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Origins of Collision: Bethany's Call 0:02 We wanna honor God because He sees everything.0:10 You were born with a plan and a purpose. He's the God of all things possible. He's the God of all0:22 miracles.0:52 Welcome to Grace Grace with Naina Michelle. I'm Michelle Humphreys.0:56 And I am Naina Keegan. Welcome to our broadcast today. You are gonna wanna stay tuned. We have 2 very powerful guests here with the most amazing ministry. You're gonna wanna hear what they have to say. Michelle, you1:07 wanna do the honors? You want1:09 us to introduce honored to have. Everybody wants kids to have revival. These 2 are leading it across the nation. Today, we have1:21 John Glasser and Sarah Gibbons, and we're not gonna take up any more time. We want you to just tell us what you're doing because we are so interested.1:31 Welcome to our show. Yes. We're excited to hear what you're doing.1:34 Thank you. Thank you so much. What a what an honor. God is really the 1 that is center stage. He's the 1 moving. Thank you for the privilege of telling this story.1:46 Yes. So how did it get started? Tell us so you grew up in a Christian home. Your dad was a minister.1:52 He was.1:53 Yeah. And you didn't wanna be a minister. That1:56 is so classic. You have so many people, like, that's girl walked that way. Didn't know how to to run from it.2:01 And we just, you know, he he was an independent Baptist. Dad, I love you. Independent Baptist pastor, but during that time, there was really, like, a vow of poverty in that Yeah. Arena, in2:12 that denomination. So, yeah, I think all of us that grew up in the house, there was 5 siblings Mhmm. All didn't wanna be in ministry. So but here I am today, God's call. I I would say that I'm a2:24 reluctant Jonah to obey God. So I was in ministry for a little bit, wanted to get out, wanted to get back into business. And, a girl named Bethany, she's really2:36 the hero of the story. She was 14, her dad was a pastor. She wanted to leave high school and go to missions in Africa. And Bethany, if you're listening, I'm honoring you. She doesn't2:47 like to be honored. But yeah, she called me and was like, hey, there's so much brokenness in my school. There's fights breaking out all the time. I literally like, girls3:00 duking it out, pulling their hair out. There's stuff going on in bathrooms. Like, this is 2008. So imagine, like, the the Wow. Increase in the manifestation of evil since then. Yeah. And3:12 she would wake up at 4 and pray till 8 for her school. Oh my goodness. Out to God Wow. For him to move. And, anyway, she called me. I was like, hey. I I want some help3:24 with Lincoln High School, and I tried to get rid of her. I was like, you know what? How about you go pray about it for 2 weeks and call me back? And so, she's really the hero of the story.3:36 Just imagine that 14 years old having that much,3:40 Prayed for 4 hours3:41 4 hours.3:42 A day. Yeah. That's amazing.3:44 And were you just thinking, like, this is too big a problem?3:47 I don't know how to even what3:49 No. I I think my heart was like, I don't wanna be in ministry anymore. Oh, it's too big. I wanna hang it up and go back into business.3:55 So I'm not gonna get involved in this.3:57 Right.3:58 I yeah.3:58 I was3:58 trying to push her out. But4:00 So did you pray?4:01 No. I didn't. Nope. She called me back. I had a little bit of integrity, and so I I went to the school. She invited me to come, and there's like when when you see4:13 it, you can't unsee it. You're just like, there's so much brokenness that my heart just broke, and it was like, alright. Let's let's do this. I gotta help this girl. She's serious about this. So4:25 she started collision. She called it that because she wanted people to encounter God like getting hit by a Mack truck. Like, you're never the same. You have a divine encounter with Jesus.4:35 That's something, like, a a young group would not forget, the name of that. That is that sounds like something they would want to go to because, you know, I I I love that name. So that so4:45 So how'd you get started?4:46 Yeah. So, we started with this idea that she came up with and a couple of other people that were helping her called Collision Cafe. And the principal allowed it, which was a miracle, but we started4:58 serving students a free breakfast on Friday mornings.5:01 Oh, my goodness.5:01 So our 1st 1, we came in and put up these massive curtains, red curtains. We served about 500 kids the 1st Friday morning. This is a school of 2000 students.5:11 Wow.5:12 So they chose to come into our area, and then the student leaders with Bethany would go table table by table sharing the gospel, praying for people. It was incredible.5:22 What a great idea. Wow. But the fact that it was allowed is indeed a miracle. Things about that. Wow.5:27 So that led.5:29 Kids started getting saved? Or tell me what happened in that 1st Yeah. 500.5:34 A huge amount of that population were refugee immigrant kids Mhmm. All from all over the world. Wow. And so we just