Our main speaker at this year’s On The Verge is Scotty Gibbons.  If you have never met him or heard him, Scotty has a ministry of over a 1000 teenagers that he leads at James River Assembly.  His honesty at On The Verge this year will be refreshing and motivating.  To get to know the heart of Scotty, we will have some nuggets from his ministry and his book, “Carry-on” that we will be posting regularly.  Keep an eye out for them!

So many of us have a dream for our youth ministries.  We have a vision to see God expand our ministry and have an influence in our student’s lives and our student”s world.  At times, it can seem so out of reach for us.  God’s vision being fulfilled doesn’t “just happen.”  It has to start from somewhere…and that somewhere is right where you are with what you have.  We can see  the story of Sampson who had nothing but a jawbone and a desire to see God inflict serious damage against the enemy (Judges 15:14-16).  The Spirit of God comes upon him and he reaches down and grabs a jawbone of a donkey.  It’s small, it’s convenient and it’s right within his reach.  What he does with it is astonishing as he destroys a 1000 men and crushes the enemy allowing God’s people to triumph.  At On The Verge, it’s about God showing you what’s within your reach so that you can have a sweet victory for you and your ministry.  It probably won’t  look like much and by appearances doesn’t seem like much.  But in your hand when God’s Spirit is on you, it transforms from natural to supernatural and you and your ministry are never the same.