Wow what a weekend. I went to a Dare 2 Share conference in Columbus this weekend. It couldn't have been better. I got to volunteer to do security, and sometimes sold shirts and stuff. There were so many highlights, it's hard to even remember them all, but I'll just try and tell about a few.

Along with the Dare 2 Share conference there was another conference, it was an anime conference, they had about 6,000 people there from all over the U.S. Our conference had about 4,000, mostly from Ohio, Michigan & PA. The D2S Kids were taught how to share the Gospel at the conference, and how devine was it that there were 6,000 anime people there, with probably 3,000 of them skantily dressed. I'm serious, almost nothing on. The kids got the opportunity to witness and share the Gospel with these anime kids. On on occasion, when I was working at the doors to let the D2S kids into the conference an anime kid would come and ask me what they were doing and I would get the chance to tell them a little bit about God. In between events I would go and try to stir up conversations with the anime kids to learn a little bit about why they like what they do so much. If you saw the costumes, you'd realize how passionate these people are. They go all out. If they would put that much effort into following Jesus it would be amazing... and if some Christians put that much dedication and desire into their walk, it too would be amazing. I'm not kidding folks, they really go all out. And are way into it.

One kid I asked told me a little about why he liked it, so I asked him what most of the storylines revolved around. Here was his answer. "Well, most of the movies have a good guy that trys to save innocent people from evil spirits." My reply, "Kinda like Jesus... So basically good vs. evil." Then he said, "you know, I've never thought along those lines before."

Adding to the event was the David Crowder Band. These guys are amazing. The D2S kids were jumping up and down so hard that they literally shook the stage and the arena. It felt like an earthquake. Kinda scary, but so awesome to see them worshiping God so intense. After worship, I got a chance to talk to the band members. I asked Dave to sign my 1986 Chrystler Lebaron.... and he agreed! He told me that "this was an historic moment in autographs. No one ever signed a '86 Lebaron I'm sure of it." So he hooked me up with directions to bring my car to the loading area in back. I asked if he was going to be around for about 10-15 minutes. He said yes. It took me forever to find the area, but I finally did, after about a half hour. I missed him, he left like 5 minutes before I got there. However I did get one of B-Wacks drum sticks signed by the entire band as well as this sweet email when I woke up this morning...

"sorry my directions were faulty. we'll hopefully make it happen sometime down the road. thanks for your kindness and encouragement. it was fun hanging briefly.david "

How cool is that? DCB are amazing artist and really humble and nice guys. The weekend was an unforgetable experience. I also got to talk to some friends that I haven't seen for a long time. Well, I'm out. Later