started to get to know them, hear their stories, love them. They wanted to play5:45 soccer. They wanted to do this. We got to know the native population in our in our school in South Dakota, which we have a large native population. And God just opened door after door after door after door. And,5:57 the principal was really the 1 It's a longer story, but God really touched her heart, and she had trained so many of the principals in our district. So she started opening the door to other schools. We started inviting6:09 the churches in. That's why I believe in student leadership, like students can be filled with the Holy Spirit, hear from God, get vision from God. If somebody believes in in them enough to get6:21 behind them, resource them, train them, help them, they will change the world. Mhmm.6:25 It's true. We we actually just did a program. We were talking about how the youth, there is no junior holy spirit. Yeah. When they're saved, they get the whole thing too. And and, you know, God loves that childlike6:36 faith, and he can use it and use them so powerfully. And so many times, we we just kinda like you said, we just kinda dismiss or think they're too young or whatever. But, you know, God's gonna use raise them up, and it's6:47 it's amazing to see. So6:49 Well, give us a testimony of an a sample of Yeah. Of what happened.6:55 Alright. So another hero is Maddie Williams, and she's gonna watch this. So Maddie, we started growing in Sioux Falls, and, there's a longer story of how we grew a little bit outside of Sioux7:07 Falls, but she's from a small town just north of us. And we started to help this town called Watertown. Anyway, she didn't grow up in a Christian home. She acted like a Christian7:19 because 1 of her friends was a Christian. She was like, hey, I I should I I wanna be like her. So she just went through the motions. Right. And, 1 of the 1 of the most unique things that we encourage our7:31 churches to do is to do worship nights in public schools through student leadership. So we did a worship night at Watertown High School, and here's all the students leading worship. The anointing of the Holy Spirit just7:42 fills the room, and these students are testifying about being saved, like how God's changed their life. So she ended up giving her life to Jesus at that worship night, and now she works for us.7:54 Oh my goodness.7:55 But this girl, stood up at a banquet not long ago and just detailed, like, here's 4 generations of students that have been discipled that were far from God. Here's this boy who discipled this boy who8:06 discipled this boy who discipled this boy. Like Exponential. This is the power of Maddie Williams coming from not being in a church, encountering God, getting trained how to share the gospel. The week after8:18 she gave her life to Jesus, she was sitting in a coffee shop and I was like, alright, Maddie, I want you to open your phone. We're gonna send the gospel to as many contacts as you have in your phone today. So you don't8:29 need to be a seminarian. Mhmm. You don't need to be in church for 30 years.8:33 No.8:34 Like, when you have a story, God can use that story immediately.8:37 It's your testimony.8:38 It is.8:38 He plants the seeds and he does8:40 the heavy lifting, you know.8:41 We're gonna come right back in just a moment and continue this awesome testimony.8:45 It's finally here, our 2nd annual mega sale. This sale only comes around once a year, so take advantage of the best offers ever while you can. For example, save 50 percent on our Giza8:57 Dream bed sheets, as low as 29 98. And for the 1st time ever on TV, MyPillow mattresses and MyPillow mattress toppers, as low as 99 98.9:09 And you save 50 percent on our LuxPure 6 piece tall sets. Regular 69 98. Now only 39 98. And our best selling standard MyPillows, regular9:20 49 98. On sale for 17 98. Wait on it. Megasale only 14 98. So go to my pillow dot com or call the number on your screen. Use this promo9:32 code to take advantage of our 2nd annual Megasale. But wait. There's more. To make the Megasale even more special, when you order right now, your order's gonna ship absolutely9:44 free.9:45 Welcome back to Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle, and we are here with the founders of the ministry collision. And so we love what you've been talking about so far. So what9:58 happened next? Because this is pretty huge now. I have some of the numbers here. You are in 84 cities and growing, 22 states, 6500 plus students impacted weekly,10:10 1500 plus students serve on teams with you guys, and you're in, you have 144 church partners. I mean, that's only God. This is incredible. Yeah. And it's just getting10:22 started. I mean, honestly, what what God has in store for this ministry. So so how I mean and now you're back working in ministry. You didn't want you know?10:32 I didn't want to10:33 hear that. Back, and you're here with Sarah. Yeah. Now how did you end up joining Collision?10:39 Well, that is a longer story for another time, but I we just say, like, holy spirit just crossed