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TYI 2015 Recap
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TYI 2015 Highlights:
EVERY TRIBE:
Overcomer
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how the Lord used TYI
to help one delegate
triumph over tragedy:
One world, one ambition
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Photos by
Joshua Huling
Photos:
1. Teamwork during the ‘Tribal Night’ program. 2. Delegate ‘selfie’
with TYS Major Bobby Westmoreland. 3. The ‘Tribal Mudder’ race.
4. Delegates pose for pictures at the Bollywood Ball. 5. ‘Pitch
Perfect’ elective choir performs at Awards Night. 6. Vespers at the
cross. 7. Cornelius Walton (ALM) receives Commissioner’s Award.
8. Dance elective performs on Awards Night.
Youth make great gains in cultural awareness
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bringing together 450 staff and
delegates in a time of corporate
worship. Major Bobby and Captain
Anne Westmoreland, territorial youth
secretary and associate secretary,
opened the week with an invitation.
Delegates and staff were encouraged to
take strips of cloth, write their prayers/
praises on them and then tie them to
reeds fixed on the stage in the fashion
of Tibetan prayer flags.
In a change from recent years,
morning manna (devotions) was led
by multiple speakers. Major Cheryl
Gilliam used a lantern to illustrate the
parable of the 10 virgins from Matthew
25 and spoke on how we all must
daily rely on the Holy Spirit to refill
our oil – that we cannot rely on last
week’s blessings and insights to sustain
us through the future. Lieutenant
Heather Dolby used the familiar story
of Jonah and the whale to demonstrate
what happens when we fail to live
up to God’s purpose; in a world that
stresses living a gray-colored life,
there is actually light and dark and we
must pick a side. Jeff Wallace, pastor
of youth development at Peace Baptist,
emphasized that the time is now. It is
time for Christian love to set the tone
for race relations. It is time for our
young people to recognize the potential
God sees in them and to be ambitious
with their friends and futures.
Staff led electives and seminars
where delegates could experience
creative areas of interest, develop
skills for ministry and learn valuable
life lessons like cultural awareness,
respecting themselves and how to
evangelize. Night programs were
planned intentionally to reach three
goals: build community, foster cultural
appreciation and inspire Christian
confidence. Awards were given out to
delegates who most represented what
it means to be an exemplary young
Christ-follower.
As delegates and staff reflect on
their experience at TYI 2015, memories
of the grueling tough mudder or
of Damien Horne’s testimony or of
enlightening moments during the Lost
Tribes program may be the first things
that come to mind. However, the most
important message will be remembered
from Revelations 5:9: And they sang a
new song saying: “You are worthy to take
“With all the mess going on
in the world today we don’t
have time to be divided. Every
tribe! It’s not a black issue or
a white issue or a Latino issue
or an Asian issue…It’s a God
issue!”
Pastor Jeff Wallace
Sp eaker at morning manna
the scroll and to open its seals, because
you were slain, and with your blood you
purchased for God persons from every tribe
and language and people and nation.” With
this as the end game we will, as one
tribe…one family…one world, dedicate
ourselves to one ambition.