The Experience Summer 2018

R everb is an all-night activity with one goal — sharing the gospel with unsaved students. It’s an awe-inspiring night that kicks off with a professional sports game and heart-pounding rally with prizes and games. Everything pauses for a clear gospel presentation and call to trust in Jesus. The rest of the night is filled with activities spread throughout great venues in the host city including sports complexes, bowling alleys, jump facilities and more. Reverb began as a Thingamajig which was a crazy gym night with a Gospel Rally. Bowling after midnight was added, and it became a Superbowl. In 1985, Area Missionary, Doug Bagg, added a Dallas Maverick’s game prior to the Gospel Rally, and then it was expanded to roller skating and a fun center along with all-you-can eat pizza and soda. The Mid-Atlantic staff ran the largest single Superbowl with the Philadelphia 76ers. 8,000 were in attendance. The Superbowl was renamed Reverb in 2014 as the purpose of the event is to have the gospel reverberate throughout local communities. Reverb now happens all over the East Coast. Due to the generosity of many donors, we were able to offer 624 scholarships to unsaved students so they could attend Reverb and hear the gospel. Word of Life has produced a video which shares the gospel, Experience Hope . This year at Reverb, we also challenged the Christian students present to share this video with their unsaved friends back at home. There were 4,217 views on the video during the Reverb season. So the gospel went out to the Reverb crowd as well as to unsaved friends of Reverb attenders who could not come. Please pray that these Christian students will continue having conversations with their friends so the gospel will reverberate throughout their neighborhoods. Pray for the churches as they follow up on these students who made decisions.

“MASON made a decision at Reverb 2015. He asked leaders to pray for his Mom and sister, Madison. The family had no church background so they were reluctant to accept invitations to church. At Reverb 2016, Mason’s sister, Madison, accepted Christ. Madison and Mason started attending youth group regularly that year. In August, Mason and Maddie with their Mom volunteered at VBS at the church. At that VBS their Mom became a believer. The church had its first teen-led service, and Mason preached sharing his testimony. God is using Reverb to reach students and adults!”

Reverb Testimony CHURCH IN RHODE ISLAND

2017 REVERBS

ATTENDANCE DECISIONS SCHOLARSHIPS 1,150 1,277

ROCHESTER, NY SPRINGFIELD, MA ALLENTOWN, PA LYNCHBURG, VA ORLANDO, FL KALAMAZOO, MI PROVIDENCE, RI BINGHAMTON, NY GLENS FALLS, NY ATLANTA, GA TOTAL

59 76 27 37 58 43 68 116 96 44 624

83 35 33 21 57

670 830

1,245 1,492 1,089 1,872 1,194 910 11,729

157 109 116 48 15 674

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