our paths in Dallas, Texas. I was coming out of a season from working with middle and high school10:51 students, in a youth pastor type of role, and I knew my season was ending. And, we connected through a friend. And about a month after I11:03 met John, I I reached out to him and just said, this ministry is well, I felt like I was already carrying it in my heart. So if you ever have any openings, I'd love to know, love11:15 to talk more. And so that's how we got connected and it's been a joy ever since. I mean, God's just he's breathing across the nation right now, across the world, and he's awakening,11:27 our young people. And so that's what I wanna be doing, revival ministry, equipping them so that they're going to, you know, disciple their friends, share their11:39 testimony, share the gospel, disciple their own kids when they're parents, be a great wife and husband, and just live a life of gospel sharing11:51 and discipleship.11:52 I bet a lot of them even go get their parents saved. I bet some of them because if kids are not saved, chances are their parents aren't. That's right. And so that's can be exponential in that regard as well. So12:04 amazing. So so tell us, like, what what's next? Like, what happened after that? Like, it just started growing, you know, and and were you were you were you getting funding, or how is that all working out?12:16 I'll try I'll try to make it brief. But fast forward to 2016, our board let me have a sabbatical, which I didn't take. I went on a mission trip to Ukraine, took my family, and I really learned12:27 God confronted me with, are you doing events? Are you making disciples that multiply? And I brought that back, I'm like, we have to make disciples. This is what Jesus told us to do. What does that look like? What does12:39 that mean? What what is discipleship even supposed to be? What kind of skill sets do we want disciples to have? So that shifted a lot of our direction. So we started really thinking about12:50 what skills should disciples have. They should be self feeding. They should be obedient when they hear the Holy Spirit. Mhmm. They should be reproducible. Like, who are they pouring into that then can reproduce? 2nd13:02 Timothy 2 2. Yeah. Right? Like, entrust to faithful men, etcetera. Fast forward to 20 21, I did not wanna go national. Again, reluctant Jonah. God laid me13:13 on my back with COVID, almost died. Oh my goodness. Had an open vision. I never have had an open vision ever. In the hospital, saw America, saw horses and riders with torches13:25 from the very top of our nation through all the way through the south. And Jesus just said, ride east. And it's a way longer story. He was speaking to to me 1st about how much he loved me and how proud he was of me.13:37 But that vision after the hospital, it was like, okay, lord. You love all the children, all 32000000. So that increased our vision and increased why we're doing what we're doing today.13:49 Wow. What an amazing testimony.13:51 Did your healing come at that same time from there? I mean, because a lot of people in the hospital with COVID Yeah. It was not good.13:58 Yeah. It was it was a wild experience. I I can't describe, like, it's like honey from heaven touching your head and wrapping around your whole body, and you feel your spirit lift. Adult. And14:10 Jesus just started talking to me. He walked into the room. Amen. It was really powerful.14:16 And were you changed forever from that experience?14:19 I got out, and I'm like, alright, Lord. I will obey you. I will I will operate in radical immediate obedience. Whatever you ask me, it's yours. You have the rest of my days.14:32 Wow. Praise god. Well, now you would have to be radically obedient to navigate the hostility of the public school system. How do you do that?14:43 Yeah. So another hero of mine is Will. He's a youth pastor at, Renovation Church in Minneapolis. You think about Minneapolis Minneapolis. And all that's happened there.14:53 Must be important because it's such a an an enemy's camp. Right?14:58 Yeah. But God is moving.14:59 Good is gonna happen there. I just can't happening.15:02 So Hope it will happen. Powerful. So he he's a youth pastor. He's got 50 students. He has this multiplication vision already before we even meet him. He gets connected in a coffee shop with 115:14 of our guys, Jacob, and they start talking about multiplication. And so Jacob comes in. He partners with Will. Will starts to train his students like you can do this, you can lead your own bible studies that multiply.15:26 So Kenzie, 1 of his students, who's now a senior, she didn't grow up in a Christian home, full of anxiety, fear, all sorts of things. Her story is crazy. She comes to Christ through15:38 1 of these bible studies, and she's like, I can do this. I'm a I'm a do this. So she started, nobody showed up to her bible study. Nobody. She just prayed and prayed and prayed. Finally, like, 2 girlsTestimonies and National Vision 15:50 showed up. This, 2 weeks ago, Friday, she had 30 girls come15:56 Praise God.15:56 In her basement on Friday night, where everybody else going out partying. She's like offering this opportunity. So his youth group's grown to 2 50 in the span of about a year and a half. Amazing. 