Student Testimonies

WHAT AN AMAZING DAY!! GOD IS DEFINITELY AT WORK! Tonight we had a young lady with our group give her life to Jesus!

During the week, I will have some students share BeachReach testimonies on the blog. Below are a few:

How amazing is our God!! Each year I come here I think I am aware of what is going to go down.
This year was the same even though we were bring so many first timers with us. Yet again I have been
proved wrong. In the short time we have been here God continues to just AMAZE me to put it in a word. To see people who were nervous (myself included), scared, or just unsure go out the first night and allow God to move and speak through them and calm their nerves and fears and fill them with courage and boldness is beautiful. Someone once told me that the more of God's people in a place the harder satan will attack. I'm sure you can agree with this statement. Fortunately for us our God is stronger and greater than anything satan can or will ever try. With over 400 people here and I assume thousands back home praying God is going to move in a mighty way in this city. I am so thankful I can be a part of it. This is not a "mission trip", it is it's own experience and no matter how many times I come here I end up going home with a new and refreshed picture of God. Praise Him!!!!!!
- Eric Wilson


I came on this mission trip full of fear. Fear of the spring breakers, fear for the safety of all the girls in our group, even fear that we would be physically and emotionally attacked just for what we are doing down here in what is called “Satan’s Playground”. I was put on a street team on Sunday night and we went through the strip twice before I broke down, cried, and let the fear overpower me. I felt like I had failed the ministry, even God Himself. But then I spent the rest of the evening in the prayer room and I prayed for strength and courage to keep going and to not let fear stand in the way of Christ. And what the Lord revealed to me is that fear is how the enemy attacks us when we do ministry no matter where it is. And as long as we know in our hearts that God protects His family, we have no reason to fear anything…or anyone.
- Brit Reed


“God is Good!” This is a phrase that I have thousands of times, but what is really amazing is that I have had the chance to see it, right here in Panama City. Yesterday, the enemy was attacking me unlike anything that I have experienced. I could not find my spiritual footing. My mind was moving faster than my body. I ate something that made me sick and spent the first night in my bed in my condo. I felt ashamed, discouraged. I thought I had failed God. “I lost the battle,” I thought to myself. I thought it was over. BUT GOD… God stepped in, touching my body, mind, and spirit. Now, I am stronger than before, ready to go out and spread the good news about my loving FATHER. God IS Good!
- Ke’Van Yarbrough


GOD IS GOOD! Please keep praying!

MO