Dying To Live 2010: What's Holding You Back???
Friday, October 22 - Saturday, October 23
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D2L’s Mission
D2L Summit Mission & Vision
Our prayer is that everyone connected to the summit will have a personal encounter with God and will leave this summit equipped, transformed and ready to live a Christ-centered life!!!
Letter from the Visionary
Young adults around the world are struggling to make some of the most important and consequential decisions with the least amount of information and guidance. In addition, a great number of our young adults today have endured some tormenting and life changing events such as rape, molestation, verbal/physical abuse, abandonment, neglect, and lack of parent-child interaction with no one there to help them deal with their issues or resources and support needed to succeed in life.
It is due to this very thing that gang violence and homicide has increased, early sexual activity has amplified, STD rates are staggering higher and higher, the number of youth in juvenile facilities is growing, drug use is on the rise and an escalating number of youth are turning to suicide as an option.
- According to the U.S Department of Justice, 66.4% of high school seniors in 2007 used alcohol and 31.7% used marijuana.
- The teen murder rate for ages 15 to 19 is 36.8% per 100,000 population according to Family First Aid.
- According to the Centers For Disease Control, girls ages 15-19 suicide rate increased from 2.66 to 3.52 per 100,000 and males suicide rate increased from 11.61 to 12.65 per 100,000 from 2003 to 2004.
- 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will be sexually assaulted by age 18, according to the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape.
- Approximately 75% of teenagers have engaged in sexual intercourse by the age of 20, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
- 34% of young women become pregnant before the age of 20, representing 820,000 young women per year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Our summit is designed to equip youth and young adults with the knowledge of God, which empowers them to walk boldly and confidently through all of life’s challenges. No matter what they have endured they have the power to prevail and preserve if they CHOOSE to!
Milcah Lewis
Conference Scripture
John 4: 4-26
7When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[a])
10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
11“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?”
13Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
16He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
17“I have no husband,” she replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”
19“Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”
25The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26Then Jesus declared, “I who speak to you am he.”
Summit Details
Location
PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY
Memorial Student Center (MSC)
Opal Johnson-Smith Auditorium Rm. 111
FM 1098 Rd & University Dr, Prairie View, TX 77446
Parking:
Park in the MSC parking lot located across the street from the dorm.
2010 Dying to Live Summit Agenda
| Day 1 (Friday, October 22, 2010) | |
| 6:30pm – 7:00pm | Registration |
| 7:00pm – 8:00pm | Welcome/Introduction |
| 8:00pm – 9:30pm | General Assembly |
| Day 2 (Saturday, October 23, 2010) | |
| 3:00pm-4:00pm | Welcome/Introduction |
| 4:00pm – 4:45pm | Workshop: “I’m Lost…And I Can’t Find My Way!” |
| 4:45pm – 5:00pm | Break |
| 5:00pm – 5:45pm | Workshop: “Keep It Moving!!!” |
| 5:45pm – 6:00pm | Break |
| 6:00pm – 6:45pm | Workshop: “Excuse Me…How Do I Get Here” |
| 7:15pm – 8:00pm | Break – Dinner |
| 8:00pm – 10:30pm | Talent Hour & Concert |
Workshop Descriptions
I’m Lost and I Can’t Find My Way!
Are you looking at your life, scratching your head and wondering how did you get here or why are you still here? Does it seem like you are stuck on a hamster’s wheel? Well…life is a journey with many twists, turns and obstacles that can detour you from your path of purpose, destiny, and even your relationship with God. Have you ever felt like every time you took one step forward, you fell ten steps back, never reaching your destination? In this session, we will expose the hidden traps and distractions that are designed to destroy your purpose and to hold you back.
Keep It Moving!
As you travel through this maze called life you will run into dead ends, failures, missed opportunities, and discouragement that make it harder to keep moving forward. You wonder if the destination is even worth the trouble. You lose your motivation, stand still or worse… you turn around and go backwards. Tired of doing things your way? Praying for something different? Something real! Worn-out with the fake stuff and temporary fixes that never quench your yearning for more. You are in the right place! In this session, we will discuss what GOD has offered you to extinguish all deep longings… and satisfaction is guaranteed!
Excuse me…How Do I Get “There”?
Great question…Jesus said that “I am the way, the truth, and the light.” Without the light of the Lord guiding you, it will be impossible to reach your destination. In order to understand and fulfill your purpose you must understand God’s purpose and plan for your life. The beautiful thing about GOD is that when you put Him first HE will direct your path and all of HIS promise are yours! The wonderful thing about it is that HIS WORD will stand forever. If HE said it, HE will definitely do it. Do you know that HE said that HE will order your steps? Do you know that HE has the power to make crooked paths straight? HE can and HE does, but you play a major role in HIM taking you from Point A to Point Z. Come to this session and let us give you the tools to get from “Here” to “There”.
How to Register:
Click here to go to the registration page.
For More Information:
Please contact Milcah Lewis at (913) 314-2986 or at milcah@dying2live.org.
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The Dying to Live Youth Summit is 100% FREE to all who attend. We want to bless the youth and young adults and we do not want the lack of money to keep them from attending our summit. We provide gifted speakers, meals, bibles, note pads, pens and much more. In order to pull it all together we rely on the generosity of family, friends and supporters for the financial support that is so vital in bringing this year’s summit to life.
How Do I Contribute?
- Write a check (payable to Mercy Chose Me Ministries, Note: D2L Youth Summit). This method of payment is tax-deductible. Please send to address below.
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