We believe that young people in America are longing for excitement, intimacy, authenticity, integrity, clean hearts and meaningful actions. So they go to movies, try alcohol and drugs, explore sex and pornography, dabble in the occult -- and end up emptier than ever. And all the while God is pursuing them fiercely, desiring that they become voluntary lovers of Jesus, planning to not only satisfy their deepest desires, but then uncover and satisfy ever deeper ones. As St. Augustine wrote long ago,

You made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until we rest in You.

So what is desperately needed is an awakening of each heart to the truth that God exists, He knows all and sees all, and yet He has loved each of us every moment of our lives, indeed from before the foundation of the earth, when He first imagined us and planned out the time and place of our birth.

The young psalmist David said it this way: "One thing God has spoken, two things have I heard: that you O God, are strong, and that you, O Lord, are loving." (Psalm 62)

The writer to the Hebrews says the same thing: "And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him." (Hebrews 11:6)

It is this "earnest seeking" of God and His rewards that With One Voice seeks to see arise in the youth and young adults of Austin and central Texas. Any person whose heart and mind is touched with the reality of God and His love will never be the same. We want to see a whole generation following Jesus fervently ...