-Hundreds Of Youth Baptized At Winterfest & Surrender To Jesus
Hundreds of youths were baptized during the annual Winterfest event at Gatlinburg. According to the organizers, this was the first time they would witness such a mighty outpouring in the past 36 years of the event.
According to the organizers, the purpose of the event is to transform the lives of young people across the country.
David Schilling, the youth minister for the Hardin Valley Church of Christ in Knoxville said this years Winterfest didn’t meet its expectation on the number of attendees as the past years, but that the feeling of lacking actually made more room for the Holy Spirit.
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“This year seemed ‘less grandiose,’” he said. “The sermons were great, though some sounded like they were intended for an older audience. The worship was powerful. But there wasn’t that larger-than-life wow factor I’ve come to expect.”
Acoording to reports, over 200 people surrendered their lives to Christ after minister Jeff Walling asked those who wanted to follow Jesus and be baptized to step forward.
As it turns out, “what was missing actually made more room for the Holy Spirit to permeate the experience,” Schilling noted.
“This is my 36th year doing Winterfest, and I’ve never seen that,” Dudley Chancey, Winterfest’s organizer, told The Christian Chronicle.
