Basiccon 2016: Power of Fellowship

Good afternoon people!

So this weekend, me, my wonderful boyfriend Ryan, and my awesome brother in Christ, Mikey, all drove up to our friend's college to attend this Christian conference in Rochester, NY. My best friend, Rebecca, has a BASIC (Brother And Sisters In Christ, acronyms for the win ayo) group at her school. Therefore, she kindly encouraged us to tag along! We were above and BEYOND stoked. When we got to her school, we went straight to the BASIC meeting; where I met a whole bunch of other awesome people.

All the people that came to the conference from her school is pictured above: Ryan, me, Mikey, Rebecca, and my two new amazing brothers, Tyler and Johnny.

Before I get into the meat as to how much of an impact BASIC had on my life; I just have to mention how truly blessed I feel to have been able to experience this event with such genuine, hilarious, quirky, God fearing people. I just met Tyler and Johnny this weekend and I feel as though I knew them for as long as I knew my other friends. It's crazy. It's awesome. The power of the Holy Spirit that dwells within us just automatically connects us like that. We're all family. We're all brothers and sister serving our Heavenly Father with such joy. And not only that, God brought so many more awesome people into my life.

Ever since I surrendered my life to Christ the end of my junior year in high school, I always longed for fellowship. I was shy and didn't know how to take that next step with my walk with Christ, so I was quiet and in the closet with my faith. However, my prayers were heard because this past summer the seed was planted and growing like wild fire between the fellowship starting from my close friends. He gave us boldness and a stronger faith to trust Him under any circumstance! Ever since then, God kept on relentlessly pouring His grace. I walked into Basic with a handful of brothers and sisters, but walking out that Sunday afternoon, I had a full house of fellowship, with many open doors just waiting to be filled. The fact of that matter is that we are all on the same level, we all have the Holy Spirit in us, and we are all apart of one body in Christ.

Such a privilege it is to serve, worship, pray, and love together. Sharing the beautiful things God has for each and every one us is a blessing and I am so thankful.

"As iron sharpens iron, a friend sharpens another" Proverbs 27:17

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