Epiphany Systems

    Recently, we have had some students that have found our youth group in large part because of what is happening online on our website. Students are checking out their MePages in spare moments at school. Their friends are asking about it, and coming to our midweek service. There they get a login to our site and their own page on our social network.

    One of the Junior high girls has come through a situation like this. When she came the first time she was really pretty far from God. She comes from a broken family, hasn't really known God as much more than a cuss word, and is pretty broken herself. But she really found it exciting to do things on her MePage, and has been really active on the website.

    On a Tuesday, a few weeks ago, she sent me a message through the webpage. "Hey, I am having a really difficult time. Could you please pray for me, or something?"

    I replied, "Yes, I would love to. Dear Jesus I ask you to help...."

    "I didn't know you could do that online," She replied about my prayer.

    "God is online," I said.

    She came the next evening to our midweek service. Afterwards, she shared with my wife and I about how she has been dealing with a lot of really difficult things.  She has been into drugs, cutting herself, and eating disorders.  We prayed with her, counseled her about what she was going through, and got her on the road to the help she needs.  God is reaching his children online, and they are responding.