50 to16:08 2 50. Like, this is Minneapolis. I'm seeing it in Seattle with Enoch and David. Enoch's this little evangelist that goes around to schools. Yes, there's hostility, but16:20 I would say the demons are more scared of the authority of Jesus.16:25 Amen. Praise the lord.16:25 And when we step out in authority and believe that God's already went ahead of us Mhmm. Like, he opens the doors. And students are the Trojan horse.16:34 Yes.16:35 If we can empower them, they're already in the schools. Yes. They already bear the name of Jesus. So I don't have to be the hero. I don't have to come in and do all the preaching. If I can just equip the students through16:46 the church to do the work of ministry, they're gonna do it. They wanna do it.16:50 And don't you think when all of a sudden, like, 1 of your friends, you just see that they're different. Something happened. You know, like, behold your new creation. And, you know, all of a sudden,17:02 you're a friend of this person who now doesn't wanna party, doesn't wanna go out, wants to talk about Jesus. And so, you know, these kids have got to say, I I know you. I know something had to have happened to you.17:13 Right? That this has got to be something it's worth investigating. Let let's go check this out because that's what's so cool about it's it's not listening to some parent or, you know, somebody telling their testimony.17:24 They're seeing it because these are their peers. And I love that. That's like, you know, God is so brilliant, isn't he? This is the things he thinks of. We're gonna come right back. Stay right here. You are watching17:35 Grace Grace with Nina and Michelle. We will be right back.17:38 Have you ever wondered if someone was monitoring you, like nefarious tech companies, corrupt federal agencies, or hostile foreign countries? News flash. They are the deep state, big tech, and China are tracking your17:49 every move and using it against you up until now. You've been powerless to stop it. However, Quanta has cracked the code with quantum resistant encryption, and we control the entire ecosystem end to end.18:01 Visit quantasure dot com today to take back your privacy and help vanquish the enemies of free speech. When communications need to be secure, use Quanta and be sure. Enter the promo code on your screen for a discount on18:13 your subscription.Overcoming Hostility Through Students 18:16 Welcome back to Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle, and we are here with our wonderful guest. And we're gonna be talking about We just wanna know18:25 how in the world can we reach 32000000 students. Yeah. You need the church. Yes. So how do you use the church?18:34 Amen. And we always challenge the church to think about, alright, 32000000 students. Let's say it's a church in Houston. There's 1000000 students in Houston. 1000000. So let's take18:46 an average youth group of maybe 300, that's a large youth group, right? Or 100 or 1000. Even that is just a drop in the bucket compared to the population. So it's like what is what what is it18:58 gonna take for us to reach these people? So it starts with vision, and when we come into a church, no matter what church it is, if if you have a church, you're listening to this, you're like man, I want my church to be19:09 involved. It's like go to whoever's in charge and really listen to their vision, And my hope is that they have some vision that connects with God's vision, his heart, is that none would perish but19:21 that all would come to repentance. All of the kids he wants. Not just a segment, not just our people, not just our sheep, but like, he wants the church to reach the lost. That's his heart.19:33 Yes. So do they have the heart of Jesus? It's usually the youth pastor 1st because they're overseeing their overseers. Mhmm. So listen to their vision 1st. Right. If it correlates with the great commission,19:45 boom. That's great. We do too. Alright. So what is the vision of this youth ministry? My hope is that it's to grow and to reach lost people and to incorporate them in the church and baptize19:57 them and make disciples. So we really listen to people's vision 1st that God's planted these churches. There's 4 churches for every public school in America. It's the sleeping giant. So listen to20:09 vision. If there's room for partnership, we ask that youth pastor, hey, would you find a church coordinator? If you're 75 years old, God can use you still with the younger generation.20:21 Amen. If you're 20, he wants to use you, but it doesn't have to fall in the way of the youth pastor. So we work through volunteers. We train those volunteers. We involve the youth pastor. We commit to 1 church for 220:32 years every single week for free. We don't charge the church anything. We raise money outside of the churches so that we can just come and be a blessing. But we train them, they turn around, share