Believing
Believing New Life Island (Upper Black Eddy, PA) Mercado, Dean 08/14/2025
This is the opening teaching of the 2025 Youth Advance on believing. The teacher goes over what believing is, how we need to believe that God loves us, and building believing in our lives. We are given the examples of the flea in the box and the elephant chained to a stake so that we can learn not to limit ourselves in believing God, and we look at an example of Jesus Christ’s believing.
Witnesses of Our Message – Audio
Witnesses of Our Message
Witnessing and Undershepherding New Life Island (Upper Black Eddy, PA) Mercado, Dean 08/18/2024
Before the teaching, Eliana Rosa performed her song, “Speak”, and Shannan Solazzo, Hannah Sarnak, and Dylan Dearman performed the song “Railway Cars”.
The teacher begins by reading the letter that was sent out to announce the camp. Then, he recaps the other teachings from throughout the weekend. We aren’t just messengers since we partake in the message that we hold forth. We are reminded that speaking in tongues is a great witness and that God works in you.
Ambassadors – Audio
Ambassadors
Integrity of the Word Sonship Rights New Life Island (Upper Black Eddy, PA) Mercado, Dean 08/15/2024
In this teaching to open the 2024 Youth Advance, we are given the goal of seeing ourselves how God sees us. The integrity of the Word of God is emphasized. We should believe what God says about Himself as well as about us. The teacher introduces the weekend’s theme verse, 2 Corinthians 5:20, and the verses around it. Then, he goes in depth on what an ambassador is and how our ambassadorship for Christ compares to ambassadorship in the world. There is nothing higher than being a son of God.
