on my own. how did you become involved in it? how did you hear about it? acquire the fire, i went with my youth group from the time when i was a sophomore through senior year. so i was used to it, looked forward to it every year, would wear my wrist band for, like, months after ward. i went to my first atf when i was 13, and didn t think about it again until i went to an atf when i went my senior year and heard about it in a more personal life. it was pitched to be, like, hey, find out god s calling on your life. and i was, like, i want to know about god s calling on my life. the first time i went they had just started the school of worship, and i played guitar and sang and i was, like, that s perfect. so it was a combination of a lot of things. everything honestly, everything looked appealing about it. right. i went to my first acquire the fire when i was 15.
how old were you when you first heard about teen mania? first i was 18 and i actually got saved. that s pretty much the classic age for recruitment into groups like this because, you know, it s right at that on the cusp of about to go out on my own. how did you become involved in it? how did you hear about it? acquire the fire. i went with my youth group from the time i was a sophomore through senior year. so i was used to it, and i looked forward to it every year, and i would wear my wristband for months afterward. i was with atf since i was 13 and i didn t think of it until i went to an atf until my senior year and that s when i heard about the honor academy in a more personal life and it was
a drug. i was hooked. it was amazing. it definitely was life changing. upon. let me hear your battle cry tonig tonight! whoever speaks up most gets to shape the culture. i m looking at a whole army of young people who want to speak out! the acquire the fire event is 27 hours. it starts friday, all day saturday, saturday night. it s a weekend event where you kind of get detoxed from all the messaging that s crammed down your throat with the media that most kids are watching and submerged in, and extract them away from that long enough and give them a chance to hear the message of the bible in a way that s culturally relevant to
pitched like, find out god s calling on your life, and i was, like, i want to know god s calling on my life. the first time i had just started the school of worship, and i, i played guitar and i sack and i was, like, it s perfect and so it was a combination of a lot of things. honestly, everything looked appealing about it. right. i went to my first acquire the fire when i was 15 and i was in the ninth grade. i just wanted to do something with my life, for it to have meaning and the honor academy seemed like that fit the bill. i was going work in this christian ministry and i was going to be learning about god and doing these things that counted for eternity. that s why i went there and of course, it didn t end up being anything like what i was expecting. he talked me into it and made me feel guilty. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn t treat that. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms,
to dinner time and then b shift is after lunch to, like, 10:00 at night. dave has pulled all of the graduate interns together to have a meeting because there weren t enough calls being made in global exp/eedings to get teens down on the missions field so we re moving all of the man power to ge. it s like that in all of the call center. acquire the fire, and the ge call center. that s all they care about and they ll tell you if you re not meeting your goals, you re not praying enough, you re not being spiritual enough. you re not working at this hard enough because you re not reaching this goal. my goal is september 11th when we had a huge mass exodus of kids that were in global expeditions and they were going to go on mission trips that summer and completely backed out. they did this whole oh, we re in a war. this is wartime. what? which means we were working overtime. so we were given new schedule it