Week Four at Ocean City

The final week of Mission Possible at Ocean City was amazing.  God did some incredible things through the team.  God also used the weather to bless us one evening, but we did not realize this until after it rained.  I will explain this further in this post.

The Team for Ocean City.  We had some MP3 teens join us and Jacob.

It was great having the older teens join the team for this week of ministry and act as mentors for the younger teens.  I feel like this is a great model to use and we have done this for several years now and I pray the older teens continue to join us at Ocean City for many years to come.

Jacob Thompson preaching to a large crowd

The awesome thing about ministry at Ocean City is that we have hundreds of people that stop to hear the messages throughout the night and this is by far the place where to most people hear the gospel in the shortest amount of time.  In past years we have shared the gospel with over 1000 people in just one week.  The crowd were not quite as big this year, but still many heard the gospel and hundreds of conversations took place throughout the week.

Many conversations took place after the preaching.  Here Dylan and Jacob sharing with a small group.

On Tuesday Mike Maslin came down to visit and join the team for the day.  He had an opportunity to talk with each of the teens and then right before it was time for ministry on the boardwalk it began to rain.  Everyone was disappointed,  but God had other plans.  We decided to make a good use of our time and pray for the people of Ocean City and also sing some songs and spend time praising and thanking God for He was doing through us.  We spent about an hour praying and singings songs of praise to the Lord and then the rain stopped and we were able to go out to the boardwalk and preach the gospel.  It was a great night even though it was abbreviated and many people heard the gospel.

Derek preaching a message to a large crowd

The time we spend praising God and singing really encouraged us and and brought the teens together as a team and we truly felt the joy of the Lord this night.

The team after ministry on Tuesday night.  (David not in picture)
I was not aware of this until later.

On Wednesday night we may conversations after the preaching.

Kimberly in a conversation

Jared and David in one to one conversations

Thursday night we meet another group from Baltimore that were down on the boardwalk in front of the sand sculputres doing ministry and we ended the night by joining them to sing praise songs in front of the sand sculptures.

Praying before a message

The teens enjoyed doing the "Set Free" drama to draw crowds to listen to the messages. 

David did a great job in the drama.


As this year of Mission Possible comes to an end I look back at all of the good memories and the great ministry that was accomplished throughout the summer and I thank God for again giving me the opportunity to lead this team.  I hope all who are reading this blog will come out to Forcey on August 5th to hear more from the teens during the potluck dinner after service.