November 2004

Youths from a juvenile program had the opportunity to attend the Promise Keepers event in Orlando, Florida. Breakaway Outreach provided the scholarships for the young men to attend the conference.

One of the youths admitted that he didn't know what to expect going to an arena filled with only men. That same youth later testified that he learned what being a real man is all about: taking responsibility, respecting women, being a person of integrity, and loving God.

Several of the juveniles made professions of faith during the first night of the conference that nearly 13,000 men and boys in central Florida attended. The event was re-scheduled due to the path of Hurricane Charley last August.

Author of Uprising - the book - Erwin McManus outlined the three great quests for men this weekend: Honor, Nobility, and Enlightenment. At the program’s climatic ending on Saturday, the men declared, "I am ready to join the Uprising! I commit to being a revolutionary to living a life of honor and nobility. I will leave those around me better than when I found them."

On Friday night, Missouri camp director and cancer survivor Joe White portrayed a heart surgeon to encourage men to receive "a new heart, a changed heart." More than 2000 men responded to White’s invitation to the Christian faith, 375 of whom confessed Jesus Christ as Lord for the very first time.

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