Hear the latest stories of how God is transforming lives around the world! These quick reports from Forge Speakers give you a direct window into the movement of Jesus—on campuses, in churches, and across nations. Short. Powerful. Easy to share. Impossible to forget.
Forge Speaker Chris Prather reports from Crossover Church Youth Camp in Spokane, Washington, where he stepped into a unique week—the church’s youth pastor and his wife welcomed their second baby in the early morning hours of Sunday, meaning Chris led the camp alongside a volunteer team and pastoral staff carrying it all without their youth pastor present, and they did it without missing a beat. What stood out most to Chris was not just that students decided to follow Jesus, but how they decided—there was weight to it, a genuine reckoning with the cost. Chris reflects on Jesus’s own words about counting the cost before taking up the invitation, and says these students saw Jesus as beautiful and worth it. This is what it looks like when young people count the cost and choose Jesus anyway.
Forge Speaker Paul Epperson reports from Roxbury Holiness Camp, a place with deep Forge (KBM) roots going back to 1988, where the fingerprints of Dwight Robertson, Adrian Despres, Santiago Fuentes, and others are woven into the fabric of the camp’s history. Paul describes the week as marked above all by prayer, and the peace of God that settled over the entire camp as a result. People were saved and heard the voice of God, and three and four generations knelt at the altar together, moved by the same Spirit. The camp director pulled Paul aside and said they had not seen that level of response to messages in over ten years. This is a camp with decades of faithfulness behind it, and a week that reminded everyone why.
Forge Speaker Mick Veach reports from Brown City Camp, where approximately 3,000 people gathered and the altars filled at every service across six sessions—and the stories that emerged tell the full picture. A woman finally forgave her stepfather for things done to her family in childhood and felt free in Jesus for the first time. A woman in her eighties said she is no longer afraid of the Holy Spirit and is now seeking Him daily. A man who had told his wife in their cabin before the service that he wanted a divorce came forward in tears, committing to make their marriage work after eleven years. A woman who had attended the camp for 56 years called it the most powerful service she had ever experienced, and over 60 young people came forward to say yes to the mission. Mick believes what he witnessed at Brown City is happening across the country, and he is grateful to be part of it.
Forge Speaker Adrian Despres reports from Peachland, North Carolina, calling in on his drive home in the middle of the night. Several youth groups gathered for the event, and what God did was, by Adrian’s account, unmistakably His work. Almost everybody in the room ended up on their faces before the Lord, and a crowd filled the back room giving their lives to Christ. Adrian credits the prayers of the Forge family as the reason it happened at all. This is a room full of students undone before God, with no one left standing.
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