Remenbering the 60's on this Journey.

In the late sixty’s and early seventy’s God began to move in an awesome way down on the beaches in Southern California. Young  people were getting saved by the hundreds.  At the same time our church was praying for revival. Their Pastor who had so many he didn't know what to do with them told them to go back to their home towns and take the Gospel.  Some young hippies started coming to our church. They had sandals on their feet, sporting long hair and carried big Bibles.  They not only carried those big Bibles, they read them and they talked about God’s Word all the time. I had never encountered anyone so excited about God’s Word. It was catching and I caught it. I began to study with them and in my private time the word of God had come alive in me. This was the missing piece I had been looking for, after all how do you have a love relationship with someone and refuse to read His love letters to you. One of those hippies began to teach a Friday night Bible study in our church Daryl and I began to attend.   As I began to study the Word, I began to hunger after it. I saw in these believers what I hungered after, that very personal love relationship with Jesus Christ the lover of my soul. 
Those young hippies with their big Bibles and what they call their Jesus music changed the course of our lives for ever. The Bible Study grew to be an exciting out reach in the church the problem (as some saw it) was it had grown to be as large as the Sunday Service.  Some were not happy about that and it became a source of division in the church. This young man had such a pure heart and love for this body of believers that he left the church rather than causes division. He now pastors a church of more than ten thousand people in the same town. He never set out to build a big church. He just loved the Word and began to teach, God did the rest. Look around the valley for the rest of the story. Not only this valley but all over the United States and other countries. It was known in those days as the Jesus Movement and He is still moving.