. Afterwords, a few of the students stuck around for conversation with the team members, Club members and speaker. The conversations were a great starting point for some of these students as they found that there is more to life than just living and dying. It was an amazing experience for the Student Venture club members and it was incredible for us to see the leaders of the group step up the way they did. God did some incredible things and we can only give the glory for this success to Him! 
Elsinore High School: When we made it over to Elsinore, it was a real test of God’s control. The gym wasn’t open, the lights weren’t on and nothing was set up at all. There were 9 minutes til lunch started, needless to say it was a bit stressful. But when all seemed to be hopeless (at least for 1st lunch) God came through in the funniest way. We had the janitor come in to turn on the lights and as we were setting up, a bunch of guys came in (who weren’t believers) who ended up helping us put together the materials and set the bibles up. Miraculously, everything was set up and ready to go by the time the bell rang and students started rolling in. We laughed at how God was using non-believers to accomplish His goals. He doesn’t need us to do His work and He decided to give us a picture of that in the funniest ways. The students sat down to hear a local youth pastor tell them logical reasoning for believing that Jesus was God and afterwords came and got free pizza. As we were giving out pizza, more and more people started streaming in looking for the free pizza and Kellee had the ingenious idea of giving away pizza to only those who had a bible and tracts. Every student that came in grabbed a bible and tracts and came for the pizza. It was incredible to see how eager the students were to grab the tracts regardless of the pizza.
Then at second lunch, we had more of the club members come in to help. But there was one student (this is worth a special mention) named Luke. Luke is an old friend of Brandon’s who decided he would come to the rallies on his own and was excited to see that Brandon was there. This time, however, not only did he recruit a ton of more people to come, but he helped pass out bibles and tracts like he was a leader of the club. Luke is not a christian and wasn’t going Student venture and yet he was one of our most prominent leaders at this rally. It was incredible to see God do His work even with non-believers. Now Luke did show a lot of interest and we are convinced that God is working in His life, but we were just blown away at God’s control.
This is Luke, one of our best leaders.
These rallies were absolutely incredible. We passed out more than 380 bibles plus all the tracts that came with it. God accomplished what He wanted and it was incredible to see that it was only Him who could have done all this. All the credit can only go to Him and we were just blessed to be a part of it
Prayer Requests:
- Please pray that God will continue to work in the lives of these students who have heard and that He will draw them to Him.
- Also pray that the Student Venture clubs will be intentional in their follow-up and that they will continue to catch of the vision of outreach on these campus’s
- Pray that God word will continue to be proclaimed on these high school campus’s all throughout California and that He will be known in all places.
Thank you all so much for your support and prayers. It has been an incredible week and the Gospel has been shared. Please continue to keep California School Project in your prayers as we continue to help Christian Clubs on High School campus’s and God bless!
The team will be keeping in contact with both North Madera High and Liberty High through their rally and the rest of the school year. 