a vision with their20:44 students, call out the students. Who wants to make disciples in this youth ministry? Who's committed to share the gospel? Raise your hand. We're gonna form a team. We're gonna train you week by week by week.20:54 It's such an important role that you're playing. Now you said you raise the money so that it can happen.21:02 Yeah.21:02 How is that how does that happen?21:04 Yeah. We have incredible partners around the nation, and, we love them and pray for them, and we need more because God's opening a window of time. He said, look to21:16 the harvest. Yes. Don't say it's 4 months. Like, right now, it's white for harvest, which that whiteness lasts for a short season. Yep. So there's a short window of time that we can take advantage of right21:28 now. So we just invite people, hey, if you wanna partner, monthly partnership actually sustains us the most. We have incredible monthly partners. So if you wanna be a monthly partner, you can go to our website21:40 w w w dot collision dot org and just click donate, get involved. If you wanna get involved and you're like, hey, I want my church to do this, awesome. We have digital coaches21:52 that will train your church no matter where you're at weekly for a minimum of 2 years working with their volunteers.21:59 The whole system. Amazing.22:00 We do.22:01 Well, you know, because it is exponential. Think about that. Like, if the churches can get it there's no better place to park your money or to give to a ministry that doesn't if it's not affecting kids because that's the22:12 next generation. And we see how busy the devil is on the other side with all the transgender everything, and, you know, you know, identify whatever you want, and all these things that are stealing from the22:24 other side of things. So this is such an amazing place to put your dollars, and to to, you know, the the great commission. You know, when we think about it, the kingdom of heaven is always advancing. It22:36 does.22:36 And it22:36 and that that takes that takes money. It takes it takes everyone to be part of that. And it's so important what you guys are doing. We're so proud of you guys. What amazing. It's amazing to hear what God's22:48 doing because it's it's, you know, at the end of the day, it's all him, isn't it?22:52 And you22:52 just just say you just amen God, and he takes care of the rest. I love it. So22:58 I'd also just say, before we go, just as God's moving, we want to say yes to every single church that wants help. You know, we're gonna fit we're gonna ask you, what's your vision? Are23:10 students getting mobilized? And if not, we're gonna come help you do that. And so what's happening, we have digital coaches, but we also have some people on the ground. Our goal right now is that we would be able to23:21 respond to every church that wants to partner, and what God's doing right now is raising up, a lot of demand churches that need help all across the United States.23:33 So right now where we're standing, we are looking for leadership and partners in every state. So for your viewers and listeners, if there is a place that they23:45 are passionate about and they're like, I my kids are in this high school, my grandkids are in this high school, or this is my hometown, please reach out to us. We need to raise up kings and priests all23:57 across, the United States who will partner in with funding and churches so that we can meet this generation and get them trained up. It's go time.24:07 Amen. Go time.24:08 That's that's what we were saying since the night I started talking to you guys. It's go time.24:13 Go time. So 1 quick last testimony, 30 seconds, or less. There there is a church that we partner with in Pennsylvania just even, like, a month ago. Daughter of the24:24 pastors that we work with decided to go to public school. She was homeschooled because it was her mission field. Befriended a transgender student, and that student just gave her life to Jesus and was24:36 baptized.24:37 Praise the Lord. Glory to God.24:39 Over and over and over and over and over. Like, God is doing this. Amen. It's so exciting.24:45 Oh, hallelujah. That is amazing.24:47 Come on.24:48 Do you wanna pray for our viewers? And then, again, give your website out again. K. Okay.24:53 Alright. Let's pray. Father, you are sovereign over all creation. You're so big. And God, we give you our children, our young people. Lord, you're doing what you have25:05 done in the past where you called disciples that were teenagers. And the great awakenings in America, Lord, you used young people to bring the fires of revival. So father, in Jesus' name, I pray that25:17 you would pour out what you're already doing, fire on the young people in America, God. Cause awakening and revival in our churches. Lord, we plead the blood of Jesus over ourShow more In this video 0:00 Origins of Collision: Bethany's Call15:45 Testimonies and National Vision18:15 Overcoming Hostility Through Students25:18 Church Partnership and Prayer
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