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!

Today has been a great day of seeing God work! We have been so blessed to see God move, even when we thought that things weren’t going as we planned. It has been such an encouraging thing to see that these outreaches are not happening because of how good we are at our job, but rather because God is good and He wants people to hear about Him. So where do we start with today…

Oh I know! We’ll start with this!

Elsinore High School: Elsinore high kicked off the week today with their first rally. They had a local band called “Doulos” (which means bond servant) come and play in their small gym. We were all a bit nervous about it actually being pulled off or not because we hadn’t had much luck with advertising up to this point. But God is so good! Not only did the club members do great at bringing people, but Brandon even had some non-Christian friends that were bringing people in just because they were excited to see him. God was using everyone to bring people in and we were excited to see His word spoken to all the students who did show up. It was an incredible success! and quite unexpected to be honest. But that’s not where that excitement ended…

After the rally, we were going to meet with students from both schools to witness after school. So we split. Brandon and Aubrey headed over to Lakeside High School while Mike and Kelly stayed at Elsinore High. When it came time to start witnessing, the students at both schools were no where to be found. Mike and Kelly decided they would just walk around and talk to some people about the rally and hopefully get some good opportunities to share the gospel. But Brandon and Aubrey had an interesting experience over at Lakeside.

When Brandon and Aubrey went to Lakeside, they were met with a close to empty campus and no response from the students in the Christian Club. They continued to call while walking deeper into campus and came to a stop. Frustrated with the situation, they decided prayer would be the best option. So they sat on a bench, mid campus, and prayed that God would just guide them. They didn’t want to make any decisions without His guidance. As soon as they went silent to listen for a word, the phone rang with the decision making information. God’s answer was clear, to go back to Kelly and Mike and mobilize the students to come with them on Thursday and Friday. Discouraged, Aubrey stated how she really wanted to tell someone about God and that she had three tracts in her possession. Brandon and Aubrey decided that God would bring who He would bring and they would leave that up to Him. Just as they were walking out, three people walked up and the two had an opportunity to talk to them about Christ. Aubrey got to hand out those exact three tracts and Brandon was blown away by how quickly God answered and brought people. God is so good!

Prayer Requests:

• Please pray for the students that we were able to speak to at the high schools. Ask that God would just move in their lives through our conversations.
• Pray for the slam poet coming to Lakeside on Thursday. Pray that his poetry will impact the student’s lives.
  
• Pray that God gives us as a team and the students in the School clubs boldness and courage to bring glory to Him.
• Pray that God will guide students to us and guide us to students so that His word will be known

Thank you all so much for your support and prayers! It is such a blessing to see God move on these campus’s

We made it down to the beautiful dirt streets of Lake Elsinore. We are ready to start the preparation for the outreaches at the schools that we are working with and we’re hoping to spread the excitement.

We are working with two of the local schools in the area; Elsinore High School and Lakeside High School. We’re excited to be working with these schools and to be a part in helping mobilizing the clubs. This will be the first big outreach for Lakeside and a pivotal point in the leadership development of Elsinore High.

Elsinore High School: Elsinore will be doing advertising on Monday and Tuesday with some shirts, posters, and fliers. Wednesday they are having a band come play in their big gym with a student giving their testimony, and then on Thursday and Friday they are going to do Christian musical chairs and have a guest speaker come.

Lakeside High School: On Monday, Lakeside will be doing advertising and Tuesday will begin their rally week. To start it off, they will have a band playing in the quad and will have two students give their testimonies. On Wednesday, they will continue their week with some games and interactive activities for the students in school and Thursday they will have a slam poet come do some poetry and 3 students will give their testimonies. On Friday, they will finish it off with some break dancers with a guest speaker from a local church.

Monday after school, we will be meeting with the students with some final encouragements and training to kick off the week.

Prayer Requests:

• Please pray for the Students at both schools who are involved. Pray that they will be bold in their proclamation of their faith and that other Christians will be attracted to this boldness and get involved.
• Pray that Lakeside will have a smooth experience with getting the final things approved by administration
• Pray that God will prepare the hearts of many non-Christians to hear the gospel and that He would call them to Him

Thank you very much and we’ll keep you updated