This past weekend in Anaheim we encountered God in an incredible way.  The memory that still penetrates my heart was on Friday night during the drama-the graveyard scene.  As the characters played by (I remember their real-life names--sorry!) Curran and Abigail were serenaded by the cloud of witnesses "He loves us, O How He Loves Us" I was brought to tears.  It was like God's waterfall of love was washing my soul.  I just wish we could have sang with the cloud of witnesses for 10 minutes straight!

I hope as your youth groups encountered God that you choose to continue to walk closely with God and strive to grow in Him.  He wants to draw you near-respond!  If you get down let Him pick you back up again.  As followers of Christ we know that this life will be hard-suffering and persecution will come.  BUT we are to move from victory to victory, strength to strength, glory to glory.

With a refreshed heart and new-found energy and fervor to pursue God, reach out and change the world.  Be the love-encounter to others.

Don't wait around for another event, retreat or ATF next year.  Seek God with all of your strength, and make a plan to grow in Him and to impact others.

Sincerely,

Todd Lee Mayfield

Regional Manager

Youth Pastors,

The Anaheim Regional Manager will be at the event this weekend and wants to meet with the youth leader from each church that is represented for a 15 minute meeting.

If you can make yourself available to share with him about your youth ministry and how Teen Mania can better serve you, please let us know as soon as possible.

Meeting times will be for 15 min, times are available from 12pm-5pm.

Please email the Regional Manager directly at todd.mayfield@teenmania.com.

-The ATF Team

Also, during the event we're going to be interview two bands on Saturday night:  Sanctus Real and Sarah Reeves about the realities of self-injury, depression and suicide.  Want the band to hear a question from you?  Text it to 903-504-1202

 Date: Saturday, November 7^th

 Time: 8-9pm PST

Make sure to read this CNN article about this alarming anti-God campaign in the NYC metro.

People are literally overtly marketing against God in NY subways!  Can something be done locally about this?  Are advertising firms really ok with taking their money?

CLICK HERE

I think it was very interesting to find out that this youth pastor (Tristan) has actually been on staff for several years in another department and was actually volunteering much of his time to youth ministry!  It kind of blows away how many people might think that "big" churches are privilege with finances and open schedules.  He introduced me to his district youth director and we had a great conversation as well.  I am very excited to see such passionate leaders in the Foursquare denomination and in SoCal.

Cali is my home state (I grew up in the Bay Area-yeah I'm sure to you us NorCal kids are a different breed :) ) so I'm pumped to here what you all are doing in the fight to rescue a young generation.

Todd Lee Mayfield

Regional Manager

We're the new intern call team for the Anaheim ATF!  We just started the Honor Academy at Teen Mania Ministries in mid-August.

We are so excited to partner with you this year for the Anaheim event. God is going to do awesome things! 

Our heartbeat here at Acquire the Fire is to provoke a young generation to passionately pursue Jesus Christ and bring His life giving message to the ends of the earth. We want to capture the hearts of young people and raise them up as a generation who will follow God with all of their hearts! 

We want to see 1500 people at the Anaheim ATF this year. We hope that you will join the hundreds of teens, leaders and parents at this event. 

We believe that in coming to this event your teens will be changed dramatically and they will without a doubt encounter the love of God. Our intern team will be at the event and looks forward to getting to meet you in person there! 

We are here to serve you, youth pastors and teens alike. We are grateful that God has placed us in this ministry to be able to work and partner with you. Our call team is so excited to see the lives that will be changed and the new souls that Christ will win at ATF. 

We love you guys, and look forward to seeing you this year!

Lucas, Jacqueline, Arielle, Sarah, and Valerie

Isaiah 61:3
… They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor.

Summer is Here!

We have just wrapped up our last event, “Here Comes Trouble” and we had a great season….

With this change in season there has come a new shift for us at Acquire The Fire. We are working diligently on the upcoming tour ‘THE ENCOUNTER’ where we truly want the heart of this generation to experience the love of the Lord in a new and eternal way.

We are excited to be partnering with The Rock Church again and will be anticipating great things as we kick off the event on November 6^th and 7^th