What is Fascinate?

    
Fascinate is a national high school conference connecting teenagers to the prayer movement. It is based on Psalm 119:37—a young man's cry to the Lord to turn his eyes from worthless things and to be revived in the way of the Lord.

This annual high school conference is for a generation of young people who desire to live radical lives of holiness and devotion, and who are seeking the glory of the Lord, that campuses and cities across the earth might be transformed. The conference will focus on themes that will help young adults grow in intimacy with God, and live in wholehearted abandonment to Jesus.
 

• Speakers include Mike Bickle, Lou Engle, David Sliker, Corey Russell, Misty Edwards, and Jesse Engle.
• Worship leaders include Matt Gilman, Cory Asbury, and others from IHOP–KC.

June 24, 2010

Dear Youth Pastors, Leaders, and Parents,

I believe we are in the beginning of the days of the fulfillment of the promise spoken long ago by the prophet Joel and the apostle Peter: the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on sons, daughters, and young men and women who would prophesy. Here at the International House of Prayer of Kansas City, we are experiencing a move of the Spirit that has brought physical healing and freedom from sin and shame to many. In addition to the individual benefits of this season of renewal and awakening, we find ourselves in a season of divine convergence as the Lord brings the Body of Christ into unity with His heart and His plans.

In light of this, I invite you to come to our Fascinate II high school conference from July 22–24. This conference serves as a  touch-point to knit us together in a dynamic way as we serve the purposes of God together for the next generation. Day in and day out, you are pouring into your teenagers to prepare them for the days that are coming. My desire is to join with you in your labors to see fruitfulness multiplied beyond anything we can accomplish on our own.

We are continuing to pray night and day for teenagers, high schools, youth groups, and youth ministries across the nation. We believe the time has come to work with a new level of fervency to reverse the trend of what Newsweek recently called “post-Christian America.” The god that many teenagers are worshiping around the nation is not the same Jesus who is returning to judge the nations and fully establish an everlasting kingdom. It is this Jesus we long to present to America, that she might turn to Him and receive mercy.

Therefore, both our Fascinate II conference and our Awakening Teen Camp II, July 10–25, exist to multiply laborers and faithful witnesses—those who know that the glory, power, and mercy of Jesus are the only answer for a nation that appears to be in the midst of a troubling decline. The days to labor with teenagers for breakthrough and the power of the Holy Spirit are upon us. The only hope for America is a fascinated Church filled with leaders, young adults, and teenagers who ache for the glorious King to ignite the fires of revival. I want to stand with you and your teenagers as one, calling America to “be wise” and turn to the One who is soon returning. Will you consider joining us this summer in Kansas City, as together we take our stand for righteousness and truth?

Mike Bickle, Lou Engle, Allen Hood, Corey Russell, Misty Edwards, myself, and many others will be joining with you and thousands of teenagers as we “eagerly wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Cor. 1:7–8). I hope to see you soon.

Hastening the day,

David Sliker

IHOP–KC Student Ministries