For the past month or so, we’ve been playing a short promo video for The Awakening series during our main weekend services. Not too long afterwards, we received a testimony from a mom about the video and her son. You’ll find her testimony and the promo video below.

A Mom’s Testimony

I have been coming to Celebration Church for about 6 months and last Sunday my son finally came after I have been begging him to try it for months. He thinks that churches are out of touch and don’t do anything for him or to him. I noticed he seemed to be responding well to the service (even bobbing his head a little at the music).

At some point during the service, a video was played about drugs with the Pastor’s voice. After my son saw that very powerful video he did not say a word the rest of the service.

I noticed his eyes seemed a little watery.

When we got in the car after church, I asked him what he thought and before I could finish the sentence he said, “I am sorry, mom, for doing drugs.”

He then told me how he had been trying drugs for a couple of weeks with some friends and that the night before he was offered coke. He did not do it but wanted to.

After seeing the video that was amazingly cutting edge, he said that it hit him so hard. He had never seen a video on drugs in church, let alone a video so real feeling and daring to talk about it on a Sunday morning. He told me that something about it and the environment changed his mind and maybe even his life.

When we got home he gave me a bag filled with marijuana and asked me to get rid of it.

We went to dinner that night as a family and it was like he was in 5th grade again - the sweetest innocent boy.

I was hesitant to write in because I did not know how long he would feel this way, but everyday he has asked me about church this weekend and today he called me from work letting me know that he had read online about LateNite and was going to check it out this Saturday.

He is 20 years old and I haven’t seen the life of God in him in years.

Thank you Celebration Church for your video and for letting God use you to change an entire generation’s perspective of what to expect at church.

The Awakening Promo Video