"First Thing's First"

As many of you know, every school holiday we put on what we refer to as a youth conference. It's a 3 day event full of teachings, worship, small groups, and games. Last holiday our conference was based off of the book of Nehemiah and we saw a lot of kids really learn a lot and grow. Well... for the past year we've been doing a series in the youth group called Race to Revelation where we do a survey of each book of the Bible (or at least try to) every time we meet. It's been awesome as the students have been getting a taste of what all Scripture really says and in a couple of weeks, we're finishing up the Old Testament just in time for this next conference. So in order to take advantage of the timing and to tie everything together, this conference is going to have the theme of "First Thing's First" and we're going to cover all four of the Gospels. The sessions will be entitled: When Jesus Came, When Jesus Taught, When Jesus Prayed, When Jesus Died, and When Jesus Rose. It won't be exhaustive by any means but again it's about the kids really learning who Jesus is, what He said, and what He did for them. When I was up in the North, it really struck me on how they said they had gone to church their whole lives but didn't really know who Jesus was. I don't want that for my students. And sometimes we can get so caught up in the "other things" that we loose sight of Christ, when He's supposed to be the main thing. The conference is going to be taking place May 5-7 so if you could please just lift it up in prayer and that God would bring the right students and change lives, that would be absolutely fantastic.